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22 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Just arrived at the Scalzi Compound: The signed limited edition of Murder By Other Means, the latest installment of the "Dispatcher" series. If you preordered from @SubPress, they're on their way! Also, SubPress has the ebook edition up on their site:

subterraneanpress.com/the-dispatcher… The book, propped up by an award whilst a porg looks on.
You can also still get the signed, limited hardcover edition from @subpress, although hurry, since "limited" means just that -- once it sells through, it's gone forever. It is, he said, with absolutely NO bias whatsoever, a gorgeous little book.

subterraneanpress.com/dispatcher-mur…
ALSO ALSO, let me give a shoutout to artist Michael Koelsch, who did such a terrific job on the cover art, which is taken from a scene in the book. It's so good! A dude has been checked off a water tower. He seems a little
ALSO ALSO ALSO: This is my 35th book (I think), not counting foreign editions and anthologies where I am one contributor among many. And in case you're wondering, no, it never gets old. I still get as big a smile seeing a book out of the box as I did the very first time. Me holding up the book to the camera.

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7 Mar
1. So, as a follow-up to yesterday's thread and comments about copyrights and lengths thereof, some additional thoughts about the practical and theoretical issues revolving copyrights, their length and copyrightable intellectual property in general. Ready? Here we go:
2. To begin, the pipe dream of a 30-year-term of copyright really is just that, a pipe dream. 179 countries including the US are signatories to the Berne Convention, a treaty tightly wound into the World Trade Organization. Here's the actual text:

en.wikisource.org/wiki/Conventio…
3. Basically, the Berne Convention and its terms the "floor" for copyrights; you can't offer less protection than it offers and be a signatory. A copyright term of 30 years-and-out is, uhh, *less.* It is not seriously going to be considered any time soon. So, it's Life+50, folks.
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6 Mar
The fuck we don't, pal
I write books as a fucking business, thank you very much, and part of my business is the long tail -- creating a body of work that is saleable for many years. It's one reason I have that long contract with Tor: All my novels at one house, motivated to keep it *all* in print.
MOREOVER, a backlist I control means the ability to sell older novels as new in foreign markets and into other media formats years after the were originally published. Those additional publications/adaptations feed into backlist sales of the original work, and thus, royalties.
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13 Dec 20
Reminder: Nearly every movie you loved from the 1980s is worse than you remember. Yes, there are exceptions. We're talking on average here. Pre-screen them before you show them to your kids. You'll save on a lot of "pausing and explaining" later.
(Also every single Disney animated film before ooooooh, let's say, 2000)
Incidentally, this is not me telling you that you can't ever enjoy your 80s favorites. Just to be aware that, especially if you haven't watched them for a while, they will likely vividly remind you the culture has, uhhhh, *moved on,* especially if you decide to show them to kids.
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11 Dec 20
1. An email I received from a business planning, I guess, to disrupt the book blurbing business.

Pro tip: If you're paying for book blurbs, you're wasting your money. If you're taking money for book blurbs, you're an awful person. In both cases it undermines the goal of blurbs. "I'm reaching out on b...
2. Personally, I give book blurbs for one reason and one reason only: I read the book and I liked it. There is no financial incentive offered or implied, it's one author paying forward to another. That's all, that's it.
3. The process of blurbing as enough cynicism and misunderstanding around it without some people (or companies) trying to find a way to monetize it. A paid blurb is worthless, and it degrades the value of sincere blurbs in the process. So, lose/lose for everyone.
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2 Nov 20
GOOD MORNING. It's the day before election day in the US.

Did you vote by mail? Track your ballot: usvotefoundation.org/wheres-my-ball…

If you still have a mail-in ballot DO NOT MAIL IT, DELIVER IT IN PERSON. Here's how to do that: usvotefoundation.org/ballot-return-…
You may still vote early in person in some states today! Here's information on early in-person voting by state: vote.org/early-voting-c…

And of course you can vote tomorrow. Find your polling place here: vote.org/polling-place-…
Worried about voter intimidation and being challenged as a US citizen about your ability to vote? If you're registered, you have the right to vote, and it's illegal for anyone to try to stop you from voting. Here's information on that:

vote.org/election-prote…
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1 Oct 20
1. Yes, but also, here's a thing: I am not ignorant, nor am I uneducated, nor am I malign on these issues, AND STILL I got waaaay too far along in my adult life thinking systematic racism wasn't still as active, and endemic and as pervasive as it actually is...
2. ... and at this point, as much as I am aware of it especially thanks to the last four years, what I'm even more aware of is that I am still largely insulated from its realities and in most ways will not ever experience its depths. And ALL of that is for the same reason...
3. ...which is that a salient feature of systematic racism is its ability to mask from its beneficiaries (including mostly liberal, mostly educated, mostly not ignorant white people, like me) how bad and pervasive it STILL is at every level.
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