I guess it shouldn’t be odd that such a high percentage of the people who buy books are people who want to be writers. After all, there must be a pretty big percentage of video game players who think it’d be a lot of fun to create video games. Loving an art form often means […]
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I was strangely broken up this morning to hear about the death of Steve Jobs . It took me a good long while to work out why the hell I’d be upset about some corporate toy maker dying. Then I realized why I was upset, and it kinda pissed me off. On the face of
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Enter for a chance to win! (don’t worry – more chances for free books coming soon!) Goodreads Book Giveaway Infidel by Kameron Hurley Giveaway ends October 02, 2011. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
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Just dying to know whose head gets chopped off next? No worries. I’ve got the first three chapters of INFIDEL right here available for download – which includes the first head-hacking scene of the book! Enjoy! Download PDF Read on Scribd (then go
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You’re a racist. Ok? It’s OK. Take a deep breath. It doesn’t mean you have to be a horrible person. I promise. Just… listen. For the most part, I’m addressing white American folks in this particular message, because, you know, I’m white. And American. I get it. I grew up here too, in a white ghetto. But
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Happy 30-days-to-release-of-INFIDEL day! To celebrate, I’ve posted two of three short stories set in the GOD’S WAR universe for free here on the blog and hosted in various places. They’re set during all sorts of… interesting time periods, and you can read them in any order, but if you’d like some direction, I’d recommend reading them in the order offered,
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It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a Conan fan, so though the trailer for the reboot looked awful, I went anyway – naturally. For better or worse, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Sadly, much of the badness seemed to come from the fact that the writers couldn’t really
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When you have a chronic illness like mine and you go to the doctor – any kind of doctor, really – you inevitably get The Lecture. I am a type 1 diabetic. This is an immune disorder that hit me 5 years ago when I was 26. Basically, it’s triggered by some kind of event
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