I finished this story tonight. It’s 1800 words of Icelandic ghost story. It’s in a password protected post, but it’s the usual password. Don’t know what that is? Drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. And here’s the teaser. In the lee of the Bægisa farm house, Guðrun watched the wind blowing through the […]
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Shortbits reviewed Clockwork Chickadee and closed with this line. This is a fun little steampunk parable whose apparent moral lesson (pride comes before the fall) is somewhat subverted by the cold, calculated nature of Chickadee’s schemes. What’s interesting to me is that I thought about putting an actual moral at the end, but decided not
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Coffee Sensibility: Part IV When my eyes fluttered open, a shock coursed through me that rivaled the strongest cup of Java. I found my head cradled on the lap of my manager, Mr. Purvis, duckwrangler508. Keith. “You?” He regarded me with tender eyes. “Did you never guess?” “Guess? How should I guess when I know
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Coffee Sensibility: Part III A thousand tortured thoughts flew through my mind as I waited in the vacant chatroom. Where was my beloved duckwrangler508? What if my reply had been lost in cyberspace? What if the address were wrong and he waited elsewhere, convinced I had spurned his attentions? What if a customer wanted coffee
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I bit my knuckle in dismay. How could I meet [email protected] for a chat in real time with my manager sitting in the café with me? And yet–how could I deny my longing to be with duckwrangler508? It had begun innocently enough. I subscribed to the newsgroup for a new inventory system, which my manager
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Having decided that the cellphone story was, in fact, dull, I’m going to reneg on my promise to finish it via email. It fails because my initial idea was for a high adventure serial, but that was in the scenario where I could send 1000 character texts instead of 160. Action sequences build no momentum
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This month, Clarkesworld magazine is offering my story, “Clockwork Chickadee,” as one of their two fiction offerings. Plus, “The Secret in the House of Smiles” by Paul Jessup, and non-fiction by Ekaterina Sedia, Jeff VanderMeer and Neil Clarke. The teaser: The clockwork chickadee was not as pretty as the nightingale. But she did not mind.
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So, I’d read about these cellphone novels in Japan and thought that it was completely insane to consider writing a novel on a phone. And then I was waiting for the train, my palm pilot was in the bottom of my bag with produce from the farmer’s market burying it, and I thought, “Why not?”
I managed to finish this story at WisCon. Yay! It’s 5800 words of urban fantasy. It’s in a password protected post, but it’s the usual password. Don’t know what that is? Drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. And here’s the teaser. Half-consciously, Kim put a hand up to cover her new nose ring.
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Clarkesworld does the very smart thing of making electronic advance review copies available for the magazine. Joe Sherry at Adventures in Reading reviewed “The Clockwork Chickadee” and includes what is my now my favorite compliment ever. The story is, in turn, playful and charming, well thought out and deliberate, and Kowal appears to have written
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Clarkesworld Magazine just posted a preview of the June cover art, which will have my story “Clockwork Chickadee” in it. I am thrilled to be sharing the issue with this creepy art by Eli Effenberger.
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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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SF Signal The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2 edited by George Mann and gives it an overall favorable rating. Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Evil Robot Monkey” is an affecting snapshot in the life of a chimp with an implant in his head that increases his intelligence. Unfortunately for him, that lands him in
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SF Signal does a feature, called Mind Meld, where they ask several different writers the same question. This weeks question asks Is the Short Fiction Market in Trouble? One of the many perennial arguments in the science fiction blogosphere centers on the health of the short fiction market, so we turned the Mind Meld microphone
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