Hey, I thought you might be interested in checking out my art in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest‘s eighth issue. I illustrated “A Place of Snow Angels” by Matt Wallace. I say illustrated, this is almost all digital and the compositing of four different photographs. The largest is one I took of the glacial […]
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I have zero memory of this one. What makes me laugh about this is that right now I’m designing The Arabian Nights for McCarter Theater and they just finished building a show called Lookingglass Alice. Ah…when worlds collide. How did my fifteen year old self know? Sinbad’s Adventures in Lewis Carrol’s Land Sinbad was in
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I enjoy reading PuppetVision Blog and there’s this post today which makes me think about the commonalities between design and fiction. I want to scream at my monitor every time I read about someone wanting to do their own take on Sesame Street or The Muppet Show. While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
The mailman just knocked on the door with a fat envelope from Carus Publishing. Inside were six beautiful copies of Cicada, with my story, “This Little Pig” inside. I used to read Cicada, when I was in the right age group. Can you imagine how exciting this is for me? Not only was this a
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I biked down to Hawthorne to have lunch with Jay Lake, so that he could sign the limited edition chapbooks of his story Christmas Season. The wind was pretty ferocious and it was like biking uphill the whole way there, which was frustrating, since that’s the downhill direction. By the time I got home, two
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It’s not too late to get a subscription to Shimmer so you can have a copy of Jay Lake’s limited edition, signed chapbook. We’ve only printed sixty-six of these. You know you want to hold that glossy color cover and turn the lovely archival quality recycled paper interior pages. Think about settling into a chair
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The other day, a mysterious package appeared at my doorstep. Suspicious, I kicked it a few times. Nothing happened. I bent over, took a look at the return mailing address and it was from one “Mary Robinette Kowal.” Perhaps you’re curious about what’s inside.
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Woo-hoo! Happy dancing and rejoicing abounds! I just got word that I sold “For Solo Cello, op. 12” to Cosmos. This is my third pro-sale! The story comes out in their February/March issue. The story originated as part of a flash challenge contest at Liberty Hall. It’s now about twice the length that it was.
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I’m having a ridiculously good time figuring out the seating chart for the dinner that Lady FitzCameron is throwing to celebrate the completion of the mural in her dining room. I collect etiquette books and every year throw a black-tie optional dinner party with place cards and everything. The rules for figuring out precedence or
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I just received my schedule for Orycon. Holy cow. At least I won’t have to make decisions about which panels to attend. Panel Start Panel End Panel Title Panel Location Panel Description Moderator in Bold Sun Nov 19 3:00:pm Sun Nov 19 4:00:pm How to Write About Something You Know Nothing About Salon A The
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Strange Horzions was my first pro-sale. It’s time for the Strange Horizons Fall 2006 Fund Drive so, what are you waiting for? Go donate. Since its founding in September 2000, Strange Horizons has brought you some of the most exciting and vibrant voices in the genre of speculative fiction. We believe speculative fiction is an
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Sometime around the beginning of September, I got an email from Jason Sizemore: Mari Adkins and I are releasing an anthology titled “Harlan County Horror” under the Apex Publications imprint. All stories will be set or based around Harlan, KY. There’s a rich mountain culture there, the Cumberland Gap,…and there’s also things like the Hatfields
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Rob and I headed down to the Kolaport today because I wanted to hit that booth that had the SF books again. I picked up some beauties all of which look like pulp, untill you start to pay attention to the author’s name. Exhibit One. The banner at the top says, “A Madcap Blonde and
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Okay. At some point, every SF story on the planet is going to hit some handwavium. You know the thing I’m talking about, that magic point where you just have to make stuff up in order to cover the gap between what is possible and what you think might be possible sometime in the future.
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Well, I closed the donations window tonight with over sixty raffle items. So those of you who were holding out until all the items were in, may start dropping tickets in the hats. You can stop by the site for details but one of the things I added is an audio recording by me. Meanwhile,
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