Finally reviewed

Tangent Online finally reviewed issue #3 of Intergalactic Medicine Show. You can find it here. It’s not a bad review, it’s not a good review. It’s a book report. Still, it’s nice to have good things said about the characters. Little Adjoa has a grasp of “headology” that Terry Pratchett’s… Continue reading

Challenge – Preamble

My friend and fellow Codexian writer James Maxey tagged me in a chain cascade to post five things few people know about me. I need to put some thought into this one, so while I do that, I thought I’d participate in something that some other Codexians are doing. Alliette… Continue reading

Fiction Sale

I just sold my short story “Magnetic Monopoly” to David Lee Summers at Tales of the Talisman. The story should appear in the September ’07 issue. The story was a Writers of the Future quarter finalist, and was written as part of a captive contest for the writers group Codex…. Continue reading

Fast out of the Gate

January first, I discovered that my story “The Cosmology” had been listed in the 2007 line-up at Another Realm. It should appear online in November. His ‘zine is a one-man-show. This is an older story, and I think it will find this to be a good home. www.ricknovy.com

End of the Year Push

I banged out about 5000 words in the past three days, almost half of it yesterday. Finished the story I had been struggling with for the past two weeks, and more importantly, I surpassed 102,000 short story words for the year with three writing days left. I only have about… Continue reading

Reanna’s on a Roll

My daughter, Reanna, just had a poem titled “The Air” accepted by Wee Ones magazine for their Kids Korner section. It will appear in their Jan/Feb 2007 issue. www.ricknovy.com

Progress

I sit here waiting for the last minutes to tick away before I get the stuff removed from my face. I managed to write 974 words last night, despite my malaise and discomfort. I finished the story I had in progress. I proofed it this morning and mailed it off… Continue reading

Clear those sinuses

Yesterday, I went in for sinus surgery. People with bad allergies have a tendency to grow polyps in their sinuses, and this was the case for me. Even on the best of days, I sounded congested, and I’ve struggled with this since I was 16, maybe earleir. Now, at age… Continue reading