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Race & Gender in Fiction

This is a topic that came up in an online writing group in which I occasionally participate -- came up a couple months ago, actually, but I'm just now getting…
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 14: Reverse Fulfillment

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 13: Strategic Ground-Level Asset Reduction II

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 12: Strategic Ground-Level Asset Reduction I

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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The War is spreading… to Barnes & Noble!

The print edition of Radko's War is now available via Barnes & Noble!
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 10: Horizontal Deployment of Assets II

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 9: Horizontal Deployment of Assets

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 8: New Employee Orientation IV

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 6: Core Competency

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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CORPORATE SYNERGIES Part 5: New Employee Orientation II

Corporate Synergies is a modestly epic 14-part space opera of questionable ethics and dubious morality centred on the ongoing conflict between two mega-corporations and their quest to dominate the retail landscape…
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Registration disabled again

Registration has been disabled again.  My host is crappy and has essentially NO anti-spam tools, so unfortunately there will be no further user registration here (at least, not until I…
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A new look, NaNo 2016 & a big 2017 to come!

Well, I suppose one benefit to the issues I've recently had with my website is that it gave me a good reason to do a much-needed refresh on the whole…
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Temporary registration moratorium

Hey everyone, just a quick note that I've had to make registration for the blog unavailable for a short time.  We've getting hammered by robots registering and trying to post…
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Writing with a Day Job

This entry is about the struggles of writing while still holding down a day job. But first, an apology. I have, once again, been lax in updating this blog. I've…
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Writing & X-Wings: How Gaming Parallels Writing, Part 1

This blog entry is a little different than what I usually write, and hopefully you find it as interesting to read as I did to write. It turned out to…
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SciFi Ideas Podcast Archives – SciFi Ideas

No, I'm not dead.  I apologize for essentially abandoning this blog for... let's just be charitable and say a year.  It has been a busy and -- thankfully -- productive…
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This is a whale in power armour.

Seriously.  It's a whale.  In power armour. I know, you're asking "what's the point?"  The point is that you should never be afraid to add a little weirdness into your…
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TOR’S TOP TIPS: Our Authors on Writing « Tor Books

Louise Buckley, editorial assistant at TOR, asked several TOR authors to each provide one piece of advice for aspiring writers. TOR’S TOP TIPS: OUR AUTHORS ON WRITING « Tor Books.
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Writing a SciFi story? Check out scifiideas.com

I've been vaguely aware of the website SciFi Ideas for a little while, but for whatever reason (laziness, I suspect), I had never spent much time looking through it.  That…
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Editing: Grammar is for 2nd Drafts

This article has arisen from discussions I had recently at a writer’s group I attend.  The question came up about editing and when to do it.  Should you write a…
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