Category: Entertainment
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Can Wattpad read to you?
Some of you have landed here asking can Wattpad read to you? Yes, but don’t use Speechify. Here’s why: Speechify is impoverishing audiobook narrators, stealing their voices, and using artificial intelligence software to turn works by creators (often without the consent of the creators) into full-blown audiobooks. The audiobook narrator that would have been hired…
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Will Wattpad shut down?
Some have stumbled onto the site asking will Wattpad shut down? I have no stake in this fight, but I would say a few things: Probably not. Here’s why: For starters, Wattpad has hundreds of millions of dollars of investor funding. They’re one of the largest writing platforms in the world and they only got…
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Rewards for Tap and Die + Harry Rides Preorders
Seconds Left for Preorder Rewards! It’s launch month for BOTH Tap and Die and Harry Rides the Danger. Both come out on Halloween and they’re both excellent presents for fall birthdays, Halloween fanatics, fall festival presents (such as Jewish High Holidays), and early Christmas presents. We have exactly ONE MONTH to get in 100 preorders. The fabulous Daniel Dorse,…
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For Heart of Gold
For a Heart of Gold comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death,…
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Frugal Wizard’s Guide — *ahem* HANDBOOK — to Surviving Medieval England by Sanderson
I was one of the many who nearly pulled the trigger on Sanderson’s $42 Million kickstarter and got all the goodies and one of the reasons was The Frugal Wizard’s Guide to Surviving Medieval England. I ended up checking out the Frugal Wizard’s Guide at the NYPL when I saw it on the shelf. It…
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Alfred Bester and The Light Fantastic
In working through Robert Silverberg’s Science Fiction 101 (a compilation of essential Silver-era speculative fiction and analysis of how to write it), I came across The Light Fantastic by Alfred Bester in the bibliography. When I talk about silver era, I mean the post-Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany, post-H.G. Wells, pre-Nebula Award…
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Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany
There are sometimes where I wonder if my titles are good enoughand then I come across yet again the title The Book of Wonder by Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany. Then I realize no, nothe problem is not my titles, the problem is my byline. I don’t have a name like Winthrop…
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Presence
Presence comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after COVID…
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How do I use Shunn Manuscript Format?
Bill Shunn not long ago released a piece on manuscript format due to what seems to have been a dearth in standardization at the time. His guide has come to be known as Shunn Manuscript format. Some, for whatever reason, found his guide hard to find — or hard to follow — so I’m writing my…
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Perugia Balcony
Perugia Balcony comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after…
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Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin
Editor’s Note: Fart Proudly or A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting or To the Royal Academy of Farting was a response by Benjamin Franklin to the academic societies of the time that were, if you’ll excuse me, up their own ass. We’re publishing Fart Proudly in our long tradition of Dead Guest Posts…
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Perugia Under Different Suns
Perugia Under Different Suns comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems.