Over at The Electric Smack Shack, Marvin doesn’t post often, but when he does, there’salways at least one movie or book added to my must6-check-out pile. Marvin, how are ya? It’s been ages!
Month: April 2007
Classmate News
My classmates/mates (in the British/Australian sense of the word, mind you) have had some good news of late. I don’t remember whether I announced Guy making a sale to Postscripts, but he did. Tinatsu sold a Clarion West story — from the first week, I think — to Shimmer. Caroline‘s sold another story (a Clarion West story, in fact) to Fantasy. Now, go and read Tina‘s excellent poem “Rehydrated”, which is online at Strange Horizons. Here’s to many more stories in print. I’m hoping to have some news to add to that list, soon.
Dear Mr. Vonnegut,
Bye, and thanks for everything.
Mad Revisionism
I just sent out a few submissions, which means I now have ten stories pending at different magazines and zines: Upgraded Phrase List for Mil-Spec iTrans Phrase Translation Unit The Country of the Young (Clarion West Story, week 4, I think) The Wager Cai and her Ten Thousand Husbands Improperly Prepared Blowfish The Day I Lost My ‘Thulu Dyscrasia Ogallala On Punctuation The Egan Thief (Update: Those marked red are beyond not only the average response time, but also the estimated response time listed at Duotrope, which tends to be significantly longer. This could mean anything, of course; with the …
Me Me Me Redux
Jade asked me these five questions: 1. You are a sci fi genre writer. How have you experienced being a sci fi writer in the realm of the (sometimes very snobby) creative writing world? Well, you know, that’s an interesting question. I’ve had all kinds of reactions to that. Some people go, “Oh, you write SF!” and they’re suddenly more comfortable, like, they don’t have to act all smart and fake around you. Other people get snotty and dismissive. Still others kind of try to connect by mentioning the SF they’ve read and enjoyed or not enjoyed, and often it …