Who is Troglodyte Rose?

This little oddity appeared on the website, and has me fixed to see what comes next. Okay, I have to confess, I know what it is. It’s my website. Well, that’s only half true, or maybe a third true. Creative Director of Polluto and my housemate, Michael Dark, is putting together a rather delicious website […]

Media Tie-ins: A Little More

A lot more discussion has been going on regarding media tie-ins, making me realize how big an issue this really is in the genre world. Lou Anders wrote a fascinating post here and in it he quoted someone else who likened the bias in genre fiction against media tie-ins to the bias of non-genre folks […]

Media Tie-ins: Good or Bad?

Jim C. Hines has recently been berating himself over his bias against media tie-in novels here and here. I think he’s being a little hard on himself. Granted, it’s probably “unfair” to have this bias, but he’s not the only one.I’ve had this bias for years. When I was younger I used to read media […]

Publishing: The Big Change?

I was recently reading this post regarding what might be a change in the way publishing works around these parts (these parts being everywhere) and it got me thinking: maybe there will be a change, but that change might actually be a bad thing.The author of the post I linked sites examples within music (Nine […]

Helix Authors Unite

Apparently given William Sanders’ horrible behavior, several authors published in Helix have decided to post their work online for free with the intention of giving us a way to view their stories without supporting the editor from hell. It’s called Transcriptase (discovered it from SF Signal).Give it a look. You might find some nice stories […]

More J. K. Rowling to Read

You know, it couldn’t have hurt Rowling to have told all of us that she was planning to do this all along. Seriously. You couldn’t have just said “well, I’m making a few that only special people can see, but soon all of you will get to see a print version and the proceeds will […]