Amanda McKittrick Ros – Crane Hana Books

September 7, 2014 by Filigree

Nefarious Achievement Unlocked (adult language)

Today I worked on the (currently) last revision to that pesky fantasy novella, repaired a vintage British umbrella, varnished the covers for a new mini-book, crashed a thread on AbsoluteWrite, and apparently earned the ire of an anti-AW website. Why? Because I glanced at a trainwreck of an online debacle on another site completely, one…

February 3, 2013 by Filigree

Etsy.com and Amanda McKittrick Ros

Etsy.com and Amanda McKittrick Ros are brilliant examples of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, “a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.” Or, in street-speak, “You are not only not as talented/smart/beautiful as you think you are,…