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Tangent Online – Twenty Epics edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi

September 29, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 6 Comments

Another Twenty Epics review, this time at Tangent Online My favorite story in this collection is “Bound Man” by Mary Robinette Kowal. Ripped from the past while playing with her two children in her courtyard, legendary “warrior-god” Li Reiko finds herself six-thousand years in the future where she has been summoned to slay the Troll […]

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The Slush God Speaketh: Pirates say Arrr!

September 29, 2006 / Journal, Writing

Take note, for those of you planning to submit to Shimmer’s pirate issue, of what the Slush God says on his blog. Pirates say “Arrr!”, damn it: no “gh.” “Argh!” is a cry of frustration (it is, also apparently a fungeoid esoteric programming language). I keep seeing this error over and over, and as the

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Sold! – “Chrysalis” to Aoife’s Kiss

September 28, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 4 Comments

I got word this morning that Aoife’s Kiss would like to buy “Chrysalis.” I am very happy that this story has found a home. Chrysalis : The Husiths undergo Chrysalis to become an adult, but the enzymes involved in the process scramble their memories. As a culture, they are obsessed with documenting their pupaehood, which

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How is the raffle going?

September 27, 2006 / Journal, Writing

Well. Extremely well. In fact, I think I just impressed my mother who is a fund-raising goddess. I tallied what has come in so far and shared the numbers with Jason. As of this posting, the raffle has made $1828.00. Jason did not get the 200 subscriptions he was looking for, but your raffle ticket

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Strange Horizons Reviews: Twenty Epics

September 25, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 3 Comments

Check out the Strange Horizons Review of Twenty Epics, edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi. “Most successful is “Bound Man,” Mary Robinette Kowal’s stark re-humanization of the hero archetype. When the soldier-priest HalldÃ³r, hard-pressed by foes, chants the spell to summon the legendary warrior Li Reiko, he has no idea that he is

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Look! A banner.

September 23, 2006 / Journal, Writing

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Michele Lee and the Road to Print reviews Apex Issue 6

September 23, 2006 / Journal, Writing

I spotted this review on Michele Lee and the Road to Print. Iâ€™m reluctant to say that Cerbo en Vitra ujo by Mary Robinette Kowal is my favorite story. I think perhaps to know for sure Iâ€™d had to read it again and Iâ€™m not planning to do that anytime soon. Cerbo sunk its scalpels

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Apex Fundraiser

September 22, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 2 Comments

Here’s another way you can support Apex Digest. There’s old-fashioned raffle with amazing prizes at http://saveapex.maryrobinettekowal.com. You can buy a ticket to put your name in the hat to win autographed copies of books, art, video and other strange goodies. Tickets are a dollar each. That’s nothing, right? You can afford that. On Friday, September

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A Writer’s Vanity – Hunting for Hubris

September 21, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 1 Comment

Jason Sizemore, at Apex Digest, has been very supportive of me and of Shimmer. This was on his blog today. A Writer’s Vanity – Hunting for Hubris This is my own personal horror story. In it, I play the guy whose pride won’t let him ask for help when he sees that he needs it.

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Extension and rewrite request

September 19, 2006 / Journal, Writing

I got a rewrite request for one of my stories so I’m going to take a break from the Good Housekeeping novel. I’m giving myself today and tomorrow off, which will push my self-imposed deadline from the 20th to the 22nd.

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“This Little Pig”, update

September 18, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 2 Comments

I got an email today from Debby Vetter at CICADA talking about the edits of my story, “This Little Pig.” In the body of the email was this line: We’re hoping to get your story into the January/February issue of CICADA… Yay! Last week, I saw an interview with her which said that the January/February

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Sunny Day = Late Night

September 17, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 4 Comments

38,506 / 50,000(76.0%) 2446 words in two hours. I spent the day playing with Rob and stayed up ridiculously late to write. Well, and then I was also seduced by Captain Future and Danger Planet, which should really have an exclamation point in the title. First: In the center of the rocky ground, the earth

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Backsliding

September 16, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 2 Comments

Well, I had to delete 1700 words yesterday, because I realized that I had taken two different wrong turns in the plot. The interesting thing with both of them is that in both cases I was clearly stalling while I tried to figure out what happened next. Much earlier in the process, I had made

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Sentences for the word pithy

September 16, 2006 / Journal, Writing / 2 Comments

I saw a variant of this on Deanna Hoak’s blog and thought it looked like fun. I went to my webstats and looked at the search terms people use to find my website. In other words, these are actual phrases people have typed in, and then clicked through to get to my site. Looking at

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A Writer’s Vanity – Who’s the prettiest?

September 15, 2006 / Journal, Writing

Oh my. Jason Sizemore is running a poll about the Apex issue six stories of which my “Cerbo en Vitro ujo” is one. The comments make me chuckle because everytime someone compliments a story it’s with phrases that would be perjorative if it weren’t about horror. Who knew that disturbing people was so much fun?

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