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View ArticleLong Time, No Post
Poor blog is neglected blog. Glad it's not a spouse, child, or small animal. Or large animal, for that matter.The summer draws to a close pretty fast on this end, but the writing continues apace....
View ArticleCripes, Four Months between Posts?!?!
Such a Facebook sheep, I am.See most all y'all over there, but this blog has, by my own hand, become a haunt and haven for spambots.Anyhow, still working out the kinks on the novel. Had two stories...
View ArticleHola, Mis Amigos y Amigas.
Checking in and checking up. Had a long week. Haven't committed words to page yet on the novel, but that's on deck for the weekend.Kids are killing it in school. Abby might very well be entering...
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Just in Time for the Holidays: Writing
We have next week off for Thanksgiving, and just as I geared up to do a big push on the untitled Southern Arthuriana novel, I received a nice birthday gift from papaveria: the e-galleys for Old Souls...
View ArticlePopping In
Been a typically busy vacay week, but the family time has come a welcome thing. Fortunately, the kids haven't gotten on each others' nerves too much or ours. Always good, that.Heath has a business...
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Recent Writing News: Flash Fiction Sale to Kaleidotrope and Other Stuffery
Have had a couple of pieces over the years appear in Kaleidotrope. Fred Coppersmith has an interesting eye for pieces (not saying that about mine but others). I even met a LiveJournal...
View ArticleYeah, so . . .
Thin on the writing but fast and arrow-straight on the submittery this week. With the feast-for-famine of writing, and I've had a dry spell breaking for a few months now, it just reminds me that I did...
View ArticlePhilosophy and Bonding on a One-Mile Walk
The boy and I took a walk, and here are some of the conversations that emerged.Philosophy and Bonding on a One-Mile Walk, Part the First:Me: "If I have to, I'll shove you in the ditch to protect you....
View ArticleWhat? An Actual Post? OR Because Pride and Ego Are Synonyms for Failure of...
Wherein a *touch* of TMI follows (so delicate types needn't continue reading, but you will anyway) . . .The vast majority of sick days I ever take are for immediate family. Generally, I will tough it...
View ArticleAwards Season Post OR Pimpin' Ain't Easy
It's a short list, for anyone interested. "They Shall Falter Against the Stone I Become" in Issue 44 of Abyss & Apex.
View ArticleWriting and Walking with Borges
Sometimes it only takes a tidbit, a quote, to set off dynamite in ye olde imagination. Last night, Ennis Drake posted a quote from Borges. Now, I'm in the mood for some re-reading of Jorge Luis...
View ArticleAnthology News on Deck: Clarkesworld: Year Three
Because the magazine rocks, and the TOC rocks harder: http://neil-clarke.com/clarkesworld-year-three-ebook/. Always great to get one's work back out into the world, and in fine company.
View ArticleNon-Genre Acceptance News
Got news today that last summer's non-genre exercise, "Submitting the Abyss," a mixed martial arts experimental short story, found a home at http://thunderdomemag.com/ in their upcoming Bloody Knuckles...
View ArticleIn Which An Announcement Drops
Keeping this short and sweet due to many things, the least of which includes making sure I can function amid the excitement.I'm proud to announce that Kris O'Higgins of Scribe Agency will be...
View ArticleThat's a Wrap, Folks
Zero-draft done, this 17th day of February, 2013. Maybe in the loosest since, there's a novel there. A family saga. A contemporary retelling of part and parcel of Arthurian legend.It is a hot mess with...
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Grunt Work Cycle: Volume One: The Revisioning: A Rambling Not-Self-Analysis...
I thought back to an old post where bogwitch64 was curious about my writing process for the Southern Arthuriana novel. Now that zero-draft is done (and that's so loose a term it's pathetic: done for a...
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Grinding Along Means You Still Got Some Gears Left
The writing recently has planed off in good ways, but the challenges remain. The Short Story Collection: The TOC of Down These Secret Paths stands tighter with a more reasonable flow for the stories,...
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Popping in to Say, "Hello."
"Hello."There, that much is done!Been too long in these quiet halls of LiveJournal. Have some news to share: August 27, the mini-collection, Old Souls and the Grammar of Their Wanderings, goes live...
View ArticleLive Now from Papaveria Press: OLD SOULS AND THE GRAMMAR OF THEIR WANDERINGS
Follow the linkage to the site for direct order. Anywhere from a few days to a week, and it'll be available on Amazon. Will post again at that juncture.Thanks in advance,...
View ArticleUPDATE: Where Else Can I Find That Paperback, Berry?
The paperback is now available via Amazon.
View ArticleWhat's Up?
Been too long, but the holidays have me catching up on sleep/rest and family time along with reading and writing time. So, I finally began reading As I Lay Dying and am steadily re-admiring Faulkner's...
View ArticleThe Writerly Year in Review
So, year in review brag roll (but not). This year has been a most interesting one in terms of writing. I logged more poetry than usual. Only a few short stories. The rest below...Up front: For each...
View ArticleIt's Rambling Not-Review Time: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by...
Nine stories comprise the latest collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, by Laird Barron. His brand of cosmic horror depends largely on several media and movement and mythos, the least of...
View ArticleNew Story: Mixed Martial Arts and the BLOODY KNUCKLES MMAnthology
So, a couple of years ago I wrote my first piece of realistic fiction in a long, long time. Had to flex some muscles other than genre. The first line--"You already know how this will end."--had stuck...
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