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The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook

By On December 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Reviews

Brook’s worldbuilding skills are impressive, her Iron Seas setting rivaling Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century for potential stories, and I daresay its backstory is actually a bit more compelling, despite my general preference for American-flavored steampunk.

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Fragmented Marketing: Making Mickey a Transmedia Epic

By On December 16, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Marketing

While Epic Mickey can certainly be used as an example of transmedia development, I’d argue that the process only got it half right since there doesn’t appear to be an integrated marketing plan in effect.

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Fragmented Marketing: Making Owls Appealing

By On September 29, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Marketing

“From the Director of 300 and Watchmen” isn’t an ideal tagline for a PG-rated movie aimed at kids.

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On Inception, The Passage, and Writing in The Obama Era

By On July 19, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Reviews, Writing

The weakness of “It’s all a dream” — why we hate that, why we feel cheated when narratively anything is revealed to be all a dream — is that you’ve just asked me to spend so much time and emotional capital investing in the stakes of this, and you’ve now swept it [...]

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Reading Is Fun(damental)

By On July 12, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Personal, Reviews

“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints”

Wilfred Peterson (via dhammza)

At the beginning of the [...]

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