RevolutionSF Know Your Horses contest winners!

RevolutionSF chose two winners from the correct entries for the Gordath Wood-inspired horse trivia contest. Congratulations to Carol Thompson and Paige James for knowing their horse stuff. They each received a signed copy of Gordath Wood (and should get those real soon, so if you are reading here, please know that your prizes are on the way.) Here are the questions and answers for the contest. Interestingly, there were actually two correct answers for the Read more…

Executive pay, a melamine mustache, and other observations

What if CEOs of public companies only got paid in stock? And when they retire, they can cash it all in. Sure would be an incentive to run a company responsibly, right? And if there’s stock manipulation and mismanagement a la Enron, they have to give it all back. Any other parents out there grimly happy that the Chinese government will be both ruthless and pragmatic when it comes to punishing the businessmen who poisoned Read more…

Narnia for grownups

One of the things that I’ve always had trouble with was how to describe my own book. I managed to come up with this description while in the bar at Apollocon, with Chris Roberson, Space Squid * Nemesis Mikal Trimm, and a bunch of other people who I don’t remember. (probably John Picaccio, Matthew Bey, JM McDermott, and Lou Anders, but I couldn’t swear to it.) Chris was like, “just say it, just say it!”** Read more…