It seems that there is no end to busyness, but I thought I should update this journal as things do happen. Maybe in a year or so I'll be able to keep a more regular journal.

First off: 59 Beads has been reprinted in ISF #1 and is now free to download. There are some interesting reviews of the issue available through the site. I'm happy to see this ( Read more... )

Have been offline as our modem broke and it took a while for our server to help us. Being incommunicado heightened the claustrophia as our phone line is attached to the modem as well and if that's broken we have no way of calling out or being called. Added to all that, I contracted the flu and was down for a good number of days. Can I say argh.

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Yes. I have been very bad about replying and updating on this journal. I have promised myself to try and update at least once or twice a month depending on what's going on.

The news I was talking about (which I've already tweeted about): I recently signed a contract with Strange Horizons to write regular non-fiction columns for them. I just sent off ( Read more... )

We've reached the end of the reading period for the Paul Harland Prize and after all the scores were added up, I was just ecstatic to find out that my top three stories landed in the top three spots and that these top three were also the same top three as my fellow-jurors ( Read more... )

How time flies. It's been more than a month since I last updated this journal. I've been very busy and twitter has been much easier to use as a means of keeping up. I will be posting new fiction on here soon though. In petto are the Wasden Effect and another short piece--both of these are my way of thanking my sponsors for the CW writeathon.

I've ( Read more... )

I started out with the intention of writing another fun snippet, but I'll confess that I've also been preoccupied with world-building for the work-in-progress that somehow I ended up writing something that is quite different from the first two pieces that I posted for my Clarion West sponsors. I want to say thanks to Susan Gossman and Eileen Gunn ( Read more... )

While I'm officially banned from the internets for the duration of our family vacation (a rule I've been allowed to break for short periods), I've been reading books and reading the entries for the Paul Harland Prize. Giving grades to stories has never been my strong point. People I've critted on the Online Writing Workshop can attest to this. I've ( Read more... )

First of all, an apology. This second part of the Melendez in Mai's shed was delayed due to school closing and all the busyness around it. I wrote and rewrote a number of times before I was finally able to capture the fun spirit of the Melendez. On Monday or Tuesday, I'll be updating this lj with a fresh piece of fiction filled with new and fun ( Read more... )

Mai sat up in and rubbed the sleep from her eyes. It was still dark out, but across from her she could just make out the shadow that was her sister.

Crash.

There it was again.

“Sssst,” she said. “Aya, wake up.”

“Huh?” Aya said. “What? What dream? Go back to bed.”
“I thought I heard a crash,” Mai whispered.

Aya didn’t reply, and after a while, Mail ( Read more... )

I did say I'd post a snippet/piece for anyone who sponsored me. Today's little bit of writing is dedicate to Jeff Spock -- fellow Clarion West alumni, gifted writer and all around wonderful guy. I hope you appreciate the fluff, Jeff. :) And thanks for being the first to sponsor me.

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FINDING JEFF
for Jeff from Rochita

There was a jeff in the ( Read more... )