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June 5, 2010
"Precious Metal" Reviewed at SFCrowsnest
"Precious Metal" (from Albedo One #38) has a brief but favorable mention at Stepehn Hunt's SF Crowsnest.
Reviewer Gareth D. Jones uses the words touching, poignant, and valuable, but not necessarily in that order.
Read the review of the whole issue here.
Reviewer Gareth D. Jones uses the words touching, poignant, and valuable, but not necessarily in that order.
Read the review of the whole issue here.
June 4, 2010
Me in a Mask and an Interview
Yes, the picture at Mercedes M. Yardley's A Broken Laptop is me at age six. Yes, everything I wrote is true. Check out my entry in "Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks".
Sue London (remember last week's Five Question Friday?) was kind enough to interview me for her Blooming Authors series.
Have a fabulous weekend, okay?
Sue London (remember last week's Five Question Friday?) was kind enough to interview me for her Blooming Authors series.
Have a fabulous weekend, okay?
June 2, 2010
WIP Wednesday: Here There Be Children
My children. Today's WIP?
T-shirts with freezer paper stencils. Owen has chosen an ankylosaurus for his design. Max picked a raptor (the dinosaur variety).
So...busy with the boys.
I do have three short stories in the works:
"Lucky Numbers" (involving some very unlucky events, including a grave robbing)
"Pieces of Lisa" (in which several friends lose various body parts)
and
"One More Masterpiece, Old Man" (featuring a bleeding statue)
And I finished At the End of Church Street by Gregory L. Hall...
T-shirts with freezer paper stencils. Owen has chosen an ankylosaurus for his design. Max picked a raptor (the dinosaur variety).
So...busy with the boys.
I do have three short stories in the works:
"Lucky Numbers" (involving some very unlucky events, including a grave robbing)
"Pieces of Lisa" (in which several friends lose various body parts)
and
"One More Masterpiece, Old Man" (featuring a bleeding statue)
And I finished At the End of Church Street by Gregory L. Hall...
May 31, 2010
"One-Tenth of One Percent" in M-Brane SF #17
M-Brane SF #17 has been released to the wild.
One of my longer shorts to date, "One-tenth of One Percent" can be found within. Rather appropriate for Memorial Day, it features a few members of the armed services as secondary characters. If you drop me an email or direct message me on Twitter, I'll tell you the story's original title.
Also included in this issue is a lengthy piece from Jason Sizemore of Apex fame and some other delicious tidbits. Thanks to Chris Fletcher for taking a...
May 30, 2010
I've Been Evicted from the Man Cave
True. My sister-in-law is living with us for the summer, doing an internship in speech/language pathology at a local retirement community, and she's living in the Man Cave.
*sigh*
So my new "writing area" is the dining room table with an old laptop from school. Maybe it has some ghosts I can take advantage of...
In other, happier news:
In the category of Cate Gardner clued me in: "The World in Rubber, Soft and Malleable", while not making the top ten in the storySouth Million Writers Award, Ja...
*sigh*
So my new "writing area" is the dining room table with an old laptop from school. Maybe it has some ghosts I can take advantage of...
In other, happier news:
In the category of Cate Gardner clued me in: "The World in Rubber, Soft and Malleable", while not making the top ten in the storySouth Million Writers Award, Ja...
May 29, 2010
Why I'm Glad It's Saturday
"Cookies" is posted at Every Day Fiction. I could have predicted the response. No, it isn't a story for "everyone".
Hammer away, folks. At least it's Memorial Day Weekend and I won't have to face that much abuse.
Hammer away, folks. At least it's Memorial Day Weekend and I won't have to face that much abuse.
May 28, 2010
Five Question Friday: Sue London
1. If you couldn't write, how would you spend the time you now use for writing?
Based on how I avoid writing it seems like the answer is spending time online. Then there is also doodling, reading, gaming, and playing with pets. Oh wait, was the answer supposed to be "solving world hunger"? Yeah, I'd do some of that. And cure cancer and stuff. There would be time to do all sorts of things if I didn't stare at a blank white screen with a blinking cursor. It's like starring in the one-woman play...
Based on how I avoid writing it seems like the answer is spending time online. Then there is also doodling, reading, gaming, and playing with pets. Oh wait, was the answer supposed to be "solving world hunger"? Yeah, I'd do some of that. And cure cancer and stuff. There would be time to do all sorts of things if I didn't stare at a blank white screen with a blinking cursor. It's like starring in the one-woman play...
May 26, 2010
WIP Wednesday: More Fistfights, Please
I put the lid on a short story yesterday which, among other things, involved a girl watching her father crush an old man's throat with his booted foot. Needless to say, the father didn't know his daughter was watching. Yes, it was rather a dark little tale.
Currently, I'm revising my not-so-top-secret novella, and I've decided I need more fistfights. At least one more, to get the action rolling.
Maybe the hint of one is enough:
"Amanda." The woman's blue eyes burned into Isherwood's gaze....
Currently, I'm revising my not-so-top-secret novella, and I've decided I need more fistfights. At least one more, to get the action rolling.
Maybe the hint of one is enough:
"Amanda." The woman's blue eyes burned into Isherwood's gaze....
May 25, 2010
What I Write: A Play in Three Acts*
*inspired by KV Taylor's comment to yesterday's post: "Don't get me wrong, selling out is great. But if we cared that much about being famous, we'd write more crowd-pleasing fiction by design."
Act 1: Summer, 2007
Me: I think I'm going to try and write a book.
Other: Okay. Have fun.
Act 2: Winter, 2008
Me: I sold my first short story!
Other: Great! You said, "sold". So how much are they paying you?
Me: A penny a word. It's a 2,100 word story.
Other: (face contorted with calculation) That's $21...
Act 1: Summer, 2007
Me: I think I'm going to try and write a book.
Other: Okay. Have fun.
Act 2: Winter, 2008
Me: I sold my first short story!
Other: Great! You said, "sold". So how much are they paying you?
Me: A penny a word. It's a 2,100 word story.
Other: (face contorted with calculation) That's $21...
May 24, 2010
What is a Writer's Worst Enemy?
It's not a bad review. It's not writer's block, either. (I don't believe in "writer's block", anyway. It's called "time to take a nap".)
How about obscurity?
Cory Doctorow might agree, and he's a helluva lot more well-known than me (and more talented, too). Yeah, Doctorow is speaking of making money, but we are talking about writers here, and I'd argue obscurity is any writer's worst enemy. (At least tied for first with hubris, but that's another blog entry.) Writers want their work to be read;...
How about obscurity?
Cory Doctorow might agree, and he's a helluva lot more well-known than me (and more talented, too). Yeah, Doctorow is speaking of making money, but we are talking about writers here, and I'd argue obscurity is any writer's worst enemy. (At least tied for first with hubris, but that's another blog entry.) Writers want their work to be read;...
