Last Day

July 31st 2005 at 8:14 pm

Today is the last day of my 2 month summer break, sadly, and I go back to work and so forth. Back to writing on lunch breaks and other found time.
I was reading Arnold Schwartznegger’s Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding the other day to refresh my memory about some items, when I re-read the section where he […]

How Do You Format Your Writing?

July 30th 2005 at 6:01 pm

Stephen Leigh asks what tools you might use and how your format your writing. He says:

As you may have guessed from the above, I also write in manuscript format: double-spaced, Times New Roman, and in page view so I can see my headers and have a bit of visual separation between pages. Writing single-spaced seems […]

Young Writers

July 29th 2005 at 2:54 am

John Joseph Adams, asst. editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, aka the Slush God (or He Who Must Be Appeased), is coming up with a list of SF/F writers in their 20s on his website with at least one professional sale under their belt. He’s got quite a list going, with links […]

Small Update

July 28th 2005 at 1:52 am

Just a small update to note that I’ve sold Greek rights to my short story Death’s Dreadlocks to a Greek zine called Universe Pathway(formerly Cosmic Dimension). Editor George Sotirhos notes that it will most likely appear December 15th.
This is my fifth foreign sale. I’ve been translated into Greek, Spanish and Hebrew so far. I’m really […]

Coming Along

July 27th 2005 at 5:13 pm

Still smashing away at the second novel, Ragamuffin, which is why I haven’t been blogging much. I know so many people read this and come here, but since I have large blocks of time to focus on writing, this is the first thing that gets dropped while I’m away from work. I’m so excited about […]

More On Cards

July 25th 2005 at 1:09 am

I reposted the cards blog entry below with gif files and new links, so you should be able to see the winning entries again. Let me know if you can’t…

The Business Card Winner

July 22nd 2005 at 4:43 pm

Greg Gunther is the winner with this design below. I really like the design, the way the title pops, and the careful framing of the art. It rocks. Greg will win a copy of the bound manuscript and a $20 iTunes gift card. While you’re at it, check out some of Greg’s work via the […]

Another New CC Novel

July 22nd 2005 at 8:40 am

Peter Watts has released his first novel, Starfish, under a Creative Commons license up at his website, making him the 3rd TOR author I know of to do this (Cory Doctorow and Mike Brotherton being the first two):

Basically, you can download, copy, and distribute to your furry little heart’s content. Transcribe “Starfish” into html if […]

Still Catching Up

July 21st 2005 at 11:28 pm

Tomorrow will be the last day of the business card design competition. I have a dinner appointment, so I’ll be taking submissions right up until 3pm, and then will announce a winner before 5pm, and probably post jpegs and names of the honorable mentions as well.

Right now I’m still trying to catch up on emails […]

Confluence

July 18th 2005 at 1:54 pm

I’m back from Confluence, the dog and cats are thrilled to have us back, and now I’m repacked for a quick trip up to say high to Walter Jon Williams and Leslie What and all the tired 6th week Clarion students in East Lansing.
Meanwhile, Slashdot reports on a Chinese initiative to create an environmentally sustainable […]