Life on the road doesn’t completely suck. I sold a short story today! Maurice Broaddus is editing an anthology of horror titled Dark Faith for Apex that will come out next May and he just let me know that he’d like to include my story “Ring Road” in it. Actually… there’s a certain irony to […]
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I’m thrilled because my short story “The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland” will appear in John Joseph Adams’s anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I’ve been wanting to make a sale to him for a while now because I’ve really liked the anthologies he’s put together. It’s a reprint anthology and this
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The postman arrived today with a package, which was puzzling since I hadn’t ordered anything for props recently. Behold! Contributor’s copies of Science Fiction the Best of the Year, 2008, edited by Rich Horton. My story, “For Solo Cello, op. 12” is in there.
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The table of contents of Clockwork Phoenix is up. I’m totally thrilled by the company I’ll be in. Claude Lalumière, “Three Friends” Leah Bobet, “Six” Marie Brennan, “Once a Goddess” Ian McHugh, “Angel Dust” Ann Leckie, “The Endangered Camp” Mary Robinette Kowal, “At the Edge of Dying” Saladin Ahmed, “Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel
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I suppose that I should be reporting that we made it safely to Chattanooga, which we did. However. This email was much more exciting. I’m contacting you to inform you that Rich Horton has selected one of your stories, “For Solo Cello, Op. 12,” for Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, scheduled for February
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The first review of the Gratia Placenti anthology is out. Dark Scribe Magazine gives us a very favorable notice Concluding the anthology is Mary Robinette Kowal’s futuristic “Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the tale of Tuyet, a cleaning woman working on a space station hoping to earn enough money to buy her ailing son a new set
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A Writer’s Vanity – Gratia Placenti available for pre-orders Date of Publication: December 1st, 2007 Hardcover only available via pre-order Special TPB pre-order price of $12.95 This is the much anticipated follow up to the Stoker nominated featured writer anthology Aegri Somnia. Gratia Placenti translated means “for the sake of pleasing.†13 of the most
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I thought you might be curious to know how it ended up… Neil says: The three covers in the poll were presented in chronological order and represent a sampling of our favorites. During the 24 hour period prior to the poll, there was a lot of discussion about color, framing, fonts, and such. I have
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I’m doing the cover design for Realms, the anthology of Clarkesworld Magazine. There is a poll to see which of the three versions people respond to most. Please hop over to the Wyrm Publishing webpage and cast your vote. Which one do you most want to read? Cover 1 Cover 2 Cover 3
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Today I made a wing, proofread, designed an anthology cover, wrote, edited and did laundry. Details on some of those activities when I am not aching with the need for sleep.
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Today was a really wonderful day. We went to pick up a tansu chest that replaces the dressers we had in our bedroom. Our goal is to only have furniture that we both like. There are a couple of exceptions for sentimental reasons, but very few. After that, we biked down to the farmers market.
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Prime Codex is for sale! And you have multiple reasons to want a copy. I’ve sort of kept mum about one of them, I realize. You already know that my story, “Rampion” appears in the anthology. But there’s this other thing I forgot to mention. After I sold them “Rampion,” I had one of those
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The Table of Contents for the Best of Apex 2006 anthology is out. The list is final. The decision has been made. We are publishing the following stories in this year’s Best of Apex 2006 collection. Blood Baby – Jennifer Pelland The Queen of Stars – Bryn Sparks That Old Sandlands Fever – Douglas F.
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Jay Lake mentioned the Anthology of New Weird, which has a very cool clockwork bug on the cover. That bug is made by Insect Labs, which combines antique clockwork parts and actual bugs to create confections of neo-victorian clockwork. There are also some “higher tech” ones with LEDs. These are very, very cool. Go check
I just found out that the Doctor Who anthology I’m in has been officially announced on the Big Finnish website. Doctor Who: Destination Prague is available for pre-orders and will come out in March, 2007. The cover image isn’t up yet, but Steven Savile, editor, says that it should be out any day now. I’ll
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