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It begs the question, what’s the point? The throttling so folk couldn’t see any posts. The inability to reach new people. When you push a platform to a position like that it becomes absolutely useless. It’s been a problem for awhile and it’s exacerbated lately. They’re even locking the president of out of his account […]

It’s always a good practice to remind oneself of why we’re here and what we’re doing. This is why mission statements are so important for organizations and why they have to have real meaning and not just be some gobbledygook slogan like “Just Do It” which could mean anything. It’s also easy to lose sight […]

It seems like the only function of twitter at this point is for people to escalate fights in order to create “gotcha” tweets. That plus Twitter’s overall strategy for influencing the election meaning I’m shadowbanned and throttled for my posts makes the platform rather useless for what I need — to promote the books. I’m […]

Space Opera’s always been my favorite genre of books, film, and TV. From Poul Anderson’s Ensign Flandrey to the wonders of Babylon 5 it gives me a sense of scale and wonder that nothing else provides. When I set out into the genre I wanted to do something a little different– to have the sweeping […]

This is a huge ruling from the California Superior Court, who thankfully upheld the actual laws (one never can guarantee that anymore). Patreon wants to engage in deceptive acts against consumers and tell the consumers they simply have to take it and have no recourse. That’s not the way things work here. I’ll probably do […]

I know it’s almost a tired topic at this point, but I’m reading Gail Simone’s statement about how she’s not going to work for Dynamite Comics anymore and thinking about the whole association blame game. Now I don’t feel bad at all for Ethan Van Sciver nor his crew who are bilking money off of […]