Does anyone want to pay me to write at length about Shadow Complex? I mean, I'm probably going to anyways, but y'know, gotta feed my babies. And by babies I mean...videogame consoles.

Today's the last day of summer hours at [company name]. That means no more getting out early on Friday afternoons, but it also means we are one step closer to Fall, ( Read more... )

Good morning. Or, if you eat at KFC, welcome to your heart attack:


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PAUL THE INTERVIEWER: So, what do you like to do more--write short stories or draw comics?

PAUL THE HOBBIT: Oh, that's easy. Eat sandwiches.

So, my application for Supertown was rejected and now I'm kind of at a loss. All of the free webcomic hosts (smackjeeves, comicfury, drunkduck, etc.) fail to meet my expectations, my vision, and I don't really think I can shuck off my savings account to purchase my own website. I don't know. I'd really like to do something with this as I do see it ( Read more... )

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Just finished reviewing the html galley for "In a Windless Calm," which I believe will be in the very next issue of Farrago's Wainscot. As I mentioned when I sold the story, it's full of weirdness. And things I forgot about. Can't wait to freak out family members with it. I've yet to really write a second story in the same world of any of my ( Read more... )

This year, already mid-way through 2009, has been terrible for the short fiction market. My boss and editor of Clarkesworld, Neil Clarke, has some summaries and numbers about what's been going on over the past year...seriously, read it. Then come back here. Wait, also go read Sandra McDonald's take on things, too. Back? Okay, good.

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I'd like to submit a new story to Abyss & Apex, which just opened to subs for May 2009, but I can't. They already have a story of mine, one that's been with them since November 2008. I queried about it three weeks ago; no response yet. The part that worries me is the query address is also the submission address and so I received an automatic ( Read more... )