When the mail came on Friday and I spied the October/November issue of Asimov's in the pile, I opened it immediately to the last page. I didn't necessarily expect to see it yet, but it was there nonetheless: COMING SOONmind-bending new stories by Robert Silverberg,
Jack Williamson's new novel, The Stonehenge Gate, is out, and he insists it is his last. I learn this from an article ❦bobhowe points me toward, in the Albuquerque Tribune. It's a delightful piece to read (despite the fact that one paragraph is worded carelessly enough
I can't help it. When someone sends me an email that says: Kindly advise a good time to contact you along with your contact information. I want to respond: My dear Good Time, should you choose to contact me along with my contact information, you would find me
Hey there, all you WordPerfect users aspiring to write short fiction! For you maligned folks and you folks only, I've added a new feature to my inexplicably popular manuscript formatting instructions. I created a set of WordPerfect templates and macros that let you easily create a properly formatted
Via Paul Melko by way of David Moles, I encountered this morning a fascinating essay by SF writer and scholar John Kessel exploring and repudiating the morality of intention that underpins Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and attempting to explain the book's enduring popularity.
It's official, or will be when the promised contract arrives in the mail. I just made my first sale to Asimov's. A 19,000-word novella no less. The story's called "Inclination," and though it takes place a few decades earlier, it'
I stopped by Borders on the way to Petco, and I can now confirm that The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-first Annual Collection is out and available in stores. I would never suggest that you buy a $20 book for the sake of a four-page story by yours
From my agent, a generally positive assessment of the third draft of The Accidental Terrorist: I've read your revision and I'm pretty darn happy with it. I think you've done a good job synthesizing and compacting huge swaths of material into a much more
Bear with me a minute or two. This takes some explaining. Back in 1994, I wrote a story I called "L.A. by Night," about a software developer who has volunteered to be a guinea pig in an experiment about tracking parolees via implanted devices that let the
My memoir is finished. Well, the first draft, anyway. Time to go and lift a pint. Better idea than trying to lift the manuscript. It rolled in at 1,076 pages. Next step: blue pencil.
Hey, I'm back in the game, and back up to 870 ms pages. Woo-hoo!
Back up to 848 ms pages. Manuscript goes in the mail to my agent first thing tomorrow. Or today, rather.
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