Ten Questions About Vaporware, By Rich Dansky
One of my favorite things is looking around and seeing the success of the people I’ve “come up with,” for lack of a better term. Folks I wrote with in various gaming industries: folks like Mur Lafferty or, drum roll please, Rich Dansky. Rich is a guy responsible for a lot of games you probably love, and he’s also a helluva fiction writer. Here he is emerging from the ones and zeros to tell you about Vaporware: TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? I’m the one who... Read The Rest →
All Your Fanfiction Belong To Us: What The Fuck Is Kindle Worlds?
Amazon is now monetizing fan-fiction. I mean, I guess? The press release (with scads more detail) is right here. I am of two minds on this. Maybe three minds. MAYBE A ZILLION MINDS. I’m generally pro-fanfic. Like, I know some authors get their browneyes puckered over other people splashing around in their kiddie pools, and I understand that gut-level reaction — but me, I think if you have an audience willing to write fan-fiction about your work, you’re pretty fucking lucky. And it’s always half understood that fan-fiction is fan-fiction.... Read The Rest →
The Blue Blazes: Eyeless Gods Of The Sunless Realm
“I WILL WALK THIS SUNLESS REALM. I WILL START HERE IN THE UPPER PORTIONS, IN THE PLACE WE CALL THE SHALLOWS. THEN, INTO THE LABYRINTH CALLED THE FATHOMLESS TANGLE. THEN ONE DAY I SHALL FIND MY WAY TO THE RAVENOUS EXPANSE, WHERE THE EYELESS GODS OF THIS PLACE MOAN AND GNASH TEETH THE SIZE OF SKYSCRAPERS.” The Blue Blazes Coming May 28th, 2013. Pre-order: Amazon B&N Indiebound (text by Chuck Wendig)
The Underserved Population Of Readers
You’re going to go right now and read Kameron Hurley’s ‘We Have Always Fought:’ Challenging The ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative.’” No, seriously, go read that right now. It is one of the finest essays I’ve read in a long time on challenging the expectations of women inside (and to some degree outside) of fiction. It’s smart. It’s self-deprecating. It doesn’t point fingers while still making a clear case for how we need to adjust our thinking and ask questions precisely when other people think we should be quietly accepting... Read The Rest →
