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Thoughts on the art and business of writing
I wrote the following comment for earlgreytea68, but I wanted to post it in my journal as well. I'm in the process of tuning up my life after a long slump, starting in 2008 when I lost my home business and had to go work in an office. My fiction was pushed to one side and I felt trapped, angry, and bored ( Read more... ) -
Sherlock S3 Reaction Post
Whereinwhich I must admit, sadly, that as much as I truly adore what Gatniss and Moffat have done by bringing me modern-day Sherlock, they in fact aren't Arthur Conan-Doyle and they really don't have his magic when it comes to inventing creative and entertaining crime fiction ( Read more... ) -
Saw Hunger Games and Desolation of Smaug
Saw Hunger Games and Desolation of Smaug this weekend ( Read more... ) -
Another story published
An online zine called 365Tomorrows had some trouble with their email notifications. It turns out they'd published me back in July and I never knew it. Anyway, So here's the link-- more dark humor ( Read more... ) -
Read it and Giggle-- MUCH better than weeping!
Hello, dear friends ( Read more... ) -
New story in Analog Science Fiction and Fact!
They even put my name on the cover, the sweet people! http://www.analogsf.com/2014_01-02/index.shtmlRead more... ) -
Can you catch an alien invasion as easily as you catch a cold?
That's what my hero Stephanie finds out in my new short story -- Yay! That just got published in Michael Moorcock's New Worlds Magazine. It's a UK publication, and editor Roger Gray is a dear ( Read more... ) -
Writin' maniac
Whahoo! Really buckled down and I got 16 short stories out in the mail today-- a new record! (Only 2 are new; the rest have come back over time, but I got them all out in the email again ( Read more... ) -
For what it's worth...
I am a newly minted member of the freshly formed Boulder County Citizens Against Gun Violence. And yes, we are looking for a better acronym! Currently the group consists of the 21 folks who attended the nonpartisan meeting last night in Lafayette, with attendees ranging from Westminster to Boulder to Longmont. ( Saner gun laws ) -
A holiday confession
I am a deadbeat. Totally ( Read more... )