What do you think we should order?

We’re in final countdown mode for tomorrow night’s launch event for The Shadow of the Sun. We’ve already ordered the champagne and the first round of hors d’oeuvres (because you can’t get the Mini Crabcakes without ordering in advance). But subsequent rounds can be ordered at will. So what do you think we should order? [...]

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Death, Inc. Poll #3

Today we continue rolling the bones on Edward Morris’s Death, Inc.: There Was a Crooked Man, Book Zero. Ed put together a few questions for readers last week and, in the great tradition of Harlan Ellison in the bookstore window, has vowed to finish the story in response to what the readers think. The first [...]

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Death, Inc. Poll #2

On behalf of Edward Morris, the fate of whose Death, Inc. hangs in the balance (well, at least, the fate of his narrator does) — Thank you to those of you who have already weighed in on the first poll. If you haven’t answered that one yet, there’s still time to weigh in. Go ahead, [...]

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Death, Inc. Poll #1

Visualize Edward Morris, if you like, sitting at his Shrine to the Writing Gods, waiting to find out what fate awaits his narrator. Actually, we have no guarantee that he’s anyplace close to the computer at the moment, but we do know he’s waiting for readers to weigh in. Here is his first question: If [...]

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If Harlan Ellison can write in the window of a bookstore…

Well, then, says Edward Morris, he can finish a story in front of a virtual crowd. This Friday, we’ll publish Installment 6* of his web serial, Death, Inc.: There Was a Crooked Man, Book Zero. After that, Ed will be writing the rest of the book based on the responses to a series of web-poll [...]

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