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I've got a couple blog entries on my site. The first is about my experiences at BMT. The next is about http://thomastine.com/index.php/2016/06/13/punk-rock-died-in-the-80s/Punk Rock, and how a lot of people say it died in the 80s.

I thought it would be cool to combine my cartoony art with my writing, kinda like Allie Brosh or something, except my characters would talk to me, sometimes. I think a lot of people already do that on Tumblr, heh...

EDIT: Also, it's cool to hear from someone who got published :) Cool that a published author takes the time to post on a message board.
 
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Stray Man said:
EDIT: Also, it's cool to hear from someone who got published :) Cool that a published author takes the time to post on a message board.
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I think there are usually quite a lot of published authors knocking around here, and other forums. Sff is like that. :)

Anyhow, on that lovely lead-in line. I've just had my first audio book released, and I chatted with its narrator to find out what went into making the audio book:

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/on-audio-recordings.html
 
I've sold another novelette to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It's called "The Prognosticant" and carries on the life and times of my new serial character, Baldemar, a young wizard's henchman. It's my thirtieth sale to F&SF.

And I've turned in "Thunderstone," a space-opera/science-fantasy mix to Nick Gevers, who is editing an invitation-only antho I was invited to submit to on a last-minute basis when somebody else didn't deliver a story. It features Erm Kaslo, a far-future Sam Spade. I'm hoping Nick takes it.

I invented Kaslo some years ago for a story called "And Then Some," that ran in Asimov's and then again in Lightspeed Magazine, where it became the beginning of a serialized novel called The Kaslo Chronicles. After it ran, I tidied up the narrative and sold it to PS Publishing, which will bring it out in limited editions and ebook format in the next few weeks, retitled as A Wizard's Henchman.

I'm telling you all this because I see I have set things up for possible confusion. Erm Kaslo is a hard-boiled, Sam-Spade-type private eye who becomes a wizard's henchman when the universe switches from science to magic, and we make the transition from a Jack Vancean Gaean Reach kind of civilization to the decadence of The Dying Earth.

Baldemar is a wizard's henchman on an Old Earth that is already well into the Dying Earth era. They have nothing in common except the henchman thing.
 
kennychaffin said:
To each his own, eh? Whatever works for you.
Blogger seemed much simpler for my needs and links to my G+ account.
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Fair enough, I just wondered if there's any advantage of one over the other, particularly of blogger over wordpress as that's what I've got. I think you can link wordpress with g+ and various other things too. Doubt I'll change at this stage anyway unless it was really worth it.
 
I looked at both before I started my blog (I actually have the full 'pro?' edition of Wordpress available as part of my website). For me the interface and operation of Blogger was much much simpler and easier to use but it also does not have the more advanced features that are available in wordpress.
 
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