i am seriously not trying to kiss ass here.

I was pretending to do research on my lunch today by reading Maurice Broaddus's "Pimp My Airship," a steampunk story that brings the funk.

Imagine that the American Civil War never happened because the invention of automatons replaced slavery, emmancipation is really more like segregation, and you've ( Read more... )

Just imagine Eric Bana saying it.

Seriously, though, I was thrilled to see Apex Magazine has ended its hiatus. There's killer new fiction, including this short story by the one and only Jennifer Pelland that made me think living underground might not be all it's cracked up to be. Also, Jason Sizemore is like a cylon with a better defined plan on how ( Read more... )

Check this out.  Apex Books is now open for novel submissions from November 1 - 30

I've ordered several collections from Apex and have yet to be disappointed.  Here's looking forward to their novels!

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Just in case you haven't seen this skit from the Daily Show writers on the WGA strike, it's worth checking out.

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Also I wanted to give a shout-out about the Apex Digest subscription drive. They reprinted "Last Respects" on their online fiction market, and they're running a drive to increase the amount they pay their authors. They're minimum goal is ( Read more... )

Last Respects is up at Apex Online and my, oh, my, does it look good on their site, if I do say so myself.  Check it out.

I was talking to Zak last week about writing playlists.  Usually, I create playlists on my ipod when I'm working on a story -- some good mood music for when I'm writing.  But I realized today that I had not created a playlist for ( Read more... )