Category: News update

Today I worked on query letters and my synopsis. I started reading my novel out loud, but I only got up to page 25 and had to stop. I encountered an inconsistency in my use of the alien number systems (they have three). I needed to think through my use of base 5 and 6…

I have been tagged in The Next Big Thing, a branching pyramid-of-prose where authors discuss their latest release or WIP. I was tagged by Caren Gussoff a super smart lady, a lyrical and literary speculative fiction writer. What is the working title of your book? The Scent of Memory. Where did the idea come from…

Wow! It’s December! DECEMBER! Time for a lightning quick catchup round. Reviews, Musical Foreplay and Roller Derby! Anywhere But Earth reviewed by Cosmos Magazine coeur de lion’s enormous science fiction anthology was reviewed by Cosmos Magazine (you’ve gotta love a mag who’s tag line is “The Science of Everything). It’s great to see a science…

Strange Horizons are a terrific online magazine who published my story The Rugged Track, a rollerderby fairytale. Their staff are volunteers with a professional attitude and they pay their fiction writers professional rates. To continue as a non profit magazine that pushes the awesome, actively encourages diversity, values creators, and brings to the world some…

Machine of Death Machine of Death 2 will be launched at Comicon next year, but right now I’m even more excited about the French translation of Machine of Death. If you go to the French website they have a working MOD Machine. It’s kinda awesome. I think you get to pick the category of death…

Dirt, work and hands – Casanova Clay is now live at Apex. You can read Casanova on his own. You can purchase the entire e-book. It’s a very nice feeling to share a cover with Mary Robinette Kowal, Cecil Castellucci, Dean Francis Alfar and Rachel Swirsky. … I hope those bunnies on the cover are ok. BuNSOn Hoppydew might…

I neglected to mention, but early this month I updated the Clarion blogs, journals and other linkey things collection. My November update links to words by Val Nolan, Michael Underwood and the Leonard Pung Memorial Scholarship. Please post in the comments or e-mail me if there are other posts to add to the collection. It’s…

Music, Things and poetry news. Musical challenge complete! I have written a love song to a baked good, or more precisely a Lament for Pie. The lament ended up getting a lengthy introduction as I decided to write the synopsis for an over the top  musical about food. And wow! That sparked imaginations. Jeffrey has…

As some of you may recall I have a short story that will be coming out in the anthology formerly known as Machine of Death: Volume 2. “Blunt Force Delivered by Spouse” is about love and land and violence and hardship and strength and love and loss and sisters, but most of all it is…

During Leonard’s memorial I mentioned the Clarion wall. During Clarion we stuck a bunch of crazy quotes on the wall of our common room. Words from critiques and sometimes just from random conversations. In the center was “Screw being a time traveling researcher, I want to be a writer.” I’m staying with the marvelous Ed…