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Sucker Punch: Lessons Learned

Sucker Punch is five kinds of awesome mixed with ten kinds of terrible. Is it a bad movie? No, probably not. Snyder can really direct and, when he has material to direct, it’s incredible. Here, though, there’s just not a lot of there there, as the saying goes. It’s a bit too hollow, a bit too shallow, which ultimately starts to drain it of its fun. So much so it just gets tireless.

Ten Years In The Word Mines: One Lesson

Looking back over my emails, I am reminded that it was this week in the Ancient Year 2011, when my super-agent Stacia Decker sold my first original novel, Blackbirds, to Angry Robot Books. That book, about a young woman with a very foul mouth and a terrible attitude who can also see how you’re going to […]

Jon McGoran: What Spliced Taught Me About Spliced

I love reading the “Five Things I Learned…” posts on terribleminds, and I’ve enjoyed writing them in the past. That’s what this post was originally going to be, and I did learn plenty while writing Spliced: about using viruses as vectors for gene splicing, climate change, animal personhood, computer implants, the difference (in my mind) […]

Eject

Hey, folks! Out of spoons over here, so I’m taking a vacation. A social media vacation, at least. I’m gone this week to SDCC and the next week to NECon and then having some friends visit? So, for the next week, the blog is going to sit quietly in the corner and think about what […]

Terribleminds In 2014

A brief update about this website: It will be going on hiatus through 2015. I’m just kidding. HA HA HA HA HA Ahem. But what will be happening here is that I might slow down on the posts a wee little bit. I’ve been making sure that this blog has at least five posts a […]