Life moves fast, and this MultiReal promotion stuff is zipping by like an F-16. Here’s a passel of news about book stuff, which I’m just going to lump here behind bullet points for lack of any better idea. Chat with Me on LibraryThing: From now until next Friday, August 1, I’m participating in my own LibraryThing Author Chat. …
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David Louis Edelman, web programmer and author of the novel INFOQUAKE, speaks his mind about science fiction, web programming, writing and issues of the day.
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“MultiReal” Miscellany
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The Jump 225 Jumbo Mega-Bonanza Summer Giveaway, Week 4
http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-promotion/summer-giveaway-4/This is the final week of my big summer giveaway contest. So if you’re looking to win the David Louis Edelman ouevre, it’s your laaaaaaast chance. Last week, I challenged you to create the dream presidential ticket with one of the current candidates as president and a comic book superhero as veep. …
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My Readercon 19 Schedule
http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/science-fiction/my-readercon-19-schedule/My Readercon is off to an auspicious beginning. I’ve just arrived, and I’ve already left the only copies of Infoquake and MultiReal I brought somewhere in Logan Airport. I think I probably left them sitting at the courtesy phones for the rental car shuttles. …
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Could Batman Really Exist?
http://scottdparker.blogspot.com/2008/07/could-batman-really...and The Dark Knight spoke to my adult, crime fiction heart. But, of the three, if forced to choose just one to watch, Batman would win. Now, today, I offer you this story in Scientific American: "Why Batman Could Exist--But not for long" (hat tip to David Louis Edelman via Lou Anders). In this interview, E. Paul Zehr, a professor of kinesiology, describes the real-world version of a Batman. It's leading up to his book, Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero
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Spontaneous Derivation
http://www.spontaneousderivation.comDavid Louis Edelman [2nd year of eligibility] Sample Works from 2006, 2007 Infoquake Website http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/ Blog http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/blog/ Excerpt from entry Will the Novel Die?: I can’t find any current piece of journalism to use as a springboard for asking whether the novel will die. But considering that the question gets asked every 14 seconds somewhere on the blogosphere, I’m
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Page 123 / Sentence 5
http://www.johnpicacio.com/2008/06/page-123-sentence-5.html"Two of them looked at me the way Mamaw might have looked at a plump chicken." So now I'm supposed to tag five people. I'm sure these people don't have busy professional lives either.... * Lou Anders * Chris Roberson * Paul Cornell * Cheryl Morgan * David Louis Edelman
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Creating believable characters
http://caxtontempest.blogspot.com/2008/06/creating-believabl...David Louis Edelman about creating believable characters. He makes a 6 point list of imprtant elements, comparing the task to additive sculpture. The list is as follows... 1. Motivation 2. Attitudes 3. A character arc
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Pyr
http://chris-gerrib.livejournal.com/123555.htmlDavid Louis Edelman
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The day after
http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2008/05/21/the-day-after/1 such a success: everyone who went and bought the book, everybody who’s planning on coming to the reading next Tuesday (Baileys Crossroads Borders, if you’re in the area), everybody who’s given their support. Special thanks to veteran scribes David Louis Edelman
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SF Novelists
http://www.sfnovelists.comWhat our authors are saying Our members also have personal blogs. Here is what they are saying on their own websites lately: Error reading source feed. - FeedJumblerChapter One Samples - Simon HaynesI Gots Me a Twitter Blitter Knitter Fitter - Jeff VanderMeerBooks Received?April 16 (book tower!) - Jeff VanderMeerDying Earth Story Nears Completion - Jeff VanderMeer
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The Written Weird
http://writtenweird.blogspot.comCharles Stross Cherie Priest Comic By Comic CTRL+ALT+DEL David Louis Edelman DeepGenre Diesel Sweeties Freakangels Freakonomics Blog Full Frontal Nerdity Futurismic Game Theorist Geeks of Doom Ian "Lizard" Harac io9 Jane Espenson John Scalzi Marginal Revolution Meme Therapy Occasional Superheroine
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Lo social de Firefox: The Socialism in Firefox
http://esfinger.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/lo-social-de-firefo...software as the end-all, be-all of human existence. I could point out that one shouldn’t necessarily take anything one reads in a science fiction novel as an outright prediction. I’ve blogged elsewhere about the impossibility of predicting the future in any meaningful kind of way. As many other people have said, science fiction is largely about the present, and Infoquake isn’t really a serious attempt at predicting what life will be like in the year
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Closing Post to Blog Traffic Increase Overview
http://www.flixya.com/post/nesher/77359/Closing_Post_to_Blog...http://bloghit.blogspot.com/2004/11/how-to-explode-blog-traffic.html http://www.rss-specifications.com/promote-your-blog.htm http://blogpromotion.blogspot.com/ http://www.bloggingplace.com/blog_promotion.htm http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/14/blog-promotion-tips/ http://www.vandelaydesign.com/blog/blog-promotion/99-ways-to-promote-your-blog-for-free/ http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06/how_to_get_traf.html http://www.v7n.com/forums/blog-promotion/49346-my-list-links-promote-blogs.html
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