Tales from FAR Manor

Dubbayou tee EFFFFF? Reality is truly stranger than fiction… especially on Planet Georgia. Just go read this . Seriously. Now the qu...

Back in July, I wrote about the new (at the time) Kindle Unlimited (KU) program. I said in part: The per-borrow payout has been a [littl...

When I released the first three  Accidental Sorcerers  novellas, I had a good start on the next story in the series. That wasn’t the case fo...

The last few days have been fascinating, from the standpoint of an indie writer. First, Melissa Bowersock told us about The Editing Myth ,...

Save a tree, buy an eBook: it’s Green Tuesday! My co-op, Green Envy Press, is running the show. I’m happy to be one of ten authors (not ...

This has been an interesting week. Maybe it was synchronicity, or maybe it was the universe sending a message. Anyway, let’s start with a ...

Last week’s big news was that the Department of Justice went ahead with an expected suit against Apple and five of the “Big 6” publishers,...

APPLE WANTS TO EAT YOUR COPYRIGHT! There has been a lot of sensationalist “reporting,” breathlessly repeated on Twitter, about the lice...

It appears that Twitter may want to curtail third-party Twitter clients . Now I think Mashable might be overstating the case a little, and t...

I didn’t think they’d do it, but I was wrong. Apple is putting the screws to Amazon and other companies, who have used former loopholes to ...

Wibble : ( UK, Internet slang ) Meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble. Maybe this should be Monthly Musings, g...

You’d think that soldiers tossing grenade simulators at people in a parking lot would be crazy enough for Planet Georgia. Now The Boy tells...

… or “Boobs, Books, and Buzz.” Or "Marketing 101 in the Internet Age.” Have you heard the names “Hayley Williams” and “Paramore”? Until...

Well, not that weird, not much weirder than any other day at FAR Manor. The day started out kind of promising; Snippet woke up pissy from a...

Of all the disasters FAR Manor is heir to, natural and not ( cough chicken house cough ), flooding doesn’t make the list. We’re on top of ...

So… it appears that once again, Joe Klein (a Very Serious Person who writes for Time on behalf of the rich and powerful) and Glenn Greenwal...

Opium Magazine has printed a story on the cover that takes 1000 years to read . (Yes, I had to leave a comment plugging a certain novel that...

Well. Now that the thunderstorms have passed through — and God knows we needed the rain here — I can say hello once again. It has been a wee...

The not-so-far future: The New York Times, Special Edition (July 4, 2009). Be sure to read the My Times link to hear the publishers 's...

They (who’s “they”? You know, “them”!) say the pipeline is full and the gas is on the way to Planet Georgia. Given that fuel moves through ...