On The Slush God Speaketh he says that they have 50 copies of Fantasy and Science Fiction to give away to folks who do a promotional blog about it. Now, I read the magazine in pdf and it’s been years since I’ve had a genuine print copy in my hand. So although I don’t need […]
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Ah youth. Peter knocked on our door at 8:00 to let us know that Santa had come–no, more accurately, to let us know that it was time for him to open his presents. I have to give him credit for letting us sleep past 8:00, I suppose. When all the gifts were opened, actually, by
Rob and I made it safely to Chattanooga last night. My parents have already had us busy with Christmas preparations. Today, Rob and I went for a walk up to the log house to see the preparations for moving it. I took a basket to cut greenery for the mantle down at Woodthrush Woods. I
I’ve picked up a gig building a new set of puppets for the Portland chapter of Kids on the Block, which wants to upgrade the kind of puppets they use. I’ve begun the construction process. We started with drawings and I’ve made clay sculptures of those. For the next step, I cover the clay sculptures
On the way back from Seattle, Rob, who knows what I like, took me to the Boeing Surplus Store. Oh my. The tools, the scrap titanium, the sheer volume of random oddities. It was glorious. I picked up a roll of reflective tape, some non-skid tread for our back steps, a ream of paper, and
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I’m very excited. I just got my first email from Susan Groppi for All Star Stories: Twenty Epics. Although this is my fourth sale the first three were all to the same magazine and there was no editorial process. I turned it in, they paid me and printed it. This looks like it will have
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Rob and I drove to Atlanta today with no trouble. My flight boarded on time and then sat for an hour and a half on the pavement. Why? Because I was on board. Seriously though, when it landed it had kicked a rock up against a wing and dented a flap. It apparently was nothing
I am dancing in circles because I just wrote the last chapter of my novel! I will use an overabundance of exclamation marks in an effort to express my excitement. Hurrah! It is 59,526 words, thirty-one chapters or 331 pages long depending on how you want to count it. I know have much proof-reading ahead
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I won’t bother you with a picture of my labors. These boards are so hard to scrape because they tend to splinter. On the other boards, the paper releases and flakes or slides off. On these, little slivers of wood rise up with each movement I make. It is very frustrating. But only three boards
I just caught my floor on fire. Well, okay. That’s a little bit of an exaggeration. A piece of the paper that’s glued to the pantry floor ignited to a flame like a birthday candle. I whacked it with my paint scraper and it went out. I’ve made little embers glow before but this was
Rob went down to a WRW rehearsal today, so I took advantage of the time alone to scrape tar paper off the floor in the pantry. It’s fairly stinky so I don’t like doing it when he’s in the house. I wear a respirator while I’m working; asking him to wear one around the house
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The plywood and vinyl are out of the house! Now I just have to peel all the tar paper off the floor.
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I took yesterday off from the pantry because my hands were tired from the pounding. Now, it may not look like much, but I can peel up almost the whole floor at this point. The vinyl is put down on a sheet of plywood; I drive 2x2s under the plywood (which is only held down
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I’m very proud to report that I have finally finished scraping the paint and tarpaper off of our kitchen floor. I’m off to call around to get quotes on refinishing it. And to nurse the small burn on my right hand from a close encounter with the heat gun. Important lesson boys and girl: remember
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Alright folks. I need people to read a short story and give me feedback before I send it off. I’ll put the first thirteen lines here, and if anyone wants to take a look drop me an email. It’s 1300 words long (about six pages) and my first stab at horror, (but there’s no blood