Category Archives: Writing

2,010 Updates

1/13/2010 – 11:02 pm

Geez, two weeks since I last posted an entry? Shows you where blogging is on my list of priorities. So, what have I been doing? Reading, mostly. I finished my ninth book in three weeks tonight. If you’re interested to see what I’ve been reading, count backwards on this list (or everything between Gordon Henry’s [...]

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2009 – A Retrospective

12/31/2009 – 6:30 pm

2009 flew past, didn’t it? Quite a bit better than 2008 I must say, and I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in store. Well, first things first. 2009 was definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, dominated by the one we call G-Man, G-Money, the gooch, the goon, Mr. Moo, and every so often [...]

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The Bimonthly Update

11/24/2009 – 1:07 pm

Things are winding down quickly in school; I only meet with my classes one more time as a large group and then in individual conferences. Teaching two new classes in my last semester of coursework isn’t ideal. Generally I was writing or modifying assignments each week based on how things went. Next semester should be [...]

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Briefly

8/26/2009 – 8:15 pm

Sun. 8/9 – Tottenham Hotspur 3 – 0 Olympiakos Sun. 8/16 – Tottenham Hotspur 2 – 1 Liverpool Wed. 8/19 – Hull City 1 – 5 Tottenham Hotspur Sun. 8/23 – West Ham United 1 – 2 Tottenham Hotspur Wed. 8/26 – Doncaster Rovers 1 – 5 Tottenham Hotspur Erm. Hel-lo Tottenham Hotspur, how do [...]

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A Win for Me and a Cliche-Riddled Recap of Opening Weekend

8/17/2009 – 4:51 pm

/ First off, a big win for me! I sold my story “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter” to Zahir: A Journal of Speculative Fiction, which is a gorgeous little magazine. Lots of “close, but not quite right” rejection slips too, so it’s good to find a home for it. I wrote this story for a workshop [...]

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Moaning About the Stone-Age Submission Process

7/22/2009 – 10:46 am

I sent out a 4100-word (14 page) story yesterday to ten different literary markets. Paper and toner aside, postage and SASEs came to almost $20 on the nose, or $2 a sub. For some reason, I feel better about paying the USPS to deliver my deathless prose than paying a magazine a submission fee for [...]

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Slacking on Blogging

7/15/2009 – 4:00 pm

I’ve been a bad blogger lately. It probably correlates to the fact that I can either blog or use my scant free time doing things that actually matter. In a bulleted list, here’s what I’ve been up to: – Parenting! Grey turned 10 weeks on Monday and things have definitely gotten better. He cries less [...]

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Novels on the Brain

6/20/2009 – 7:55 am

Summertime means a break a from school and allows for brain to dwell on things not (directly) related to academics. Dwelling is not always a good thing since it usually equates to keeping me from sleeping, either getting me out of bed late and night or too early in the morn because the brain is [...]

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But That’s Not What I Meant…

6/1/2009 – 10:14 am

The other day I posted some brief thoughts on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, to which I received an interesting (and troubling) response. Catherynne’s take on Kavalier and Clay is perfectly justified and what I find disturbing is that I didn’t notice it as much as I should [...]

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Notes on Recent Events

5/28/2009 – 11:23 am

The TOC for The Best Horror of the Year #1 has been announced, and can be seen here along with the cover art. Still pretty damn pleased with my inclusion in this volume. Also, I was working on my CV yesterday and searched for my name in Amazon so I could get the dates of [...]

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