This is also up on my writing blog at my website.

If you know me in person, you've heard me say before that I enjoy the maxim by Raymond Chandler.

“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”

You laugh, I laugh, but the truth is, it makes a hell of a lot of sense. At it's most basic and direct translation, Chandler ( Read more... )

Mmm.. The Huzbun got my laptop up and running again, so today I could do more market research. I love that crap. Duotrope, you is my favorite.

I came across an neat looking fledgling market I thought I'd share.

Big Pulp

I mention it since it might be of interest to a number of my friends out there.

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...Okay, so I'm not really famous yet, but my short story "Mars Ain't No Place for Ladies" did get blogged about here.

That's a step in the right direction, I imagine.

Plus, the 'zine that it was published on was nominated for the Predators and Editors Reader's Choice Award for 2007, from the editor. If haven't yet voted with P&E for your favorite ' ( Read more... )

Click me! Click me!!!

I think the editor, Nathan Lilly, did the art there for me. It's really beautiful and I didn't even know he was doing it.

So, in case you didn't catch my husband's almost brutal show of support, my short story "Mars' Ain't No Place for Ladies" will be up at Space Westerns next Sunday.

While you're there checking it out, you might notice
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So, the first real hard edits of THE BEAST are done. I'm handing it around for some polish opinions while I dust up my query letter writing skizills and hunting for agents who won't hate me too much.


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My piece, "Mar's Ain't No Place for Ladies" is in talks with the editor of this site.  The editor seems like a great guy, and he seemed to like it, so I'm excited.

I would actually recommend you take a look at the site for some quick fun reads. I've only read a few stories, and they were just that- fun.

David told me he'd buy me a laptop when I ( Read more... )