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Well, here we are. As those of you who missed the minor disruption last night won’t know, we’e now all transferred over from WordPress.com hosting to a private WordPress instance running on a DigitalOcean droplet, leading to a glorious new era of something that looks much the
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So, it’s been pretty quiet around here this month. Part of that is post-book recovery, of course, but another part is that in celebration of Book III, I’ve been working on a fairly comprehensive revamp of the technical end of this site and its associated operations to make
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So, there was some conversation on the Discord which led to this shameless riff/parody/etc. of the Warhammer 40K intro quote to produce one for this setting: It is the dawn of the Ninth Millennium. For nearly a hundred centuries the unbroken line of the Imperial Couple have sat
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Well, our server just died today. This is a mite awkward for us here, gentle readers, since if it doesn’t work, our network doesn’t work, and if our network doesn’t work, neither of us – writing, software developing, any kind of freelancing – can do any of our work
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I’ve been enjoying reading this webcomic a whole lot recently: Grrl Power is a comic about a crazy nerdette that becomes a superheroine. Humor, action, cheesecake, beefcake, ‘splosions, and maybe some drama. Possibly ninjas. …for all those reasons, plus recent SFnal elements, and that our protagonist’s brain seems
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Yeah. Big changes to come. But not quite yet, since this is the piece I have in mind for the closing of, not book three — — but rather, of book four. So the galaxy won’t be having a paradigm shift to suffer through quite yet. I’m just issuing early
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On the evergreen question of what about us, Earth-now, the Imperials might find worthy of a little respect, a recent rewatching of Apollo 13 reminds me to mention that our space program, especially of the Apollo era, definitely qualifies. Bear in mind, for one thing, that for various reasons involving
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(The answer to a question asked on the Eldraeverse Discord, copied here since not everyone follows the Eldraeverse Discord.) Fanfiction policy: Well, first, I’m rather gratified to discover that I need a fanfiction policy… 1. I don’t have any objection to fanfiction per se . Content-wise, however, I would
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Okay. I regret having to do this, because by and large I enjoy engaging with my readers and satisfying their curiosity, but — I am, as of now, declaring a complete, conclusive, and perpetual moratorium on all “gotcha” questions. (I am not providing a definition, because definitions can be gamed; if
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Y’know, in asking for prompts there – thanks, by the way, I appreciate them – it occurred to me just now that I’ve really been missing the obvious. It’s Christmas. And even though they don’t have Christmas in the Associated Worlds, it’s still a time of year
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My muse has been… somewhat cranky and uncooperative recently. (As those of you who have subscribed to my works know, and for which I apologize, but you will still get your full purchase, that I guarantee.). My own fault, really – been allowing too many external things to get in the
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Frustration is coming up with a starship crew for a piece of writing only to realize you’ve recreated half the cast of Firefly. Redo from start.