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Thoughts & Things

An Interesting Start to ‘09

by Bill Ward on January 6, 2009

Welcome to BillWardWriter.com! If you’re a fan of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror — whether reading it, watching it, or writing it — then you’ve come to the right place. Go ahead and subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss a thing. Go on and click it already, it won’t hurt you. I [...]

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Year of Reviews in Review — 2008

by Bill Ward on December 31, 2008

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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Gemmell Legend Award Goes Democratic

by Bill Ward on December 22, 2008

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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5-56 — I Meme It This Time

by Bill Ward on December 21, 2008

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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Review Hiatus

by Bill Ward on December 14, 2008

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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One Hundredth Post

by Bill Ward on December 9, 2008

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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