Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The ToC and cover for Subterranean 6: – “The Long Dead Day” by Joe R. Lansdale- “Chartreuse Mansions: a Lucifer Jones Story” by Mike Resnick- “Zero Summer” by Caitlin R. Kiernan- “Take Your Daughter to Work” by Livia Llewellyn- “Finding Piper” by Cherie Priest- “Limerent” by Elizabeth Bear- “The Tenth Muse” by William Browning Spencer [...]
Thursday, October 26, 2006
I’ve been struggling with my annual ear and throat infection, the one I always get in that mysterious interim between summer and fall, when no one knows what to wear or if they should cover up or not. I’ve always called it “the fifth season”, because it’s not quite summer and not quite fall, yet [...]
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
I’ve been having a bit of a problem with the “brokeback erotica” story. I finished it, but it sucked. I’d done all the research, I poured over the vocabulary and the rodeo sites, I read up on my history of the American West. But when I wrote the story, it was crap. I could tell [...]
Thursday, October 19, 2006
I’ve finished the “Brokeback erotica” cowboy story. God knows if I’ve done what the editor’s looking for. I’m not sending it out right away – I want to hold onto it for a while and polish. It’s not due till November 15th, so there’s still time to obsess over it. Next up, through the end [...]
Saturday, October 14, 2006
It seems that my distress over working on potentially unmarketable novellas might have been a bit premature. I won’t go into the specific details – I can’t – but suffice to say, all may not be lost. Once I finish the cowboy story and send it off, I’ll start working on the detailed outline of [...]
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Last night I ripped apart my steampunk novelette, and worked a few of the characters and story elements into a synopsis for a novel. And the verdict is: I’m pleased with the result, enough that I’ve decided that this project, not my novellas, will be the next thing I work on. It’s going to be [...]
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
I’m finally sending out “The Four Hundred Thousand” today. I’ve been hanging onto it for close to two weeks now, obsessing over single words and punctuation marks. It’s ridiculous, but I always seem to do this. The thing with the submission process is that you have to accept a complete lack of control over your [...]
Good news from the submission front. That’s all I can say for now. That, and: YAY! EDIT: Got the go-ahead to post: “Jetsam”, the surreal story about taking out the trash – also known as “The Little Story That Got Trunked a Bajillion Times” – has been sold to Issue 4 of Sybil’s Garage, a [...]
In the past couple of days, a number of people at various online places (livejournal, myspace, flickr) have asked to read my work – or told me they “look forward to reading my work”. While on the one hand it’s flattering, on the other hand it’s frustrating. Clearly I can’t just point to the Blue [...]