Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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My dad always said I could be whatever I wanted to be…
…and that’s especially true of the Internet, where a false persona is only a few mouse clicks away. Witness this slide show of real people and the avatars they use in online games.
I don’t know what it says about me, but I’m more uncomfortable being anonymous online than I am being myself. I even spent quite a bit of time during my Second Life experiments trying to get my avatar to look like me.
I think it goes back to being a newspaper editor, and refusing to print any letters that arrived unsigned. You got something to say? Say it as yourself, or give me a darn good reason why you’re hiding behind a false name, or I see no particular reason to listen to you.
Or maybe it’s because I do all my dressing-up-in-costumes and pretending-to-be-someone-else on stage.
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