From a Washington Post story by Jonathan O’Connell and Ann Marimow headlined “Supreme Court justices under new ethics disclosures on trips, other gifts”: Supreme Court justices and all federal judges must provide a fuller public accounting of free trips, meals and other gifts they accept from corporations or other organizations, according to revised regulations quietly…
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Becoming a Writer by Mistake, or How I Traded Needlepointfor Writing
Becoming a Writer by Mistake, or How I Traded Needlepoint for Writing. Terry Odell **Note: We’re having new windows installed and they’ll be doing my office today, which means moving my desk and disconnecting electronics, and I’m not sure when I’ll have connectivity to respond to comments. At reader-focused conferences, such as Left Coast Crime,…
Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone
From a Wall Street Journal story by Georgi Kantchev and Evan Gershkovich headlined “Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone”: MOSCOW—The opening months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year drove an increase in oil and natural-gas prices that brought a windfall for Moscow. Those days are over. As the war continues into its second…
Esau McCaulley: How Can We Be a Country That Does This toOur Children?
From a New York Times guest essay by Esau McCaulley headlined “How Can We Be a Country That Does This to Our Children? The formal clothes of children are endearing. Take a suit or a dress and shrink it down to a size appropriate for elementary school kids and the cuteness factor is undeniable. This…
Pretentious Jargon
PG is a lawyer, but nothing you will read here is legal advice. You obtain legal advice by hiring a lawyer. The Passive Voice is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for website owners to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to…
Authors Of Different Genres React To AI And ChatGPT |Writer’s Relief
Many authors are carefully watching the latest developments in AI and ChatGPT and considering the impact it may have on creative writing. But in this article Writer’s Relief found on LitHub.com, it seems the authors’ genre has a lot to do with how they react to the idea of artificial intelligence. For example: While romance…
Holy Crap, Kevin Hearne And I Are Coming To NorthshireBookstore in Saratoga Springs, 4/28!
Psst. You wanna hang out with me and Kevin Hearne? Welp, we’re coming up to Saratoga Springs on April 28th to give a talk at Northshire Bookstore. (Details here.) We will chat, and then answer questions, and then sign some books, birds, babies, anything you bring that starts with the letter ‘b.’ It’ll be great….
Word Count: How Many Words In a Novel?
If you want to get published, you need to be aware that major New York publishers are looking for a specific word count, depending on your genre. Your fantasy novel word count needs to be different than your YA Fiction book, which has a different word count from other books. How many words are in…
Has the Press Learned to Cover Trump Better?
From a story on cjr.org by Jon Allsop headlined “Has the press learned to cover Trump better? The past week suggests not.”: A few weeks before the 2020 presidential election, I teamed up with Pete Vernon, the former author of this newsletter, to examine how the mainstream press had covered the presidency of Donald Trump….
Amazon Grew Relentlessly—Now It’s Getting Lean
From a Washington Post story by Caroline O’Donovan headlined “Amazon grew relentlessly. Now it’s getting lean.”: SAN FRANCISCO — Once, the busy office workers and passing tourists here could swipe their Amazon app, grab a granola bar, a premade sandwich or a soda, and walk away without ever interacting with a cashier. But now the…