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If you watch the TV show Blue Bloods, this will be fascinating. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Sime~Gen fans gather for Annual New Year's Day Chat - details for Jan 1, 2013 on this blog entry. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Sime~Gen fans gather for Annual New Year's Day Chat - details for Jan 1, 2013 on this blog entry. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

This is the 3rd of 12 Sime~Gen novels to be released in audiobook. All 12 are in new paper and Kindle editions. How many people do you think prefer audiobook formats now? - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

This is the 3rd of 12 Sime~Gen novels to be released in audiobook. All 12 are in new paper and Kindle editions. How many people do you think prefer audiobook formats now? - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

List of prior posts about dialogue writing techniques, with new one in this series to be posted Nov 5, 2012 - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

List of prior posts about dialogue writing techniques, with new one in this series to be posted Nov 5, 2012 - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Instead, the first farmers, who lived around 12,000 years ago, likely ate no more than 40 to 50 percent of their protein from animal sources. Those people ate a diet more similar to subsistence farmers in modern-day India or China, O'Connell said. Hunter-gatherers from the Paleolithic period also ate less meat, she added. "We are suggesting that animal proteins would be less important overall and that's particularly true for interpretations of Neolithic farmers," she said. "What that would mean is that they are having more of a balance of animal and plant proteins in their diet, suggestive of a mixed existence strategy.” - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Instead, the first farmers, who lived around 12,000 years ago, likely ate no more than 40 to 50 percent of their protein from animal sources. Those people ate a diet more similar to subsistence farmers in modern-day India or China, O'Connell said. Hunter-gatherers from the Paleolithic period also ate less meat, she added. "We are suggesting that animal proteins would be less important overall and that's particularly true for interpretations of Neolithic farmers," she said. "What that would mean is that they are having more of a balance of animal and plant proteins in their diet, suggestive of a mixed existence strategy.” - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Video of how continents may move - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Video of how continents may move - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

This post sets up the foundation for a leap into integrating WORLDBUILDING techniques with CHARACTER ARC, and gives you homework. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

This post sets up the foundation for a leap into integrating WORLDBUILDING techniques with CHARACTER ARC, and gives you homework. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Finding The Story Opening Part 2: Avatar And The Day The Earth Stood Still Two blockbuster classic SF films based on an essential child-fantasy (rescue me from this oppressive life; or "Get Me Out Of Here" -- or "Beam Me Up, Scotty!") are worth comparing because they are the obverse of each other. When you add in Harry Potter, it's even more interesting. Last week we discussed Finding the Opening of a story. http://www.aliendjinnromances.... Avatar and The Day The Earth Stood Still have the same opening, while Harry Potter has a different opening. The "opening" moment of a story is when SOMETHING CHANGES. In film, you "lay pipe" as Blake Snyder puts it in his Save The Cat! Series -- you orient the viewer within the life that is about to change, within the framework of the Hero's situation, or the society or civilization's situation. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Finding The Story Opening Part 2: Avatar And The Day The Earth Stood Still Two blockbuster classic SF films based on an essential child-fantasy (rescue me from this oppressive life; or "Get Me Out Of Here" -- or "Beam Me Up, Scotty!") are worth comparing because they are the obverse of each other. When you add in Harry Potter, it's even more interesting. Last week we discussed Finding the Opening of a story. http://www.aliendjinnromances.... Avatar and The Day The Earth Stood Still have the same opening, while Harry Potter has a different opening. The "opening" moment of a story is when SOMETHING CHANGES. In film, you "lay pipe" as Blake Snyder puts it in his Save The Cat! Series -- you orient the viewer within the life that is about to change, within the framework of the Hero's situation, or the society or civilization's situation. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

romances in which at least one protagonist is an alien, or of alien ancestry. Tuesday, May 22, 2012 How To Marry A Rich Man This was posted on Google+ by a photographer: https://plus.google.com/u... But it raises the quintessential Romance Writer's Question -- How To Marry Rich (or above one's station in life). Here's what Baber Afzal Film Maker, Experimentalist and an HDR/Portrait Photographer Posted (I've no idea if this particular CEO actually said this, but it doesn't matter for this exercise). -----------QUOTE-------------- A reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan to a pretty girl seeking a rich husband A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy? ... I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

romances in which at least one protagonist is an alien, or of alien ancestry. Tuesday, May 22, 2012 How To Marry A Rich Man This was posted on Google+ by a photographer: https://plus.google.com/u... But it raises the quintessential Romance Writer's Question -- How To Marry Rich (or above one's station in life). Here's what Baber Afzal Film Maker, Experimentalist and an HDR/Portrait Photographer Posted (I've no idea if this particular CEO actually said this, but it doesn't matter for this exercise). -----------QUOTE-------------- A reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan to a pretty girl seeking a rich husband A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy? ... I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Title: House of Zeor Author: Jacqueline Lichtenberg Publisher: Wildside Press LLC Release Date: 14 March 2012 (Audible) Available Formats: Reviewing Audiobook version available through Audible.com To be honest, I'd never heard of Jacqueline Lichtenberg or her Sime-Gen series until recently wh - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Today only, my chapter in the book FIVE SEASONS OF ANGEL from BenBella Books is available free. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Today only, my chapter in the book FIVE SEASONS OF ANGEL from BenBella Books is available free. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Hitting box office take records. Why? - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Hitting box office take records. Why? - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Books by me and Jean Lorrah -- latest is Vampire's Dilemma, an anthology we edited hitting print and ebook distribution May 4th. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Tuesday, May 01, 2012 The Wrong Way To Write A Story I've said here any number of times there's no "right" or "wrong" way to write, or tell a story, and no "wrong" story to tell. I've illustrated that with exploring several interesting novels. Examples: http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2011... http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012... But all across the web I'm finding people explaining what they don't want to do with their writing, and for what reasons -- and I'm finding professionals with money to invest in producing or publishing who are explaining what they need from writers and it is what the writers want to avoid doing. And ne'er the twain shall meet, it seems. So here's one more attempt to explain to each of these groups what the other is talking about and why. - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Graphs of # copies of books sold vs. price - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

"This article has an obvious political agenda, but the significant point is that the predictions made 3 years ago are turning out to be wrong, way underestimating the actual effect of whatever is going on. With "wrong predictions" coming from our best consortium of internationally respected scientists, I suspect by the time we do have a good understanding of the global warming process (natural and man-induced), it'll be too late. So where's Plan B?" - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

"There are some major trends illustrated in this article that a number of my friends, acquaintances and even professional colleagues don't see as shaping forces of our near future." - Jacqueline Lichtenberg

"This is a fascinating concept -- The article says ----------- Dane Neller, On Demand Books CEO, says the announcement flips book distribution on its head. “We believe this is a revolution,” Neller said. “Content retrieval is now centralized and production is decentralized.” ------------------------ Now figure out how to PAY authors for all this, and I'd be for it. Yes, right now they're using "public domain" books (out of copyright in the place where the copy is sold -- yeah, and China cares about USA copyright?). I want people to have this access. Maybe they could put an advertisement for the author's current work in the out-of-copyright-in-the-printing-location book?" - Jacqueline Lichtenberg