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*looks at calendar, looks at deadline*
The Austin Film Festival is paying actual real money for their Sci-Fi award this year. Clearly, I should enter. The only problem being that I don't currently have a Sci-Fi script. *looks at calendar, looks at deadline* May 15. Can I write a Sci-Fi script in two...
Linux Love
I installed linux on one of my home machines. Oh, the love! The fast, the pretty, the thrill of smug accomplishment when I make it recognize my video card. (Um. Yeah. I ♥ solving problems; it's fun for me.) I've nearly switched to linux several times; the...
Be your own enabler!
Hi, my name is Katherine, and I'm a self-censor. ("Hi, Katherine!") It really slows me down, because I get bogged down in resisting what happens in a story. The first draft is not the time to decide whether something is kitsch, or too unpleasant, or whatever. Decide...
Well, isn’t that special…
There's just something touching about being seated next to a table with a loud drunk woman who's talking on her cell phone, cursing so much and so loudly that she sounds like a Tarantino movie, spilling sake all over herself, and pressuring her recovering alcoholic...
It’s a sale! but not mine. 😉
Brian just sold a story to Baen's Universe! Read all about it!
Rituals
There's this thing I do, when I get a rejection. 1. Enter the rejection in my submission tracker. 2. Report the rejection to Black Holes. 3. If the next market on the list is electronic, email it immediately. If the next market on the list is snailmail, go and print...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.