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Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
We’ll be at the Burlington, MA, Marriott for Readercon, which we’ll be doing on a relaxacon basis again this year (also on an extremely attenuated shoestring, thanks to the necessity of paying off this past winter’s even-higher-than-usual electric bill.) One of the things we usually do at Readercon…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
A piece of fiction is a carefully-crafted series of lies told to the reader, which the reader agrees to believe for the duration of the story.  Anything that threatens the fragile nature of this agreement is bad. This is, for example, why it’s necessary to do your research…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
I’d like to say I’ve been on vacation, but alas, the latter half of June wasn’t that entertaining.  Mostly it was spent dealing with assorted mundane but distracting issues like household repairs (ongoing and expensive . . . most of the time, when you live in a big…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
A trio of literary (more or less) links: “Somewhere in the distance, a dog barked.”? If that line has an all-too-familiar ring to it, you shouldn’t be surprised.? Here’s an article from Slate on the barking-dog trope in modern fiction that will reassure you that you aren’t just…