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Lee Martinez - Author of Divine Misfortune, Monster &#38; more!</title><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:24:30 +0000</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs> <language>en</language> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>It&#8217;s Emperor Mollusk Month!!</title> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s strange, but I don&#8217;t often talk about the business of writing.  Especially my own business.  Like all novelologist, I am basically a small business owner.  I create a product, partner with a publisher, and together, we bring that product to the fine folks out there.  It might be a bit mercantile to use the [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/its-emperor-mollusk-month/blog/03022012/</link> </item> <item><title>Copywrong, part 2</title> <description><![CDATA[My last post about copyright / trademark law brought in a surprising amount of traffic.  It&#8217;s a complicated issue, and too often, people seem to think that copyright / trademark should be an All or Nothing affair.  Either you should own the rights to something you created forever.  Or you should never own them.  This [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/copywrong-part-2/blog/01022012/</link> </item> <item><title>Copywrong</title> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to admit that the concept of copyright has gone horribly, horribly wrong. In theory, copyright is there to protect artists and creators, to allow them to make money off their work, and to encourage creativity.  In practice, it just leads to stagnation and to corporations profiting off of characters they simply are fortunate [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/copywrong/blog/26012012/</link> </item> <item><title>The Fall and Redemption of The Panda King</title> <description><![CDATA[Just the other day, someone asked me what I do for a living.  I usually respond with &#8220;Writer&#8221;.  It&#8217;s accurate, but kind of vague at the same time.  Technically, I&#8217;m a novelist, but it just sounds so damn weird to use that word.  You&#8217;d think after seven years, I&#8217;d be used to the title.  But [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/fall-redemption-panda-king/blog/20012012/</link> </item> <item><title>The SOPA Post</title> <description><![CDATA[Today, a large chunk of the internet is protesting SOPA by blacking out their sites.  It&#8217;s an interesting tactic as on the surface it seems like Rosa Parks sitting in the back of the bus to protest having to sit in the back of the bus.  But really, when you think about it, it&#8217;s about [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/the-sopa-post/blog/18012012/</link> </item> <item><title>The Mass Effect Effect</title> <description><![CDATA[Wow.  Been a while.  Guess I&#8217;ve just been busy.  Between writing and the holidays and playing Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, my schedule is pretty damn full.  But seeing how A. LEE MARTINEZ APPRECIATION DAY!! is tomorrow, I figured I should take a moment to confirm that I&#8217;m still alive and kicking. Can I [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/the-mass-effect-effect/blog/11012012/</link> </item> <item><title>Thoughts on Unlimited Media</title> <description><![CDATA[Hey, gang. Sorry it&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve posted anything. Been having some serious computer difficulties lately and been busy with projects too. I&#8217;m writing this on my wife&#8217;s iPad. It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m living in the future. I say that a lot in my real life, and it&#8217;s only partly a joke. If you [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/thoughts-on-unlimited-media/blog/02012012/</link> </item> <item><title>The Event Horizon of Boring</title> <description><![CDATA[Having seen the recent Batman movie trailer, I have to say this film looks like a stone cold bummer.  I realize I stand on the wrong side (culturally) of this struggle, but I just didn&#8217;t care for The Dark Knight at all.  It struck me as a combination of the worst elements of superheroes, realism, [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/the-event-horizon-of-boring/blog/20122011/</link> </item> <item><title>Fanciful Liars</title> <description><![CDATA[Human beings are extremely gullible. I know this because I make a living trading on that gullibility. Technically, I&#8217;m a fiction novelologist, but that&#8217;s just a fancy way of saying I lie for a living.  I make stuff up, create characters that have never existed, invent situations that are purely fantasy, and if I do [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/fanciful-liars/blog/08122011/</link> </item> <item><title>Martinez On: Characters</title> <description><![CDATA[Just the other day, Feeosh at Twitter asked: Hey A Lee, I was wondering what your methods are in character creation? Where do you start when you&#8217;re in the 1st stages? Ah, a writing question.  Yes, aside from who would win in fight between Tarzan and anyone (short answer: Tarzan) and why giant fightin&#8217; robots [...]]]></description><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/martinez-on-characters/blog/06122011/</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
