All I’m going to say is that this conversation with a juggler at the Incheon Immigration Office started it all rolling, and as I’ve begun to poke about for what to research, more and more is falling into place for that story I have in mind as taking place in the same world as “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues.” The exciting thing is that I’ve never read anything like the kind of story that my preliminary research is beginning to shape in my mind. The scope is vast, and by vast, I mean, 1000 page novel vast. Okay, …
Month: June 2007
Sponsor Me: I’m Doing a Write-a-thon
Last year, I went to the Clarion West workshop in Seattle. I learned lots. I wrote lots. I made some incredible friends, and found myself some mentors, too. I think other people should be able to do that. But the costs aren’t covered completely by the funding that comes in from students and scholarships. Even with generous funds, like the Susan C. Petrey scholarship that sent me there, a lot of the work still ends up being done by volunteers, and running a world-class writing workshop is not cheap or easy. So there’s a write-a-thon. I’ve committed to doing my …
Junk
“Junk” is available to read for free, among my Stuff to Read pages. Go here to see it. My second fiction sale, “Junk” is online (at least for subscribers or anyone in a library) in the “Futures” fiction feature column in Nature. I’d originally drafted it for the “Futures” series that ran to the end of 2006, but never got around to submitting it to Henry Gee in time. Happily, it was turned down by the place I’d shuffled it off to, and in the interim, the good folks at Nature had decided to relaunch the column. When I heard …
Sold! “Junk”
I’m happy to announce my second fiction sale. My short-short story “Junk” will be appearing in Nature‘s prestigious “Futures” column, featuring 850-950 word long hard SF. There’s no date set yet, but the editor, Henry Gee, accepted the story very quickly and just I’ve been sitting on this until I heard back about the contract. I’m blown away and very happy to be able to announce this. Yay! As for sales versus submissions, I think I’ve been relatively lucky so far: it’s a ration of 1:10. Anyway, the year’s half-done, so I should be able to sell one or two …
Joe Sample & Randy Crawford
Quite a while ago, Lime discovered that the Seoul Jazz Festival was happening (I blogged about it here) and asked me what show I’d like to see. IF you look at the program, you’ll see that it’s dominated by Japanese jazz fusion and Pat Metheny (whose music I despise), so the sensible choice was to see whatever else didn’t fit that category. She ordered the tickets, and that was that. Well, the other night, the day finally arrived, so we went and saw Joe Sample and Randy Crawford, who were accompanied by Joe Sample’s son Nicklas Sample on bass and …