The Review of Contemporary Fiction has a piece on Jesus Coyote: “Harold Jaffe’s novel Jesus Coyote re-appropriates the discourses surrounding the Manson Family, laying bare the ideology of the dominant culture….One comes to realize that Coyote simply exists as he is, unapologetically beyond social norms, and might thus be seen as symbol of resistance to…

I never pictured myself as a member of the spelling police. In fact, I’m not a very good speller at all. But I’ve seen my future as an old & decrepit crone complaining about how the internet ruined the English language. One mistake I’m seeing all over the place lately is people giving ‘advise.’ No,…

Next month we’re actually going on a real vacation, a cruise to Bermuda! I’m looking forward to it but I’m also anxious because I don’t think we’ve been away for this long since we started RDSP. Most years we tried to convince ourselves that going to a convention was a vacation (even though we work…

jlundberg posted a list of 10 rules that German publisher and author Michael Kruger came up with for Independent Publishing. I decided to come up with my own rules: 10 Rules of Independent Publishing 1. Only publish works you love 2. Do not expect to make a living publishing 3. Do as much as you…