Your Favorite Title

March 31st 2006 at 8:26 am

In reference to the previous post, what’s your favorite title for a book? Why?

Titles

March 30th 2006 at 4:34 pm

Dave Kirtley and I were working on how to title stories back at Alpha, the workshop for younger writers, this summer. I’m not so good with titles, so I found I probably got more out of the conversation than Dave as we prepared for our lecture the next day.
As we chatted I kept notes, and […]

Official Healthacker.com Launch

March 29th 2006 at 4:18 pm

By the way, today is the official launch of Healthacker of the Bloglogic Network which I am the editor for.
Readers are welcome to submit news stories and links of interest via the site (or just straight to me) about health and fitness, particularly as it may apply to geeks like myself
And link love from […]

Interesting Market

March 29th 2006 at 3:21 pm

Have your fiction read aloud at a spa:
We are seeking short stories from 2.500 to 3,000 words that beg to be read aloud to upscale hotel and spa guests. The objective is to help them relax. We do not feel violence, horror or gratuitous sex achieve that end.
You supply the words, we supply the […]

Onion Article on SF Authors

March 29th 2006 at 11:36 am

Someone at The Onion hits us all close to home on this slam of SF authors:
The swashbuckling tale of the battle for control of the solar system depicts a terrifying future filled with virtually indistinguishable characters who only communicate through stilted and shallow dialogue.
“I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of the two-dimensional, almost […]

Crystal Rain: Chapter 5 Commentary

March 29th 2006 at 11:01 am

Commentary on Chapter 5 of Crystal Rain is now up in the Crystal Rain ‘exclusives‘ section.

Shoot Out in Bluffton Ohio

March 28th 2006 at 4:52 pm

So I live in a small town, Bluffton, and this weekend Emily got turned back from getting onto the interstate by police and said she saw police cars packed into one of the gas stations near the interstate.
Turns out there was a very long police chase, along with a shoot out at the gas station, […]

Short Story Stats

March 28th 2006 at 10:22 am

I wrote my first complete short story 5/30/1994, 13 years ago. I was 15.
I was cleaning out my articles folder and updating it, and I found this old squib from a couple years ago. I updated it quickly and thought I’d post it for the curious as a blog entry:
I’ve written ~100 stories since 1994.
I […]

The Space Opera Renaissance

March 27th 2006 at 3:12 am

Space Opera is back baby. Hartwell and Cramer have a new anthology coming out soon that will cover this resurgence.

Frankly, I’m loving the roaring space adventure comeback, and will certainly be snagging a copy of this anthology when it comes out.
Have you blown up a planet today?

Crystal Rain: Chapter 4 Commentary

March 26th 2006 at 3:03 am

Commentary on Chapter 4 of Crystal Rain is now up in the Crystal Rain ‘exclusives‘ section.