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I recently overheard an argument between two friends about the merits of Macs versus PCs. The discussion came about because one of them had just bought a Mac laptop for school. The other has never liked Macs and thinks the only reason to buy them is either to do graphics or to express some kind of perceived superiority based on the higher cost o...

Anyone remember those Rudessions that our former writing buddy Gat/Whiteacre used to post? This is the guy those were inspired by. Jordan Rudess is the piano player for Dream Theater, one of my favorite bands ever.He also has a tendency to insert out-of-place or silly little interludes into otherwise normal songs, hence those Rudessions. But tha...

After hearing nothing for a long while after Zero Hour released their last album, we finally get something new. Founding members Jasun and Troy Tipton are getting back together with Zero Hour’s original vocalist for a new project called Cynthesis. I got this message from Zero Hour’s Facebook page today: If you haven’t already, please check o...

A few months back, I made a pact with a reader to give Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson a second try if she would give Servant of a Dark God by John Brown a second try. I should have posted my review a long time ago, but I’m just a big old bloated procrastinator. One of my problems with Warbreaker was trying to overcome my initial bias. I had al...

A few days ago I posted a copy of Michael Komarck’s e-book cover for Robert Jordan’s Knife of Dreams. The other covers are worth taking a look at, too. Even the worst ones are better than the covers done for the print books, in my opinion. Which one is your favorite? Edit: Since my original post, I’ve added the e-book covers for The Gathering S...

I often hear authors talk about how their characters talk to them, or their characters surprise them, or their characters tell them who they are and how they want to be. I don’t get it. In fact, I’ve come to loathe it when I hear that kind of talk. I guess it’s kind of like listening to someone talk about how much they love eating seafood when I...

Now THIS is what I have always dreamed of seeing on the hardback cover for the Wheel of Time books instead of that colossally bad garbage that Darrell Sweet puts out. This makes me want to swear and cry at the same time—for positive reasons. Michael Komarck is the painter, and coincidentally I just discovered him earlier this week from his in...

I’m pretty sure JC Hutchins wrote this blog post directly about me. Are You Writing, Or Talking About Writing? Ouch. I suck.