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The NaNoWriMo email

Ordinarily I refrain from posting much, if anything, political on this blog. I can post such stuff on logikalblog.com if I wish. In this particular case though, I must breach this personal policy. Many of you reading this blog either have or will at some point in the future participate…

Roland HughesFebruary 11, 2017October 15, 2017

Publishing Technology

How to Resize Your PDF on Linux

As a writer there are few things more annoying than finding out your work needs to be re-sized. Usually this happens because one of the printers you requested a quote from responds with a quote for a different size which is dramatically cheaper than what everybody else quoted for the…

Roland HughesFebruary 6, 2017October 14, 2017

Fiction Science Fiction Stories

How Does the Human Race Wipe Itself Out? (Part 1)

As a writer and a member of the human race you must contemplate this question even if you choose to only write warm fuzzy love stories set in the unattended public toilet of the world (New York.) On some level, even your love story must be firmly grounded in the…

Roland HughesFebruary 5, 2017October 12, 2017

Experience Publishing Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Tate Publishing Closes It’s Doors

Came across this article about Tate Publishing closing its doors and quite frankly was shocked. What shocked me was the implication they were a vanity publisher or not exactly a publisher. Here are some quotes which made me believe that. Mary Detweiler, an author from southeastern Pennsylvania, has published four…

Roland HughesJanuary 31, 2017October 11, 2017

Fiction Science Fiction Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Another Doctor Falls

A friend sent me a link today announcing that Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat will both be leaving “Dr. Who” in 2017. I really fear for the life of the show with Mr. Moffat leaving, but, there is only so much of a person to go around. Eight years is…

Roland HughesJanuary 31, 2017October 11, 2017

Experience Stories

Rich-ish

This idea hit me while I was buying a mega zillionaire ticket around lunch time. Got joking around with the young girl behind the counter about how winning would be a bad thing since the State of Illinois would never get around to actually paying the debt. Our current elected…

Roland HughesJanuary 30, 2017October 11, 2017

Experience Fiction Science Fiction Technology

Authors Need to Write About CRISPR Now!

Works of fiction and facts of history have long been absorbed by both lunatics and cultures attempting to create “the perfect” of a species. It is a topic which seems to drive the most unstable of creatures into positions of power so they can attempt their dream of a perfect…

Roland HughesJanuary 29, 2017October 11, 2017