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.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

An Amazon review

Marva Dasef posted an Amazon review of Seedlings on the Solar Winds . She really seemed to enjoy the book. Cyberpunk? Really? I'll h...

Thursday, February 21, 2008

The missile test

So, the US shot one of its own satellites with a Navy missile to protect us all from the dangerous fuel. Now, does anyone really believe th...

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Eclipse

It was supposed to be cloudy here in the Denver area tonight, but it's cleared up enough that I was able to watch the eclipse. This was...

Friday, February 15, 2008

You can now order stories from me

I've now made it possible for you to order individual stories from my website. Simply go to http://www.jalanerwine.com/stories/index.ht...

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Promoting your favorite author

David Louis Edelman has a great blog today about the do's and dont's of helping to promote your favorite author. I'd strongly s...

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The Locus Awards

Tyree and J continue to tilt at windmills. This time we're thinking it would be worth the effort to try and get some nominations for th...

Friday, February 08, 2008

Happy birthday Jules Verne

Along with H.G. Wells, Jules Verne is basically responsible for helping to create the field of science fiction. Verne is responsible for cr...

Romney's out

He said he was in it for the long haul, and now he's not anymore. What does it mean? Maybe it's true that he wants to help unify t...

Thursday, February 07, 2008

My thoughts on Super Tuesday

Well, Super Tuesday has come and gone. The Republican race looks much clearer now, and the Democratic race hasn't even started to sort ...

Friday, February 01, 2008

January's over

The month started out with that horrible bronchial thing I had going. I'm still coughing occasionally, and when I walk in the cold, I c...

Friday, January 25, 2008

It's just a rock folks

There's been a lot of talk lately about the picture released by NASA of what looks like a Martian reclining on a rock... I've got ne...

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Search inside Seedlings

Amazon now has it set up so that you can search inside of my new short story collection before you decide to buy a copy...and you know you w...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

More stories at Anthology Builder

I now have six stories available through Anthology Builder . They are... The Galton Principle In a fascist state ruled by eugenics, one youn...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

A scary man

I'll be the first to admit that George Dubya Chimp scares the hell out of me, but comments by Mike Huckabee in Michigan recently have re...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Anthology Builder

I'd read about the site Anthology Builder on several blogs, and I've finally had a chance to check it out for myself. The basic ide...

Sunday, January 13, 2008

An update

I've been a little quiet here lately, so I thought I'd post an update on what's going on. The bronchial bug I had seems to be in...

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The Hugos

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM SAM'S DOT PUBLISHING: We realize that the odds of this working are pretty slim, but we here at Sam's Dot ...

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The P&E Poll

I really hadn't planned on participating in this year's Preditors & Editors Poll. In the past, they've had numerous problems...

Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Years

I just wanted to pop in and say Happy New Years to everyone. I'm still battling this nasty virus, so hopefully I'll get back to more...

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Happy holidays

I'm about to go off to the girlfriend's to do the Xmas thing, but I thought I'd drop in briefly to wish all of you a happy...wha...

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