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A by-invitation group blog for busy authors of SFR, Futuristic, or Paranormal romances in which at least one protagonist is an alien, or of alien ancestry.

Cookies We Do

2017-09-17 10:07
That is a Yodaesque reminder, as required by our kind but somewhat condescending hosts, for our European visitors (who, one would have thought, would be up to speed on mandatory cookies), th… Read More

Mundane Psionics

2017-09-14 12:00
Many characters in fantasy and science fiction possess psychic superpowers. They can read thoughts, view events at a distance or (maybe by touching an object) in the past, or see the spirits… Read More
Reviews 33 - Sime~Gen Seen From Outside

Reviews 33 - Sime~Gen Seen From Outside

2017-09-12 15:00
 Reviews 33 - Sime~Gen Seen From OutsideI found this review of the first book in the Clear Springs Trilogy by Mary Lou Mendum -- a Sime~Gen Series trilogy - on Facebook and Amazon on Ju… Read More

Read The Fine Print

2017-09-10 12:15
According to a New York Times article from 2014, over a third of all internet sites have "Forced Arbitration" clauses, and "Class-Action Ban" clauses.This week, one hundred and forty three m… Read More

Surplus Of Time

2017-09-07 12:00
Occasionally I read a humorous manga series called MISS KOBAYASHI'S DRAGON MAID. The heroine saves the life of a dragon who, in gratitude, decides to take human form and become the heroine's… Read More

'Ware What You Do With That Tee

2017-09-02 22:55
Beware what you do with a Tee... shirt, that is.Some authors take some of their own best quotes from their novels, apply them to T-shirts, and either sell them, or simply have friends, famil… Read More

Food Production Of The Future

2017-08-31 12:00
Here's an article about tabletop greenhouses controlled by a computer program: A Byte to Eat Food computers "use up to 90 percent less water than traditional agriculture and can help reduce… Read More

Monopolizing Other People's Creative Works

2017-08-27 00:40
Music and Books are not like the proverbial buggy whips.When motor vehicles were invented, horses, horse-drawn vehicles (and the means to motivate carriage horses to move) were rendered obso… Read More

Trazzles And Tweedlers

2017-08-24 12:00
While re-shelving our books in our newly redecorated basement "library," I came across WHICH WAY TO THE FUTURE? (2001), a collection of essays from ANALOG by the long-time editor of the maga… Read More

Undersea Aliens

2017-08-17 12:00
Peter Godfrey-Smith, a professor at the University of Sydney and City University of New York, believes the octopus is the closest thing to an alien living on Earth with us. Octopuses "are th… Read More

Are Your Works Being Infringed?

2017-08-13 13:53
Someone asked me how to find out if their works are being infringed. One method is to do an online search for the title of their book(s) and of their authorname. Another is to set up a varie… Read More

Books And Their Movies

2017-08-10 12:00
THE DARK TOWER movie has arrived, based on Stephen King's multi-volume epic (eight novels plus numerous more or less closely tied-in stories). Bev Vincent, a leading authority on King's work… Read More

Two Cheers For Canadian Cojones

2017-08-06 03:43
Author's note: I'd give them "three cheers", but I'm only referencing two cheer-worthy items in recent news concerning copyright.First, as reported by Porter Anderson, a Canadian Federal Cou… Read More

Computers Talking Among Themselves

2017-08-03 12:00
"An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language." AI Invents a Language Humans Can't Read Facebook's AI isn't the only example of an artificial in… Read More

Human Domestication

2017-07-27 12:00
Here's a new article on the hypothesis that the human species may have domesticated itself: How Humans Maybe Domesticated Themselves "Tameness" (which the article loosely equates with "domes… Read More

Piracy Where You Least Expect It

2017-07-23 14:51
Apple is alleged to be one of the better actors when one is thinking of Big Tech and copyright infringement, and exploitation of authors and musicians.In recent weeks, there are rumors that… Read More

The Metamorphosis Of Journalism

2017-07-20 12:00
Earlier this year, the Toronto STAR ran an article by Catherine Wallace, winner of the 2016-2017 Atkinson Fellowship (a journalism award), about the whirlwind changes currently happening in… Read More

Loud Money

2017-07-16 15:35
If it is true that "money talks", then megabucks funding probably talks a lot more loudly than romance authors' advance money.Fortune Magazine discusses the power of financial incentives ove… Read More

Reading Material Triage

2017-07-13 12:00
Do you keep all the books you buy? I've heard of some people who go to the opposite extreme and give away almost every book as soon as they've read it. Shudder—I would never think of d… Read More
Depiction Part 31 - Depicting Random Luck

Depiction Part 31 - Depicting Random Luck

2017-07-11 15:00
DepictionPart 31Depicting Random LuckbyJacqueline LichtenbergPrevious parts of the Depiction Series can be found here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2015/04/index-to-depiction-series… Read More

On Lying, Cheating, And Demonstrating

2017-07-09 17:32
There is a legal blog delightfully named "The Persuasive Litigator" penned by Holland & Hart LLPhttp://www.lexology.com/contributors/21605/In June, following the Comey testimony, they po… Read More

Portal Fantasy Aftermaths

2017-07-06 12:00
"Portal fantasy" is one of my favorite subgenres—tales of people transported to other worlds by magic, e.g., C. S. Lewis's Narnia series, which I've reread countless times. In children… Read More

In Praise Of Canada And Europe

2017-07-02 20:31
In honour of the Fourth of July, this poster assumes that American readers are enjoying time offline, and not worrying about all things copyright-related, but our friends in Europe and Canad… Read More

The Sense Of Style

2017-06-29 12:00
I've been rereading THE SENSE OF STYLE, by Steven Pinker, published in 2014. The lucid and witty cognitive scientist Pinker, one of my favorite nonfiction authors, explores the question of w… Read More

Much Ado

2017-06-25 17:00
I found just "about nothing" of interest to science fiction and alien romance authors on the copyright blogs this week, so my post title is Orwellian.The fuss over adaptations of one of Shak… Read More

Updating Older Books

2017-06-22 12:00
When a book published years or decades ago and set in the "present" gets reprinted in a new edition, should the technology and cultural references in the text be updated so that the story wi… Read More

Depiction Part 30 - Depicting Royalty

2017-06-20 15:00
DepictionPart 30Depicting Royalty byJacqueline LichtenbergPrevious parts in the Depiction series can be found listed here:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2015/12/index-to-theme-p… Read More

EFF Vs FBI

2017-06-18 13:02
It may be cheaper to buy a new computer than to give your crook one to the Geek Squad!https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/FBI-tries-to-bypass-Fourth-Amendment-Safeguards-by-using-Geek-Squa… Read More

Writing And Storytelling

2017-06-15 12:00
Kameron Hurley's column in the current LOCUS discusses the difference between stringing together a succession of events and actually telling a story: Story Isn't Just "Stuff Happens" The pri… Read More

Red Flags For Regular People

2017-06-11 16:26
This is not about bulls (bullies, perhaps), and it is not about persons who do not need laxatives. It's about Trojan Horses. (Not Trojans.)Beware if you see this phrase, or anything resembli… Read More

Diversity Awareness In Writing

2017-06-08 12:00
How should writers from a middle-class, white background (like me) handle creating characters of different ethnic and cultural origins? How can we free ourselves from the "white as default"… Read More

Need To Know Info On Copyright

2017-06-04 15:54
Perhaps you know everything you need to know about copyright. Perhaps you don't.The law offices of Fenwick & West LLP has put together a video "refresher" or "primer" that promised to te… Read More

Self-Improvement

2017-06-01 12:00
Suppose you could wave a magic wand and make changes in the design of the human body? What would you fix? Some items on my wish list: Alter the muscle connections in the torso to accommodate… Read More

About Lying

2017-05-25 12:00
The cover story of the June 2017 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC explores "Why We Lie." A pie chart of motives for lying or deception includes almost a dozen categories, such as personal gain, covering… Read More

Index To Worldbuilding From Reality

2017-05-23 15:00
Index to Worldbuilding From RealitybyJacqueline LichtenbergWhen a series gets long, I post an individual post listing the parts of the series that are connected, though posted on different d… Read More

Early Hominids In America

2017-05-18 12:00
Scientists have conjectured that a prehistoric site in San Diego County may prove relatives of early humans entered North America 130,000 years ago, at least 100,000 years earlier than commo… Read More

Optimistic Disaster Fiction

2017-05-11 12:00
In the current LOCUS, Cory Doctorow writes about his forthcoming novel WALKAWAY, which he labels a "utopian disaster novel." In a deliberate "rebuttal" of the disaster scenario or post-apoca… Read More

All For Nothing

2017-05-07 17:43
Another week, another slew of bad news for creative people...By nature, this "alien romance" author is a cup's-half-full type. However, am I alone in thinking that 50% royalties would be a f… Read More

RavenCon

2017-05-04 12:00
Last weekend I attended RavenCon in Williamsburg, Virginia, with my husband and youngest son. This was our first experience of that convention: RavenCon Weather was excellent. The location g… Read More

Self-Driving Cars

2017-04-27 12:00
The science column in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty, is always entertaining and informative. In the May-June issue, the authors write about "Rob… Read More

The Problem With "They"

2017-04-20 12:00
Nowadays it's not uncommon to meet people who don't identify with either pole of the standard "he" and "she" binary. "It," our only singular neuter pronoun, doesn't work for sentient creatur… Read More

Writing "Wild" Sex

2017-04-13 12:00
Three books about animal mating and reproduction recommended as sources of inspiration for writers who invent alien species: WILD SEX: WAY BEYOND THE BIRDS AND THE BEES (1991), by naturalist… Read More

Is That Legal?

2017-04-09 16:12
Disclaimer. This blog does not give legal advice, I simply point out where to find legal advice, and recap (make fair use of) some of the most interesting snippets from legal advice provided… Read More

Accelerating Human Evolution

2017-04-06 12:00
If you have a chance, pick up the April 2017 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and check out the cover article, "The Next Human." Contrary to popular belief, the human species hasn't stopped evol… Read More

ICFA 38 Report

2017-03-30 12:00
As always, I had a great time at the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando. This year's theme was "Fantastic Epics." The special guests were Steven Erikson… Read More

European Law Requires...

2017-03-26 15:10
European law --and Google-- requires us to inform our European visitors that this site hosted on (the Google owned) "Blogspot" puts cookies on your devices. Google does so, even if you reque… Read More

ICFA 38

2017-03-23 12:00
This week I'm attending the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando. Eighty-degree days! Nice change from the sudden resurgence of winter we suffered at home last we… Read More

We're All Mutants

2017-03-16 12:00
This article on the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND site uses the "X-Men" series as a springboard for an overview of genes and mutations: We're All X-Men Popular culture tends to think of "mutants"… Read More

Brain-to-Computer Communication

2017-03-09 13:00
A research project at Stanford University enables paralyzed people to type on computers by moving a cursor with their thoughts: Brain-Computer Interface This technology, according to the art… Read More
Depiction Part 25 - Depicting Hatred

Depiction Part 25 - Depicting Hatred

2017-03-07 16:00
DepictionPart 25Depicting HatredbyJacqueline LichtenbergIndex to Depiction Series:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2015/04/index-to-depiction-series-by-jacqueline.htmlIn Part 28, we lo… Read More

Death Of A Life-Saver

2017-03-05 17:05
Weird-bearded men, some with black-banded battle braided hair and thick chains hanging from their waists and pockets, stood silently in a semi-circle on the beach with their mates, their hea… Read More

Skeptical Thinking

2017-03-02 13:00
Two articles in the March-April issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER deal with critical, scientific-oriented mental habits, which are usefully relevant to thoughtful world-building. I subscribe to th… Read More

Fair Use

2017-02-26 16:57
Last week was Fair Use Week. Not a few people used the occasion to suggest their own, somewhat wishful, opinions of what Fair Use is (or ought to be).Much as I enjoy very long and convoluted… Read More

Evolution Of Civilization

2017-02-23 13:00
An interesting short article answering this question: Why Haven't We Found Civilizations Older Than 7000-8000 Years? The questioner wondered why, if our species evolved hundreds of thousan… Read More

Living A Fuller Life In "Second Life"

2017-02-16 13:00
Tom Boellstorff, an anthropology professor at the University of California at Irvine (one of my graduate schools), has written a book, COMING OF AGE IN SECOND LIFE, about his experiences doi… Read More

When Is An Infringer Not An Infringer?

2017-02-12 18:12
You know the old riddle: "When is a door not a door?" "When it's ajar." (A jar).For too long, Safe-Harbor-seeking "tech" companies --that rely on free money from exploiting copyright infring… Read More

Writers Reading

2017-02-09 13:00
Kameron Hurley's column in this month's LOCUS discusses how "crucial" it is for writers to be avid readers. (It doesn't seem to be available online yet.) Titled "If You Want to Level Up, Get… Read More

A Good Take-Down (DMCA Related)

2017-02-05 19:38
This week, I had a most excellent experience of the Take-Down kind with Scribd.A Google Alert  informed me (a daily occurrence) that one of my works had been uploaded to the internet fo… Read More

Other People's Faces...and Stuff.

2017-01-29 19:19
The most interesting copyright-law related blog of the week was penned by Kimberly Buffington of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.  The cautionary tale concerns a young lady who was… Read More

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