Excellent little video for an excellent little song by an excellent songwriter my friend Mike Hartman has somehow, via Facebook, gotten me into. I know, I know, I’m way behind the curve. Shut up and enjoy the video while I go throw around some furniture.
Month: January 2009
POV and Sins Worth Risking
So I mentioned recently having, er, “finished” work on my story “Ten Spikes and a Hammer.” Which is a story about a man, following two timelines in his life: one during his days towards the end of World War II, and another towards the end of his life. The interesting thing is that something, something, just wasn’t working with this story. I worked it, I worked it some more, I massaged, I fiddled, and somehow there was something wrong.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Doh and Whew!
Well, I don’t know why, but suddenly my blog template is malfunctioning in a very weird, and very specific way. I’m not sure what the cause is, or whether it has to do with my recently upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress, but for some reason, the templates that are working perfectly on every other page are not working at all on my main “blog” page. (I have to add an extra div, and if I don’t, my footer appears at the top of the page and obliterates the top post. I suppose it was time for a …
Missed It?
If you missed it in the print edition, you can check out my Korean SF story “The Country of the Young” in the Fictionwise eMagazine edition of Interzone 219, available now.
Fantasy Poll
Here’s another best-story-of-2008 poll I’ve got a story in, the Reader’s Poll at Fantasy Magazine. Those who’ve been following along should vote. (I’m not saying you should vote for my story… whatever hit you hardest would be the best choice! I’m not caught up, so we’ll have to see whether I manage it. I’m working through my neglected stack of issues of Asimov’s first.)