In quickly breaking news, I am happy to announce that I’ve come to agreement with Adam Crouse and the good folks at Interstellar Fiction to have my short story “Out of the Fire” published in their June issue–which should be going up, well, in June. June 1st, to be specific. Very pleased, of course. I […]
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Stacking Up
As I noted previously on Facebook, I see that Barb Galler-Smith has announced that the new issue of On Spec is out, complete with an interview of me and my story “Operation Hercules.” OH is your basic dinosaur in World War II story, and is a favorite of mine for a few reasons. Needless to […]
Read More ...Fiction River Update
I’m really pleased to note that Kris Rusch has posted a note about the Fiction River anthology How to Save the World, edited by John Helfers. This anthology will include my story “The Legend of Parker Clark and Lois Jane.” I’m terribly excited to be part of this one. Here’s the cover:
Read More ...Gatsby
We went to see “The Great Gatsby” today. I thought it was an interesting film that was worth seeing despite the fact that it fell flat in a lot of ways. In other words, I can see why it’s drawn mixed reviews. What I liked: 1) The story is, of course, really solid. And, since […]
Read More ...A Friendly Note
As we’re off to see Gatsby and likely consume quantities of popcorn and a “small” (ha!) cup (jug) of sugary goodness, here’s a friendly note from the food industry
Read More ...Work/Life Flexibility
I was in Germany the first full week in May. For reasons that may become clear later in this conversation, after I returned, Lisa and I were talking about work hours and work ethic and flexible work balance and whatnot. By flexible work balance I mean the ability to mix your work and life in […]
Read More ...Stepping All Over the Super Hero
So my place of work has kicked off this Virgin Health Miles program. One of the features of the program is that you can challenge other employees to special events, which is cool enough. Of course, the Health Champion of the building challenged all employees (several hundred) in our building to what is essentially a […]
Read More ...Getting Back Into it, and “Primes” Goes to Asimov’s
Why is it that just when you think you’ve got things under some semblance of control, the world just hits the accelerator and everything starts moving three times as fast? I was all kinda caught up and moving on with several projects when I hopped on a plane and went to Germany for a week. […]
Read More ...“Three Days in May” Launched!
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened for practice yesterday, and that can mean only one thing! Yes! Launch day is finally here! John C. Bodin and I are pleased to announce that we’ve made a short anthology of our Indy 500 collaborations available in e-formats. You can find it in these places: Kindle Format All other […]
Read More ...Writing “The Other”
Toby Buckell linked to this post on Strange Horizons about the act of “writing the other” in SF. Or, I guess, just writing the other in general, really. It’s an interesting post. I suggest you read it, especially if you are wanting to write from the perspectives of people (or other creatures) who are not […]
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