I've defected over to blogspot, where I write boring posts about books and writing.

I've got a new story up at Every Day Fiction, which is a new online magazine with a new flash story added every morning.  I've got another story coming up there next month, too. :)

SFWA is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which is supposed to be a professional organization for specfic writers. It's not a particularly big organization (wikipedia says it has about 1,500 members currently), nor a very influential one (although it does host the excellent Writer Beware site).  In 2003 when SFWA put into place ( Read more... )

Nathan Bransford, a literary agent whose blog I read obsessively and who I wish was my agent because he's terribly funny and if he was my agent I could call him up whenever I liked and get him to say something witty--as I say, Nathan Bransford recently posted about networking. He says there's no longer an excuse for writers to be poor networkers, ( Read more... )

I wish I'd been paying more attention--I got these three in only a few minutes of listening to conversations around me when I got back from a quick trip to Tennessee (I drove Mom home and then flew back ( Read more... )

Down at the bottom I also explain the alarm clock bird, if you're patient enough to read that far. But first....

This morning the editor of Staffs & Starships, where I have a story in the inaugural issue, very kindly sent out a .pdf version to all the authors ahead of the printed copy we're getting later. Of course you should go buy a copy. I ( Read more... )

I just got home from seeing Weird Al Yankovic live!  I saw him a few years ago so when I heard he was coming to Pittsburgh I had to go.  I took my brother, who told me he hadn't gone to a concert since I dragged him to see Queensryche in 1991.  We went early and walked around trying to find someplace to eat that was open, and ended up at a little ( Read more... )

I made a lot of new year's resolution this year. Now that we're halfway through the year it's time for me to evaluate how I'm doing.

Saturdays were going to be "story Saturdays" where I spent time working on short fiction. Instead, Saturdays have sort of become "play tower defense and then go paint a room of the house." I've painted the kitchen, ( Read more... )

I think one of my neighbors shot someone in the yard. The neighborhood is swarming with cops and I saw a gurney being wheeled up. I saw one arrest and the cops seem to be looking for someone else. And I heard the gunshot earlier and thought it was a big firecracker, the kind that blow people's fingers off ( Read more... )

Yeah, okay. I just discovered lolcats last night. Now I'm addicted.

I got hooked via Making Light, an excellent and entertaining site anyway, and spent most of last evening reading (and writing) lolcat/l33tspeak poetry and then tracking down all the macro cats I could find, and laughing hysterically. The more you read, the funnier it all gets ( Read more... )