Happy Friday the 13th! The only remaining holiday that Hallmark doesn’t have a card for (please don’t disabuse me if I am wrong)! It’s Mary Robinette Kowal’s birthday and she’s giving us gifts! Read her novelette here. Lifehacker found a tool called Twine that lets you create your own Choose Your Own Adventure stories. And…
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Cool Stuff Friday
Seen a couple of cool things this week. Firstly, the hilarious Who the F is My D&D Character: http://whothefuckismydndcharacter.com/ Second, play 2400 old school DOS games in your browser: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games And when you really need to stop procrastinating and get back to work: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/vip/~3/pHVTla_YPP8/forcedraft-doesnt-let-you-quit-writing-until-you-hit-yo-1678244018
How to Miss Out On Great Books
I said in a recent review that I would come back and tell the story of how I came so late to the Retrievers novels and Laura Anne Gilman‘s Cosa Nostradamus world. It’s really quite simple and easy, but if you’re curious, here is Kiara’s Guide to Missing Out On Really Great Books™ . Hold…
A Precious Gift, or How David & Leigh Eddings’ Books Taught Me to Be A Decent Human Being
I’ve done lots of stupid things in my life. I think just about everyone has. Regardless, I try not to spend a whole lot of time on regrets because if even one thing in my past were changed, I think the whole domino pile of craziness would collapse — and, well. I kind of like…
And Now For NEW Fiction From Leanna Renee Hieber!
An Exclusive new piece of fiction from the award winning, bestselling Strangely Beautiful series by Leanna Renee Hieber February 13th, 1894, café La Belle et La Bete, London It was late at La Belle et La Bete, and the rest of what was once the Guard- though they’d always think of themselves as the Guard-…