Letters of OpinionCherokee / colonization / Faith Hunter / genre critique / Jane Yellowrock / Urban-Fantasy19 Comments
Recent conversation with a good friend about Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock series led to this question: What do you think Jane values above everything else? My answer: independence. My friend’s: freedom. Not precisely the same, but certainly related, and the obvious connections elicited a brief but thought-provoking exchange about how Jane is consistently resisting ... more >
Letters of Opinionbook prices21 Comments
There have been many discussions on social media of late regarding the price of books. Some authors are very frustrated by Kindle Unlimited and what they perceive as the devaluation of digital books. I find these arguments a little amusing as that was the exact argument that traditional publishers ... more >
Letters of Opinionsoftware / writing tools21 Comments
Don’t judge me, but it turns out I am a Word Processor Freak (WPF). I did a quick survey of my various devices and this is what I have, in alphabetical order: Atlantis Word Processor (PC) Bean (Mac) Daedalus (iOS only) Libre Office (any OS) Open Office (any OS) Pages ... more >
Letters of OpinionBackups10 Comments
In my line of work, which is databases, the ability to recover from a disaster is a key part of the job description. Things go wrong. Hardware fails, application code has bugs. Users or other applications can write terrible queries that update, insert, or delete the wrong records. The list ... more >
Letters of OpinionBig-Misunderstanding / England / family feuds / historical romance / kidnapped heroine / long separation / Pennyroyal Green series / pirates / Regency / reunited-lovers / series conclusion / slavery / Spain / star-crossed lovers48 Comments
Trigger warnings: Janine: When Julie Anne Long’s much-awaited The Legend of Lyon Redmond came out recently, Robin, Jennie and I decided to hold a SPOILERIFIC roundtable discussion of the book. Below is the back cover description: Bound by centuries of bad blood, England’s two most powerful families maintain a veneer ... more >
Letters of OpinionAmazon / Kindle30 Comments
This article was linked to over at MobileReads and it struck a real chord with me. There’s lots to digest in that article but the one topic that I found myself nodding along with was the stagnation of Amazon’s software. Amazon has several different apps that span everything from PC ... more >