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By Robert Swartwood on February 1, 2010
(Not me though; I absolutely love Ricky Gervais.) Ricky Gervais is involved, but for once it’s no laughing matter: a shipment of more than 12,000 copies of Flanimals Pop-Up by actor/comedian Gervais went missing last week en route to Candlewick’s warehouse in Indiana. Police are investigating the incident as grand theft (the books are valued [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on January 21, 2010
For the record, I’m not a James Patterson fan. I have nothing against the guy; he’s brillant at marketing himself and seems to know what he’s doing. Some would even argue that he’s single-handedly helped keep the publishing industry alive this long … despite the fact that his work (often co-authored) floods the market and [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on January 13, 2010
As I had mentioned in this post, I find spam fascinating. Not just the fact that there are ridiculous people out there coming up with this stuff, but that there are actually enough stupid people falling for the ridiculousness. I should delete the Hint Fiction Gmail account; there really is no reason to keep it [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on January 5, 2010
2010 is not off to a great start. On New Year’s day we had to put Ralphie down. He was about two and a half years old. He lived much longer than he was supposed to. About a year after we got him a massive tumor grew on his side literally overnight. We had it [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on November 2, 2009
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found spam fascinating. Sure, it’s a pain in the ass, but where does it come from? Who sends it out? How exactly does it end up in your spam folder or, if the spam lucks out, in your in-box? Michael Marshall (Smith) had a great theory about [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on October 30, 2009
Another busy week, but I should be caught up soon and posting more around here. Hopefully. In the meantime, I thought I’d partake in a little Flash Fiction Friday with a supernatural tale, a Halloween treat if you will. First though, I want to give a shout out to Joe Schreiber, whose Stars Wars novel [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on September 30, 2009
This has crossed a bunch of blogs over the past 24 hours, not to mention Twitter, but I thought I’d mention it here in case a few people haven’t been made aware yet. This blog post from Angel Zapata explains how a writer is ripping off other writers (Aaron Polson is one of the “other [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on September 27, 2009
Thanks to everyone who participated in “An Inhuman Little Contest.” The turnout was pretty good, enough so I can give away three copies of the magazine. A lot of imaginative “captions” too, though I’m not sure if it should worry me that a number of people had a “Robert” as the character being eaten. For [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on September 18, 2009
I really wish I could embed the video itself, but of course YouTube ain’t allowing that type of shenanigans, so here’s the link to a very, well, interesting news clip. A bit long — about three minutes — but it’s worth it, me thinks.
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By Robert Swartwood on September 17, 2009
Laura Ellen Scott has launched a new blog “collecting very short thoughts about very short fiction … Written mainly for students/newer writers, but not necessarily.” It’s called VIPs on vsf and hosts a very short piece by me about Hint Fiction. But if you’re familiar with me and this blog, you don’t want to waste [...]
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