Twitter is fast becoming a pimple on the backside of my social networking life. It’s always been an odd thing, under attack by spammers of the traditional sort as well as nontraditional. I block social media experts, SEO experts, and porn stars on a daily basis. They don’t care what I have to say, they […]
Category Archive for ‘SF Business’ 
An Editor’s Perspective on Rejection
Since I’ve taken on the gig of managing editor at Escape Pod, I’ve been relearning a lot of things about being an editor that I had forgotten in the time since closing th Fortean Bureau. I’ve been thinking a lot about rejection letters, and rejection in general, but not from my usual perspective as a […]
On Writing Motivation
Quaero_verum asks: You’ve probably already written about 1,000 posts on it already, but motivation is my sore spot at the moment. As in, “sit thy butt down and just write!” Also, when I do write, I sit and stare at the blank white screen for a lonnnng time. I am finding it hard to even churn […]
Reader Questions: How Do I Decide How Much Work to (Self) Publish Online?
Let’s kick off reader question answer week with a real doozy. CDThomas asks: I don’t have a website or blog. And I don’t know if I want one. I understand if I’d create a blog for nattering on, but most of that itch gets scratched by Twitter. I’m not much of an essay writer, because I […]