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OK, it’s go time. I’ve just upgraded "Squids In" from draft to pre-order. The octopus has gotten the bubbly already but I’ve told him we have to wait 6 weeks before we find out if he is a winner or not...

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    Amanda Orneck liked an update for Trekonomics

    Trekonomics is OUT!

    Dear all, 

    Thanks to your support the book is out everywhere on the internet and in bookstores. 

    I wrote this for John Scalzi, author of Red Shirts, honorary dean of American science fiction and former pillar of Tiki’s Lounge in Hyde Park (those of you from Chicago will know what I mean). 

    http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/05/31/the-big-idea-manu-saadia/

    Please tell share what you think of the book. If you get the chance, write a few words at Amazon. 

    Tomorrow I am taping an interview with NPR’s Marketplace at their Downtown LA studios. This should be most interesting.

    In the meantime, thank you again for your help and encouragements. This would not have been possible without you all.

    Live long, and prosper.

    Manu


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      Amanda Orneck liked an update for The Catcher’s Trap

      Hello Friends

      Happy Memorial Day! I hope you are having a great weekend.

      I have big news to share.

      I’ve joined a group of prolific and talented authors on Inkshares to work on a collection of short stories. This anthology, called Too Many Controllers, will feature fourteen stories across genres, time, and realities connected by one theme: video games.

      We decided to embark in this crazy idea inspired by the latest Nerdist contest, which will start this coming Wednesday, June 1st. We believe that a collection of stories in which the subject of video games is approached in many inventive and surprising ways will add a generous portion of fun to the contest.


       And talking about fun, check out the awesome video author Paul Inman created for the book. Click here to watch it.

      You can read more about Too Many Controllers here.

      I encourage you to follow the project. Once the contest start, I will appeal to your kindness and ask you to support it by pre-ordering a copy. It is about games, everybody love games!

      Have a fantastic rest of your day

      Ricardo

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        Holy long paragraph Batman! This is the core of your chapter, and it’s a good one, but there’s no reason to keep it all as one long paragraph, particularly because the computer seems to speak with human grammar and sentence structure. If you break up this paragraph into smaller ones based on changes in thought, then it will be far easier to read.

        Generally I like the premise of this chapter, but I wish it had more structure. Essentially it’s a very small glimmer of an actual storyline. "This guy has a job, his job is to ask a computer a question. That question is always the same, and the answer is always the same. Here is the answer: Answer." What is the purpose of the excerpt? If it’s just meant to introduce the world, then we don’t need Sam at the beginning. We can just talk about the computer. Since Sam  is introduced though, I want to see what his reaction to this information is. How does the answer to this question affect him as a person? Make me want to like this guy, if he is the MC. Give him a reaction to what he learns. Make it matter to him so that it will matter to the reader.
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          For some reason this seems like a really dry way to start a story.  If you somehow combine the first two paragraphs, you might be able to make a statement that intrigues the reader. Something like "Sam [Lastname] spent every day of the last six years asking the largest computer in the world the same exact question." This sort of sentence is built with a mystery in it. Why so long? What question? What is the answer? Why is it so important that he do this? You want to hook the reader into needing to read to find out the answers to those sorts of questions.
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            Sam was a computer programmer for the "Society to Protect Humanity."
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