“[T]here also anxieties about security in Mexico, and in many parts of Latin America, Central America — we have a very insecure situation, with drugs, with cartels, with police attacking the population rather than defending them. So that’s reflected, obviously, in the writing. That’s why we have a thriving thriller scene in Latin America, because […]
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Just over a week left to support this anthology — $6 gets you an ebook with a cool near-future speculative revolution story by me, along with lots of others. They’re at $5478 of a $7500 goal… Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird These are speculative tales of the revolution. Celebrations and warnings of the
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Recorded a great episode of the podcast with Benjamin Rosenbaum this morning, think we’re really getting into some nitty-gritty stuff that will be hopefully useful and of interest to writers. . Hoping to start releasing those soon, at least teasers. I think my framing of all this has also finally crystallized. When I started the summer, there was
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I am trying to make my peace with the likely fact that instead of drafting a new novel this summer, my mind will be mostly taken up by thinking about how to do online education better, how to keep the kids engaged and happy and healthy, how to support my community through a pandemic. I’d
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Hey, folks. I could use some RPG testers! I wrote a little “Jump Space” RPG, designed to be played in a few hours on the weekend with a small group (I’d recommend at least 4, no more than 8). This scenario features a motley crew of entertainers / cooks / gardeners in space, a sort
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Hey, folks. I could use some RPG testers! I wrote a little “Jump Space” RPG, designed to be played in a few hours on the weekend with a small group (I’d recommend at least 4, no more than 8). This scenario features a motley crew of entertainers / cooks / gardeners in space, a sort
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Stayed up a little late last night obsessively organizing the basement for no good reason (I mean, it needs to be done, there’s still many hours to go, but did I need to be working on it at 1 a.m.? I did not. Sometimes my decision-making is poor.) As a result, I slept badly, and
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This is a very loosely formed idea, and I’m not sure we have the capacity for it, but help me think it through / poke holes in it. It’s coming out of three things: • This fall, however school works out, there’s clearly going to be a need for additional tutoring support for various students,
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Y’all may remember the magazine thing I mentioned at the end of April? Projects happen in fits and starts these days, but I’m just getting ready to slowly start working on it now. Again, the main idea is that it’d be sort of a cross between Martha Stewart Living and Granta. Here’s lots more info
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Kickstarter questions, folks! I’m getting ready to record another episode with Benjamin Rosenbaum of our podcast / video series, “Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans”. The tentative plan is to run a Kickstarter to cover the editing costs for our showrunner, Darius Vinesar — I don’t want running a Kickstarter to eat my summer, though. So
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