Enough said. With any luck, there won't be a dry eye in the house.

I read that Forbes article in my last blog post (Online publishing is winning SF&F) too uncritically. When it said, "Indie-published authors may be just 48% of the SF&F market", it was taking its earlier statement,

unit sales of self-published and Amazon-published ebooks ... constitute a full 48% of all SF&F sales across print, digital, and audio.

and pretending that it had said

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A forwarded message from Curt Phillips, which I've edited slightly:

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Self-published ebook authors now sell 39% of all SF&F books sold by copies sold, and may bring in more money than traditionally-published authors.

(See Oops. Errors in last post. to explain my revisions to Forbes' figures.)

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A bit of SF in the spirit of Theodore Sturgeon and an itsy-bit scary. Starlight Glimmer of the Enforcerverse returns a few days after blasting Discord into ghosty-ness in A Matter of Principals to find that her spell had, er, side-effects. Her and her time spells! Discord has

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I'm listening to "Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind", a 2007 lecture series by Eric Rabkin about fantasy and science fiction.  In lecture 14, "Frankenstein", he said the story is a warning against "science in the hands of an egotist, alienated from the restraining wisdom of community".  He closed the lecture by saying, "To test the relevance of this admonition,

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Hello and welcome to my second Fandom Music Friday! Today's entry is Snowdrop's Lullaby by SFS Animation, formerly Silly Filly Studios. Recent changes to YouTube have caused SFS to create a second account on vid.me. Already, they have uploaded Snowdrop and Fall of the Crystal Empire at the time of this blog post. It is my understanding that they are no longer doing pony animations, but

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For those that weren’t following closely, The GATE is completed. 797 views and 52 upvotes. If you haven’t upvoted, please do.

I’m still toying with an epilogue in order to leave open possibilities either for me or for the community to extend the story. It’s half done, but may also never be published so If you haven’t completed reading The GATE, now is a good time. The epilogue is unnecessary for complete enjoyment for all the threads, on both the human and pony, are complete.

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SF 8286 (LSP-4639)
VICTOR

THUNDERBOLT SENTINEL
ME AND MY BABY

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Cover art for an author is important—for an Indie, more so. Critical. It sells your book.

I downloaded DiffusionBee (an AI art program) and prompted it to generate 60s and 70s pulp paperback SF art. Things suddenly got bizarre. Yikes. I also wanted to test image-upload to Mastodon, so I created this test cover from one electronic fever dream.

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Ponyville's Incident by BrutalWeather

This is completely reminiscent of Final Destination film series and it made me ROFL so hard to see so many artifacts destroyed by just a football. Applejack, you're in a lot of trouble.

Children of the Night by Duo Cartoonist

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If you like my The Runaway Bodyguard or any of my Starlight, Songbird, or Sunset stories because of the storytelling, I think you will like Messing with the Wrong Alicorn is Not Optimal. It is written in 1st person from the POV of a 7 1/2 year-old girl who is a Princess Twilight Sparkle fan. Lotus Flower is Neighponese and

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A new story group has been made for the "Equus Metamorphosis" universe!

http://www.fimfiction.net/group/211037/equus-metamorphosis-universe

Check it out and feel free to join! If you have any stories you'd like to add to the fan section, let me know!

How much should you use dialect or constructed language? Very little. Note that I did not write not at all.

By dialect, I mean implying a southern drawl, or using specific words that imply a regional accent like “Darling!”¹ or “Don’t ya know?“ or “A?” or “Brilliant”. By a constructed language, I mean everything from completely made up words to totally made up grammars. This includes writing in English but using a foreign grammar like Spanish or Japanese.

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Sci Fi Generation
Forget Iron Man: skintight suits are the future of robotic exoskeletons

by Steve Davis

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Sometimes heroes are made when they're needed the most. When hate attempts to crush the innocent, who will answer the call to protect them? Those who do are the true heroes...

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/336388/icarus-rising-saint-jensen-and-the-church-of-augmentation

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What does it take to heal after an accident? How far does one go into their own self before someone has to pull them out again? And what if your saviors happen to be those in need of saving themselves?

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/335625/the-support-group-for-robots-augments-and-meta-frames-ram

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Armin stops by a special floor in Technomancer Industries to do some thinking. Meanwhile, it appears he and Pinkie are being watched...

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/333408/equus-metamorphosis

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