So it was recently announced that Abigail Gibbs, an 18 year old, has received a six-figure deal for her Vampire romance series Dark Heroine. Ugh. News like this can certainly be frustrating and demotivating to emerging and even established authors who have worked long and hard on their craft to little or modest success. And…
If you’re going to be at Worldcon 2012/ Chicon 7 in Chicago, I hope you’ll drop by, bask in my radiance and wisdom (or at least the delicious scent of my new shampoo), and share a few laughs with me. FRIDAY Aug 31: 4:30:pm – 5:00:pm READING: FINN FANCY NECROMANCY PANTS by Randy Henderson It’s…
I see many of my writer friends posting about their anticipation of something called the NFL. I can only assume this is a National Fictioneers League? Well good! It’s about time authors got the network attention they deserve. Although I think it’s a shame the way students get a free ride just because they’re good…
/Begin Transmission/ So, I followed clues left in several newspaper ads and found my way to Prometheus Produce, hoping to discover the origin of the amazing deal. Signs at the entrance advised that I use standard bagging precautions, but being a pseudo-scientist I knew that to truly understand something, you have to look at it…
Had a great weekend. Attended the Locus Awards, got to meet William F. Nolan (author of Logan’s Run) and make jokes with the amazing Connie Willis. And yes, I did stroke Nolan’s flocked shirt. Now, fight that urge to insert the obvious joke about being flocked and “lei’d”. I know you can do it. And…
Today, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station. A huge step towards commercial passenger flights into space and galactic Empire! And of course, the company hired specialists to help them achieve their goal.
On this day, mine father, who was sent to earth from Wow. I had a pocket protector BUILT IN to the shirt. I didn’t have a chance. his dying planet, did give virgin birth to a lotus flower, which did spring fully formed from his head, and out of which grew the Tree of Life,…
The way to become a published writer is to write (and to submit what you write). Seems obvious, yet so many would-be writers produce that one story or novel and then rework it endlessly, or submit a story or three, get rejected once (or a hundred times), and decide to give up. Ira Glass does…
Please come check out my reading at Norwescon on Friday, April 6th at 5pm (Cascade 1 room). I will be reading from my current novel project, a humorous urban fantasy currently titled “The Family Wizness” — it’s like Dresden Files meets Arrested Development. It is amazingly twice as awesome as it sounds, and at half the calories!…
(I wrote the following for the Cascade Writers Workshop, where it was originally posted) In 1632, Jebediah P. Milford, Earl of Worster Shire, became famous for eviscerating any poet whose work he found displeasing. Thus began the Milford critique method. Okay, that’s not true. What is true is that both giving and receiving good critique…