Archive for June, 2006
Analog Review
June 28th 2006 at 11:07 pm
There’s a nice Tom Easton review in the latest Analog for Crystal Rain, which is too long for me to type up, but includes the wonderfully pull-worthy sentence: “Buckell has displayed a gift for imagination much greater than one book can hold” and that it “is the sort of thing that will have readers watching [...]
Pet blogging
June 28th 2006 at 4:03 pm
We went to the Humane Society a couple days ago, and this fellow seemed to not mind the mad barking and chaos, so we took him out and played with him a bit. I like laid back as a doggy trait.
He’s a husky/chocolate lab mix, though he looks all lab in this pic. Looking [...]
Subterranean Magazine shipping
June 28th 2006 at 2:39 am
The cliches issue of Subterranean Magazine is shipping. Edited by John Scalzi and featuring all sorts of interesting fiction.
Fake deadlines?
June 27th 2006 at 2:30 pm
An observation that fake deadlines don’t seem to work.
They certainly never have for me (mutters…)
Foreign Market List updated
June 27th 2006 at 8:54 am
Doug Smith’s Foreign Market List has been updated with new markets and tips on what is going on with others. This resource is responsible for all of my foreign sales, and I’m grateful that Doug puts the effort in to keep it updated.
Remembering Bob
June 27th 2006 at 1:38 am
Bob Marley was always someone I found fascinating when young. Mixed Media Watch has a great quote in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of his death last 19th:
when his peers taunted him about his mixed race status, Marley replied: “I don’t have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black. [...]
Jamaican Writers
June 27th 2006 at 1:00 am
The NY Times has a story on Jamaican writers who are breaking out and getting some attention. Encouraging to see some notice of this.
Search inside the book
June 26th 2006 at 6:04 pm
Amazon.com now lets you search inside Crystal Rain and do all sorts of nifty preview-y type things with the book there.
KGB Photos
June 26th 2006 at 5:59 pm
Ellen Datlow has posted her KGB photos
here.
John Joseph Adams also has a set of photos from the event up here.
Despair
June 26th 2006 at 8:41 am
At some point last week, just after reading at the KGB Bar and driving back towards the midwest while Emily slept in her seat, I made a note on the voice recorder on my PDA about some short story ideas bouncing around in my head.
And staring down at the yellow divider I started to wonder [...]
