A friend and fellow spec-fiction writer, Morgan Broadhead, quizzed me on my writing future, immigration to the USA, and the always in-depth and serious question of cheese. Continue Reading
Peace and Quiet
It’s been a busy year. I didn’t write as much as I might have liked, but I began work at SpaceX, sold a short story to On Spec Magazine, and have another story coming out.Continue Reading
Attack of the Killer Spam
Today appears to be Spam My Blog day. So far I’ve deleted fifty-six spam comments from robots this morning (with more still being posted), which largely want me to know that they are “impsreeped”, that my posts make life “beeaablr”, or that my blog is the ONLY trustworthy source for Continue Reading
A Fictionish Spell
It’s been a nice spell for me. I sold my third story to a little market called The Colored Lens, an online speculative fiction magazine, where a friend of mine previously had his story “Cuts” appear.Continue Reading
Keeping Focus
So, I decided I wouldn’t write any more short stories until I had my novel rumbling along. It seemed like a fine plan, right up until I got struck by a short story idea that I couldn’t resist writing. I plotted it out, and started work on it yesterday.Continue Reading
Old-Fashioned Boy
In which I discuss the dubious merits of having to print out, pack, stamp, and mail in your submissions, rather than just send them in using modern electronic wizardry.Continue Reading
The Little Rejection That Couldn’t
A short story has been out for a while, it’s endured through to the query period, and after querying it’s turned out that my rejection was simply eaten by the internet. Continue Reading
Rejections, edits, and markets…
So, one of those delayed submissions finally came back, and it’s a rejection — but it’s a rejection of the nicer kind, the “Liked it, but it’s not a fit for our magazine” rejection. It’s actually pretty hard to feel bad about that — if I’ve done my job well Continue Reading