[personal|publishing] Updatery of this and that
Walked this morning, as the weather was up in the high 20s. An old moon rode low in the eastern sky, accompanied by Venus looking particularly bright. Rabbits rustled among the frozen leaves along the...
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[books|publishing] Tales for Canterbury
New Zealand’s Christchurch experienced a debilitating earthquake on February 22, 2011. Since then, editors Cassie Hart and Anna Caro have done an amazing job of pulling together Tales for Canterbury,...
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[personal|publishing] Things are good some days
Interesting day yesterday in my publishing life. Almost none of which I can actually announce yet. Got some good news about one of my books. Finished and submitted Sekrit Projekt Revised and submitted...
View Article[publishing] R.I.P. Marty Greenberg
Various sources report that editor Martin H. Greenberg passed away yesterday, roughly while the Locus Awards were going on. He published me a lot, and has been a great influence on the life of...
View Article[publishing] Strange Horizons fund drive
Signal boost, and, well, because they’re worth it Long-time online magazine Strange Horizons is having their annual fund drive once more. They’ve always relied on crowdfunding to pay pro rates, and...
View Article[publishing] Out of contract blues
Now I’m going to complain about something that will probably irk some of the aspiring writers who read this blog. It’s one of those established writer problems that can look ridiculous from the...
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[publishing] The Fathomless Abyss
So I’m part of this shared world project being run by Phil Athans and Mel Odom. It’s called The Fathomless Abyss, and is a pretty neat little deal. Lots of details on the world and the publishing...
View Article[publishing|cancer] Some good news, and some career thoughts
First of all, my recent Asimov’s steampunk lost colony religious novella, “The Stars Do Not Lie”, has been acquired by Gardner Dozois for next year’s edition of Year’s Best Science Fiction. I am quite...
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[publishing] More conversations with a copy editor
A while back, I had some interesting email exchanges with Anne Zanoni, the copy editor who worked on my single-title novella Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh for publisher Prime Books. (The book is...
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[food|publishing] The archive party
Yesterday we had an archive party. Friends came over to help prep and box the bulk of my paper archives for Lynne Thomas, the curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois...
View Article[publishing] 2013 Bibliography
I may have missed one or two things, but here is my 2013 fiction bibliography, for your information, and by request, for award consideration. As my illness slows me down, this grows ever thinner of...
View Article[publishing|repost] 2013 bibliography for award consideration
I may have missed one or two things, but here is my 2013 fiction bibliography, for your information, and by request, for award consideration. As my illness slows me down, this grows ever thinner of...
View Article[publishing] METAtropolis: Greenspace nominated for an Audie
I am pleased to note that METAtropolis: Greenspace has been nominated for an Audie for best original work. That is the audiobook industry’s highest award, comparable to the Hugo or the Oscar. This is...
View Article[personal|publishing] Sometimes they write letters
Yesterday I received one of those emails that a writer gets once or twice in a lifetime. A letter that made every hour of struggle and ounce of sacrifice and year of labor in building my writing career...
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[books|publishing] Cover Reveal for Last Plane to Heaven
Read all about it at tor.com. Cover design by Peter Lutjen, image © 2014 Tor Books.
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