It had to happen sometime

Last month, for the first time since we launched the group blog in August of 2007, I missed my post at SF Novelists.

But I'm back this month! With the first of what turned out to be a two-part thing (since otherwise my post would have been unreadably long), on how competence is hot. (With bonus links to several people trying to pose like the men and women on book covers.)

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