Subterranean has started posting my Lovecraftian/industrial dark fantasy “Her Deepness” – the first part is here. I realize many people may not want to read it until it’s up in its entirety, so I’ll post again when parts two and three are online.
Also: yes, I know many people will not want to read it because it’s 1) too long; 2) too depressing and dark; or 3) too long, depressing and dark. That’s fine, I don’t have a problem with that. Just, you know – consider this your warning that it’s long, depressing and dark.
You know what that means.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Last month I bought a Blue Snowball microphone. I haven’t played around with it that much, as I’ve been working on other things and figured I’d get to posting audio files of stories at a later date, but now I suddenly find I need to get up to speed (for reasons I’ll reveal when I’m able to). What I really need is advice as to what the best software would be to use with the mic – I currently have Audacity, but it’s rather bewildering to use. FYI, I don’t mind paying for software – freeware isn’t a priority as much as ease of use for a beginner and clear instructions as to how to make a basic audio file, one that can be opened easily by anyone who wants to listen to it. I know a number of you already podcast and make audio files, but I thought I’d just open this up to the general public, so I can get as many responses as possible (which will be like three, lol, yeah, I know). Much thanks in advance for any advice/tips you all can give me.
And in case you’re wondering – yes, I bought a pop filter, too.
Friday, February 12, 2010
A few more changes – comments are no longer moderated. However, I still can’t figure out how to thread them like Livejournal via a “reply” link, because I’m an idiot. Yet, I did manage to change my avatar from a cartoony monster to a photo of my face. Some will say that there’s no discernible difference. Alright, yes! So?
I also put up a Free Fiction page. Right now it’s only linking to stories that have been published online. Over the weekend I’ll start putting up pdfs of them and a few others that sort of, er, disappeared with publication. No, I will not be putting my erotica online – that’s all being saved for the anthology. I don’t need the hassle, anyway.
And, I changed my bibliography around, grouping fiction by type (novella, novelette, etc.), rather than listing by publication date. In the groups, it becomes very apparent how very little I’ve published – a single list looks all nice and big, but the smaller groups tell me that in seven years of writing, I’ve done squat. I know, I know – it’s no indicator of how many words I’ve written, just how many I’ve published. Still, though. Seven years and I haven’t written a lot of publishable words. Blerg.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Just a test to see if this cross-posts to Livejournal.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
1) No more old website. It was time for something new, so the entire site is now WordPress. Yes, it’s very, very plain. That may change in the future, but for now, this is all I want or need. And honestly, I like the dark text against the light background, as opposed to how it was before. I’m getting old, you know – my eyes need all the help they can get.
2) Yes, comments are back on – they’ll be moderated for the time being.
3) In the next week, I hope to figure out how to post these entries over to my Livejournal, thus eliminating the need for me to ever go over there again, except for the occasional comment on friends’ posts. Nothing against Livejournal – I just don’t go over there much anymore. I’m also working on reducing some of the time I spend participating in all this so-called “required” social media. It works for some writers to be everywhere online (it works very well, I’ve seen), but it hasn’t for me. Which is fine. I’m something of a loner in real life, and I like it that way, so it stands to reason that I’d be something of the same online.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
All of you coming from a certain spammer site in Asia and the Oceanic regions: kindly fuck off. There’s nothing here for you.
Those of you from the Los Angeles area who are still roaming this site (and all my other websites) from late October, still looking for some bit of gossip: kindly fuck off. There’s nothing here for you.
For the record: this website is a very dry and matter-of-fact catalog of my writing career and various small accomplishments, and nothing else. There will never be anything else, anything personal and true, here, or anywhere else.
Get it? Good.
Let’s not speak of last year, shall we? Yes, let’s not.
1) I’m about 38,000 words into the novel, and according to my schedule I’ll be finished at the end of March. After that, there’ll be two novellas to work on, and then… I’ll start a second novel. This is going to be a story/novelette-free year this year. I’ll talk about this in-depth in another post: the short version is, it’s time to have a novel out in the world – long overdue, actually.
2) I’ve just (as of about 30 minutes ago!) joined SFWA, as an Active Member. For those who are curious, my three qualifying stories are:
** Take Your Daughters to Work – originally published in Subterranean Magazine in 2006, and now online as a reprint at Apex
** The Four Hundred Thousand, published online at Subterranean in 2007
** “Her Deepness”, a 21,000 word dark fantasy/horror novella, which will be published in the winter 2010 issue of Subterranean Online (sometime in late January, I’m thinking)
3) I have news regarding a certain workshop, which I will post at a later date, when I’m allowed. (I think I might already be allowed, I just have to confirm.)
That is all for now. See? This year is SO MUCH BETTER already – eeeeeexcellent.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Tomorrow I’ll be in Philly with Steve Berman -first to make a brief stop at Philcon, then to Giovanni’s Room Read-a-thon fundraiser, where I’ll be reading from “The Engine of Desire”. Hopefully no one will throw oranges at me. Cheese is fine – you can throw cheese. Soft cheese. And small crackers. And maybe a few grapes.
In other news, I have FINALLY finished the novelette I’ve been working on for about a hundred thousand years now. I plan on sending it out by the end of November. And then it’s back to working on the novel (which is hovering at around 17,000 words). And there will be no more novelettes or novellas or short stories until the fucker is finished. I plan on finishing in February – of next year, not a hundred thousand years from now. Although, you never know.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009