I am very pleased to announce that my short story, “From Rats to Ruins” has been published by Flying Island Press in Flagship Magazine’s Steampunk issue. You can find it here: http://flyingislandpress.com/flagship/steampunk-issue/
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World Fantasy Convention 2011 – The First Eye-Opener
There have been times when my eyes have been truly opened. My trip to World Fantasy Convention 2011 was one of those times. I know I have spoken often about the importance of meeting people and networking, but that was reinforced for me over the past few days. For those of you who don’t know what WFC is, let me give you a bit of an idea. It is a professional writer’s convention that attracts writers, publishers, editors, artists and others from around the world. Note, I said professional convention. This is not a convention for costumes but one for spending time with others passionate about genre fiction. It was also a first for me in many ways. It was […]
Read moreEditing Update – My Transgressions Have Caught Up With Me
I have learned a lot in my current round of revising my “Mik Murdoch” manuscript. The very biggest lesson has been not to rush the story. I know I’ve mentioned this, but I sometimes find myself hurrying a story to finish it. It results in glossed over scenes, scenes that end too abruptly or just situations that are unlikely. As you might imagine, I’m getting tagged with more of those at the end of the book than I was at the beginning. So, I’ve been working for the past several days trying to get to that most sought after page, the last. Except, I keep getting tripped up with little comments like “Expand this” or “Ends too suddenly” or even […]
Read moreEditing Update – It is to Laugh
I made what I’m sure is a rookie mistake last night in my editing. I revised an entire chapter based on the comments of my editor only to get to the last page and read, “Rewrite the chapter. Nothing really happens…”. There was more to the comment, but I had just spent over an hour tweaking and making everything better based on previous comments. Am I angry? No, not at all. The rewriting process was good and I will be able to use some of what I did. The joke, and it is a joke on me, is that I didn’t read all the comments on the chapter before I started my revision. That could lead to the question: did […]
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