“Mandate” is one of the stupidest words used in politics today. A mandate is an order, a command from the boss. A requirement. Some restaurant owners mandate their employees wash their hands after using the bathroom. I personally like restaurant owners who mandate that. States mandate that people who drive cars have car insurance. I
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Sometimes I think some of us indies get this weird attachment syndrome and start thinking we’re Amazon. Joe Konrath recently hosted a blog-conversation with Lee Child about the whole Amazon vs. traditional publishers thing. The Passive Voice had an active discussion about it as well. Kudos to Lee Child for yet again showing up and injecting
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Back in 2011 I wrote a post titled “Since when did young adult fiction become the cure for cancer?” It was a response to all the YASaves hysteria. The main point of my amazing post (grin) was that the people complaining about some YA content wanted not to ban books, but to simply have a
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To our soldiers, law enforcement officers, and firemen. What an awesome song and video for this Memorial Day.
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Seven days. San Diego, Phoenix, and a wild trip through Wyoming, around Denver, and back to Utah. Seven days. Five nights. In Arizona, I was told by a wild-eyed denizen of the Barnes & Noble we were signing at that my epic fantasy book was true–we are ruled by lizard people! Imagine how shocking it
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