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Another story sale! The first Alex story, "Alex and the OCD Oracle" comes out in the "Sidekicks!" anthology (edited by multi-talented author/editor Sarah Hans) next month. The Alex stories are funny urban/contemporary fantasy tales based around Alex Bayne, who refers to ( Read more... )

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Once again, I find myself in a position of killing darlings I created in a moment of passion. Every writer does it, and it does get easier, but there's always at least a little bit of an "ouch" involved. In case you're not familiar with the expression, to kill one's ( Read more... )

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The deadline for The Crimson Pact anthology, volume 3 is coming up at the end of the month. I've been planning to do an indirect sequel to Karma, my Quiet World story from volume 2--but from Kai Traeger's point of view as he and Halloween Jack (aka Jaqueline Hallow) ( Read more... )

Yup! It came out a few days ago. The Crimson Pact, volume 2
The authors range from newbies like myself and some members of my writing group on up to NY Times best-sellers, and I'm pretty sure we hit just about every subgenre of fantasy in there, from high to contemporary/urban, with even a little steampunk thrown in for good measure. And the ebook ( Read more... )

It's volume 2 of the Crimson Pact series of anthologies, which is scheduled to come out around the end of August. (Volume one is already out. See  http://www.thecrimsonpact.com for details.)

Exerpt from my story, Karma:

We hit the interstate like an unguided missile. Needles of frozen rain and jagged blades of wind beat my face numb and turned what ( Read more... )

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Okay, I am by no mean a "real" developer, but I made a .deb file for the latest Scrivener for Linux beta (2.9) from the latest tarball. This should install on 32-bit Ubuntu 11.04 (and Ubuntu-based distributions) with a double-click. See below for instructions for ( Read more... )

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EDIT: While the .deb I built installed and works just fine on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10, some others have had problems with it. If that includes you, download the package built by JG Starsoupsky at http://www.handsomeplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/scrivener_0.2.4.... ( Read more... )

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