I have been talking about what makes something a horror story elsewhere and considered IA stories as examples of stories with terrifying monsters, life threatening and intense scenarios, but they just are not horror. I’m trying to articulate why, and I would be interested in Ilona’s take. What makes something a horror story? Will Hugh’s
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The Refined Art of Tsundoku
Oh that wonderful feeling when you walk into a bookstore, dead tree or electronic, and find an embarrassment of riches. This book is great and that one is great, and you have to have this one, oh and that one must come home with you. You take your precious loot home and then you read
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The To Do List
Many updates on random books topics including print, audio, and most importantly status of Tuna.
Small Updates
This has been such a happy but also such a busy week. I was going to just ramble about life, but I actually have some small updates for you. For those of you who missed it, the Frinndays are returning after the holidays. Audio and things Some people accused Mod R of withholding important information
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Need a Graphic Artist
I have a budget of $1,000. I need some designs for the merchandise store to be printed on T-shirts, mugs, etc. Mostly quotes with Canva and Adobe stock graphics. Stuff like Ripper Cushions. Save me from myself. Familiarity with Canva and Photoshop Ability to put fonts together that do not look like I (3-year old
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Language, What a Pain
We have a fun project we’re picking at, which involves a fantasy setting. We have to name a bunch of people and places, and we want to avoid confusion. We’d both feel we might benefit from a talk with a linguist. If you are or know a linguist who wouldn’t mind discussing imaginary pseudo-medieval names,
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The Power of BDH
You know what I could use in my life right now? Some of Orro’s doughnuts. Mmm, doughnuts. No doughnuts for me, sadly. We have some routine medical procedures coming up, and Gordon is fasting today, and I’m fasting in solidarity. I will have to eat something since I’m chauffeuring him tomorrow, but for now it’s
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All About Clean Sweep and Tapas
::rolls up metaphorical sleeves:: The preview episodes of Clean Sweep will be available on Tapas tomorrow, 08/19. They will be putting a couple of episodes up for you to take a look. Then on 08/23 they will drop 10 episodes at once, so you can get the story started. Tapas staff wrote a guide especially
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Publishing Partners, Ebooks, DOJ Hearings, and All That Jazz
Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster are trying to merge. The government is blocking it due to concerns of the new enormous publisher monopolizing the marketplace. We’ve received several questions about the particulars of the testimony, but the ones about this quote stand out: Is this a lie? Yes and no. Yes, a publisher
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The Every Day Mysteries
It’s Monday. How did this happen? Most of the renovation is over. We have some shelves that need to be put up, and the front of the house needs stucco repaired and a new coat of paint, but mostly we are done. I’m waiting for it to sink in, so I can exit the crisis
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Covers and Genre
A while ago we’ve done a Genre by Cover Quiz, where we showed you covers and had you guess the genre. I was looking on Amazon for unrelated reasons, trying to find something for Mod R, and stumbled on this. To be clear: THIS IS NOT A BOOK RECOMMENDATION. I have not read any of
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