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Award Season
My short fiction that was published in 2013 and is now eligible for All The Awards: Wrought Out From Within Upon the Flesh, The Dark #2 The Sea Half-Held By Night, Dead North Once November, Tales of Jack the Ripper Artificial Nocturne, Beneath Ceaseless Skies By the Book, Lamplight IV Inventing Isaac, Gone Lawn (R+D) […]
What If (2013)
What if you published a book and no one knew? What if you spent years getting to know characters and locations and histories and no one else knew you had built an entire world? What if you spent countless days writing of them, in notebooks and napkins, with pixels and pens? What if you knew […]
Battle Scars
On Twitter this past weekend, Amanda asked: What's the most rejections you got on a piece before it sold? Please note whether it sold pro, semi, token. #battlescars I think it's an important question, especially to authors who suddenly find themselves selling regularly, which may give the impression to newer writers that all stories are […]
Stuff & Things
Just when you think it's stopped raining, there comes more rain. Just what Colorado doesn't need! I was going to donate to the Strange Horizons fundraiser, but instead went over to HelpColoradoNow.com, because my state is such a mess after historical floods and oil spills. It's still unbelievable. But there are other doings, yes. Let me […]