2018-12-27 13:00
When is Christmas not Christmas? When its equivalent appears under another name in a holiday episode of a TV series or movie franchise. TV Tropes has a page on this phenomenon: You Mean Xmas… Read More
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2018-12-25 16:00
How To Use Tarot & Astrology In Science FictionPart 2Now SpeculatePart 1 is found at:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-to-use-tarot-and-astrology-in.htmlIn Part 1… Read More
2018-12-23 13:32
A copyright owner has the exclusive right to publish, reproduce, and distribute her work. This applies to music files, and to ebooks.Fair use is, apparently, a rule that was created by a jud… Read More
2018-12-20 13:00
The TV Tropes site has a page called "Acceptable Breaks from Reality," about the "unrealistic" things regularly allowed to happen in fiction and film in order to move the story along, even t… Read More
2018-12-18 16:00
How To Use Tarot & Astrology In Science FictionPart 1Real History Tarot and Astrology Just For Writers are indexed here:Tarot:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2017/10/index-t… Read More
2018-12-16 22:29
After all these years... Ebay is still profiting from and facilitating copyright infringement, or so it appears.https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fantastic-Beasts-The-Crimes-of-Grindelwald-by-J… Read More
2018-12-16 15:37
If a petition has very few signatures, a reasonable observer might assume that not a lot of people agree with the petition. Likewise, if an online petition has thousands of signatures… Read More
2018-12-13 13:00
On Facebook I came across a link to an article about the dark side of the Christmas season in many European folk traditions. It includes some creepy illustrations: Why Monsters Haunt Christm… Read More
2018-12-11 16:00
Reviews 43The Late Great WizardbySara Hanover The Reviews have not been indexed yet.The success of the Romance Genre in penetrating Science Fiction and Fantasy genres is beautiful to se… Read More
2018-12-09 13:12
Authors are warned not to "scrape" social media sites for the email addresses of potential readers. Since the GDPR, (Europe's General Data Protection Regulation) we are admonished to double… Read More
2018-12-06 13:00
One of my favorite authors, S. M. Stirling, recently launched a new alternate-history series with BLACK CHAMBER, published in July of this year. His website has begun displaying sample chapt… Read More
2018-12-04 16:00
Reviews 42Simon R. Green's Secret Histories&The Nightside Series Conclude The Reviews series have not yet been indexed. These reviews often discuss topics we've explored… Read More
2018-11-29 13:00
As we do every year at Thanksgiving, my husband, our youngest son, and I spent the weekend at ChessieCon (formerly Darkover), just north of Baltimore. Guest of Honor was Jo Walton, author of… Read More
2018-11-27 16:00
Reviews 41Empire of Silence by Christopher RuocchioFan Fiction Styling Has Gone Mainstream Reviews posts have not yet been gathered into an index. Find them by searching author or… Read More
2018-11-25 15:19
Contrary to popular belief, a recipe can be copyrighted. The copyrightable part is not the factual list of ingredients, nor is it the information on the process of preparing those ingredient… Read More
2018-11-22 13:00
Happy American Thanksgiving! Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column discusses whether the Internet qualifies as "revolutionary": What the Internet Is For His answer: The Internet runs on a revo… Read More
2018-11-20 16:00
Targeting A ReadershipPart 13Motivating Your ReadersbyJacqueline Lichtenberg Previous Parts Indexed Here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2013/10/index-to-targeting-readership-se… Read More
2018-11-18 17:07
Cyber "space" is in Iceland. Iceland is also home to the Dark Web. Or so "they" say.The "cloud" may be in the bowels of a big barge, or in Maiden North Carolina , or perhaps under the c… Read More
2018-11-15 13:30
Let us give thanks that this election cycle has ended, and we'll have a short rest from the acrimonious politicking. (Maybe. It seems that nowadays we hardly get a moment's peace before camp… Read More
2018-11-13 16:00
Worldbuilding For Science Fiction RomancePart 3Body And Soul Previous parts in Worldbuilding for Science Fiction Romance are:Part 1http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2010/01/worldbu… Read More
2018-11-11 13:17
Increasingly, authors are responsible in every sense for advertising and promoting their own works. Also, most people carry a camera with them 24/7. It is not implausible that some tim… Read More
2018-11-08 13:00
I recently got around to watching the Star Wars movie SOLO. On an e-mail list I subscribe to, someone asserted that it was a mistake to produce a film devoted to Han Solo's backstory. In thi… Read More
2018-11-06 16:00
Theme-Dialogue IntegrationPart 4Theme Stated Previous posts in this series:What's Eating Him?http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2013/09/theme-dialogue-integration-part-1-whats.htmlW… Read More
2018-11-04 12:12
The DMCA was intended by Congress to be a cutting edge tool to combat piracy. It has turned out to be a blunt tool indeed, given that ISPs have used it as a shield to avoid liability for cop… Read More
2018-11-01 12:00
The November-December issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains three articles about UFOs and extraterrestrials. "UFO Identification Process," by Joe Nickell and James McGaha, offers an overvie… Read More
2018-10-30 15:00
Theme-Dialogue IntegrationPart 3Romantic Emotional IntelligencePrevious Parts in Theme-Dialogue IntegrationWhat's Eating Him?http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2013/09/theme-dialogue-int… Read More
2018-10-28 03:36
This weekend is the twentieth anniversary (china!) of the signing of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). As for me, I mentally awarded the DMCA its rightful wooden spoon… Read More
2018-10-25 12:00
This video compresses the total history of the universe and Earth into a single monologue of less than twenty minutes: History of the Entire World The summary is heavily weighted toward huma… Read More
2018-10-23 15:00
Theme-Character IntegrationPart 15Building A Bully Character From ThemePrevious Parts of the Theme-Character Integration Series are indexed here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2014/0… Read More
2018-10-21 12:11
Legal bloggers Chantal Bertosa, Victoria E. Carrington, and Ashley Doumouchel writing for the law firm Aventum IP Law LLP share their definitive breakdown of "Copyright in Canada."https://ww… Read More
2018-10-18 12:00
Here's an article on the PBS website exploring the issue of what might happen if artificial intelligences were granted the status of legal persons: Artificial Intelligence Personhood Corpora… Read More
2018-10-16 15:00
Reviews 40The PointbyJohn DixonReviews have not yet been indexed. I discuss many novels within the context of various writing techniques they illustrate, and a few (40 so far) separate… Read More
2018-10-14 16:01
The subject line is an extrapolation.It would indeed be an unreasonable world for copyright owners if a creator whose work was plagiarized, or infringed, or "sampled" lost all redress if the… Read More
2018-10-11 12:00
The May 2018 issue of PMLA (the journal of the Modern Language Association) contains an article by Faye Halpern titled "Beyond Contempt: Ways to Read UNCLE TOM'S CABIN." The author describes… Read More
2018-10-09 15:00
Putting Violence In Its PlacePart 2The Three Second RuleThe First Part of this series was written as a stand-alone post, not the kickoff of a series, but in 5 years or so, the Romance Genre… Read More
2018-10-07 12:13
Authors, do you know how long your copyrights on your works last? For your lifetime, plus 70 years. This has been the case for authors in the USA and in the EU for some time. Now, it a… Read More
2018-10-04 12:00
If possible, pick up a copy of the October NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and contemplate the dazzling photos in the article on jellyfish. Typical jellyfish (not all of which are related to each other;… Read More
2018-10-02 15:00
Worldbuilding For Science Fiction RomancePart 2Imagine An Impossible World Part 1:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2010/01/worldbuilding-for-science-fiction.htmlIn Part 1, we look… Read More
2018-09-30 05:35
Even the intellectual property law blogs are talking about cyber security! Authors ought to be especially careful, because authors tend to have to publish and distribute a lot of infor… Read More
2018-09-27 12:00
I'm currently reading, little by little, a book by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (best known for THE SELFISH GENE), THE ANCESTOR'S TALE: A PILGRIMAGE TO THE DAWN OF LIFE. He structu… Read More
2018-09-25 15:00
Theme-Character IntegrationPart 14The Family ManPrevious entries in Theme-Character Integration are indexed here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2014/07/index-to-theme-character-integ… Read More
2018-09-23 15:57
Let's start with a little sympathy for the Evil One.... or Zon.Not so much has been written recently about all the NOIs (Notices of Intent to use music) filed with the Copyright Office… Read More
2018-09-20 12:00
This past Saturday, my husband (Leslie Roy Carter) and I had a book signing for our Wild Sorceress series, hosted by the Page After Page bookstore at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Here'… Read More
2018-09-18 15:00
Soul Mates and the HEA Real or FantasyPart 5Domestic Violence During the HEA Previous parts of this series on Soul Mates linked into and through the HEA are:Part 1http://aliendjinnroman… Read More
2018-09-16 03:30
"IMPORTANT - OPEN IMMEDIATELY"Unfortunately, the American 1st Amendment allows anyone to make the misleading claim that their written communication is "Important", and to demand (using the i… Read More
2018-09-13 12:00
The October 2018 issue of CONSUMER REPORTS contains an article about some of the things a "smart house" can do for its occupants. We're closer than I formerly realized to the versatile total… Read More
2018-09-11 15:00
Soul Mates and the HEA Real or FantasyPart 4Is Monkey Sex Best There Can Be? Previous parts of this series on Soul Mates linked into and through the HEA are:http://aliendjinnromances.bl… Read More
2018-09-09 16:49
"Targeted" advertising is probably efficient and convenient. If you don't think that it is worth paying for puce eyeballs to view your book advertisement (because you assume that peopl… Read More
2018-09-06 12:00
The 1971 launch of MS magazine included a now-classic essay titled "I Want a Wife," by Judy Syfers. It's very short; you can read the whole thing here: I Want a Wife The author, of course, i… Read More
2018-09-04 15:00
Soul Mates and the HEA, Real or FantasyPart 3Convincing Your ReaderbyJacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts of this series on Soul Mates linked into and through the HEA are:http://aliend… Read More
2018-09-02 17:24
John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost". This is about "Privacy Lost".Almost nothing is private these days. Apparently, the legal standard for invasion of privacy is that a reasonable, modern pers… Read More
2018-08-30 12:00
This title doesn't refer to the metaphysical question of why suffering exists. (My favorite book on that topic is THE PROBLEM OF PAIN, by C. S. Lewis.) I'm talking about the biological and e… Read More
2018-08-28 15:00
Reviews 39Souls of Fire SeriesbyKeri ArthurIn Reviews 38,https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2018/08/reviews-38-jack-campbell-genesis-fleet.htmlwe looked very quickly at 3 series of Mili… Read More
2018-08-26 20:59
This last weekend, I was unexpectedly "trapped" away from home, without my computer. I thought that I'd be able to blog using a borrowed computer, but Google wouldn't allow it. &n&hell…Read More
2018-08-23 12:00
I've been rereading a couple of Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters novels. Magicians in this series work with one of the classic four elements (air, water, earth, fire). People with those p… Read More
2018-08-21 15:00
Reviews 38Jack CampbellThe Genesis Fleet Series This is the 38th post focusing on reviewing books in print.The Genesis Fleet started in 2017 with Vanguard, and book 2, Ascendant, came o… Read More
2018-08-19 16:38
Authors, do you own your own books' cover art?You do if you created it yourself, or paid to have it created for you as a clear work for hire, providing you (or the person you hired to do the… Read More
2018-08-16 12:00
Last week, I watched the rather strange SF movie ANNIHILATION. (Spoilers ahead.) An anomalous phenomenon of unknown origin, labeled the Shimmer, has mysteriously appeared in the vicinity of… Read More
2018-08-14 15:00
SettingsPart 5Setting Makes The GenrebyJacqueline LichtenbergPrevious parts of the series on Settings including a Guest Post by J. H. Bogran:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2013/04/gu… Read More
2018-08-12 03:30
Let's extend a maritime metaphor --"surfing the internet" -- to the interesting and useful treasures that you may find floating about online.Jetsam is the good stuff that someone deliberatel… Read More
2018-08-09 12:00
In sociological discourse, we encounter the term "defining deviancy down." This phrase refers to behavior that used to be condemned but now is tolerated. It's an academic way of grumbling, "… Read More
2018-08-07 15:00
Soul Mates And The HEA Real or FantasyPart 2byJacqueline LichtenbergPart One of this series on the plausibility of the HEA and Soul Mate premises of Romance novels is:http://aliendjinnromanc… Read More
2018-08-05 15:16
Big Brothers are watching you, and not listening to you. They are swamping your voice, spoofing your voice.The Trichordist tells a telling story about a "tens-of-thousands-strong" online pro… Read More
2018-08-02 12:00
Right here in Annapolis, a 3-D printer at the local Home Depot has been used to create a prosthetic limb for a five-year-old boy born without a hand. You can read the story and watch a video… Read More
2018-07-31 15:00
Theme-Character IntegrationPart 13Soul Mate Of The Kickass HeroinebyJacqueline LichtenbergPrevious parts of Theme-Character Integration Series are indexed here:http://aliendjinnromances.blog… Read More
2018-07-29 03:30
The Copyright Office plans to increase the cost of copyright registration by an average of 41%.How do you feel about that? If you have registered your own copyrights in the last 5 year… Read More
2018-07-26 12:00
You've probably heard about the projected "reboot" of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I'd call it a "remake" instead, since the intent seems to be to start the series over with Buffy in high schoo… Read More
2018-07-24 15:00
Reviews 37Magic ShiftsbyIlona Andrews The Reviews series has not been indexed yet. And I have messed up the numbering, resulting in two posts numbered 34. I'm not planning to fix… Read More
2018-07-22 16:36
Not all art is in the public domain, even if it is in a public place. even if an image-licensing service can license the right to use a specific photographer's photograph of that art. One mi… Read More
2018-07-19 12:00
A recent question on Quora asked how well vampires would be able to survive in the modern world. My reaction was along the line of "better than ever." In DRACULA, Bram Stoker envisions how t… Read More
2018-07-17 15:00
Dialogue Part 15Writing Inner Dialogue of Soul MatesbyJacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts of the Dialogue series are indexed here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/10/d… Read More
2018-07-15 16:32
Applying bricks-and-mortar laws to the internet would "stifle creativity" and prevent "the sharing" of "information" and generally "end the internet as we know and love it". Such is the gist… Read More
2018-07-12 12:00
I'm thrilled to announce that I've had a story accepted for this fall's SWORD AND SORCERESS 33 anthology, published by the Marion Zimmer Bradley estate and edited by Elisabeth Waters and Deb… Read More
2018-07-10 15:00
Reviews 36byJacqueline LichtenbergComparing Expository TechniquesReviews posts have not yet been collected into an Index post. Some other blog series also discuss novels of Romance and… Read More
2018-07-08 03:30
Today, Addison Brae shares a debut author's rude awakening.The first pirate hurts mostJuly 8, 2018By Addison BraeDigital piracy is rarely discussed in the publishing world, so seeing an… Read More
2018-07-05 12:00
Last week, five people on the staff of our local newspaper were killed by a gunman who attacked their office because he had a long-standing grudge against the paper. (It's worth noting that… Read More
2018-07-03 15:00
DepictionPart 37Depicting Dreams: Male Or FemalebyJacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts in the Depicting series are indexed here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2015/04/index-to… Read More
2018-07-01 17:35
According to science, "Some winners really are losers," Carol Pinchefsky concludes for GEEK & SUNDRY, discussing scientific findings on why persons who identify themselves as winne… Read More
2018-06-28 12:00
A new Marvel superhero TV series recently premiered, CLOAK AND DAGGER. Tandy ("dagger") can materialize a knife out of light. Tyrone ("cloak"), associated with shadow and darkness, can telep… Read More
2018-06-26 15:00
Believing in the Happily Ever AfterPart 9Why Strive to Fulfill Your Destiny?byJacqueline LichtenbergIndex to the Happily Ever After series is:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2016/11/… Read More
Science Fiction Writers Of America (SFWA) Offers Career Mentoring To Emerging Or Isolated SF Writers
2018-06-24 03:30
Open to non-members of SFWA as well as to members of SFWA is a new mentoring program to help with professional development and community connectedness.It's not a critique program. It's all a… Read More
2018-06-21 12:00
Last week I reread Agatha Christie's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (again) after watching the newest movie based on the novel. Some people might wonder why anybody would read a murder mystery… Read More
2018-06-19 15:00
Astrology Just For WritersPart 15Mercury Retrograde Plot TwistbyJacqueline LichtenbergPrevious entries on Astrology are indexed here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2010/03/pausing-fo… Read More
2018-06-17 15:59
Imagine you happen to be in the right place at the right time, and you snap the perfect photographic scoop of a famous person doing something newsworthy.In your excitement, you share your ph… Read More
2018-06-14 12:00
Kameron Hurley's new LOCUS essay, "On Patience, Goal-Setting, and Gardening," meditates on the analogies between pushing to finish and edit a book and transmuting three "dead city lots" into… Read More
2018-06-12 15:00
Believing in Happily Ever AfterPart 8The Writer's Optimistic VoicebyJacqueline Lichtenberg Index to the Happily Ever After series is:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2016/11/inde… Read More
2018-06-10 03:40
"It's The Author Who Suffers" reports Porter Anderson on Mary Rasenberger's remarks at Book Expo about copyright issues and authors being last and least to be paid.https://publishingperspect… Read More
2018-06-07 12:00
In his essay "On the Reading of Old Books" (written as the introduction to a 1943 translation of St. Athanasius's book on the Incarnation), C. S. Lewis explains why he thinks it vital for mo… Read More
2018-06-05 15:00
Theme Element Giving And ReceivingPart 2Science of Science FictionbyJacqueline LichtenbergPart 1 is here: http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/05/theme-element-giving-and-receiving.ht… Read More
2018-06-03 18:12
... know how to erase their digital footprints.The anonymous people at Final Prepper have some fine advice on disappearing, deceiving (which might really mess up those who like to target the… Read More
2018-05-31 12:00
Astrophysicist Mario Livio has recently published a book titled WHY? WHAT MAKES US CURIOUS. He maintains that curiosity is "the most human characteristic": Why We're Curious Livio identifies… Read More
2018-05-29 15:00
Reviews 34 byJacqueline LichtenbergThe Imposters of AventilbyMarshall Ryan Maresca My Reviews posts have not yet been indexed, and I do discuss many novels in the context of variou… Read More
2018-05-27 11:35
Trademarks are intended to be a "source identifier". They are not intended to be a restraint on anyone's vocabulary.Imagine a science fiction world where certain words or phrases could be us… Read More
2018-05-26 21:49
Since I wrote about AI last week, there was the "Alexa-misunderstanding-a-conversation-as-commands" issue, and there is an advert about starting a car with a voice command.For the latter, I… Read More
2018-05-24 12:00
Michael Cart, author of YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: FROM ROMANCE TO REALISM, had an article on this past Sunday's editorial page of the Baltimore SUN proclaiming that YA literature is an America… Read More
2018-05-22 15:00
Blurb Writing 101Part 2The Query LetterbyJacqueline Lichtenberg Part 1 of Blurb Writing 101 is posted here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2015/06/blurb-writing-101-part-1-study… Read More
2018-05-20 12:17
Read this and weep!Legal blogger David L. Hayes Esq for Fenwick & West LLP has amassed a 927-page compendium ofAdvanced Copyright Issues On The Internet.https://www.lexology.com/library/… Read More
2018-05-17 12:00
In her alien-invasion-plus-vampire novel THE MADNESS SEASON, C. S. Friedman creates a species called the Marra, incorporeal beings who wear material bodies "like clothes." Upon assuming a ne… Read More
2018-05-15 15:00
Defining And Using ThemePart 2Love vs PoliticsbyJacqueline LichtenbergPart 1 of Defining and Using Theme, listing some previous posts that are relevant to Theme, is here:https://aliend… Read More
2018-05-13 15:17
Perhaps the pirating world misunderstands "Fair Use", and what constitutes a work that can be freely exploited. Or, perhaps EBay is still allowing massive collections of pirated… Read More
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