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Monthly Archives: May 2007

“The Four Hundred Thousand” has sold…

…to Subterranean Magazine. It’ll be published this summer in their online edition. I’m very pleased about this, because it means that once again I’ll have online fiction that I can point people to when they ask for it. FYI, this is my second sale to Subterranean – I think my writing is a good fit [...]

Submissions

Today I sent off a slew of projects to various markets – a story to Subterranean Magazine, a dark fantasy prose poem to Mythic Delirium, and a shorter sf poem to Abyss & Apex. Yes, I write poetry. Actually, I’ve been writing prose poetry ever since high school, and it wasn’t just an angsty goth/punk [...]

Summing up the weekend

Despite an onslaught of insects (ants and spiders), and some slight noise of a new person moving in upstairs, the mini-Clarion was largely successful. I managed to crank out a small but respectable amount, and the wordcount now stands at: It’s not as much as I wanted, but I tend to not beat myself over [...]

Inching forward

Storm over Manhattan 2 Originally uploaded by Livia Llewellyn. Wednesday was lost due to my going to KGB to see Sarah Langan and John Crowley read from their new novels – I think that’s a pretty good excuse for not writing. The best part of the evening was watching Nick Kaufmann’s eyes bug out when [...]

Excel is my Bitch

I have a massive, massive spreadsheet that I take everywhere with me on a little memory stick. It has, among many other numerous things, a page devoted entirely to the word output of each and every one of my projects in progress. Right now, the little group of cells that make up the chart for [...]

Mini-Clarion

So, let’s try this one more time: after scrapping everything I previously wrote on the “secret project”, I spent a week (while on a business trip in Sarasota) researching and just generally stewing over a new direction. And now I have to begin again. However, I’m horribly, horribly behind – so I’ve decided to do [...]