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Note to Jeff Bezos: #glitchmyass
My tweet of the day: Note to Jeff Bezos: #glitchmyass, we deserve more explanation & apology than that for #amazonfail. Do you really want to regain our trust? Things have really snowballed. In fact I’d say it’s a snow-boulder now, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon.com, amazonfail, politics, writing
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Amazon Rank – Google bomb 'em!
Yep, it’s true. Amazon.com has decided that all any any books about or by LGBTA folk are “adult content” — the equivalent of pornography. Hence, they’ve removed the sales rankings for those books. Hence those books are tougher to find … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon.com, amazonfail, politics, writing
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Ballad of the Splash
In honor of National Poetry Month, & also in honor of breakup (which is Alaskan for the time of year we’re now in, when the ice & snow melts & everyone’s car is splashed with mud) — here’s a poem … Continue reading
Mercy
From Kadu’s point of view: what she lives with, having killed a man to effect her escape from her greatest enemy. This is a new writing based on an original narrative account written for a collaboration with a friend. Which, who knows, one day we may get back to.
Posted in Short fiction
Tagged collaboration, Kadu, Scheherazade Project, Yksin
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Spiritus Mundi
This is the poem, written in 1995, mentioned in the previous post. Spiritus Mundi From the hot core of the planet come these rocks I bend to pick up near the railroad tracks and mud flats, green with algae at … Continue reading
Terraforming notes
A few notes about what terraforming is. A terraforming project on an extrasolar planet is the context of my SF novel-in-progress “Cold.”
Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold notes, NaNoWriMo 2007, research for writing, science fiction, terraforming, writing
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Cold, the blog
In which I set up the private membership-only blog cold-brrr.blogspot.com for the writing of my 2007 NaNoWriMo SF novel “Cold.”
About "Cold"
“Cold,” my NaNoWriMo project for 2007, will be a science fiction novel featuring two young women who live on a planet in the late stages of terraformation.
Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold notes, NaNoWriMo 2007, science fiction, terraforming, writing
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NaNoWrimoLesbo
NaNoWrimoLesboOriginally uploaded by yksin I did this icon, based on the main NaNoWriMo icon, for a Facebook group for lesbians/dykes who are writing novels during NaNoWriMo this November, and/or who have lesbian/dyke characters in the novel they’re going to be … Continue reading
Posted in About writing, LGBTQA writers, NaNoWriMo
Tagged lesbian, lgbtq, NaNoWriMo 2007, writing
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NaNoWriMo 2007: What I'm gonna write & how I'm gonna write it (the origin of "Cold")
On a cold-arse night in 2005 the question came into my head: “What does cold feel like?” Thus was born the science fiction novel-in-progress “Cold.”
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Tagged Cold notes, lgbtq, NaNoWriMo 2007, science fiction, terraforming, writing
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