Aug 30th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Take a look at that name on the bottom. Look familiar?
Image by Aaron C. Wirtz – an artist and grad student at Wichita State University in Kansas.
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Aug 25th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Recently, Nebula-nominated author Michael A. Burstein took my review of Joyce Carol Oates “Fossil-Figures” and used it as a jumping off point to talk about how writers should deal with the “issue” of alienating readers at the Apex Blog. He fairly points out some flaws in my review, but also gets my intent. I find [...]
Aug 19th, 2010
by Philip Athans.
It started with a tweet, which warned of more layoffs ahead at Borders. I know a few people there, and one of them told me, “I’m only speculating, but I really think that unless Borders has a huge holiday sales run, they’ll be looking at bankruptcy by the early part of next year. I hope [...]
Aug 3rd, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
I guest posted yesterday at Speculative Book Review on the “tougher” aspects of book reviewing. Go check it out!
Jul 29th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
I used to take those online quizzes all the time when I first started blogging. But once I realized no one cared and most of them were just silly, I stopped. But on the other hand, sometimes it is just a bit of fun, and when there is an offical one for a book you [...]
Jul 15th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Dear Fans of Grasping for the Wind,
GFTW has been providing you with quality reviews and interviews, bits of interesting information, and other sundry for some time now. Until 2010, this was done completely by me, your proprietor, John Ottinger III. Beginning in January I began to have daily posts of Geek Media by the excellent [...]
Jun 24th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
CSN is doing an interesting bit of viral marketing I’ve not seen before, and so when they came to me and asked if I wanted to particpate, I figured I would. CSN is a online store similar to Amazon but much smaller, which sells items like lights, furniture, and best of all, bookshelves of all [...]
Jun 18th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
I was invited to participate in the Functional Nerds podcast held weekly by John Anealio and Patrick Hester. It was a lot of fun, and I hope I get to do it again. If you have ever wondered what my voice sounds like, now is your chance to find out.
Afterwards, I was told it seemed [...]
Jun 11th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
I am announcing my nomination for Best Speculative Fiction Blog for Book Blogger Appreciation Week coming in September.
As part of the nomination process I am asked to post links to five past posts that I think are representative of why I deserve to win the nomination. I chose these five:
1. Review of the The [...]
Jun 10th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Kalak rounded a rocky stone ridge and stumbled to a stop before the body of a dying thunderclast. The enormous stone beast lay on its side, riblike protrusions from its chest broken and cracked. The monstrosity was vaguely skeletal in shape, with unnaturally long limbs that sprouted from granite shoulders. The eyes were deep red [...]