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I'm trying to exercise more, mainly so I feel like less of a slug. Lots of people (Orson Scott Card, etc.) recommend exercise for authors on the grounds that it's hard to force lively prose out of a sluggish, tired body, and it's true. I may have to buy a copy of The...
New story in circulation, and badness…
Thanks to the comments of Jen, Margo, and Lisa, the nightmare story is now in circulation under the name "Book of Shadows." W00t! I went to go record the information on my Treo--yes, yes, I track these things in mysql and php--and lo, my poor Treo gave its life in the...
Wow.
Based on the latest crit for the nightmare story, the way my system of magic works was completely unclear. Every single question my reader had was about how the magic worked. And here I was worried that I was being all sledgehammery! Apparently, I needn't have...
Nightmare story updated yet again…
I made even more changes to the nightmare story, but no one's seen them yet. The S.O. was working on his own novel, damn him! *shakes fist* That, and I'm a little too worried about Hurricane Katrina smacking New Orleans to worry about whether my changes to a short...
Sallya free!
Alien Skin just bought "The Captivity of Princess Sallya." It's scheduled to appear in the October/November issue.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen!
John Scalzi is looking for SF clichés. Oh, be still my beating heart! I can't help it, I still love spaceflight and Amazon women on the moon; I suspect anyone who read SF of a certain period at a certain age or younger can say the same. Heh. *ponders story...
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.