Today, I received both my subscription copy and my contributor's copy of Mythic Delirium Issue #23, which contains my faerykrusher poem written for kallistei, "Tigerskin." You can get a copy for yourself here, I believe, by purchasing a sample issue and specifying the issue number. I got to read the whole issue early for a review, and I can vouch for the ( Read more... )

My steampunk faerykrusher sword & sorcery story is "perfectly good," but not what they're looking for at S&S 24. Which means I can perhaps hang some tapestries and throw some rugs on the floor to mitigate the draftiness. Anybody up for beta duty? About one thousand words, with some blood.

Shimmer rejected my submission for the Clockwork Junglebook issue. Which is disappointing, yes, but also leaves me with the dilemma of where the heck else to send it. It's kinda...specialized. Hrm.

What's a good market for vaguely steampunk faery tales?

If you guessed more poetry drafting, give yourself the gold star equivalent of your choice.

Tomorrow, my poem "Blooded" will be going live at The Lorelei Signal. This poem is, I think, the first I wrote for sovay, and has been around in various incarnations since...oh, the latter half of 2006, if I remember right. The request was for a mash-up of the myth of Sedna and the version of "Cinderella" in which Cinderella's mother's spirit resides ( Read more... )

Anyone up for betaing "Fair As Snow" for me before I start it on the rounds? It's just shy of 4K words, and I'd like to start sending it out in April, at the latest. Any takers?

Words may or may not be a sovereign cure, but they work wonders on my artisan-class self. So I'm taking poetry requests, first thirteen comers. You may request two faery tales which I shall then krush, a mythological sea beastie, or a poem based on a BPAL scent (keeping in mind I may not have smelled the one you point me toward, especially if ( Read more... )

sovay wrote a very cool entry on language and ancestry and the dizzying dream of a New Alexandria (will the library still be one in which fishes can read?). I commented in kind, finishing up with this paragraph:

I know one language, the boiled-down essence of the ones my most recent ancestors spoke, or the corrupted mishmash of same, depending on who ( Read more... )

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