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Pitch-a-Week the 27th: Scions of the Pallasite Throne
When asteroid mining magnate Roy Singleton declared himself “His Ducal Serene Highness Royal I, Grand Duke of 52 Europa,” the central Earth government saw it as one of dozens of publicity stunts the eccentric billionaire had undertaken in his career. As one of the first people to engage in large-scale exploitation of the Belt (and the first to make ( Read more... ) -
Begapalooza 2011...
... is on hold.
Cross your fingers, party people. -
Begapalooza 2011 in ten... nine... eight
Updates ( Read more... ) -
Bits and bobs and this and that
So. Alive, still.
- I've gotten a bite. "Make Him Talk" is going to be part of the October issue of Postscripts to Darkness, a quarterly horror anthology out of Ottawa. Thus, my Canuckistani brothers and sisters can and should go to their local book or magazine outlet in October and loudly request a copy of the magazine, declaring it the New ( Read more... ) -
Straight out the projects!
I'm leaping headfirst into a whole new world of literary flailing. Exciting stuff ( Read more... ) -
Pitch-a-Week Part 27: Iron City
Note: I'm very, very interested in failing cities in fiction, and I'm fascinated with the schizoid nature of Gotham City. Gotham as it stands is simultaneously a sick, spooky and tough town. I pitched a stricly sick town with La Roche, Louisiana. Here's a strictly tough town... the sort of place where Commissioner Gordon might've sold Batman out in ( Read more... ) -
A few notes
First and most importantly, I'm working on a screenplay. Saw a solicitation asking for stories with a budget of $300,000 or less in which a fairy's the main character, so I'm going to see whether my fairies and their fairies are anything like each other.
Second, one of my rare forays into politics:
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Still alive
I've decided to produce, rather than just pitch. So... what I'm working on:
- Savage Worlds supplement for The Horse Latitudes which is looking interesting. It's worth it just for my aquaforms... deep-water Merrows and softly glowing (and venomous) Sirens. And, of course, bastard dolphins as NPCs. Pretty much entirely for personal use, but I hope ( Read more... ) -
Pitch-a-Week Part 26: Make Me Wanna Holler
http://pitchaweek.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/pitch-a-week-part-26-make-me-wanna-holler/
A preface: I never bought into the "fear and loathing of mutantkind" angle with the X-Men. If four good looking, middle to upper-class white kids ( Read more... )