Best of the Blog

Here are some articles that I’m particularly proud of, either because they’ve gotten lots of attention around the blogosphere, or simply because I think they’re durn good.

On Book Promotion…

• How I Promoted My Book, Part 1 - November 27, 2006
• How I Promoted My Book, Part 2 - December 1, 2006
• A Guide to Ethical Self-Promotion - August 17, 2007
• Why Did You Buy That Book? - December 6, 2006

Grand Ideas and Flights of Fancy…

• Reverse Engineering the Turing Test - October 25, 2006
• Greasemonkeying with Reality - August 10, 2006
• Amazon for Voters - July 13, 2006
• Backing Up Things - August, 2006 (On Futurismic)

On Writing…

• Will the Novel Die? - March 17, 2008
• Introductory Science Fiction Books for Literary Readers - June 26, 2007
• On the Writing of Sequels - June 9, 2006
• From First to Final Draft: A Case Study - August 14, 2006
• How to Write a Novel (Part 1) - January 15, 2008 (On DeepGenre)
• How to Write a Novel (Part 2) - January 21, 2008 (On DeepGenre)

On Technology…

• Will Open Source Software Rule the World? - September 26, 2006
• How to Get Information to Flow Backward - July 18, 2006

Current Events…

• The Bourne Paranoia - October 4, 2007
• …And Justice for Some - January 12, 2007

On J.R.R. Tolkien…

• Revisiting Middle Earth: The Silmarillion - May 7, 2007
• Revisiting Middle Earth: The Hobbit - May 10, 2007
• Revisiting Middle Earth: The Fellowship of the Ring - May 14, 2007
• Revisiting Middle Earth: The Two Towers - May 20, 2007
• Revisiting Middle Earth: The Return of the King - May 25, 2007

On Film…

• The Day The Empire Strikes Back Changed Everything - May 3, 2006
• Alien: In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Screw Your Employees - July 21, 2006

Humor…

• 20 Lines That Could Have Dramatically Changed The Lord of the Rings - December 8, 2006 (On DeepGenre)
  
• 20 Reasons I Want to Live in a Cheesy SF Dome City - October 31, 2006 (On DeepGenre)
• 20 Ways Science Fiction and Fantasy Are Like Mozilla Firefox - June 21, 2006 (On DeepGenre)