I Blame my Shoes By Jeff Hite Normally Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll takes the Friday spot, but today he is off on vacation, and being the pirate that I am I am going to lay claim to this spot and mark it with my own little X. Also, normally Philip talks about running and writing,
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The Headless Horseman By Laura Nicole So if you haven’t been getting ready for Halloween for the past several months… then you probably aren’t in my circle of crazy Halloween friends here in New England. You should work on that… I digress. Halloween is only a few weeks away and the haunted attractions are getting
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Okay, okay I’m sure I’m not the first person to use this headline, but I couldn’t resist the bad pun. In case you haven’t heard, Amazon is releasing new versions of the Kindle and their pricing strategy (itself not new) is expanding to their new offerings. The low end Kindle won’t have a Keyboard (though
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I am Captain Malcolm Reynolds By Jeffrey Hite In so many ways I am Captain Malcolm Reynolds. Or at least I want to be, there is no way that I could every be that cool. This turned out to be a very hard essay to write. Not because it is hard to find things to
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While Flying Island Press is admittedly interested in people reading our stuff (see those links above to subscribe or buy an issue?), I also want to direct people’s attention to other places where I’ve found good story lately. After all, we just had a Galley Table episode about storytelling in different venues / mediums, so
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Profanity by: Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll I’m at the national assembly of the American Orthotic and Prosthetics Association. It’s in Las Vegas and ends tomorrow afternoon. I’ve learned a lot and changed a few paradigms that I have hung my beanie on for the last twenty six years. (I hope no one I work with
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In episode forty-nine we talk about non-prose story telling. Guests: Zach Ricks JP Losier Doc Coleman Scott Roche Laura Nicole Mentioned: Ustream channel Shelter in Place Nathan Lowell Question of the Week: You have been given the power to make every High Schooler to read one book or one series of books. What is it?
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Expandable spaces By Larua Nicole Some very ordinary objects contain extraordinary things. A lamp contains a genie. Small nook in a tree contains a fairy. A marble contains a universe. A purse contains an entire room full of stuff. But there are two objects that seem to be more than they appear. TARDIS – A
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One of the things that we want to do here at Flying Island Press is provide writers with the tools they need to write. We have a lot of services, so new some old, but one the things that the Pirates do is put out writing prompts. They are supposed to be daily but they
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Tim Powers, ‘Declare’. Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll It World Con in Reno, Nevada this year, the guest of honor was Tim Powers. I’ve already admitted I am sadly unfamiliar with the classics of science fiction and must now admit that I am equally clueless about new authors who are popular in the science fiction and
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