I completed the first phase of my rewrite of “Gene Splice” just a few minutes ago, which is great. I focused completely on structural stuff this time–and there were a few things I fixed. As with my last rewrite effort, anything I thought was “just” an issue of the moment I jotted down to remember […]
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A Three-Day Thaw
Three long days at the “real job” put a serious damper on my productivity since Monday. Hey, such is life. I did get a bit of work done on the third novel rewrite, and I finished reading a novel I picked up because I was interested in the “free books” movement that’s obviously going around. […]
Read More ...Writing Prompt?
I’m thinking that if you can’t write a story based on this, you’re not trying hard enough. Progress Report: I didn’t mean to go in this direction at all, but I’ve found myself about 60% through a rewrite of another of my earlier novels. This one’s origin was my very first Novel Dare (think NaNoWriMo […]
Read More ...Picasso’s Cat & Others Heads to the Publisher
The tentative title to the collection is Picasso’s Cat and Other Stories. It’s soon to be winging it’s way the the Merry Blacksmit Press for them to do their magic. I’m pleased to confirm that Mike Resnick graciously agreed to write an introduction. The TOC lines up like this right now: The Disappearance of Josie […]
Read More ...Working on Friday Night
Lisa: Did you realize you misspelled Memento? Ron: Hey, they don’t call it the Typo-sphere for nothing. Progress Report: Lisa needed to work late tonight, and I took advantage of the time to go get ice cream and to spend a few extra hours on a manuscript. Not a terrible way to spend an evening. […]
Read More ...Five SF Movies You May Not Think of Right Away
I was talking about science fiction with a co-worker yesterday and he mentioned some of his favorite SF movies. They were of the Star Wars, Star Trek, variety–obvious science fiction titles with lots of explosions in space. (Let’s not get into the question of whether Star Wars if fantasy or SF, m-kay?) I realized then […]
Read More ...WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!
Here’s a nice piece of work from Meghan McCarron that sneaks up on you. At least it did to me, anyway. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as I started because I don’t think of myself as the modern-day vampire demographic. Strange Horizon’s published it in two parts, so be sure to read them both.
Read More ...Nebula Awards a Harbringer?
Congratulations to the newest Nebula Award winners. It’s certainly an extremely interesting collection, specifically because none of the winners of the three short fiction categories came from the big three digests. I think is the first time this happened since 2003. However, in 2003 two of the stories came out of Ellen Datlow’s big-budgeted SCIFICTION. […]
Read More ...Steve Ely Says Farewell
At the gym today I listened to Steve Ely’s farewell podcast at EscapePod. It’s story titled “The Last McDouglas by David D. Levine that had appeared at Asimov’s earlier. The story is good and memorable enough for it’s futuristic look at fast food alone. But the story isn’t what made this podcast special. I have […]
Read More ...Collecting Up the Collection
So I spent the day working on the collection. I’m having a blast putting it all together. I haven’t gone back and read these stories in quite some time, and I’m finding lots of great memories buried in them. I’ve had a couple laugh-out-loud moments (in good ways), and have just had a generally fun […]
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