Earlier today ravenelectrick revealed the cover for her forthcoming anthology Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, which will have my art-loving bugs story "Art Deco and the Infestation of New America" in it. The cover's orange and clocky and I like it the best out of the trio (Sporty Spec, Cinema Spec, Retro Spec), especially the font, which oozes ( Read more... )

Yawn. Stretch. Guzzle coffee.

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Mmmff...ah, there we are.

Anyways, ravenelectrick recently revealed the Table of Contents for Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia. You can see it below the cut to find out where I'm placed in the run of things.

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The subject line kind of says it all, right?

Anyways, a few months back pixelfish tipped me off to a flash fiction contest held by ChiZine Publications. I took a chance and wrote them something because, honestly, if there's one thing I seem to do all right at...it is the flash fiction. And they wanted work under 300 words. A challenge for some, surely, a ( Read more... )

"Art Deco and the Infestation of New America" has sold to the Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia anthology, which is edited by Karen A. Romanko (ravenelectrick ). There was a minor rewrite request, which was to just make the title less Frenchy. Okay with me because there's still some French in the story itself. Bugs, art, and French. Ultimately, it's a ( Read more... )

Today is all about gloomy skies and grumbling stomachs.

Oh, and my short story "Hearts Will Never Be Practical" is now live over at Every Day Fiction. Roommates, robots, and a yearning for the East Coast. What it does not contain, probably, is a lot of answers. But go read and enjoy, if you're into reading and enjoying things.

That said, I finished ( Read more... )

...because that's when "Hearts Will Never Be Practical" goes up at Every Day Fiction, according to their posted table of contents.

Looking forward to it. More importantly, are you?

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You don't have to answer that, really. I know the answerrr.

I was pretty surprised to see this post from Aberrant Dreams' Joe Dickerson. in it, he lets everyone know what's been happening with the e-zine and what's to come in the future. It'll be relaunching in December 2009. Of interest to me is news that AB's first book of selected fiction, Aberrant Dreams I, The Awakening, is still to come. This is the ( Read more... )

Progress notes for June 30, 2009

"A Vast, Sated Universe"



768 / 1000 words. 77% done!

Reason for stopping: We've reached First Draft! Normally this is the Zero Draft part, but I wrote this pretty much how I wanted to and so it does not need a third re-read from me at this point.
Deadline: August 1, 2009
Curse words: One. Still not sure if optimistic SF ( Read more... )

Before heading off to sleepyland last night, I checked my email and learned that I sold another short story. So, "Hearts Will Never Be Practical" is now forthcoming from Every Day Fiction. One of the editor's comments said this: "Unsettling. I like it." It's about, as usual in my writing, trying to find a place in a world that's all about the cold ( Read more... )

5. Karen A. Romanko (also known as ravenelectrick) has alerted me that Cinema Spec is actually ahead of schedule and readily available through the major online bookstores. See below:

Without further ado, Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy is currently available at the major online booksellers:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0981964303/ ( Read more... )