Okay, I've got the editing all done. I'm down to 8,000 words—that's 28 manuscript pages. When I practiced Saturday, I made it to the middle of page 29 in exactly 40 minutes, so I'm bumping up against the upper limit,
So today's the big day. Tonight is my reading at KGB. I'm feeling like a real writer today. I have a message on my answering machine from a very friendly Terry Bisson, just calling casually to tell me that he and Ellen Datlow are really looking
The press release would appear to have stirred up a tiny bit of interest in Missionary Man. I got a phone call on Tuesday from the New York Press—from the assistant to editor John Strausbaugh, as a matter of fact. Said assistant told me that Mr. Strausbaugh wanted to
Well, I've written my first press release. It's old news around here by now, but here's the dope: "Mormon Terrorist" to Read from Memoir July 17th in NYC I'm actually faxing, emailing, and snailing this to various news and entertainment
I got "Why I Think I'll Be Staying Home Tonight" back from Gordon at F&SF in the record time of five days. I also got "Sparkler" back from Ellen at Sci Fiction. So I sent "Sparkler" out to Gordon immediately,
It's been a busy month since my last post. The biggest news of direct import to Missionary Man fans is the KGB reading which I announced in my previous entry. I was paranoid at first that it wouldn't actually happen, but now Ellen Datlow is sending
[To get these special notices in email, sign up for the Missionary Man mailing list.] If you're going to be in New York City on July 17th, please drop by and see me in the Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB. The series, curated by Terry Bisson and
"The Two Towers" came back from Playboy yesterday, so this morning I mailed it straight back out to Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF, along with a note explaining that I will revise "Timesink" for him in July, after I'm finished revising my
It's official. I'll be appearing on Jim Freund's incredibly long-running radio show "Hour of the Wolf" on Saturday, August 17th, from 5:00 to 7:00 am. That's WBAI 99.5 FM in downtown Manhattan, serving the tri-state area. Mark
It's starting to look safe to say that there's a public reading in my near future. Ellen Datlow has asked me to read in the KGB Science Fiction series at KGB Bar in the East Village. (Huge thanks to Rick Bowes for putting the bug in
I received a curious item in the mail this evening. It is a German paperback, circa 1995, entitled Ein neuer Mensch: Die besten Stories aus The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction #91. The back cover says this: Auswahlbände mit herausragenden Erzählungen aus diesem traditionsreichen und mehrfach mit Preisen ausgezeichneten
And today from Isabella Robertson at Nerve: Hi Bill, Thanks for all your help answering my questions. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough room to fit in an extra piece in the issue as we turned out having more material than we could use . . . good luck with your book project.
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