Does anyone know how to turn off the mirroring on the front facing camera in Android? Let me explain why, before you jump to the comments to try to tell me that it’s a feature not a bug. I totally get why, under normal circumstances, having the image mirrored will make it easier for most folks […]
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Before we get to the Jane Austen phone sex video, give me a moment of your time. Last month, I told you about my friends Nora and Bob and the horrific car accident they survived. This is their truck. So — there’s a fundraiser, and I’m helping with some Acts of Whimsy. I’m going to
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Chris Angus is joining us today to talk about his novel The Gods of Laki. Here’s the publisher’s description: From the author of Flypaper comes an adventure about mysterious underground volcanic forces and a savage plot to alter the Earth’s climate. A race to unveil the secret of Laki, a volcano on the southern shores
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Today Rebecca Roland joins us to talk about her new novel, Fractured Days. Here is the publisher’s description: Malia returns home the hero of a war she can’t remember. The valley burning under the Maddion’s invasion, the fate of her late husband, the way she resolved the long-time distrust between the Taakwa people and the wolfish,
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I regularly teach Short Story Intensive workshops and they have been predominately populated by white writers. The ability to register on short notice for a workshop is something that is tied to having ready funds lying around. Because income is often linked to color and gender due to the economic disparities in the United States,
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This weekend was a good example of what it’s like to have more than one career simultaneously. I was at the Nebula Awards Weekend, which was fabulous, and left at 4:00 to go to the airport. This meant I missed the Nebula Awards Ceremony itself, but one has choices to make. Because in order to have
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Today Beth Cato joins us to talk about her new novel, The Clockwork Crown. Here is the publisher’s description: Narrowly surviving assassination and capture, Octavia Leander, a powerful magical healer, is on the run with handsome Alonzo Garrett, the Clockwork Dagger who forfeited his career with the Queen’s secret society of spies and killers—and possibly his
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Today Joanne C. Hillhouse joins us to talk about her new novel, Musical Youth. Here is the publisher’s description: Can one summer make the difference of a lifetime? Zahara is a loner. She’s brilliant on the guitar but in everyday life she doesn’t really fit in. Then she meets Shaka, himself a musical genius and the
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Today Terry Jackman joins us to talk about her new novel, Ashamet, Desert Born. Here is the publisher’s description: “Headstrong was the least I knew they said about me. Unpredictable, a wicked sense of humour? Gods, I hoped so.” A desert world. A population of 100 males to every female. And for Ashamet, its prince, a suddenly
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Yep. Tor Books and Tor.com have arranged an Author Drinkup at Geek Bar Chicago in conjunction with the Nebula Award Weekend. You know you want to come hang out, talk fiction, and drink beer, or cocktails, or soft drinks, or whatever you prefer. With whom? Me, John Joseph Adams, Greg Bear, Tobias Buckell, Ellen Datlow,
Want to hear me talk in depth about Of Noble Family? AND you can read an excerpt that we talk about on the podcast. We actually talk mostly about the worldbuilding so while there is a spoiler warning, there aren’t many actual plot spoilers. If you haven’t read Mary’s latest novel, Of Noble Family, this
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In part one of a two-part interview, Brent and Kristi talk with Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal about her efforts to facilitate conversation about fandom with a Hugo supporting membership drive and her interests in the Caribbean, specifically a recent Steampunk Cruise where she often is a guest (interview begins at about 11:30). For part two, which will be episode 302,
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Yes. I mean 250 words. Contractually required to be that short. Really. Here’s the first paragraph as a teaser. Albina sat crosslegged on the polished reclaimed bamboo floor of her condo, with the SmartMortar gripped between her thighs. Leaning into the motion, she ground the pestle over the corn with soothing clockwise motion. Want to
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Peter Orullian joins us today to talk about his new novel, Trial of Intentions. Here is the publisher’s description: The gods who created this world have abandoned it. In their mercy, however, they chained the rogue god–and the monstrous creatures he created to plague mortalkind–in the vast and inhospitable wasteland of the Bourne. The magical Veil that
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I wrote this essay in a moving van as we were relocating from Portland to Chicago. It appeared in Smart Pop Book’s Ender’s World which was a series of essays looking at the novel Ender’s Game from different perspectives. Here’s a teaser. In 2005, I was fortunate enough to attend Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. I
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