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Boffins declare: LIFE ON VENUS! OK, maybe not so much. But hey, phosphine. So, there’s that.
Exciting news from our sister planet! Winged beings with a penchant for cross-species shenanigans? Well, not so far, sadly enough. Still, it’s early days… But OK, yes. We’ve found traces of phosphine, a possible exudate of a possible life form, … Continue reading
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Legendary Powell’s Books Sez “So Long, Jeff Bezos. Sorry! (Not sorry…)”
Just in time to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, the globally beloved Powell’s Books brick-and-mortar-words-on-real-paper-palace in Portland announced it will no longer port its books over to gazillion-pound-clickgorilla Amazon. Many authors, of course, need that clickgorilla to keep afloat, but ya … Continue reading
Best-selling thriller guy is mad as Hell, will not be taking it anymore… and burns his French publisher re: lame cover art. Authors should learn from his example.
OK, got some basically inside-baseball book marketing stuff going on here. Topic: the cover imagery on an author’s hard won, sweated-blood-from-his/her-eyeballs new book. We all want our books to put their best book-foot forward, eh? Doesn’t always work out. … Continue reading
Gadzooks! Run away! It’s the dreaded… hat-fright! Or, um… the fearsome Hound-plant. Or the… oh, wait… nevermind. It’s harmless.
What happens when you ask a recurrent neural net to cook up some wicked cool new D&D monster names? Hilarity, that’s what. Intrepid research scientist Janelle Shane from Boulder, Colorado had previously commanded her obedient little RNN to spew out … Continue reading
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Even once it gets started, exo-life has a tough row to hoe….
Too hot. Too cold. Or juuuuust right? Young planets aren’t so comfy for young life forms. But hey, there’s the Earth. So, score one for biology…. Turns out young planets go through all kinds of spasms and hiccups on their … Continue reading
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This is really fun (for an author) to read: a review of “Under Nameless Stars” … Google-translated from a French review site.
Here’s the original on the French blog… https://leschroniquesaleatoiresblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/zenn-scarlett-t2-under-nameless-stars/ …which Google translates as “The Chronic Random Blog” – which I hope the Google lingua-gnomes nailed, ’cause it’s a majorly fabulous name. Zenn Scarlett (t2) : Under Nameless Stars 6 mai 2014 · par … Continue reading
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So, this book you keep going on about…. is it actually any good?
“An exciting and worthy follow-up to Zenn Scarlett, with an assortment of loveable new characters… Under Nameless Stars was a perfect blend of action and adventure, character development and humor. Schoon once again proves how inventive he is … Continue reading
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Reading from & signing Zenn Scarlett at Barnes & Noble at the Arboretum in Austin, TX, Feb. 28th. Join us!
If you’re in the Austin area on Friday, drop by & say howdy. Starts at 7 pm, and goes till the last citizen wanders off to stand in line at the Starbucks. I’ll read a little, scribble in some books and then chat … Continue reading
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