Later this summer I’m going to start with my official SFWA duties and I need to simplify my schedule before then. Step one: Ask someone to help with layout duties for Shimmer. Job Description: Layout stories to conform to an existing template. Adjust for widows and orphans. Confer with art director on art placement. Time […]
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Yesterday, while working at the theater, I ran to an internet cafe so I could check on the status of a prop I’d ordered. Two things popped up in my email. 1. Your account has been suspended. 2. An IM from Neil Clarke asking if I’d like to sell him “Clockwork Chickadee.” So, while I’m
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Things I say I’m moving back to Shimmer land. Screw the gods. Just be sure you aren’t screwing when the actors get there. Can I get a stiffer rod? I can retain his rods if I hold them between my pelvis and his head May I touch your dead animal head? He couldn’t get it
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This is Shimmer’s first review at The Fix and so far I’m pleased. It’s nice to have another short fiction review venue, especially one that doesn’t pull punches. Save for the first story, which was written based on the cover illustration, the art and the stories they inspired are printed together. Unfortunately, this means the
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Today is the last day to get your submissions in for Shimmer’s Clockwork Jungle Book special issue. This is going to be a spectacular issue. Just wait until you see the art… So, hurry. Finish that story and submit.
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So, that box the post office tried to deliver yesterday wasn’t Shimmer. It contained my contributor copies The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume two. Keen! I want to give a shout out Mike Munsil, who created Liberty Hall Writers, an online group that does weekly flash challenges. My story, “Evil Robot Monkey” came
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I arrived home today to a flurry of compliments about the art issue of Shimmer and a slip from the post office saying that they were sorry they’d missed me. Curses! Now I must wait still longer to see this issue. Sure, sure… I’ve been looking at the galleys and such, but it’s different when
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Coming February 20! For this issue, the art comes first. We selected art, and then invited some Shimmery favorites to write stories inspired by the images. Our cover image is Penny’s Grave, by award-winning artist John Picacio; we used it as the trigger for a contest at the Liberty Hall Writer’s Workshop. The winning story
Swing by Shimmer and enjoy the .pdf of our 2007 Holiday Bonus Story, “What Child is This I Asked the Midnight Clear” by Ken Scholes.
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Still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Look no further! Subscribe to Shimmer by January 10, and you’ll get 4 issues of terrific new speculative fiction and art for only $17.00 (plus postage). We’re going to raise our rates then, so this is your last chance to subscribe at this price. Bonus: We asked Shimmer
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Looking for a writing challenge? Look no further. Shimmer is pleased to announce The Clockwork Jungle Book. Think steampunk animal parables! It’s a special double-length issue, guest-edited by George Mann of Solaris Books, scheduled for Autumn 2008. Now accepting submissions. Read the guidelines for more details.
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Grasping for the Wind has a review of the Shimmer Pirate Issue. The highlight for me was, of course, this: The illustrations throughout this issue were very well done. They had detail and connected very well with the stories. The cover was appropriate and appealing, with a simple graphic design that grabbed the eye without
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Given the recent conversation sparked by GUD’s poll which is exploring the ratio of writers to readers of short fiction, I found this article in Wired News very interesting. A small press, growing? How could it be? Against market trends, Dzanc Books is a small publisher poised to succeed, hiring staff and expanding quickly. And
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I got on the train with no further mishaps and was rewarded by getting to sit next to the lovely and talented Andrea Kail on my way up. Granted, I spent about half the trip sleeping, but the conversation prior to that was great. It was hard to cross the lobby without running into someone
Today started with me sleeping through my alarm, though waking up in enough time to make the 8:15 train to Saratoga if I hurried. I ran out the door, struggling along with pounds of Shimmer magazines in my backpack, and came down to the steps of the subway station just as the train I needed
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