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October 3, 2014

Links: 10/03/14

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  • Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, Charles Manson & the Birth of Cults
  • Multifarious: Which Inspires Awe I just thought this was a collection of neat stuff.
  • On Spunky Girls So so so true, yes.
  • Honey bees love coffee, too True facts.
  • The Cuddly Menace The soulless eyes of the children. Waiting for the nitrogen harvest.
  • “Another Place in Time” by KJ Charles This guest post makes me want to check out some of Charles’s work.
  • Author strength training: Reading reviews Great post on how to read negative reviews in a way that can help you improve as a writer.
  • A Commitment to Reviewing Short Fiction So happy to see more people talking about reviewing short fiction. Amal is a perceptive and thoughtful reviewer and I look forward to seeing what she has to say about short fiction as well as her new column at Lightspeed (and congratulations to Sunil Patel and Andrew Liptak as well!).
  • Intel buckles to anti-feminist campaign by pulling ads from gaming site What the actual fuck, Intel? Looks like my next processor will be coming from AMD.
  • Talking About Chronic Illness, as a Reader and as a Writer
  • The Always On Stalker
  • Apologies: What, When, and How
  • Sick Systems: How to Keep Someone With You Forever (content warning)
  • The TL;DR Erotic Romance Edition
  • The big news this week has been Ellora’s Cave suing Dear Author (and its owner, Jane Litte) There has been a lot of discussion–I’m not going to link to it all. Instead, I’m going to link to some of what I’ve been reading, a couple of link collections from folks in Romland, and a way for people to help Jane Litte and Ellora’s Cave authors.
    • nebrinkley has a enormous master post of neatly categorized links, however, you might need to up your zoom on your browser to read it (tumblrinos, some of us can’t read that tiny type anymore, have mercy).
    • Another good link collection–and summary of the situation–is located at Her Hands, My Hands.
    • Courtney Milan has written two excellent posts that I feel are must-reads: On limited purpose public figures and A note about confidentiality clauses. Courtney is also the originator of the #notchilled tag on Twitter.
    • Tina Engler, owner of Ellora’s Cave, has left a very–ah–interesting comment over at The Passive Voice. I can’t even with that.
    • Deirdre Saoirse Moen has a post with links to ways you can help support Ellora’s Cave authors.
    • And if you are an Ellora’s Cave author, editor, or cover artist who wants to help out Dear Author, here’s one way you can do so. And here’s another way: Sarah Wendell has set up a legal defense fund at GoFundMe (I know people have major issues with GoFundMe, so I want to acknowledge that and I hope there will be an alternate way to donate funds).

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  1. Amy Jo Cousins says

    October 3, 2014 at 11:11 am

    Just popping in to say KJ Charles writes terrific books! Her Victorian fantasy series, the Magpie books, is terrific fun, but get musty recent release, Think of England, may be my favorite. Edwardian romance/mystery, I was highlighting constantly because she’s just so damn witty. 🙂

  2. Amy Jo Cousins says

    October 3, 2014 at 11:13 am

    Oh, dear me. “Get musty” in that previous comment was supposed to be “her most”. Silly phone.

  3. Victoria Janssen says

    October 3, 2014 at 11:28 am

    I enjoyed the K.J. Charles “Magpie Lord” books as well.

  4. Deirdre Saoirse Moen says

    October 3, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    There’s also this page of links, which includes the (sometimes NSFW) covers. They’re all non-EC titles from EC authors. It’s got clickable buy links, if you’re buying from Amazon.

    http://smbookobsessions.com/the-cave-chronicles-or-deplorable-ellora/

    (Site is also generally NSFW.)

  5. Deirdre Saoirse Moen says

    October 3, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    Oh, also: Sarah has updated the gofundme page to include two alternate methods for contributing. She’s off the ‘net for Yom Kippur, so there may be more news tomorrow night.

  6. Andrew Barton (MadLogician) says

    October 6, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    Intel has apparently published an apology, reported in http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-10-06-intel-we-are-deeply-sorry-if-we-offended-anyone

    This fails some of the principles set out in John Scalzi’s piece. I posted to their corporate responsibility page to tell them it wasn’t good enough – they took sides whether they meant to or not, and need to show more tangible contrition.

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