I have been working on a secret project for a while now and it is nearing the time when I will let the first select few into the know. What follows is a snippet ( previous snippet 1 and previous snippet 2):

Once there was a small rocky planet orbiting close to its primary; baked and dessicated by fires of that sun until it was more dry and dead ( Read more... )

I have been working on a secret project for a while now and it is nearing the time when I will let the first select few into the know. What follows is a snippet ( previous snippet):

Wallace was sitting by himself with a cup of coffee in the cafeteria module when the Avatar came in. He happened to be looking directly at the door when it opened, so ( Read more... )

I have been working on a secret project for a while now and it is nearing the time when I will let the first select few into the know. What follows is a snippet:

It was an intensely dark night; clear, moonless, and the Flag not yet risen. The handlers were working by the lights on their boats and navigating by the stars, while their dolphins ( Read more... )

Just about six months ago Anita and I stopped at Third Place Books on our way home from something I now forget. I got myself a coffee and my grandson a hot chocolate while Anita went and found a book she had been lusting after: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final episode of J. K. Rowling's famous series ( Read more... )

What do you call it when a well-known pro genre writer churns out an unauthorized media-tie in novel and gives it away on the Internet? Somehow the word fanfic just doesn't cut it...

Download My Own Kind of Freedom and support another pixel stained technopeasant with some of your precious attention.

Seattle's Richard Hugo House has an ad in Craigslist seeking two Writers in Residence. (More on the Hugo House siteBasically they are providing subsidized rent in Seattle's Bell Town neighborhood in return for the writer doing a little teaching. (With regular office hours in a coffee shop, how Seattle is that?) Prospective writers should also have ( Read more... )

Well, Jay Lake did it recently, so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and see how the ride is. This isn't quite as good or as short as Jay's effort. And the moral of the story isn't nearly so close to the surface. But it is a short-short with a pointy end...

Conditioning
The two boys trying to hack their way past a stubborn encryption ( Read more... )

What if there was a scandal about performance enhancing drugs in literary circles?

What does it mean when someone changes the title and author of a famous Jane Austen novel, submits it to several publishers, and not only does it get rejected -- only one of them notices the plagiarism?

I've reached end of the the third week of the Clarion West Write-A-Thon and this one was a struggle!

My goal is 250 words a day or 1750 words a week. For week one I wrote 2002 words. Week two went even better and I reached 2228 words by dint of writing just about every day (all while working, helping organize/attending Seattle Mindcamp 4, and ( Read more... )