But I have so much on my writing plate, you guys ( Read more... )

In this case, I got to cross off "edit UFO story." It is edited, finished, and out the door ( Read more... )

And that means I need to gin up five outlines for the June NaNo push, plus the outline for the Fearful Symmetries antho.

I do at least have notions for two of those outlines. One will be for the Salt City Steam Writer's Challenge, and the other will be (yet another) story in the sprawling 'verse that encompasses Ben and Alex. That one will be ( Read more... )

So, I sent not!IronMan to one of the premier markets. They kindly said it "wasn't right" for them, but ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to make me feel sorry for your serial killer. But DAMN.

Well done. *claps* That poor son of a bitch.

Also, I'm reading the fourth Cal Leandros book by Rob Thurman (robgoodfella), and she's done something here that you don't get to see in published fiction very often--she's got two first person POV characters alternating ( Read more... )

I think, for the moment, that the not!Iron Man is going to be in limbo for a bit. The submission guidelines for places that publish such lengthy works are esoteric at best and a pain in the ass at worst (seriously: pick a consistent format for all you publishing people and stick with it. I am not a typesetter, and if you're not even going to pay ( Read more... )

For a plethora of reasons.

It is entirely possible that I've run out of paying markets for the not!Iron Man story, having received (yet another) rejection for that one today (a nice rejection, but a rejection nonetheless) and discovered that the next market I was going to ship it off to has closed to subs permanently. And then I spent an ungodly ( Read more... )

Here we go.

First order of business: Print out the not!Iron Man story to send to F&SF. (in progress--76 pages will take awhile) Done. I need a bigger envelope. Whee ( Read more... )

YET AGAIN ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone for your congrats on my last post. *smishes you all HARD* I'd respond individually, but I'd be here all day and I have work to do. It means a lot that you're all rooting for me ( Read more... )