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EXPERT TIPS A full bonsai tutorial would take a book—and Thornhill shares a few fave titles below— but here's the gist. SELECTION Beginners should start with multiples of inexpensive trees. (At the beginning, Thornhill bought ten $20 trees each year; now he allows himself one $200 splurge annually.) For backyard trees, choose species that grow in your climate. For indoors, a ficus is a good rookie project. CARE As with any plant, you have to know the tree's light, water and nutrient needs. Due to the small pots, regular watering is essential. Thornhill recommends a chopstick to check the ...

Electric Mother release much-anticipated second album February 13, 2021 at 9:15 am Electric Mother’s second album, II, is set to be released, this Saturday. (Artwork created by Shaun Gardiner, edited by Erik Grieve) One of Orkney’s most popular rock bands has released their much-anticipated second album, today, Saturday. Born out of the first-ever Orkney Rock Festival back in 2014, five-piece band Electric Mother have developed a dedicated following, both at home and further afield. Known for their high-energy performances, memories of their floor-thumping, head-banging, t-shirt-waving gi...

Star Wars: Mara Jade — By the Emperor’s Hand. Without seeing contracts or the full details of the nature of the transfer of property from Lucasfilm to Disney, it’s hard to know if each author falls into the same situation as Foster, but the result appears to be the same: They haven’t received money that they feel entitled to for the work that they published…. (2) A NOBEL PURSUIT. The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination’s Barry Barish is an emeritus professor at Caltech, where he has worked since 1963. He became director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-w...

 Unfit magazines use Thinkerbeat Reader to “chart… the authors that we thought did really well with a story submission.” But these are not stories they bought – six days ago they tweeted out a link to the list of stories they rejected. The page had names, titles, and a rating between one and five stars. One problem: none of the authors had given them permission to do so. SFWA followed up with a statement on Facebook warning about these practices in March 2020. After that, Longshot Press owner Daniel Scott White spent the rest of the year attacking SFWA in a series of eight p...

This November, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a professional organization for genre authors, dropped a bombshell announcement that shook the science fiction community: For several years, author Alan Dean Foster had been trying, without success, to get paid for several major tie-in novels adapting movies from the Star Wars and Alien franchises. While Disney has kept the books in print with other publishers, with Titan handling Alien and Del Rey on Star Wars, Foster says he hasn’t received royalty payments for new editions. So, he had turned to SFWA for help, and the #Dis...