2020-12-08 16:00
Worldbuilding From RealityPart 15So What Exactly Is Reality?Previous parts in Worldbuiilding From Reality are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2017/05/index-to-worldbuildin… Read More
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2020-12-06 03:30
The purpose of copyright law is to promote the progress of useful arts and sciences, by ensuring that artists and scientists have a fair financial incentive to create, discover, and to make… Read More
2020-12-03 13:00
The annual ChessieCon was held virtually this past weekend. One session explored how catastrophic events influence literature. The panelists mentioned works of fiction inspired by real-life… Read More
2020-12-01 16:00
Reviews 58Divergence by C. J. Cherryh Reviews haven't been indexed yet.Divergence is the 21st Book in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner Series, so I recommend not reading this book first.This i… Read More
2020-11-28 23:44
Killing people --or threatening them with a horrible death-- has been a time-honored means of suppressing inconvenient truths and fictions and causing witnesses to recant and/or go into hi… Read More
2020-11-26 13:00
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it today! We're preparing our usual turkey dinner—actually, my husband does all the hard parts, one thing I'm thankful for—although on a s… Read More
2020-11-24 16:00
Fictional Science or Scientific FictionPart 2The Art of the ParablePart 1 of Fictional Science or Scientific Fiction is:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/11/fictional-science-or-s… Read More
2020-11-22 12:42
What is the point of "selling" a book to a reader, if the middleman (an Amazon company, for instance) actively encourages the reader to return that book --after reading it-- for a full refun… Read More
2020-11-19 13:00
I've just finished the second revision stage of my current work in progress, a light paranormal romance novella, a loose sequel to two previous novellas from the Wild Rose Press. All authors… Read More
2020-11-17 16:00
Fictional Science or Scientific FictionPart 1Stephen Hawking This blog is about Alien Romance, or human/non-human Soul Mates - Love at first sight, and Love Conquers All.It is all about… Read More
2020-11-15 04:37
If you do a DuckDuckGo search, you will have a hard time finding a definition of "sudden death" that involves bad luck and sportsmanship... or lack thereof. You will need to include a term s… Read More
2020-11-12 13:00
Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column continues his topic from last month, the sharp divide between the artificial intelligence of contemporary technology and the self-aware computers of scien… Read More
2020-11-10 16:00
NetGalley And Small PublishersbyJacqueline LichtenbergIn 2012, I signed up for NetGalley when they were a startup, just garnering a list of Traditional Publishers they could supply reviewers… Read More
2020-11-08 14:18
Perhaps you remember the homophone riddle from your childhood: "When is a door not a door?"Here is a link to some riddles to help small children develop critical thinking and healthy skeptic… Read More
2020-11-05 13:00
The November/December issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article by psychologist Stuart Vyse titled "COVID-19 and the Tyranny of Now." The phrase refers to our tendency to choose immedi… Read More
2020-11-03 16:00
Reviews 57The Cal Leandros NovelsbyRob ThurmanReviews haven't been Indexed.I just finished reading Slashback by Rob Thurman, a Cal Leandros novel published in March 2013 by RoC.https://www.a… Read More
2020-11-01 17:00
Occasionally E.F.F. takes a position with which this writer agrees. "Privacy should not have a price tag." The price tag should not be set by the company that exploits your… Read More
2020-10-29 12:00
Recently on a wildlife program in the PLANET EARTH series I viewed a segment about clownfish. In addition to their sexual mutability, which enables the largest male in a group to transform t… Read More
2020-10-27 15:00
Interview with Larry Nemecekon STAR TREK LIVES! I was interviewed on this podcast episode by phone in June, 2020, and is about how my Bantam paperback original about Star Trek fans… Read More
2020-10-25 21:10
Regrettably, this is not about an end to data-collecting "cookies". It's about intellectual property esoterica. For Fenwick and West LLP , legal blogger David L. Hayes Esquire &nb&hell…Read More
2020-10-22 12:00
It comes as no surprise to me that a recent psychological study suggests horror fans may be uniquely well prepared to confront scary realities: Horror Fans Prepared to Cope with Our New Real… Read More
2020-10-20 15:00
Indexto Verisimilitude vs RealityHere are blog posts about how to create fiction based on Reality using a similarity to reality, verisimilitude.Verisimilitude --- from WikipediaVerisimi… Read More
2020-10-18 14:44
Some words are widely misunderstood, others have changed their meaning over time, and some have been deemed too archaic to be worth recording.When Juliet Capulet said, "Wherefore art t… Read More
2020-10-15 12:00
Kameron Hurley's newest LOCUS column further discusses the quandary of living in these fraught times. Measuring Life in Keurig Cups She describes the joy of creative projects other than wr… Read More
2020-10-13 15:00
Verisimilitude vs RealityPart 6Show Don't Tell Theme Previous parts in Verisimilitude vs RealityPart 1https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2009/01/verisimilitude-vs-reality.htmlPart… Read More
2020-10-10 22:02
Titles matter. Originally, this short article was to be "Autumn Opportunities", then "Chestnuts" but "Chestnuts" or "Old Chestnuts" seemed uncivil. Hence the addition of "No..."Startin… Read More
2020-10-08 12:00
Working on a paranormal romance novella, I'm presently dealing with a recurrent problem in fiction of the fantastic: How long should a character keep rejecting the possibility of the superna… Read More
2020-10-06 15:00
Soul Mates and the HEA, Real or FantasyPart 11Soulmates ExplainedPrevious parts in this series are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2019/05/index-to-soul-mates-and-hea-real… Read More
2020-10-03 22:13
I found Mitchel Gray in the front matter of Men's Health Magazine in 1994. At least, I found his name in very small print, in the credits for the photograph of the cover model. Over the year… Read More
2020-10-01 12:00
This question isn't meant in a philosophical or literary-critical sense. Rather, why do readers choose to spend time and often money on a particular book, especially if its author is new to… Read More
2020-09-29 15:00
Verisimilitude VS RealityPart 5So What Exactly is Happiness Previous entries in this blog series:Part 1https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2009/01/verisimilitude-vs-reality.htmlPart… Read More
2020-09-27 13:48
Is October a "Go To" month? Savvy authors is running a pitchfest in Octoberhttps://savvyauthors.com/41740-2/If you don't have a work of fiction to "pitch", perhaps you should "Get To I… Read More
2020-09-24 12:00
The September-October issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER reviewed a book called THE FIRST MINDS: CATERPILLARS, 'KARYOTES, AND CONSCIOUSNESS, by Arthur S. Reber. Although I haven't read the book, on… Read More
2020-09-22 15:00
Verisimilitude VS RealityPart 4Story Arc and the Fiction Delivery System Previous parts in the Verisimilitude VS Reality series are:Part 1https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2009/01… Read More
2020-09-20 16:39
"On Dit", or "on-dit": readers of Regency romances will be familiar with the term, from the French, loosely meaning "they say...." We might think of it as a non-legally protected… Read More
2020-09-17 12:00
Cory Doctorow has an unusually long, information-dense post this bimonth, about the background of the concept of intellectual property: IP He reviews the history of open source software and… Read More
2020-09-15 15:00
Plot-Character IntegrationPart 2Finding Your Opening ScenePrevious Parts in Plot-Character Integration are:Part 1 - The 3/4 Point Pivot Part 1 - The Worm Turnshttps://aliendjinnromances.blog… Read More
2020-09-12 22:17
Every website and every blog that permits comments ought to have a DMCA agent registered with the Copyright Office’s DMCA Designated Agent Directory. Renewal is required when serv… Read More
2020-09-10 12:00
If convenient, try to pick up a copy of the September 2020 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, which should still be in stores at this time. The feature article, "Meet the Robots," goes into lengthy detail… Read More
2020-09-08 15:00
Plot-Character IntegrationPart 3The Starring Character For A SeriesPart 1 - The 3/4 Point Pivot Part 1 - The Worm Turnshttps://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2014/06/plot-character-integrat… Read More
2020-09-06 17:09
Ever since the Statute of Queen Anne, so, for centuries, copyright law has protected creators. For writers, copyright means that as soon as you write something.... the lyrics of a song, a bl… Read More
2020-09-03 12:00
On a Netflix series called CONNECTED, I recently watched an episode about Benford's Law, a theory new to me. Here's the Wikipedia article on this theory. It's dense with equations and mathem… Read More
2020-09-01 15:00
Worldbuilding From RealityPart 14Ripping A Headline For ThemePrevious entries in Worldbuilding From Reality are indexed here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2017/05/index-to-worldbui… Read More
2020-08-30 16:21
I'm having to wing it this morning. My email provider is down, and I cannot access my accumulated blog fodder in my draft folder.Instead... an advertisement caught my attention yesterday. It… Read More
2020-08-27 12:00
Here's another article, long and detailed, about robot personal attendants for elderly people: Meet Your Robot Caretaker I was a little surprised that the first paragraph suggests those mach… Read More
2020-08-25 15:00
Worldbuilding For FantasyPart 1Paranormal DetectivesThis Series on Worldbuilding for Fantasy is inspired by some very original worldbuilding in the Rivers of London Series (8 books as of 202… Read More
2020-08-23 14:02
Two articles in the September/October "Special 40th Anniversary" issue of DISCOVER magazine inspired this post. One, by Emily Anthes explains the emerging science of health care facility arc… Read More
2020-08-20 12:00
More about the "slow apocalypse" from Kameron Hurley this month: Of Men and Monsters Writing about police brutality, serial harassers in the SF field, incompetence and corruption in governme… Read More
2020-08-18 15:00
Theme-worldbuilding IntegrationPart 22Furnishing Your First Home Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Posts are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2014/04/index-to-theme-worl… Read More
2020-08-16 16:07
Dishing the dirt does not always pay. Those who do not know History are doomed to repeat it."Publish and be damned," is believed to have been the first Duke of Wellington's response to liter… Read More
2020-08-13 12:00
A recent post on Quora asked, "What are the traits of ghosts in your culture?" Musing on that topic, I first thought of our familiar depiction of a ghost as a humanoid figure draped in a she… Read More
2020-08-11 15:00
Reviews 56Winds of WrathbyTaylor AndersonReviews haven't been indexed yet.In Reviews 53, 54, and 55 we scrutinized three very differently structured Series, long-running Series in different… Read More
2020-08-09 14:46
Grammar, word choice, and punctuation are a matter of courtesy. Poets and Yoda may turn sentences around, but the meaning is clear. Rules are still followed. If fictional, green, spa… Read More
2020-08-06 12:00
What does it take to turn you off fictional characters so thoroughly you don't want to read about them? Even if I dislike some aspects of a protagonist, that's not necessarily a downcheck fo… Read More
2020-08-04 15:00
Mysteries of PacingPart 10Show Don't Tell Character Arc Previous parts of Mysteries of Pacing are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/07/index-to-mysteries-of-pacing… Read More
2020-08-02 15:31
Whether "Con" is short-speak for "convention" or "confidence (not)", tricks with regard to ones identity, privacy, copyrights, and biometric data abound. Privacy cons are this week's theme.S… Read More
2020-07-30 12:00
My first published novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST, a werewolf urban fantasy with romantic elements, is back in print after a few years of dormancy, being recently re-released by Writers Exchange… Read More
2020-07-28 15:00
Mysteries of PacingPart 9Character Arc Pacing Using The FoiblePrevious entries in this series are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/07/index-to-mysteries-of-pacing.html… Read More
2020-07-26 15:58
De Minimus seems to be a fickle and mysterious mistress, legally speaking. You cannot rely on her favours. She --De Minimus-- let the dancing baby carry on over Prince's objections, but the… Read More
2020-07-23 12:00
In 2018, Akihiko Kondo, a Japanese school administrator, married a hologram of a "cyber celebrity," Hatsune Miku, an animated character with no physical existence. She dwells in a Gatebox, "… Read More
2020-07-21 15:00
Mysteries of PacingPart 8Pacing and the HEAMysteries of Pacing series is indexed here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/07/index-to-mysteries-of-pacing.htmlAnyone who has had sex… Read More
2020-07-18 21:46
The Authors Guild and others believe that The CASE Act (S.1273) may at long last come up for a vote in the Senate.The Copyright Alliance has a convenient page set up to help creators and the… Read More
2020-07-16 12:00
Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS essay explains why he's an "AI skeptic": Full Employment He believes it highly unlikely that anytime in the near future we'll create "general AI," as opposed to… Read More
2020-07-14 17:54
IndextoMysteries of PacingPosts by Jacqueline LichtenbergIn the Reviews series of posts, we have looked at whole Series, long series of books, 15-20+ novels, and how the envelope plot struct… Read More
2020-07-11 20:27
The estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is suing Netflix, Nancy Springer, the director of the Netflix movie and others for copyright infringement owing to depictions of the character of Sherloc… Read More
2020-07-09 12:00
I'm reading a new anthology called APOCALYPSES, edited by S. C. Butler and Joshua Palmer. Not surprisingly, the stories tend toward downer endings; optimistic viewpoints on worldwide devasta… Read More
2020-07-07 18:06
Reviews 55Walking ShadowsbyFaye Kellerman Reviews haven't been indexed yet.The last few Reviews posts have discussed recent entries in long established (non-Romance) Series. … Read More
2020-07-04 20:08
On Independence Day, I write about Courage, Class Action, a culture of piracy... and sauce for the gander.Courage first. The copyrightalliance.org has generated a two-part report on Thom Til… Read More
2020-07-02 12:00
Here's an article about a neuroscience experiment involving "ARHGAP11B, a gene found only in humans," which "is known for its role in expanding neocortex, the part of the brain responsible f… Read More
2020-06-30 15:00
Reviews 54Resurgence by C. J. Cherryh Reviews haven't been indexed yet.As you've noticed, I've been reviewing books set in series, many times starting later in a series than Book 1… Read More
2020-06-28 21:10
With apologies to Mies Van Der Rohe for the misquote....Take "The Devil And The Details" however you see fit, but it always comes down to the biggest bros on the block finding weaselly ways… Read More
2020-06-25 12:00
Kameron Hurley's latest LOCUS column discusses the stress of coping with a period of crisis: It's OK If This Email Finds You Well She writes about the transition—whenever that may occu… Read More
2020-06-23 15:00
Reviews 53The Fenmere JobbyMarshall Ryan Maresca https://www.amazon.com/Fenmere-Job-Streets-Maradaine-Book-ebook/dp/B07SRQBWXR/Reviews haven't been Indexed yet, and I often discuss othe… Read More
2020-06-20 23:13
A laconic young male of my acquaintance, when asked by his father where he had been and what he had been doing, would reply evasively, "This 'n That."This is not about him.It's a heads up ab… Read More
2020-06-18 12:00
One of my e-mail lists recently had a discussion about the wisdom of referring to the COVID-19 crisis in fictional works. One concern was that including the pandemic would "date" a story. Th… Read More
2020-06-16 15:00
Theme-Story IntegrationPart 7Happily Ever After WHAT exactly?Previous Parts in this series are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/05/index-to-theme-story-integration.htm… Read More
2020-06-14 20:00
It all comes down to profitable voyeurism, or spying, and it is all rooted in the many possible meanings of "beaming".If you have a mobile phone, and most people do, you beam a lot, whether… Read More
2020-06-11 12:00
On the subject of alien-seeming animals inhabiting our own planet, consider the giant larvacean, undersea "gelatinous invertebrates" that look like "ghostly tadpoles" about the size of break… Read More
2020-06-09 15:00
How Do You Know If You've Written A ClassicPart 9A Film Worth Watching Again Previous parts of this series are indexed here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/03/index-to-how… Read More
2020-06-06 22:59
Let's start with the falsies.I know, basically, that is Victoria's Secret.... falsies, that is. However, the piratical falsies are sites that promise to give away every book on Amazon or Goo… Read More
2020-06-04 12:00
Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the issue of whether there are any truly unbreakable writing rules: Rules for Writers You're probably acquainted with the collection of "rules" h… Read More
2020-06-02 15:00
How Do You Know If You've Written A ClassicPart 8What Do Readers Do?Previous parts of this series are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/03/index-to-how-do-you-know-if-y… Read More
2020-05-31 16:06
Cue the fanfare for the common creator of copyrighted works of music, art, and literature. The Copyright Office has concluded that Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the Sa… Read More
2020-05-28 12:00
I'm delighted to announce the release of my lighthearted ghost story, "Spooky Tutti Frutti," from the Wild Rose Press. Spooky Tutti Frutti It's part of their summer reading e-book series, "O… Read More
2020-05-26 15:00
Theme-Story IntegrationPart 6Crafting The EpiphanyOr put another way - The Story changes The PlotPrevious parts in this series are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2020/05/… Read More
2020-05-24 19:54
Which "haste-related" cautionary proverb comes first to your mind? I thought of "Marry in haste, repent at leisure," which was a socially relevant warning in Britain and Europe for sev… Read More
2020-05-21 12:00
The MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION carries a regular column called "Plumage from Pegasus," by Paul Di Filippo, satirizing aspects of the writing life and the publishing industry. Th… Read More
2020-05-19 15:00
Index to Theme-Story IntegrationPart 1 - Villain Story Archttps://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2019/04/theme-story-integration-part-1-villain.htmlPart 2 - Villain Into Herohttps://aliendj… Read More
2020-05-16 22:05
I'll be brief. Thanks to Les Stroud, aka Survivorman, (who --many years ago-- was gracious enough to write the cover quote for my alien-survival-romance Insufficient Mating Material), I disc… Read More
2020-05-14 12:00
I enjoy watching the various "Planet Earth" series narrated by David Attenborough on the BBC America channel; I've seen bits of some of the episodes multiple times. A vital aspect of life on… Read More
2020-05-12 15:00
Theme-Story IntegrationPart 5How To Change Anyone's MindPrevious parts in the Theme-Story Integration Series:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2019/04/theme-story-integration-part-1-vi… Read More
2020-05-10 17:09
Back in the heyday of MySpace, many authors (not this one), played current musical singles in full one their MySpace pages without paying any royalties and without seeking any kind of permis… Read More
2020-05-07 12:00
In recent weeks, many people who can afford to do so have fled the congestion of cities for suburban, rural, or resort areas. Some such prized destinations have taken aggressive action to ex… Read More
2020-05-05 15:00
Theme-Story IntegrationPart 4Rag-Tag-Band Ensemble Story Previous parts in the Theme-Story Integration Series:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2019/04/theme-story-integration-par… Read More
2020-05-03 13:49
First there was the "fine print"; then there was the probably intentionally mind-numbing scroll of all caps print, page after page of it; then, there were sites such as EBay that forced you… Read More
2020-04-30 12:00
I've been rereading TO WRITE LIKE A WOMAN: ESSAYS IN FEMINISM AND SCIENCE FICTION, by Joanna Russ. Although released in 1995, it contains many essays published earlier, as far back as the 19… Read More
2020-04-28 15:00
Theme-Conflict IntegrationPart 7Romance Without BordersPrevious parts in Theme-Conflict Integration are indexed at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2018/05/index-to-theme-conflict-int… Read More
2020-04-26 03:30
The Authors Guild is asking all comers to sign a petition.Link:https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-our-open-letter-to-internet-archive-to-shut-down-the-so-called-national-emergency-libr… Read More
2020-04-23 12:00
I've been rereading DR. TATIANA'S SEX ADVICE TO ALL CREATION, by evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson. As the title implies, the book is formatted like an advice-to-the-lovelorn column, with… Read More
2020-04-21 15:00
How to Use Tarot and Astrology in Science FictionPart 7Creating Charisma with Verisimilitude Previous parts in How to Use Tarot and Astrology in Science Fiction Series are indexed at th… Read More
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