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The Display Takes Shape ESWA’s December 13th Holiday Book Festival at Cult Classic Brewing helped me realize so many successes, particularly meeting fellow writers, their families, and visitors— connections far more important than book sales, newsletter sign-ups, business cards distributed, and the hard numbers talked about in marketing workshops. I’d like to thank the woman... Continue Reading →
Part of my new job at Browseabout Books, an independent bookstore in Rehoboth Beach, is composing book blurbs for titles I would recommend to book buyers, and I just submitted three to appear on the store's shelves. These are titles I have read or reread recently, and I thought you might like to take a... Continue Reading →
Judy and I visited recently The John Dickinson Plantation, a historic site located off Delaware’s Route One just south of the Dover Air Force Base and managed by Delaware’s Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. We wandered the grounds for about a half-hour then took an information-rich hour-long mansion tour. Dickinson earned the moniker “The... Continue Reading →
“Think of the presidential election process as having two parts.” A student in the third seat of the second row caught my eye, and I drifted toward her as I continued our lesson. “The first part involves state-level elections.” Lily tapped her iPad screen woodpecker-like and bit her lip. I leaned toward her. Lowered my voice. “You okay?” “It’s... Continue Reading →
On a basic level, artificial intelligence is based upon the theft and recycling of writers’ ideas and word-craft— the works of artists and intellectuals of all sorts, really— who have uploaded the fruits of their sweat and hard-won skills into the cloud. Pretty cynical, I know, but perhaps an important realization in trying to figure out... Continue Reading →
National Public Radio correspondent Mary Louise Kelly interviewed recently Neil Clarke, senior editor of the speculative fiction journal Clarkesworld, regarding his magazine’s having to “cut-off” submissions due to an inundation of works composed by artificial intelligence. Irony aside, the notion of bots creating science fiction for a magazine specializing in science fiction— or creating anything... Continue Reading →
Creative souls possessing passion for ideas and the writing craft energize and inspire me to keep writing. I was privileged to participate in the Beach Pulp launch party and book signing at the Newark Delaware Arts Alliance on April 6th. Wedged between writers D.M. Domosea and Dennis Lawson at the writers’ table, I learned quite a bit... Continue Reading →
The crumpled aluminum fuselage of a WWII era submarine bomber impaled the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts' courtyard. The fifteen-story red brick school, a block from the gothic spires of City Hall, looked down upon the staged tragedy, but not with the horror one would assume. A scattering of students ate breakfasts, drank coffee, and... Continue Reading →
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