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Lookout 2013!

The Preditors & Editors voting poll has opened and, as usual, people are having a hard time getting the pages to open.It’s almost like an 8th grade test website built in the 90′s. For someone who claims to have been involved with the first internet service provider, his internet providing seems to, well, suck.

I shouldn’t say anything though. He might sue. Or worse, get the SFWA to come after me.

A lot of people use the P&E website (including me, because it can be helpful), and whenever they ha...

Back In A Bit

Dear work,

If you call me before Christmas, I will not answer my phone. You will instead be directed to a voice answering service run by Vince Offer, the ShamWow! guy, who will then proceed to banter and berate you into buying some steak knives to stab your phones with for calling me.

Much love,

Jason

P.S. See the rest of you after Christmas.

Worst. Collaborator. Ever.

Poor Barb. She’s been carrying the load over at SBR lately, providing quality book reviews, as well as being patient about our WIP that’s been sitting in my “To Do” pile for almost six months now while I’ve… uh, been working? Picking my nose?

I need an excuse, quick.

…okay, so it boils down to the fact that I’m exhausted and ready to drop. This time of year takes a lot out of me, though it was far worse last year. Then again, I don’t really remember last year (16 hour days, 6 days a week will d...

The Next Big Thing

I’ve seen this going around other blogs but didn’t really pay too much attention to it until I was tagged by Barb Caffrey (hey Barb). Barb recently inked a deal for her novel,Elfy, with one of the publishers I’ve written for (Twilight Times Books). We’re also working on a steampunk/alt history story (I think that’s what it is; it’s moving along slowly and it’s meandering a bit). She does book reviews with me over atShiny Book Review and is very patient (since I don’t do as many reviews as I u...

Doing Time in the Slush

I think that every prospective author should do time as a slush reader — a volunteer slush reader, in fact.

This sounds like a fate worse than death for most of us. If you are an aspiring writer who thinks that this could be fun, then you are one of the ones whomustdo this. Because while you might be convinced that all writers deserve a chance at being published, a quick month or two of reading slush for any publishing company (assuming they even do slush anymore) will quickly correct this mis...

The Open File

I’ve actually come up with a very good technique to avoid any sort of “putting off” of writing time. I leave the file always open, with intermittent saves to keep my pc honest. It keeps me honest as well, forcing me to look at it regularly and think to myself “Crap, I should be writing.”

Not even a picture of Tony Stark with the caption “You should be writing” motivates me as much as seeing that poor, pathetic, lonely little file in the corner of my screen begging me to write in it.

See? It eve...

I’m Bored and Don’t Feel Like Writing

There’s been no small amount of dark humor floating around this week, with the best one I’ve come across so far being Operation It’s A Small War After All. Now, I applaud this Marine sergeant’s ingenuity with his placement of his troops and artillery, especially when considering this is a siege of Cinderella’s Castle (with secondary objective being the utterannihilationof the “It’s A Small World” ride), but part of me looks at his carefully drawn battle plan and realize that he missed one hug...

Holy Crap Batman!

Holy effing sh*t! They’re finally opening a Games Workshop near me. Like, literally a few blocks from my house. I can finally find someone to play against without having to drive to Cincy!

I’m a little excited, in case you can’t tell.

I know where I’ll be next Saturday (which is the Man O’ War Games Workshop opening day).

So yeah… Holy Crap!

*edit* Even better. It’s one block from my work. Muwahahaha!

Quick Notice

Should probably mention that the story I contracted and mentioned before,Wake, is going to be in theMental Ward: Echoes of the Pasthorror anthology being put out by Sirens Call Publications. No idea about a release date yet, but I’ll post that when I get it. Also, they’re still accepting submissions, so follow this here link if you have a horror story set in an asylum and are looking for a home for it.

Back to your regularly unscheduled OMGWTFBBQ!!!

Long Work Week

In the midst of a surprise nine day work week. I’ll have something more as soon as I have a day off. In the meantime, here are some kittens with puppies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MezotwyMbNQ