J Alan Erwine's Blog

J Alan Erwine is a prize winning SF writer. He is also an SF editor, and the co-designer of the Ephemeris Role Playing Game. He is also the creator of the Rocks on the Other Side RPG, as well as the Battle for Turtle Island RPG.

Monday, April 30, 2007

The Page 69 test

›
Apparently this is something that has been going around the web for a while, although I just became aware of it after reading about it on Ro...
2 comments:
Saturday, April 28, 2007

The world is stranger than any writer could ever dream up...

›
I heard a strange story today that just proves to me that the world doesn't make sense. Many many many years ago there was a reporter at...
2 comments:
Friday, April 27, 2007

Where do the mousies go?

›
This is a major change in subject from where I've been...and maybe it's a question that Keith or Jim or any of the other cat owners ...
4 comments:

The Video

›
Here is the video I referenced in the last post...

People believe what they want

›
Recently, Bill O'Reilly had Richard Dawkins on. Dawkins is one of the premiere evolutionary scientists in the world, and O'Reilly as...
5 comments:
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Why Can't I Buy a Canadian?

›
Someone posted this as a MySpace bulletin, and I thought it was worth re-posting it here...don't take offense at the title, Jim... Dr. L...
4 comments:
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Possible habitable planet found

›
Again, the title of this entry will take you to an article about an extra-solar planet that has been discovered that could be habitable. T...
3 comments:

10 steps to fascism

›
The title of this entry links to a great article that goes through step by step what past governments have done to institute a fascist gover...
2 comments:
Monday, April 23, 2007

Opium Reviewed

›
Quality Book Reviews has just posted a review of my novel, The Opium of the People . Click on the subject of this entry, and it will take y...

Yet another sale

›
After a period of drought, I'm suddenly having a pretty good run on sales of late. My short story "Hunted" will appear in the ...
2 comments:

I'm a pixo-stained technopeasant wretch

›
For those of you who have been following the controversy at the SFWA, I've decided to contribute as well. You can read my contribution a...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

My modeling debut...sort of...

›
Most of you that have been reading here for a while will remember that a few weekends ago, one of my friends and I went on a photo shoot wit...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

The Job Hunt

›
For those of you keeping track, the job hunt is not going well...so far. Keith pointed out some places to look, so maybe that will help. Her...
5 comments:

Search inside Opium

›
It's taken a lot longer than it was supposed to, but Amazon now has it set up so you can search inside my novel The Opium of the People ...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Can we just pretend that this week never happened?

›
The last week, eight days, whatever it's been, have just sucked. I hate that word, but I really don't feel like trying to come up w...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Beware of the quiet loner!

›
The media keeps portraying the V-Tech shooter...he doesn't deserve to have his name mentioned...as a quiet, loner that wrote disturbing ...
3 comments:
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Hate Mail

›
I've just received my first official hate mail as an author. I guess this means that people are beginning to take notice of me as an au...
6 comments:

And now for something completely different...

›
I had been considering another post about what happened at VT, especially in light of the fact that science fiction author Michael Bishop...
Monday, April 16, 2007

Why it can be hard to be a science fiction writer

›
If you don't like down and out and depressing entries, skip this one!!! I'm often asked if it's hard to come up with ideas. The ...
3 comments:

More cycling geekdom

›
There are at least one or two people that read here that are actually interested in cycling, so I thought I'd at least post something mo...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.