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Satirica is Here
It’s here! The Satirica Anthology, featuring my story “The Babies at Nae-Long,” is out and on shelves! In hardback and everything! Here, Have some picturey goodness:
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A Quick Note to Myself
I must remember…
That I am a good writer.
That the stories are worth telling.
That plot holes can be plugged.
That loose ends can be tied.
That cardboard characters can be born anew.
That flat writing can be made to explode.
That I have all the time in the world to make my art perfect.
That perfection is worth waiting for. -
Friendly Note
It has come to my attention that some people I swear-to-god I friended were not, for reasons unexplained, added to my friends list. And here I thought you were just being very quiet of late. This situation has hopefully been rectified. If you are among those people, know that I and Zoidberg Jesus still love you.
That is all.
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Random Writing Thoughts
I have established a general pattern for this book, it goes something like this: 1) writewritewrite 5 - 10,000 words. 2) Reach previously unthought-of plot development/scene that seems boring. 3) Ponderponderponder next scene for about a week. 4) Make major change to prior storyline without revising. 5) writewritewrite, rinse, repeat. Throw in the ( Read more... ) -
I... Live(journal)
So you may or may not have noticed that I have been somewhat absent of late… things at the Day Job spiraled out of control and I had to basically give up anything resembling a life for a little while. Which is to say, for about a month, my schedule has been: Get up at 5:30, thirty minutes or so of basic intertubes to wake up (only the essentials: ( Read more... ) -
Everyone's doing it...
I normally am not one for the memes, but when I saw the 100-book meme going around, I had to check and see where I was anyway, so I figured I might as well post it here. So like ta here we go!
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
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Spamdemonium Reviewed
The very talented Aliette de Bodard had some nice things to say about my story Spamdemonium over at The Fix. She reviews the entire issue, so take a look and see what other good things are going on in there, too. The current issue of Baen's with Spamdemonium in it is still available on-line, a mere six bucks for heck of a lot of content.
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Like it's the end of the world...
I read about a man who used twitter to get out of jail in Sudan or somewhere. Maybe that’ll work for me.
The sun is going down now. There are at least a hundred of them in the park behind the house. We are more or less completely unprotected, but they don’t know we’re in here yet. I’m scared to barricade the doors, I’m afraid the noise might ( Read more... ) -
Shameless Self-Promotion: Spamdemonium
As of June 1, the first issue of the third year of Jim Baen’s Universe Magazine went live, including my story, Spamdemonium. For any of you who don’t know Baen’s Universe, it’s a professional-level, SFWA recognized speculative fiction magazine founded by the late SF novel publisher Jim Baen and edited by world-renowned SF authors Eric Flint and ( Read more... )
