I do most of my business writing on Patreon these days, but roughly once per month, I’ll put a post for free on this website. This post initially went live on my Patreon page on December 22, 2024. If you go to Patreon, you’ll find other posts like this one. Glocalization In the past year, […]
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Please note: This originally went live on my Patreon page on Sunday night, February 9, 2025. If you want to see most of my business posts these days, you’ll find them on Patreon. I’m only going to post a handful here. Doing The Work Amid The Noise There are times in life when being a […]
Continue ReadingI know many of you have asked me to write about Findaway’s giant rights grab this week. I just finished a short post on it. I’m no longer doing the regular business blog. Instead, I post about business things on my Patreon page. I made this post wide, so everyone can see it, but most […]
Continue ReadingI have decided to discontinue the weekly Business Musings posts. If you’re interested in my occasional thoughts on publishing, take a look at my Patreon page. If you missed the final post, you’ll find it here. Thanks so much for your time and support over all the years.
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I should have seen it coming when I couldn’t figure out how to write the year-end blogs. I found a dozen topics that fit, but none really interested me. They’re all important from different perspectives. The perspectives are so different from each other that they no longer feel like part of the same industry. For […]
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To hear an audio version of this post, click here. I had a shocking experience this past week, and yet the experience shouldn’t have been shocking at all if I actually thought about it. Because of the events of the past three weeks, I’m behind on almost everything. For those of you who don’t know, […]
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To Get A Free Audio Version of This Post, Click Here. In 2011, our close friend, Bill Trojan, died. His death wasn’t sudden—he had untreated diabetes—and yet his death was sudden. He literally keeled over at Worldcon in his room. The end, for him, in many ways was both swift and slow. Swift, in that […]
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For a free audio version of this post, click here. Every year, the Las Vegas Book Festival takes place three blocks from my condo. Every year, I watch the tents go up for the outdoor presentations and the book sales, and every year, I think, Hmmm, maybe I should go. A few years ago, I […]
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To get a free audio version of this post, click here. This past week, I had a fascinating text exchange with one of my very best friends. We have known each other for more than forty years. We met in college—and no, this friend isn’t Kevin J. Anderson. This is another friend. We worked in […]
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To get a free audio version of this post, click here. Well, I’ve been in the weeds tonight. Thank heavens I’m heading to Las Vegas’s Pride Parade in an hour or so. Because my brain is quite mushy. I just have read the entire Memorandum of Agreement for the 2023 WGA Theatrical and Television Basic […]
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