Snippets, a kids’ magazine run by the non-profit organization I volunteer at, needs only $344 $264 $129 by Sunday night to be funded! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whatcomyoungwriters/publish-talented-young-writers-in-whatcom-county Snippets provides kids with a chance to see what it’s like being a real writer. Some are given revision requests, and many are published. There’s even a reading & signing at [...]
Registration is still open for the 2013 Cascade Writers Workshop (July 25-28), a 4-day event in scenic Portland, OR, specializing in science fiction and fantasy writing. Guest speakers include agent Cameron McClure, editor Claire Eddy, publisher Patrick Swenson, editor and author Jennifer Brozek, publicist Jaym Gates and authors including Ken Scholes, J.A. Pitts, Nisi Shawl, [...]
I know no one probably cares how I write novels right now, since most of you have never seen one and these first-draft manuscripts I claim I have might as well be a crowd of tooth fairies I also say I have trapped in the attic. But some day, when I publish one and everyone [...]
Don’t even say it. I KNOW. I have a LOT of novels that I should go polish and send out before I write a new one. But it’s so shiny! And I’ll let you look at some of the sketchy, unfinished eyecandy, because since I can’t show you the other things I drew tonight (SEKRIT!), [...]
I wanted to share my conjecture about how Clarion West (and perhaps Clarion UCSD) puts together their classes, based entirely on my experience. The workshop is run by humans who have been doing this for a very long time. In fact, running the workshop is a bit like a long, slow workshop in how to [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2013
And the fourth of my contracts is in, so I may shriek merrily: Steve Berman accepted my story, “Midnight at the Feet of the Caryatides,” for the anthology Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe. “Midnight at the Feet of the Caryatides” is about courage, love, and revenge at a Victorian-ish boarding school [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
So far, 2013 has been good for me in the realm of short fiction: Podcastle accepted “My Dignity in Scars” (first seen in Strange Horizons, March 2012) for their fine podcast “Sinking Among Lilies” (first seen in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #92) was included in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2013 by Paula [...]
Monday, February 11, 2013
FINE, SEE, I AM POSTING. With friends like these, who can be a hermit? You know who you are.* Two of my published works (both free to read online) are eligible for the Nebulas, and nominations close this Friday, February 15th, 2013, at 11:59pm PST. “My Dignity in Scars” came out in Strange Horizons in [...]
Last year, Beneath Ceaseless Skies published my story “Sinking Among Lilies” in Issue #92. Recently, the 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List came out, with this story included! Since the rights have reverted to me, I thought this was a good time to experiment with the process of formatting and publishing something on my own at [...]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and [...]
