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January 22, 2015
Author Interview — Libby A. Smith
When you’re on a hot streak, go with it. I’ve been interviewing some fascinating authors lately. Today I question another author who contributed to the anthology Avast Ye Airships!, Libby A. Smith.
Libby is a two-time winner of the Little Rock Free Press’ Literary Contest. She lives in Little Rock with her three cats, where she’s a member of the Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers Group.
Libby’s stories have appeared in Caliber Comic’s “Negative Burn” and “Dominique: Protect and Serve,...
January 21, 2015
Author Interview — Ogarita
The authors of stories in the upcoming anthology Avast, Ye Airships! continue to be willing to be interviewed by me. I haven’t scared the remaining ones away yet.
Speaking of scaring others, today’s interviewee is author Ogarita, no stranger to the art of terrifying readers, while armed with nothing but her bare words. Think I’m kidding? The opening picture on her website is of a lonely cemetery, in the dead of winter. My internet browser was afraid to open the page the first time, and now ref...
Author Interview — Charlotte Hunter
The authors of stories in the upcoming anthology Avast, Ye Airships! continue to be willing to be interviewed by me. I haven’t scared the remaining ones away yet.
Speaking of scaring others, today’s interviewee is author Charlotte Hunter, no stranger to the art of terrifying readers, while armed with nothing but her bare words. Think I’m kidding? The opening picture on her website is of a lonely cemetery, in the dead of winter. My internet browser was afraid to open the page the first time, an...
January 17, 2015
The Votes Are In
I owe a great big thank-you to those who voted for my stories in the Critters Workshop Annual Preditors and Editors Readers Poll for 2014.
My story “The Cometeers” came in 3rd of 7 among Steampunk Short Stories, and “Time’s Deformèd Hand” tied for 3rd out of 25, in the All Other Short Stories category.
Thanks again for voting for—
Poseidon’s Scribe
Author Interview — Jeffrey Cook
A group of fascinating authors contributed to the upcoming anthology Avast Ye Airships! Today I bring you another intriguing interview, this time with Jeffrey Cook
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Jeff lives in Maple Valley, Washington, with his wife and three large dogs. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the United States. He began writing professionally in 2014. In addition to his novels and anthology projects, he has contributed material to publications by Deep7 Games out of Seattle, WA. When not re...
January 15, 2015
Author Interview — Robert McGough
Another treat for Poseidon’s Scribe readers today. I had the pleasure of interviewing Robert McGough, whose short story “Black Hydra” will appear in the upcoming anthology Avast Ye Airships! He tells me he writes in the Horror, Steampunk, and Southern Gothic genres. On to the interview:
Poseidon’s Scribe: When and why did you begin writing fiction?
Robert McGough: I have written fiction as long as I can remember really, though my first serious attempts came in high school. They were laughably b...
January 13, 2015
Editor and Author Interview — Rie Sheridan Rose
Today I’m delighted to welcome Editor and Author Rie Sheridan Rose to the world of Poseidon’s Scribe. She’s the editor of the forthcoming anthology Avast Ye Airships! as well as being an accomplished author. Among her published novels is The Marvelous Mechanical Man. 
On to the interview:
Poseidon’s Scribe: When did you begin writing fiction?
Rie Sheridan Rose: Technically, I began writing when I was a kid, but I began doing it for publication in 1998 when my children’s story “Bedtime for Benny”...
January 11, 2015
Words You Hate…and How to Love Them
Admit it. There are some words and phrases that irritate you. Words you wish others would stop saying. Words that shouldn’t have become trendy, but did, without anyone asking your permission. Words you think should be banned.
This blog post might cause you to think about those words in a different way.
First, what sort of words am I talking about? Some are used to fill up silence with sound, but don’t mean anything. Some occur at the beginning of sentences, others at the end. Some convey a mean...
January 4, 2015
Vote for Your Favorite Story of 2014
Happy New Year! That must mean it’s time for the Critters Writers Workshop to conduct their Preditors and Editors Poll (the 17th annual one this time) to see which newly published e-book readers prefer.
You can vote for your favorite book in a wide variety of categories. It’s not really a scientific poll, but winning it (or landing in the top ten) gives each author some bragging rights.
Someone has entered two of my own stories in the poll. “The Cometeers” is in the Steampunk Short Story categ...
December 28, 2014
Fiction Market Ratings
If you’ve just finished writing a short story and would like to get it published, the array of available markets can be confusing. I’ve blogged before about some websites with valuable information about markets and also about how you can prioritize a list of markets for your story. Today, I thought I’d delve into how the markets are divided up according to rates of pay.
The short story market is chaotic. Although there are several long-lived publication markets, there are many that are born ea...
