I guess some people might visit after reading my story in the July 2008 Asimov’s SF, which has gone out in the mail (though I’m sure it isn’t on newsstands yet) titled, “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues.” I hope you enjoyed it, though I guess if you didn’t, you wouldn’t have come here. Anyway, welcome to my site, and feel free to have a look around if you like. A lot of my recent posts here are about current Korean political stuff, but if you dig, you can find all kinds of other stuff. If you’re like to …
Tag: WRITING
Pahwakhe Podcast is Up
The audio podcast of the first story I ever sold, “Pahwakhe,” is now online at PodCastle. It’s very flattering to have joined some pretty illustrious ranks in the Escape Pod/PseudoPod/PodCastle family. I’d like to offer a big thanks to Rachel Swirsky for giving the story a spot at PodCastle, to Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay at Fantasy Magazine for being the first to give the story a shot, and to C. G. Furst for his reading. When you have a quarter of an hour to spare, go check it out!
Watch Out For… Me?!?
Heads up! “Asimov’s SF: Next Issue” Gord Sellar, making a memorable Asimov’s debut, takes us on a long, strange trip around the Solar System with an unlikely cadre of jazz legends in “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues”… It’s coming soon, folks! I’m giddy. (Hat tip to reader.)
Gaaah! (With a Smile)
Got my first writing cheque of the year. And it’s a good one! And a contract, from the same publisher. (Asimov’s.) And that other project I might be working on? We’re in. Today is a good day!
The Gnaw
What gnaws at me these days is a sense that I haven’t got enough of my stories out to markets. I have four stories coming out in major places, probably most of them this year, but you know, there’s always next year’s publications to get started on. It’s amazing how, when you develop the habit, even a slight lull in submitting work begins to nag at you. You start checking your tracker stats, counting up how much stuff you’ve got out at markets, and asking yourself why you haven’t sent out more. Or, at least I do. Still, this is …
Apparent Slight Progress (Actually Major Progress, Sort Of)
Sometimes, progress in drafting a story isn’t immediately visible by wordcount changes.
Jetse’s Challenge
Well, I’ve finalized a few writing projects. “Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang” is completed, done, finished (the text handed in the other day) and I have pretty much tidied and prepared a few more stories for sending out (some minor editing was necessary on them all: “The Broken Pathway”, “Solvjaynghi’s Christmas Wish”, and the piece I sent to Nemonymous for the Cone Zero anthology. Today, I whipped off a little Biblical End Times zombie piece for Bits of the Dead, which the lovely and talented Tristan (Facebook profile again, as that’s all he’s got!) pointed out today — though …
Extra D’oh…
I slept 2 hours on Wednesday night. It’s not that I’m that busy, mind you. I was supposed to sleep four. I just lay down and couldn’t sleep until 6:00am, and I had a class at 8:00am. But I am that busy, that I could only fit in four hours. Partly, I suspect, I just take my classes too seriously, and partly, I try not to let me job get too much in the way of my writing. Except, of course, that this would lead to letting my health get in the way of my writing, so I am cutting …
Why Writing is a Solitary Activity
Kind of reminds me of editing projects, communal course design discussions, and other collaborative work I’ve done in the past. And yes, this is why writing is a solitary activity so much of the time. And, I suspect, why the book is usually better than the film. This is why crit groups are useful, too. Because crit groups are almost always full of other writers, meaning, people who are both readers, but also know something about writing. But it always becomes a solitary activity again, in the end. Because crit groups all too often bombard you with dozens of great …
Sold: Dhuluma No More…
I’m very pleased to say that my tale of climatech, climaterrorism, the global south, and journalism in the mid-21st century, “Dhuluma No More,” has been accepted for publication in Asimov’s SF! That’s my second official pro sale of 2008, and the year’s still very young! It’s also my second sale to Asimov’s! I owe a big thanks to my friends from Clarion West who helped me out with a much earlier draft titled “Ogallalla”… especially Shawn Scarber… from whom I learned a lot when he discussed the original (and triple the current length) draft of this story. Since I can’t …