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Interview from August

I've been going back through my entries here on Dreamwidth (possibly getting ready to move this blog to another site; we'll see), and I just realized that though I must have posted it to Twitter, I never posted the link here to my second interview with Jon Gibbs, after winning his Meager Puddle of Limelight Award for Best Short Story Title this year.

In this case, my winning title was "The Bear with the Clockwork Heart," though the story wound up actually published under the title "The Bear with the Quantum Heart".

The interview was originally posted August 1st and can be read here:

http://jongibbs.livejournal.com/301496.html

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Blog switch…

I’ve decided to switch my blog over to WordPress.com, ’cause, you know, all the cool kids are doing it. More to come once things are settled again.

Interview from August

I’ve been going back through my entries here on Dreamwidth (possibly getting ready to move this blog to another site; we’ll see), and I just realized that though I must have posted it to Twitter, I never posted the link here to my second interview with Jon Gibbs, after winning his Meager Puddle of Limelight Award for Best Short Story Title this year.

In this case, my winning title was “The Bear with the Clockwork Heart,” though the story wound up actually published under the title “The Bear with the Quantum Heart”.

The interview was originally posted August 1st and can be read here:

http://jongibbs.livejournal.com/301496.html

 

Black Static #29 now in ebook format

The issue of Black Static containing my horror/dark fantasy short story "Horseman" is now available as an ebook from Amazon:

http://amzn.com/B009G1WLVK

And from Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/238817

Either way, the price is the same ($4). You can read a couple reviews of the issue here and here.

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Black Static #29 now in ebook format

The issue of Black Static containing my horror/dark fantasy short story “Horseman” is now available as an ebook from Amazon:

http://amzn.com/B009G1WLVK

And from Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

Either way, the price is the same ($4). You can read a couple reviews of the issue here and here.

"The Bear with the Quantum Heart" in Strange Horizons

They say humans form their first memories at about three years old. I don't remember when Kayla's parents first activated me, but I do remember Christmas Eve. My skin was a honey-colored bear cub, all brown eyes and big paws. I was programmed to sing and recite the alphabet, the pad-screens on my paws loaded with scripts to flash colors, letters, and numbers. They tucked me carefully into a big green box with a red bow.

Mom patted me between the ears. "Go to sleep." The words triggered hibernation mode, and I felt my eyes close.

They hadn't named me yet. They wanted Kayla to do that herself...

My story "The Bear with the Quantum Heart" is now online in this week's issue of Strange Horizons. (Squee!) *ahem* You can read it (and comment) here:

http://www.strangehorizons.org/2012/20120820/bear-f.shtml

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“The Bear with the Quantum Heart” in Strange Horizons

They say humans form their first memories at about three years old. I don’t remember when Kayla’s parents first activated me, but I do remember Christmas Eve. My skin was a honey-colored bear cub, all brown eyes and big paws. I was programmed to sing and recite the alphabet, the pad-screens on my paws loaded with scripts to flash colors, letters, and numbers. They tucked me carefully into a big green box with a red bow.

Mom patted me between the ears. “Go to sleep.” The words triggered hibernation mode, and I felt my eyes close.

They hadn’t named me yet. They wanted Kayla to do that herself…

My story “The Bear with the Quantum Heart” is now online in this week’s issue of Strange Horizons. (Squee!) *ahem* You can read it (and comment) here:

http://www.strangehorizons.org/2012/2...

Another PBS remix

I'm now officially one video behind, since they just posted one of Julia Child today, but if you missed the Bob Ross remix when it was first posted, here it is:



Not quite as good as the Mister Rogers one, but still fun. I admit the artist in me has always cringed at The Joy of Painting as far as artistic style/quality goes (I keep wanting to yell things like "Complementary colors! Gray it down! Atmospheric perspective!"), but as a creative personality, he had some things right, anyway.

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Another PBS remix

I’m now officially one video behind, since they just posted one of Julia Child today, but if you missed the Bob Ross remix when it was first posted, here it is:

Not quite as good as the Mister Rogers one, but still fun. I admit the artist in me has always cringed at The Joy of Painting as far as artistic style/quality goes (I keep wanting to yell things like “Complementary colors! Gray it down! Atmospheric perspective!”), but as a creative personality, he had some things right, anyway.

Maybe fall will be better...

As much as I was looking forward to it months ago, it looks like the best thing for me to do is bow out of the August session of Camp NaNoWriMo, that I was planning on participating in. It's been a difficult summer real-life-wise, and issues with our mortgage (namely, attempting to refinance it) that I thought were going to be resolved by now most definitely aren't. Given the stress I'm already under, I've realized that I really don't need to add more to it, even for something positive -- and I already have enough works in progress to finish, without putting them all on hold for another month so I can just add another project to the pile.

I considered still participating, but just doing what I can and accepting that I won't cross the 50K word mark to win, but... well, I've done NaNoWriMo three times now and camp once, and won every time, and I hate the thought of just setting myself up to fail -- or worse, winding up determined not to fail whatever the cost to my emotional, mental, and/or physical health.

At this point, I think what I'll do is wait for the original NaNoWriMo in November and try again. By that time, I should be able to have a better idea of what the novel is supposed to be and what's supposed to happen, anyway, since I never had enough time or energy this month to work on brainstorming and outlining the way I wanted to. And by that time, something has to have been figured out that lets us keep the house. :/

So, apologies to my cabin mates, but maybe I'll see some of you in November...

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