I've always been a storyteller. I remember standing in the second grade schoolyard and captivating some classmate with the most outrageous string of, ahem, embellishments to the story I was telling.

A few years later I committed those stories to loose-leaf paper, with drawings and report covers. Next came attempts with typewriters.

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. . . is no news. For me anyway. But some of my friends have been doing good stuff ( Read more... )

My winning entry in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing contest is this month's featured story at Baen.com. http://www.baen.com/default.asp

Direct link to the complete story here: http://www.baen.com/space-hero.asp

I jumped into this year's NaNo without much thought, and sometimes that's a good thing. I made the 50 k mark, just barely, and on the last day. The other two times I won, I finished a day early. This time was a lot harder. I had four no writing days, and three days with less than 1k words, which meant a lot of catching up. And I can't remember how ( Read more... )

Just finished. 50,009 words.

My fifth attempt, and third win.


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The prize package for the JBMWC came (quite awhile back).

Here's the very cool trophy:


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My story "Space Hero" has won the Grand Prize in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest. Last year I won second place with a re-write of one of my WotF quarter-finalist stories, but this year I managed to write two new stories for the contest, and sent the best one in. The story will be published on the Baen Books website sometime in the future, as ( Read more... )

Actually, I finished this one:

The Things that are not There by CJ Henderson. This novel takes the Lovecraftian Horror story and welds it together with some hard-boiled detective fiction. I mean, really, if some nameless unspeakable horror from the depths of time and space comes after you, would you rather just go insane or pick up some heavy duty ( Read more... )

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Doug Fieger, lead singer and songwriter for The Knack, died sunday after a long battle with lung cancer.


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