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Posts by Andy Dent‭

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Q&A How to make travel scenes interesting without adding needless plot diversions?

David Weber's The War God's Own has some lengthy travel scenes in it which he does quite well. I suspect this as an older book predates his Heinlenesque tendency to include huge info-dumps. You can...

posted 13y ago by Andy Dent‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Do living authors still get paid royalties for their old work?

Minor point as I've met people who don't get this - authors and publishers are only paid for the new copies of their books. When you buy books from any kind of second-hand store, it's only the stor...

posted 5y ago by Andy Dent‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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