Kameron Hurley
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Commented on DO YOU 'LIKE' THE SUN? The Content Casino vs. the Long Game
This. Yes. I wish I could move a lot of big corps to rely on being the thought leader, the "big rock" content producers, instead of just feeding off it....
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Commented on DO YOU 'LIKE' THE SUN? The Content Casino vs. the Long Game
And I hear publishers often talking about how they take on so-so work from major celebrities for big bucks and then it's those proceeds that will fund the more interesting work from new writers. But in this instance I'm thinking...
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Commented on DO YOU 'LIKE' THE SUN? The Content Casino vs. the Long Game
They had far more problems than just buying a lot of debut books. heh....
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Commented on DO YOU 'LIKE' THE SUN? The Content Casino vs. the Long Game
In this instance, what most marketers are putting onto their FB pages are images like this, tho: http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/sun.shtml Free clipart rulez!...
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Commented on Drink Me: The Horror Hotel Story, and Where Ideas Come From
The staff has been super nice. Just.. you know, nothing seems to work. Very poor management, very much the feel of a place run by someone who has never run a hotel....
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Commented on Drink Me: The Horror Hotel Story, and Where Ideas Come From
My husband wants me to bring that thing home, so he can try and figure it out. I'm still flummoxed....
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Commented on Drink Me: The Horror Hotel Story, and Where Ideas Come From
I immediately thought of Ramsey as well. Like "help long before they call him?"...
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Commented on Drink Me: The Horror Hotel Story, and Where Ideas Come From
It's actually all true!! I have pics of the bloody women art on twitter....
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Commented on Drink Me: The Horror Hotel Story, and Where Ideas Come From
It gets exhausting when you get it over and over. Where does air come from? Like answering that over and over...
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Commented on Drink Me: The Horror Hotel Story, and Where Ideas Come From
YES on the newness. Opened on Friday. No idea if they are owned by larger chain...
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
Me too, Paul. In truth, playing Mass Effect actually reminded me, I think, a lot of what this new series feels like, though. I've got a small group of people facing an absolutely impossible situation that just guts them. Part...
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
Well, I tried not to be TOO spoilery, but yeah. The idea is that basically, nobody gets out of the end without being profoundly changed....
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
I'm kind of relieved to hear someone else say that. I keep hearing people don't like dark/tragic books here in US publishing, and it guts me, because I hate the idea that "the market" won't support them. I think they're...
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
Ha. Yes. This. And much more succinct than me!...
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
I played the game on Easy, because it let me enjoy the story more. And yeah - folks who think they'll just wave a wand and stop some unstoppable force after three games of "they're coming, you're screwed!" well... they...
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
Yeah, ACA isn't a great solution. But it's... something. Better than the nothing that was there before. Most people actually didn't realize how bad it was until something really terribly happened to them, and they started getting all these bills...
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
It was such a strange experience. Thought I was all logical rationality, and my body just totally betrayed me. Took awhile to figure out that yes, that's OK; we have to process trauma at some point, and even after we...
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Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
My husband is a HUGE Pratchett fan, and keeps trying to get me to come back. I did read one book, which I now forget the title of, but it just wasn't doing it for me. Not sure why it...
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Posted Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World to Charlie's Diary
In 2006, I woke up in the ICU, blood pouring down one arm from a line the doctor was desperately trying to get in my arm. He was down on one knee, like he was going to propose, my...
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Commented on Embracing Bugpunk: A Little Science, a Lot of Magic; Stir Until Frothy
I'm from Washington State. When we had bugs, it was usually fleas, and then we just let off "bug bombs" which were just these cans of poison you set off inside each room. No tenting....
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Commented on Embracing Bugpunk: A Little Science, a Lot of Magic; Stir Until Frothy
Yeah, the "forgotten tech" thing is not new by any means. Pern immediately comes to mind, on the fantasy side of spectrum. Most fiction is about re-blending ideas; very few are totally original, especially if you read far back enough....
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Commented on Embracing Bugpunk: A Little Science, a Lot of Magic; Stir Until Frothy
I don't think it necessarily "needs" to be magic, no, but it should feel that way, like the Force. Once Lucas tries to start making "the Force" science-fictional with talk of midi-chlorians, it loses a lot of its wonder. I...
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Commented on Embracing Bugpunk: A Little Science, a Lot of Magic; Stir Until Frothy
I spent some vacations in Florida as a kid. I do have some fire ants in the book, as a homage (I grew up in Washington State)....
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Posted Embracing Bugpunk: A Little Science, a Lot of Magic; Stir Until Frothy to Charlie's Diary
Stepping outside a bar in Durban, South Africa. It's hot; the kind of wet heat that clings to you so fiercely it feels like you're draped in a sweater. My friend points to a cloud of insects gathering under the street light, a humming swarm of winged visitors. "Cockroaches," he says. "But... they're flying." "We have cockroaches that fly here," he says.