Author Holly Lisle had a book pulled from the iBookstore because it "mentions" Amazon. How will trends like this affect authors in the future? Probably more than you might think. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/08/01/product-placement-the-next-generation/
This isn't actually an article about Civ V, by the way. It's an article about how some writers (like me) get obsessed with a thing to the exclusion of what we should be doing. Perhaps you can rel...
https://escapepod.org/2012/06/22/obsessed-with-doing-something-else-anything-else/
The hero is cornered by the bad guys! Thinking quickly, she pulls out a brace of throwing knives. She flips the knives at two of her attackers. They go down, one clutching the knife embedded in h...
https://escapepod.org/2011/12/04/myth-deadly-throwing-knives/
Nora Reed Heineman-Fleck lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she plays with bismuth and meteorites for Mama’s Minerals. By night she thinks really hard about bombs, villains and the hairst...
A friend pointed out to me on Twitter just the other day that as of this week, it is exactly one year since I picked up my first Stephen King book and started reading. That book was Under the Dom...
Like many writers, I’m not very good at making time to write. My days are, well, packed. I’m up at 5:15 to go to the gym, on the road at 7:20 to commute to work, at my desk by 8:30, back on t...
https://escapepod.org/2010/11/05/nanowrimo-for-thee-but-not-for-me/