Thoughts & Things

There are a lot of things I could be writing about now, as I look back over 2008 — stories I’ve written, work I’ve sold, the development of this site, or what reviewers have said about my fiction. Hell, I could even go into details about my personal life if I didn’t think it would [...]

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Wasn’t it Athenian democracy that voted to execute Socrates?
Well, just as an update the organizers of the Gemmell Award have gone in for the hard stuff — that is pure, uncut, democracy — when voting for this year’s book that best exemplifies David Gemmell’s fiction. I blogged a bit about my anxiety over the prior [...]

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The funtastic Cindy Pon was meme to me the other day, and when I got over my shock I set about fulfilling my obligations for the 5-56. You know, grab the nearest book, or nearest five books, and write down the fifth sentence, and perhaps a few sentences more, from page fifty-six. I’ve seen this [...]

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With the holidays bearing down upon us like a suped-up Epcot monorail piloted by a goose-hungry Tiny Tim, as well as my ever-increasing array of other commitments (including other reviews!), I’ve decided to take a break from regular reviews until next year. That’s only three weeks away, so don’t despair, and don’t feel as if [...]

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What you now see before you is the 100th post at BillWardWriter.com. It took almost a year, which averages out to a little less than two posts a week — not exactly setting the web on fire.
However, for much of the life of this site I was creating four to eight posts per month. But [...]

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