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Yes, it’s been awhile…
You noticed that, too? 😉 When I moved, I sent change of address forms to everywhere I had stories. (You know, back in September.) Well, around New Year's, one of them said they might have lost my story, and have not written back to confirm this. Judging by their...
More rejectomancy…
Alas, JJA says I didn't "grab" his interest. Woe. Alas, alack, and woe. I took this as a sign to reshuffle the scenes so the opening scene was the one with the blood. Why, yes, I do feel a bit silly editing my story after getting what is basically a form rejection....
I raked it in!
Apparently, my muttering and grumbling about the sacrilege that was Sci Fi's Earthsea have paid off. Brian gave me Tehanu and The Other Wind for Christmas. Woohoo! And also The Lathe of Heaven. Yes, we're having a very Ursula K. Le Guin Christmas here. Woohoo!!! For...
Wow.
I decided that my enthusiasm for in medias res had led me to start this story too late. There was a large amount of narrative summary/exposition that I thought might work better as scenes. 1400 words later... Yeah. And there's a lot more narrative summary in this...
Alas, poor Earthsea!
A Wizard of Earthsea was the first SF/F I ever read, and if I hadn't enjoyed it I probably wouldn't be here. I read and loved the entire trilogy, but was particularly fond of The Tombs of Atuan, which had a wonderfully creepy, anthropologically fascinating religion of...
What I need.
What I really need right now is a Hollywood Creative Directory. I haven't done anything with Dot Com since I heard back from Austin Film Festival during the big move, and it's time I change that. Maybe this weekend I should cuddle up with Max Adams' book and come up...
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.