He remembered the numb, cottony feeling of her hand in his nerveless one and bounced his fingertips off of the wall, hard. It hurt. He smiled.

“Three?” the man behind the desk demanded. The messenger nodded wordlessly, and held out the packet of reports. With a curse, the normally unflappable man seized the papers and waved the messenger out. Three agents dead, in a massacre disguised as a pleasure boat outing. In Paris. Paris… He stilled, then looked down at the papers in his hand. ( Read more... )

I made myself a little website. It's very minimal. Once I have my design tools installed on my new computer, I'll snazz it up a little bit, although not much. Minimal is fine for now. If I ever get stuff published (sigh) I'll do a little reorganizing to make it a little more author-centric. For now, though, it's nice to have as sort of a ( Read more... )

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A quick note while I'm finishing last-minute vacation tasks. 'Chariot' was rejected by Strange Horizons yesterday, with a note saying they liked everything about it but the end. Which is, in fact, exactly what virtually everybody on OWW said, too. I'm going to rewrite the end -- give the character a little more agency in her own fate, as the SH ( Read more... )

Strange Horizons is having an issue with Gmail - a lot of their fiction submission response emails are either getting shuttled into people's spam folders or are disappearing completely. Since I sent my submission in on June 16th, and haven't received any word - sent to the spam folder or otherwise - I went ahead and queried as Jed's post suggested ( Read more... )

'Launch' was rejected by the editor of TWoTW. It was a very nice rejection email, though, and he pretty much said there wasn't anything wrong with the story - it just didn't fit his personal tastes. Best sort of rejection to get ( Read more... )

I told electricsheep82 that I'm not much of a gnawing-your-insides-out waiting for things kind of person - I tend to let things go and just ignore them until something happens - but I have to admit I'd like a response from ONE of the stories I've sent out. Even a rejection would be fine. Limbo's kind of annoying. I like to take action on things, not wait ( Read more... )

In mid-June, I finished the short story 'Chariot' and sent it off to Strange Horizons (haven't heard back yet but their response time listing says I shouldn't worry til the end of August).

Yesterday, I finished and sent off 'The Victim' to Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine ShowToday, I finished and sent off 'Launch' (the finished version ( Read more... )

He never tired of watching the ships launch. Crouched in the lee of the bleachers once erected for reporters who had long since lost interest in such a routine event, he watched as the green glow of the launch-wizards' power crept slowly over the skin of each bulbous shape, sealing the ship inside a shimmering bubble with an almost audible pop! as ( Read more... )