While Waiting to be Published
While Waiting to be Published
Sponsor Me for the Clarion Write-A-Thon!
Step right up! Place a bet on whether I can write six 1,500 word short stories between
late June and early August! Proceeds benefit these folks: http://www.theclarionfoundation.org/faq.htm#percentage
This is just like a walk-a-thon — except it involves writing. Will I make it? That's 9,000 words! The length of a novellette or 1/6th of a novel in bit over a month ....
Place your pledge here (or just follow my progress), any amount per ...
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The New Project (19 Sequels)
This past November for National Novel Writing Month I wrote a 60,000 word novel. It’s set in the same science fiction universe as “No Woman No Plaything” and “The World in His Throat” and it’s a prequel that explains how that universe came to be. It was
good to write a novel in that setting which included women (at least for the first few chapters) and to understand how a foundered generation ship helped create the universe ...
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The Post Office Delivers!
Today two wonderful things arrived in the mail: my order of International Reply Coupons and a flyer for my one of my favorite things, a stamp holder shaped like a tiny mailbox. (I have
one but the whimsy always amuses me.)
Many publishers still require submissions by mail and some of those publishers are overseas. I'd stop in at some tiny New England post office and certainly they'd heard of IRC's (forms
which let the overseas ...
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Read My New Short Story
My new short story "No Woman, No Plaything" is in the new issue of Kaleidotrope.
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"No Woman, No Plaything" began as 'Story 18' of the 74 Stories Project. It's
a story about robots that includes an atheist's prayer to Asimov's atoms and a colony planet review that starts to go wrong the moment the inspecting officer's boots touch dirt.
