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Please take a seat in the shaming room...
First update in a while... couldn't let this one go by.
Originally posted by denorios at Please take a seat in the shaming room...
Since a number of US newspapers have refused to republish the latest Doonesbury cartoon strip which highlights the way Republicans are attempting to undermine a woman's right to choose, I feel it's important to make sure the ( Read more... ) -
Game Review: Duke Nukem Forever
I've had a love affair with video games from a very early age; I was the first kid on my block to give away the secret of being able to deal two shots at once on the Atari 2600 version of Space Invaders (hold down the reset button as you power the game up, then release), and we've done a lazy, happy dance ever since. My tastes have changed over ( Read more... ) -
So Say We All
I'm not going to lie to you; I'm very happy to be seeing 2011 in my rear view mirror. There were some good things about the year, but overall, I feel like it was an exercise in slamming my head a doorframe repeatedly, followed up by a luxurious bath. Moments of good stuff, but a lot of painful slogging was required to get to them.
Keeping this in ( Read more... ) -
Looky Looky... I Live!
Been a while since my last update. I seem to say that a lot. Oh well... here's what's going on in my life.
1) Spells & Swashbucklers. It's official; I have the pole position in this upcoming anthology, and I am pretty damned excited. Going first in a collection is a position of honor, and I think it's pretty awesome that my first published ( Read more... ) -
Writing 101 -- Graveyard Blues
Review time in the old corral. Bear with me, folks. I promise it's all going somewhere.
I've been fortunate enough over the years to have completed many novels; seventeen, to be exact. Some of them have turned out better than others, to be sure, but I have good memories associated with all of them. When I'm working straight through on a project ( Read more... ) -
Writing 101 -- How To Submit (Gracefully)
On Monday I fired up the old submission machine, aka my trusty Alienware laptop, and sent off some query letters/proposals for both Lottery Odds and Salvation. I was very happy as I did this; there's always that little thrill as you send something off, knowing that this could be the one that finally bears fruit. I considered them carefully, these ( Read more... ) -
You're Not Dead?
Apparently not.
All right, quick rundown. I promise I will do a more in-depth entry in the future about the things I am going to quickly go through, but for the moment, here's what's been going on in my corner of the Net.
1) Roller Derby. I'm really enjoying it, even though it is kicking my ass something fierce. I've noticed body changes ( Read more... ) -
Big Doings...
Over the course of my writing career, I have reinvented myself a number of times; the trick has been being able to do so without losing the essentiality of what it is that I write about. You can be in different arenas, but there is a very natural tendency to bend one's voice in order to make what you're writing about fit in the new genre that you ( Read more... ) -
Hello LJ, My Old Friend...
About a month and a half since I made my last public update. Yeeeeesh. Okay, what's been going on since then?
1) Kneeling Before Zod. I have been submitting, and submitting, and submitting again. The two main horses are (of course) Salvation and Lottery Odds, and I have been flogging those two literary equines for everything they are worth. I' ( Read more... ) -
22... 23... 24 (BZZZZZZT)
The shot clock has expired on Lottery Odds, so after some Googling, it has been sent out once again.
As you were.