After a terrible fiction-writing day on Saturday, C. gave me some tough love and I managed to finish the story on Sunday, and send it in for the July 1 deadline. A lot of my difficulty with it seemed to be that the story I wanted to write didn't feel entirely suitable for the anthology, so I got tangled up in trying to force it, which doesn't work ( Read more... )

One of the two most stressful annual periods at dayjob is (mostly) ending today, and I am wiped out. I managed to get in my anonymous review and one preview this week, but that's it. I got nowhere on the short story ( Read more... )

1. As I mentioned yesterday, I've been trying to keep up with the various calls for submissions for erotica anthologies. I found one this week that at no point told you how much it paid. The call did mention payment methods further down, just not how much one would be paid for a story, or even a range based on length or something similar. I am ( Read more... )

This weekend I need to write a book review that's due Monday, and I'm also hoping to at least draft a complete short story. I have four calls for submissions that all have a June 1 deadline. This could be tricky, since there's an entire week of May in which I will not be spending any time writing due to local events and to WisCon. But surely I ( Read more... )

The Bach went beautifully, but it was very tiring - I think our attention span was definitely flagging in the last hour after standing through a lot of solo material, because our conductor had to prod people to watch. But we perked up again for the end, and people clapped, and came to the reception and ate the food we'd brought, and said they'd ( Read more... )

I've been pondering Geek Girl Con, October 19-20, but it's in Seattle and would be expensive for travel and hotel. The registration is cheap, however, $35 for two days. And I've never been to Seattle, and it's within a reasonable distance of my friend J in B.C.. It would be fun whether I made it onto program or not ( Read more... )

1. It's the last week of February ( Read more... )

So, I said I would help a newly-published author with promo. I solemnly swear this will not take over my life. It's just one more thing, and it won't be a difficult thing for me; also, I plan to give this person additional contacts, so it won't be All Me All the Time. I have useful knowledge, and I should Pay It Forward. Also, she is local ( Read more... )

I had very little free time this week, what with traveling and dayjob and gym time, but I think I am ready to talk about my historical research and how it transmutes into fiction for the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society meeting tonight. I think it will be reasonably interesting, for something I only found out I was doing late Monday night ( Read more... )

The tricky bit about doing a talk/reading with only a few days to prepare is that I don't have anything big coming out in the near future. I could read some older stuff, and I think I'll bring some, but I think I'd rather experiment a bit ( Read more... )