The old blog, active from 2006 through 2012.
The Jewish Marxist Werewolves in Bolivia Infoquake Giveaway
In one of my recent posts, I made a few throwaway comments about a fictitious novel concerning Jewish Marxist werewolves in Bolivia. Since I couldn’t think of anything better to post on the blog today, I’ve decided to come up with a little Infoquake giveaway contest. Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and c’mon, you know you want to): write the opening lines from a bad novel about Jewish Marxist werewolves in Bolivia,... Continue reading→
“Infoquake” Barnes & Noble’s Top SF Novel of 2006
Paul Goat Allen of Barnes & Noble Explorations has just announced that "Infoquake" is Barnes & Noble's Top Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel for 2006. Continue reading→
A Self-Serving Award Nomination Suggestion
Since John Scalzi has already gotten the ball rolling by pointedly mentioning that his novels The Ghost Brigades and The Android’s Dream are eligible for the Hugo Award this year, I’m going to follow suit by pointedly mentioning that I, David Louis Edelman, am eligible for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award. So I hereby declare with all requisite humility that I would like to get nominated for the John W. Campbell Award... Continue reading→
Barry Levinson’s Diner
Five guys hang around in a diner in Baltimore in 1959. One of them’s about to get married. All of them are restless, unsure which paths they’re going to take through life. They relive old times, smoke too much, and get into mischief as the new year approaches. Doesn’t sound like much of a premise, but that’s the basic plot of Diner (1982), Barry Levinson’s first movie and one of the greatest coming-of-age stories ever... Continue reading→
The DADA Detective
I found a very nice little review of Infoquake the other day on the LiveJournal of a fellow named David Milloway. David calls Infoquake “a truly compelling and unique future setting that mixes programming, bio-genetics (or bio/logics) and economic theory. It reads kinda like a libertarian capitalist Dune, if you swap out the Spice for the Market, replace the dueling Houses with mega corporations, and think of Muad’Dib as less of a messiah and more... Continue reading→
How Did You Get Your Novel Published? (Part 2)
I've gotten a few requests to finish the story of how my first novel "Infoquake" got published, so I'm going to go ahead and finish that tale now. Continue reading→
Why Is Gmail So Irritating?
Gmail should be a slam-dunk for Google. So why is it so irritating? Continue reading→
A New Look for the Blog
You may notice that something looks a different on this website today. It’s a new theme for the blog that I’ve been tinkering with for the past couple months. So after much fiddling around in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and WordPress, I’m ready to debut it to the world (though I might decide to revert back to the old one temporarily until I fix some of the kinks). Why a new theme? I wanted to make the... Continue reading→
Tips on Promoting Your Author Blog
Inspired by an e-mail from my friend Matt Jarpe yesterday afternoon, I decided to extend this promotional kick I’ve been on further and discuss author blog promotional tactics. I know there are approximately 2.6 zillion gajillion posts out there on effective blogging, so feel free to transfer that grain of salt you were serving with my recent blog posts about book promotion to this one. This is just what’s worked for me; your mileage may... Continue reading→
Why You Bought That Book
After I posted a blog piece last week asking people Why Did You Buy That Book?, it turned into a nice little mini-meme. In addition to the discussions here and on my MySpace blog, there were also discussions on Jim Hines’ LiveJournal, Alma Alexander’s LiveJournal, John Joseph Adams’ blog and guinwhyte’s LiveJournal. I know that there are scientists and pollsters vomiting blood when I say this, but based on the 40+ responses spread around these... Continue reading→