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, December 31, 2008

The Year in Review

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On a personal level, this year, like every other year, had its ups and downs, but the ups far outweighed the downs. Rebecca and I got engage...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Help Ed Bryant

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I got this from Jason Sizemore's LiveJournal, but I don't think he'll mind that I'm stealing it. His message: It has come to...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

The Martian Wave

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Some of you may know that for years I've edited an on-line zine called The Martian Wave. In 2009 we're turning The Martian Wave int...
Friday, December 26, 2008

The Solar Sea

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I don't often plug other books on this blog, but I wanted to let my readers know about a book that will be coming out soon. The book is ...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy Holidays

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Whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of year, I hope it has been...or will be a very happy one. Tonight we drove the girls around to ...
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A review of Harvest of Debts

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Like a lot of authors, I use Google Alerts to keep me informed about what people might be saying about my work. Today I got a review of Harv...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

An open question entry

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Since adding the NetworkedBlogs application on Facebook, I've added quite a few new readers, so I thought I would open up this blog to s...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

It was one year ago today...

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...that Seedlings on the Solar Winds was released. Overall, sales haven't been quite what I'd hoped for, but I think most writers w...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

A blog about writing...believe it or not

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Other than the people who personally know me, I think most of the visitors to my blogs are interested in my posts about writing...either bec...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

A sale at NDP

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Nomadic Delirium Press is having a holiday sale. This is a chance to get several of my books at a pretty good discount, so check it out soon...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

The weather outside is frightful

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Current temp is zero and we have light snow. The snow I can deal with, but I've never really liked the BITTER cold... Thought I'd p...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Some Xmas stuff

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Wednesday night Rebecca's dad came over, and he and the girls decorated the tree while Rebecca and I went shopping for Xmas presents. Th...
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Why is the universe trying to crap on my Xmas?

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I thought it was a bad thing when I found out that I might be losing my job after the holidays. Very Scroogish of my employers...but I just ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Damn jobs

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Anyone who reads here frequently knows that I had one hell of a hard time finding a job when we moved here. Most likely it was because of my...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

The TSO show

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To say that the Trans-Siberian Orchestra show was amazing would be an understatement. Great music, a phenomenal light show, and a great crow...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Going to the TSO show

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Rebecca and I will soon be leaving for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. This is something that I've been waiting for for years now....
Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Noises in the Night

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Sunday night after Rebecca came home from work, we both heard strange noises coming from outside. At first, I thought it was kids laughing o...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Damn word counts

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I don't know why, but my works tend to fall around the 60,000 word mark. That's too long for the few novella publishers out there, ...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Black Friday is over

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My original plan had been to title this entry "I Survived Black Friday," but then I read about a Wal-Mart employee in New York bei...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Black Friday

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For my 30+ years on this planet, I've managed to avoid Black Friday like the plague. I don't generally like crowds, and I really hat...
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