Torture Cinema Poll for @LonCon3 / Worldcon: You Decide; We Record in a Hotel Room
And it came to pass that four of the Skiffy and Fanty crew would be in attendance at the 2014 Worldcon in London. And the sf/f gods said, “Record Torture Cinema live in a hotel room…” And we said…YES! To celebrate being in London (and the World SF Tour), all of the films in the […]
#24. Sherlock (Season One) — A Shoot the WISB Subcast w/ Alex Acks and Mike Martinez
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/ShootTheWISB24SherlockSeasonOne/Shoot%20the%20WISB%20%2324%20–%20Sherlock%20%28Season%20One%29.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSTeapots, super genius murderer cabbies, and MORIARTY, oh my! Finally, we’ve done it. We’ve watched and reviewed the first season of BBC’s Sherlock (2010-present). Joining us are Michael […]
Business Time: Direct-to-Consumer sales
Recently, HarperCollins announced that they’ve re-launched their site with a complete Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) store, selling physical and ebooks. Direct-to-Consumer sales are, for many companies, a great way to deal with disintermediation, that being, a disruption of the standard distribution chain. Companies like Amazon practice disintermediation, selling direct as retailers without needing field representatives and by surpassing/superceeding […]
Mining the Genre Asteroid: PAVANE by Keith Roberts
In 1588, Queen Elizabeth, the Faerie Queen, was assassinated. Without her leadership, and with the rise of English Catholics in response, Spain found it easy to occupy England and bring her back to Mother Church. And with England so tamed, the throne of St. Peter took back the entirety of Europe from Protestantism, and then […]
Torture Cinema Poll for July 2014: You Decide!
I’m late in dropping the Torture Cinema episode from June, but that doesn’t mean you all can’t vote for our end-of-the-month torturefest! You know the drill. Voting will end on Monday.
My Superpower: Patty Templeton
My Superpower is a regular guest column on the Skiffy and Fanty blog where authors and creators tell us about one weird skill, neat trick, highly specialized cybernetic upgrade, or other superpower they have, and how it helped (or hindered!) their creative process as they built their project. Today we welcome Patty Templeton to talk […]
