Blog Archive
the ask@AAR: Do authors owe readers a safe space?
Right now, Dennis Lehane’s incredible Small Mercies is on sale. Set in Boston in the summer of 1974 and focused on the city’s violent response to the forced integration of the city’s schools, it’s not for…
What have you been reading? Watching?
I have, for the past two months, been reading Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August. This, dear readers, is astonishing. And I’m not talking about the book although it is phenomenal. No–it’s that I’ve stuck with…
the ask@AAR: Has ebook pricing changed lately?
I’m pretty upfront about how terrible I believe Amazon and Kindle Unlimited are for authors and the book industry writ large. It’s not just me–the web is full of stories and facts explaining how Amazon’s policies…
the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite STEM based romance?
Yesterday we reviewed–and loved–the latest by Ali Hazelwood who is one of the doyens of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) romance. I think she might be the first author I recall whose work was branded…
Fictional Images of Fictional People
Being a Graphic Designer by trade, my feelings towards AI-generated imagery have been ambivalent, to say the least. Over the past year, I’ve evolved from adamant hatred and condemnation of the use of any and all…
the ask@AAR: What do you think of AI now?
I wrote about AI and its writing prowess over a year ago in this column. Many of those of you who commented then felt that ChatGPT’s writing was soulless and repetitive and unlikely to usurp that…
I need a new TV show… what do you recommend?
Dr. Feelgood and I have been watching Fargo–the TV show, not the iconic film–and, midway into season three, I think we’re done. The first two seasons were wildly violent but at least–more or less–the show made…
