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Go vote for me AGAIN.
Online magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is doing a reader poll to determine which stories get included in their yearly anthology. My short story "A Bounty Split Three Ways" has made it to the second round of voting. I really appreciate everyone's support.
But because nothing is ever simple, second-round voting requires you to be on FaceBook:
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Go vote for me.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the online magazine that published my short story "A Bounty Split Three Ways," is doing a reader poll to determine which stories get included in their yearly hardcover anthology.
The first round of voting is taking place on the new BCS website, in this post: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2012/07/30/reader-poll-for- ( Read more... ) -
I predict the winners at the 2011-2012 Oscars
Let's do this thing! I've ranked every movie by its likelihood to win. In categories in which I've seen 4 or more of the nominees, I've also ranked them by how I would vote.
* indicates a movie I've seen.
** indicates a category in which I've seen ALL the nominees.
ADDED 2-27-2012: Actual winners are underscored.
BEST PICTURE ** - Likelihood to win:
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I predict the 2011 Oscar nominees AFTER looking at the Guild Nominations
Now I'm making all my predictions after having looked at the yearly nominations put out by the Producers Guild of America (PGA), the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the Art Director & Set Designers Guild, the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), the American Cinema Editors ( Read more... ) -
I predict the 2011 Oscar nominees WITHOUT looking at Guild Nominations
Everybody knows that the various filmmaking Guilds predict the Oscar nominations with such accuracy that they suck the fun out of make Oscar predictions. And by "everybody knows" I mean I only figured that out about a year ago.
So this year I'm doing two sets of Oscar nominee predictions: one BEFORE I look at the Guild nominations, and one AFTER I ( Read more... ) -
Predicting 2011-2012 Golden Globe Winners
Here's how things are shaping up for the Oscars for Best Picture:
1 - "The Artist"*
2 - "The Descendants"*
3 - "Hugo"*
4 - "War Horse"
5 - "Midnight in Paris"*
6 - "The Help"*
7 - "The Tree of Life"*
8 - "Moneyball"
9 - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
10 - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"*
11 - "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"*
12 - "Drive"*
13 - "The Ides of ( Read more... ) -
Things I accomplished in 2010 and 2011
To give my life shape and structure so it's not just a stream of recollections running together -- and to feel better about myself -- here's a quick list of things that I got done in 2011. And because I was so busy I never got around to it, I'm also including the things I accomplished in 2010.
I'll be using my "Things I accomplished in 2009" blog ( Read more... ) -
Golden Globes 2011-2012
I like the Oscars and other year-end movie award extravaganzas. They're like sports for the lazy and uncoordinated, or politics for the jaded. The Golden Globes have 10 (or sometimes 11) slots for Best Picture, and the Oscars now have 5-10 slots. This year's big players seem to be shaping up as the following 11:
1 - "The Artist"
2 - "The ( Read more... ) -
Semi-finalist in 3rd Quarter Writers of the Future contest
Results are here, plain as purple crayon. My short "Painter" ranks in roughly the Top 21 out of . . . well, they don't say how many, but there are a total of 100 winners, finalists, semi-finalists, and honorable mentions.
The backbone of the judging process is sci-fi writer K.D. Wentworth, who will be sending me a critique of "Painter" in the not- ( Read more... )
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