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  • Livestock Resources for Further Research

    Livestock Resources for Further Research

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    Another guest post by my mother, Kathleen Sanderson, in follow-up to the post at Mad Genius Club about livestock in space. This is also useful information if you are planning on keeping small stock while stuck on our current mudball.  There seems to be quite a bit of interest in the animals that colonists might…

  • Guns in Fiction: More Useful Information

    Guns in Fiction: More Useful Information

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    After I shared the link to my Mad Genius post on Saturday, Chris Byrne offered an assortment of articles he’s written on guns in fiction and real-life use over the years, and he gave me permission to put them all in one place to find again, and share with my readers. There is a lot…

  • Perspective on Amazon

    Perspective on Amazon

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    With this being the cause du jour for many, the only link I’m seeing with any regularity is an opinion piece from NYTimes. First, most of the links you will see about this are going to be opinion pieces. Mine, over at Mad Genius Club today, is mostly pointing out the underlying psychology of business/publisher/author…

  • Stating the obvious

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    It’s Monday. Since I’m usually working on the weekends, and this one was no exception, I’m a bit groggy this morning. That’s also partly because I had a nice date-night with my First Reader and we were up late (late, for us middle-aged folk, is past ten, so you know. I may be a college…

  • Now Departing…

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    From reality, naturally. Mirror-posted over at Mad Genius Club Do you need to research when writing a fantasy novel? Not only yes, but please, do! Far too many are written without any research at all, hinging on the author’s limited imagination and lavish dollops of magical interventions. First of all, resist the urge to use…

  • Sunday Mutterings

    Sunday Mutterings

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    I’m supposed to do something today. Well, rather several somethings, but I’m trying to be brief. It dawned on me that I wrote part one of a three part series back in November and left you all hanging. I do want to finish it, because it’s a fun series (I think) and important. That last…