A couple of weeks ago, I ran across a copy of Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout. Trout is, of course, the fictional SF writer who appears in the stories of Kurt Vonnegut. Venus on a Half-Shell was, in reality, written by Philip Jose Farmer, with the (mixed)… Continue reading
As the disasterous conversion to the Quest package continues, I await my second appointment with the Direct TV guy, who wrecked three cars and wasted 4 hours of my precious vacation time when his ladder flew off his truck on the freeway. Another 4 hours thiscoming friday and hopefully I’ll… Continue reading
Turn around and suddenly it’d been 4 days since my last post. We went out today to get power of attorney taken care of for Grandma. It’s something that’s long over-due and would have saved us a lot of trouble had we done it before the broken hip. Still, it… Continue reading
The current issue of Locus has the results of their annual survey. In the reading section, they asked about what types of SF and fantasy their respondants liked. The speculative genre seems to be doing better across the board. Under the Do you like… question, SF hit 90% for the… Continue reading
I finally made another sale after a 3-month drought. Tales of the Talisman purchased my story The Great Basilisk Race. This is the first time I intentionally wrote a fantasy story, though frankly, it could have been set in any genre. It is slated to appear in the June 2008… Continue reading
I’ve noticed something since I started writing–dark fiction seems to sell. Markets that specifiy dark fiction seem outnumber the others by a significant margin. It gets me wondering why. This train of thought was brought about by some comments on the Darker Matter web site about my story Chaos Theory…. Continue reading
So much for our sub-hundred-degree days. Today and yesterday, the remnants of Hurricane Dean came roaring through the desert, leaving nary a drop of water on the ground, but plenty of humidity in the air. It also dropped our temperatures below 100 degrees for the weekend. We go back to… Continue reading
Here is my schedule of appearances at Coppercon 27 September 7,8,9 at the Embassy Suites North on the southeast corner of I-17 (Black Canyon Freeway) and Greenway. This is my only convention for 2007. My agenda is all Saturday. Sat 10a-11a Suite D Humor in the Genre with Bennie Grezlik… Continue reading
Well, speak about not hearing back on submissions publicly in a blog and what happens? Two rejections within a few hours. Spent some time working on the short story mentioned a few days ago. Made some little progress today. It struck me that i my last post, I never wrote… Continue reading
Today was the first day in about a million years that I didn’t leave the house. Grandma fell again, though adamantly she denies falling. Russell found her collapsed on the bathroom floor inthe doorway under the walker. I guess she found a comfortable place to have a seat. I did… Continue reading
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