Enemy Lines Pledge Stunt: James Keeling

Another very special pledge drive podcast, as James Keeling drops by the phone banks to encourage you to ‘sever’ yourself from some funds…to ‘slice’ a part of yourself off to fund ENEMY LINES!   mp3

ENEMY LINES Pledge Drive with Bryan and Starla

Less than 2 weeks left to fund ENEMY LINES edits & cover art for paperback release! Today on the pledge drive Bryan Lincoln gets real & Starla Huchton fulfills her community service. Jokes aside, please contribute to the ENEMY LINES campaign here! mp3

David Brin: “Make the spy bugs smaller”

Science fiction writer & future/tech consultant David Brin was kind enough to give me his take on a quote from grand master Robert Anson Heinlein!

The main thing achieved by any ‘privacy law’ is to make the spy bugs smaller.

In the last decades, surveillance grids have been established that caused critics to despair 1984 had arrived, just a few years late… Fast forward to today: smartphones capture personal/corporate/government abuses & the internet transmits them to millions it then rallies against those abuses.

David Brin has been mulling that quote for a while, & argues in his book The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom that “(i)f police cameras watch us, shouldn’t we be able to watch police stations?

IndieGoGO Pledge Drive with Nathan Lowell

Only *2* weeks left to fund ENEMY LINES edits & cover art for paperback release! Today on the pledge drive Nathan Lowell‘s touching homage to my history in podcasting. Jokes aside, please contribute to the ENEMY LINES campaign here!    mp3

ENEMY LINES Pledge Drive (Jake & Odin)

3 weeks left to fund ENEMY LINES edits & cover art for paperback release! Today on the pledge drive, Jake BibleOdin1Eye has a moment. Jokes aside, please contribute to the ENEMY LINES campaign here!   mp3

SOPA & PIPA and Protests & Blackouts

WordPress’ “blackout” function today seems to work sometimes, not others, so most people are seeing the site blacked out today, but some can see it (mostly in countries other than the US). So I’m writing some of what I said here.

The reasons SOPA and PIPA legislation was proposed don’t matter: the future of the internet matters. If passed, these laws would mortally wound the internet.

Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) & the Protect IP Act (PIPA) need to be defeated. Soundly. And an impression left in people’s minds so when they return with another name (and they will) the people recognize them, and hopefully thanks to things like this protest?… they get angry.

Sites all over the web — including this one — are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed.

Please watch this video to learn how this legislation will affect internet freedom, then scroll down to take action.

ENEMY LINES Pledge Drive (Brand Gamblin)

3 weeks left to fund ENEMY LINES edits & cover art for paperback release! Today on the pledge drive Brand Gamblin has a moment. Jokes aside, please contribute to the ENEMY LINES campaign here!    mp3

Dead Robots Interview

Here’s the file for Justin, and Terry and I discussing indie writing, my IndieGoGo campaign to edit/commission cover art for ENEMY LINES (become a backer here), writing on iPhones in stolen moments & our thoughts on the Kindle Fire. Thanks for having me Dead Robots Society!

Check ‘em out folks: Download mp3   Dead Robots site

IndieGoGo update/Dead Robots podcast interview

I’ve gone and done a new podcast interview discussing crowdfunding & indie writing with Justin & Terry over at the Dead Robots Society. Check it out!

A tiny man once said ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia’. I’ll add, ‘never start a crowdfunding campaign over Christmas’. But I’m back… & I need your help.

I hope you’re credit cards are all paid up and your gift cards still have balances on ‘em… and hope you’ll consider listening to my fiction, downloading a free ebook (Harlan’s Wake) and sponsoring the art and editing of my next novel, ENEMY LINES.

Don’t forget: besides all the reasons for funding ENEMY LINES (free ebooks, novels, audiobooks, posters of the ENEMY LINES cover art, or a copy of all my books for life!) once the indiegogo campaign is fully funded, all backers will be entered into a draw for my very own, brand new Kindle Fire! So sign up now.

The List, Part 4

The final episode, Miles and Kenner’s final showdown in the skies above the Swiss Alps. With a demon watching…and waiting. Download