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Nick Mamatas

Screw real politics, what about the hugo's? Torgersen write anymore slash or did Correia just cry for like the twentieth time about how life is unfair and everyone was so mean to him at worldcon?

Brad made a mildly homophobic remark regarding Scalzi, which half the planet had to blog about because it was just soooo awful and apparently now the US will fall to ISIS because how can Brad's soldiers trust him now?
Anyway, under Sharia law, launching politicized slates for the Hugos is barred, so I guess the problem has solved itself!

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Was looking to purchase your latest novel, found it being displayed at my local library in Mississauga, Canada. What is your quick online fix for stress relief? Your twitter being mine.

Wow, I forgot I had this. I listen to ASMR videos, especially whispered readings, on YouTube.

Why a play?

I subscribe to a magazine called Belle SF that runs nudes and local profiles, and it has a story every issue. The last issue was in the form of a play, which made me think "I should do that one day." No other reason, really, though once I got started my play took on a pretty different form. I was torn between making a play that should be staged, and often, and one that could never be.

Why does Stephen Elliott need to be called out?

Seems like everyone in the Bay Area has some story of him basically playing a power-game or trying to top from the bottom.

i just got a $100 b&n giftcard, which of your books should i buy? and if u got anyone else to rec I'm all ears.

HANZAI JAPAN, my most recent dayjob anthology. As it is part of my salaried position, I don't receive royalties for it, but I love the stories within so much and want people to read them. I recently blurbed the book THE PLEASURE MERCHANT by Molly Tanzer, which comes out next week, so check it out.

Are publishers encouraging first time authors to break their novel into multiple parts for marketing purposes? Examples being the team of Nick Sagan, Vaughn Heppner, and the team of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

I don't think you listed any first-time authors there, but occasionally a very long book just runs up against the physical limits of inexpensive bindery and it makes more sense to cut it into two. You also get two paydays out of it as a publisher. It's a practice of longstanding—a lot of the Victorian novels we read today in a single volume were published as three volumes when first put into book form.

What's a xenomarxist? Is it better than a Xenumarxist?

Not sure—I suppose it's someone who believes that we can only asymptotically approach #fullcommunism, hashtag and all? It has to be better than a Xenumarxist.

Though it's a little heavy-handed and guilty of employing some typical Hollywood BS, I really liked the 2010 Ginsberg biopic HOWL. Did you see it? Thoughts? Thanks.

I did see it. My friend arranged for me to see it along with Gerald Nicosia and other local Beat experts. I liked it, but felt that sticking with the court transcripts robbed the censorship issue of some needed context.
The animation was very hit or miss, but the Moloch sequence was fantastic, I thought.

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