Monthly Archives: June 2005

Another Look at Markets

6/29/2005 – 9:42 am

On the Clarion board we often discuss markets. A couple guys have stories at Realms of Fantasy and have been waiting over six months with no response — one just got a form rejection after almost nine months. I’ve only submitted a couple stories to Realms, the last one over eighteen months ago. They’re not [...]

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Giving Up Hope

6/27/2005 – 3:48 pm

Joe Strummer has been dead for 2 years, 6 months, and 5 days. I’m beginning to lose hope that he’s coming back.

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Home Safe

6/27/2005 – 9:44 am

Back among the living and the drudgery of work. Ironically, I’m currently between jobs. Not in the classic sense meaning unemployed, but rather the fact that I’m actually stuck between two jobs that collided. I’m trying to do both while only being paid for the lower one while my new hire paperwork tries to free [...]

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Colorado and Beyond

6/23/2005 – 12:36 pm

Colorado pictures are now up. If you choose to browse them, a few things you should know. The lady in the pictures is Amy, my wife. No, you can’t have her. She didn’t let her dad give her away at her wedding, so what makes you think I could give her away either? The dog [...]

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6/21/2005 – 10:29 am

Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character Initially, the sheer absurdity overwhelms. The above website asks you to think of either a sit-com character or dictator and then proceeds to try to suss it by asking a series of questions. “Huh?” you might think. But if you mull it over for a second, it’s really [...]

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This Weekend’s Journey and What to Read While On It

6/20/2005 – 2:33 pm

What to read next? Isn’t that a common problem? I’m almost done with Terry Bisson’s and John Kessel’s collections which I’ve enjoyed and learned a lot while reading. Both are masters of short fiction but Kessel edges Bisson for me. Man, Bisson writes with an unmistakeable voice though. Kessel’s stories are usually propped up by [...]

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Sundry Items

6/17/2005 – 1:00 pm

1) Pictures of the Colorado trip forthcoming. Athena stars in 98% of them. Literally. 2) I just sent out “The Life of Bogart Reilly,” a Clarion story, to Strange Horizons. This one split the room almost down the center. I don’t know if anyone actively disliked it but there were a lot of lukewarm reactions. [...]

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Opening the Flood Gates?

6/16/2005 – 1:08 pm

Still reeling from yesterday’s news. Received suggestions from Gordon van Gelder and they’re practically all line edits–typos, a few repetitions of phrase, etc. He did mention a wistful hope for one last SF twist to the story to give it more of a punch but liked it enough as is. Something to think about for [...]

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Yippee doesn’t quite capture the feeling…

6/15/2005 – 11:16 am

Well, it’s exactly three months since I received my first acceptance letter for a story at Cicada, a pro market, I just found out yesterday that the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is buying “From the Mouths of Babes,” a story I wrote pre-Clarion but significantly revised after I got home. To be perfectly [...]

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Newsflash – Blog Resumes After Extensive Gap

6/13/2005 – 11:20 am

Ahoy hoy, Been on vacation in Colorado for the past week. Pictures forthcoming, nearly all of which feature Athena in her first hiking gig west of the Mississippi. She did extremely well for a sixteen-month old puppy, especially in the stupifyingly boring, sixteen-hour drive from Madison to Denver. In case you didn’t know, Motel 6 [...]

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