The SWTXPCA Conference: Day One (Conference Day Two)
What a great way to begin a conference. The SWTXPCA Conference (31st Annual) began on Wednesday, but, due to my school schedule and other obligations, I couldn’t leave for Albuquerque until the first day of the conference. Silly me for thinking that airline travel would go smoothly. To start things off, my flight was canceled […]
Book Magnet Project #4: Alex Detail’s Revolution by Darren Campo
The fourth entry for the Book Magnet Project is in, and it’s for a rather curious little book: Alex Detail’s Revolution. Here goes: About the Book17 year old Alex Detail has been kidnapped and sent off to fight in a hopeless war against The Harvesters, an alien force that is trying to extinguish Earth’s Sun. […]
Step One For Making Friends With English: Punctuation and Pronunciation
We all like English, right? Okay, so maybe most people don’t, but if you do, then it would only seem logical that you’d do your best to follow the very basic rules of the language, right? And wouldn’t you expect that the people who take the language seriously enough to try to make a living […]
Responding to the Stackpole: Amazon/Macmillan vs. Not-So-Stupid Authors
Michael A. Stackpole made an interesting point the other day. He seems to think that the call for support by Macmillan authors whose books had been removed from Amazon is a stupid thing to do (not because support for authors is bad, but it presumes that authors will suffer). He disagrees because of the following: […]
Book Review Up (Sorta): An Idle King by J. W. Benford
I’ve finished another review of a book I couldn’t finish. At least this time the sentences were coherent. If you want to know what killed this book for me, then head on over to read the review. Have you read anything interesting lately?
Quickie Movie Reviews (2010): Volume One
I love having a library that lets me borrow movies for free, especially when they carry some really interesting titles. Such as the following: Torturing DemocracyPossibly one of the most important, and sadly relatively unknown, documentaries ever made on the U.S./War On Terror torture issue. It follows, moment by moment, the beginning of the programs […]