Bryan Thomas Schmidt

http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/gender-in-job-ads-and-subconscious-bias.html – Juliette Wade on subtle bias in language and how it effects people’s reactions to the text in job listings, etc. Food for thought. A very helpful post on marketing books for authors from @yukongraham via Twitter: http://j.mp/mogMpJ  Helpful post from my friend Sam Sykes (Tome Of the Undergates, Black Halo) on the pitfalls of the  [ Read More ]

This excerpt is from Chapter 2 and the protagonist, Davi, has been discovering that life on the neighboring planet, Vertullis, for enslaved peoples (aka workers) is worse than he’d ever thought under his uncle Xalivar’s rule. He’s now finding himself torn and coming into conflict with friends and family as he begins to question it.  [ Read More ]

One of the things I’ve learned in the past year from working with editors and beta readers is how important a role these folks play in the creative success of any published product. Now there are good editors and bad editors, good beta readers and bad beta readers. I’ve been lucky with my editors so  [ Read More ]

Packed with action and humor with strong characterization, good special fx and a healthy dose of heart, Kenneth Branagh’s THOR is the best comic book movie I’ve seen in ages and destined to continue steadily earning boxoffice $s throughout the summer. Chris Hemsworth is terrific in the title role, a god banished to mortal on  [ Read More ]