Archive for March, 2010
My favorite alien
March 31st 2010 at 10:30 am
Hey look, I’m talking about my favorite alien over at SF Signal.
It’s All Just A Draft: Clarion Part Two
March 29th 2010 at 12:17 pm
A new chapter of It’s All Just A Draft is up: Clarion Part Two. This section details my attending the Clarion SF/F workshop.
The files are provided as in-progress RTFs linked below. Donations are accepted and appreciated via any standard credit card or paypal.
It’s All Just A Draft
Introduction
Section 1: The Basics
Writers Read
Writers Write
Writers Finish Projects
Section 2: [...]
Best of All Flesh up for an Origins Award
March 28th 2010 at 9:30 pm
Editor James Lowder informs me that the anthology ‘The Best of All Flesh,’ which contains the short story of mine ‘Trinkets,’ is up for an Origins Award. Details here.
Tapitty Tap
March 25th 2010 at 2:29 pm
In movies about writers they wander around doing interesting things with interesting people.
The truth is, you spend most of your time sitting on your ass in front of your writing tool of choice (MacBook Pro + 24 inch widescreen Acer monitor) typing.
For hours on end.
Then you get up and go get something to drink. Stretch.
Come [...]
Metatropolis Tor edition cover
March 23rd 2010 at 6:10 pm
John Scalzi just posted that he got advanced reader copies of the Tor edition of Metatropolis that comes out June 8th. Here it is:
Her Majesty’s Space Agency no more
March 23rd 2010 at 5:15 pm
I was really hoping the UK would get Her Majesty’s Space Agency, a government and industry department dedicated to the UK space industry. It sounds so retro cool. I imagine Vernesian types sitting around in bowler hats in a plush, wood-filled offices and so on.
Of course, that’s probably exactly why it’s just going to the [...]
It’s All Just A Draft:
March 22nd 2010 at 8:33 am
A new chapter of It’s All Just A Draft is up: Clarion Part One. This section details the first part of my attending the Clarion SF/F workshop.
The files are provided as in-progress RTFs linked below. Donations are accepted and appreciated via any standard credit card or paypal.
It’s All Just A Draft
Introduction
Section 1: The Basics
Writers Read
Writers [...]
Ned and Jane
March 21st 2010 at 3:52 am
The folks at Alpha, an SF/F writer’s workshop for young writers, are trying to raise money for scholarships for other young writers. They’re giving away a picture book for donations of $5 or more, which are tax deductible, here at NedandJane.com.
It’s a great cause, I’ve been a guest speaker at the workshop before, and the [...]
What’s going on in Toby-land?
March 18th 2010 at 5:21 pm
So some of you were all like, dude, what’s The All Tree?
And I realized, that even though I have a blog, I am a somewhat private person and I haven’t been blabbing all over the place every little detail going on in my life (surprise, some people think blog = I wave everything out in [...]
Most of us are headed for the future
March 18th 2010 at 3:42 pm
Hans Rosling does some pretty amazing things with data to show you what the world really looks like, and where it’s headed. If you’re interested in futurism, and the ‘developing world’ in any way, you need to see this.
Fuck it, you need to see this, period. It’s going to be one of my mandatory “Have [...]
