Month: April 2013
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The Annotated Rumored to Exist, Hardcover edition
So I wanted a hardcover of Rumored to Exist, because I’m funny about that, so I made one. Check it: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jon-konrath/the-annotated-rumored-to-exist/hardcover/product-20974619.html It’s a hardcover edition of the annotated version that I originally released in 2004. In fact, it’s the exact text from the 2004 version. I would have preferred to go over it again, starting…
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Rumored to Exist, haiku edition
I totally forgot about this. A long time ago, I found this program that would scan a text file and generate haiku from it. I don’t know exactly how it worked; I guess it would find syllable counts of 5-7-5 in the text. So of course, I fed Rumored to Exist into it. It looks…
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Another story from another kind of book
I’m still editing this book. It’s going to take a while, and I hate this part of the process more than anything, because it’s not the process of creating, of writing hundreds and thousands of words, and it’s not the process of holding a finished book in your hands, so it’s painstaking. And I have…
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I do not give a god damn about the book industry
I often get dragged into discussions about the book industry, mostly because people are too stupid to know the difference between Jon and Joe and blindly throw a @jkonrath into a tweet about how publishing is dying or some dumb company is fleecing even dumber authors who did the equivalent of paying $10,000 cash for…
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Ode to a busted cell processor
God damn it. It is broken. Again. My PS3 is in a shop somewhere in Missouri, getting the yellow light of death beaten out of it. It went south in November and got all of the solder stripped away, the whole mess ultrasonically cleaned, then reflowed. Or something. Now it is dead again. I am…