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Jun.06.2012
I was so pleased to see this week's RED LETTER reminding us all that our favorite famous writes often have works that while not as well known as their smash hits, are often just a good as those works if not better.
For my contribution, I would like to bring up the massively gifted GREG BEAR who is...
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Feb.02.2011
When I saw the request for a blog about this, I went back into the deep recesses trying to find something significant. It was not the easy task I had imagined. My mind is like that mythical Smithsonian mixed with the New York Public Library mixed with a junkyard.
There's stuff everywhere, some...
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Jan.06.2011
So it's the second day of the reshuffled deck and I need to do this or I won't get to it.
The last eighteen months have been crazy. Awesome but crazy.
Much of my conversation here has been about the roller coaster and what it takes to survive it. I came up with equations, some zippy one...
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Oct.15.2010
This is fairly simple, I think.
In honor of Halloween (my favorite holiday), The Winterman Project is offering my new novella, FIXING MR. STYX, for free until Nov. 1st.
This is the 3rd installment in my GRIM ARCANA series but they are designed so that they need not be read in any particular order...
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Oct.13.2010
Not much to say here. Over the weekend my freinds and I launched a new small press. The first few books and ebooks are mine, of course, but we've already brought in two ne and very excellent writers and we hope for more next year.
here's the link
THE WINTERMAN PROJECT
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Jul.13.2010
We'll be there! After the year we've had (and it's only half done, kids) you KNOW we have to be there! The first schedule news is in. GENRE 19 (yes , both of us) will be signing, meeting and chatting with fans @APE ENTERTAINMENT BOOTH (#2103-05) Thursday, July 22 1-3 pm Friday,...
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May.31.2010
I don't believe in luck unless you're talking about somebody buying a winning lottery ticket at the local 7-11. To me "Luck" is the way people have of explaining away coincidences, good or bad or, more frequently, absolving themselves of responsibility.
In my old job I was considered...
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Apr.26.2010
Just so's you know what the kid has been up to while writing his awesome comic book that's out on the stands now. This was the old job and it was pretty amazing
This is the new one and it's like coming home.
And that's not counting getting the aforementioned comic book out the door....
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Dec.21.2009
Sooooooo.....
Here's the deal. I've been messing around with versions of digital publishing, just sort of kicking the tires and test-driving various platforms and delivery methods.
The current test involves the AMAZON KINDLE.
I have posted my story, RED/SHIFT, up for purchase in the Kindle store...
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Sep.16.2009
One of my other websites quotes this poem from the Anthony Mingella film, Breaking and Entering.
"Forgive, Forget and Eat More Jam," the jar said on the lid.
Dai ate some jam and thought a lot and, in the end, he did
Go home and be a better boy (although, sometimes, it's tricky).
There is...
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Jun.18.2009
I was asked to do this a little while ago- by a professional astronomer, no less- so, here it is.
Well. Okay. It wasn't a little while ago; it was months. And she didn't so much ask me as she did inspire me to promise, proactively, that I would. She really is an astronomer, though, and that is the...
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Jun.13.2009
The editor and publishers of FULL-THROTTLE SPACE TALES: SPACE GRUNTS have graciously allowed us contributors to post segments of our stories here for you guys to see. Obviously it's only a portion but it's hoped you'll like what you see enough to pick up a copy. It's a crazy scheme but it just...
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Nothing's impossible, I have found. For, when my chin is on the ground, I pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again.”
—PICK YOURSELF UP - Dorothy Fields
About Geoffrey
Geoff is a writer, illustrator and sometime maker of filmed entertainment.
He lives in Los Angeles but is hoping for a pardon any day now.
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Causes Geoffrey Thorne Supports
Operation USA, Greenpeace, Doctors Without Borders,
Geoffrey’s Favorite Books
Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, A Wizard of Earthsea, Otherland, The Damnation Game, The Stand, The Sandman, EON