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We're all getting W2 and 1099s in the mail. Here are Seven ways to save money on your taxes.

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One more argument for single payer. Health care expanded as the economy contracted. Some years back, I said to my father, "Insurance premiums will keep going up until we're only working to pay them and taxes. What's that going to do to the consumer economy?" Sometimes I hate being precognitive.

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Publishing is in flux. You know this. 90% of my flist is an author of some sort.
So, have a bunch of links on the subject.
What's going on with Fangoria

cbpotts on The Future of Publishing. CB is one of the 2% who make a full time living from this gig.
Because I like the mental image of a screaming wet wildcat sliding down a glacier face, holding frantically to the ice with wide-splayed claws as it descends toward a pool filled with starving sharks, alligators, and piranha, none of whom bother trying to eat each other, each cry filled with the words "Artistic integrity" "Market dynamics" "Format doesn't matter" and so on.

Ideally, the wildcat would be wearing spectacles.

And have an iPad in his pocket.

John Scalzi, always brilliant, on Why Publishing will not go away

What my publisher does for me and why I won't just quit

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Generous Christians contribute wood for Beltane Bonfire at Air Force Academy. Given that the circle had already been consecrated, this can be considered desecration.

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Clip of the Day.
Because Firefly is awesome. Because Marty Robbins is awesome. And because I made my family crazy with this song while writing my western.

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Shameless Self Promotion:
Our only book (so far) of the year: Showdown at Yellowstone River is now available. Stay tuned for more information. This one is a western (duh) and het (for certain values of that orientation).