My favorite stories of 2012
I’m not the novel-writing sort, so I didn’t participate in National Novel Writing Month in November. Instead, I decided to use the month to catch up on reading zines from earlier this year — partly so...
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Open submissions for a one-sentence story mini-anthology!
Special announcement! I’m going to edit an anthology, and submissions are opening NOW. Together with artist and designer Katie Sekelsky, I’m looking to put together a miniature anthology of...
View ArticleA little more about One Sentence Story submissions
It’s been a few days since submissions for the One Sentence Story mini-anthology opened, and so far I’ve received about 50 stories. That’s incredible! I want to thank everybody who has submitted...
View ArticleFinal published stories for 2012
Several of my stories have been published in the past couple of months, and I’ve done a very bad job of keeping up with that. Here’s a quick post rounding up what’s been going on. Monsters in the...
View ArticleStories I’ve been reading so far in January
In November of last year, I put up a post with some of my favorite stories of 2012 that were published by zines that aren’t considered “pro-paying markets” by SFWA. (Typically, this means they pay less...
View ArticleMore short stories from January 2013
So far, I’ve read about 75 short stories that were published in January 2013. Despite this, there are still markets I haven’t even looked at yet — I haven’t read a word of Shimmer 16 yet, for instance...
View ArticleShort stories from February
In January, I wrote a couple of blog posts listing some stories I enjoyed that had been published that month. I’d hoped to do the same for February, but my reading has been lacking, alas. Still, I’ve...
View ArticleShort story submissions: Ten case studies
I had a fun and informative conversation this morning on Twitter with numerous folks, including Ann Leckie (of GigaNotoSaurus), Michael D Thomas (of Apex Magazine), and Damien Walters Grintalis (of...
View ArticleSixteen Single Sentence Stories!
It’s been a while since I made the final decisions on the one-sentence stories that will be included in the mini-anthology that Katie Sekelsky and I are publishing. Time has flown, and I realize I’ve...
View ArticleWashington Irving’s vision of an alien invasion, ca. 1809
Recently, while reading a blog post that speculated about mankind’s likelihood of ever meeting alienkind, I was put in mind of a passage written by Washington Irving in his book Knickerbocker’s History...
View ArticleI edited a couple books this year and never told anybody
Okay, it’s not true that I never told ANYBODY. But I haven’t talked about those books like I should have. It’s time to correct that. SIXTEEN SINGLE SENTENCE STORIES: The first book to mention is a...
View ArticleA tough year in review
Last October, I wrote up a blog post tracking what I had done as a writer over the previous year. It was an easy and enjoyable post to write. I keep giant spreadsheets with all the necessary data, so I...
View ArticleStories I loved in 2013, plus stories I published
I feel guilty writing this post, since usually I prefer to make year-end lists of other people’s stories that I really enjoyed, with my own stuff as a footnote. Unfortunately, I couldn’t keep up with...
View ArticleWhy I applied to join RWA on Valentine’s Day
Today, I mailed off an application to join the Romance Writers of America. Anybody can join RWA as an “Active” member, so long as you are willing to assert that you are seriously pursuing a career as a...
View ArticleThe Australian correspondence
Apropos of nothing in particular today, I started thinking about Max Beerbohm’s story “A.V. Laider”, from his collection SEVEN MEN (1919). That story contains a reference to a phenomenon called “the...
View ArticleSomebody else’s stories, May 2014 edition
It has been a long time since I’ve written here about stories I’ve been reading. Mostly it’s because I’ve been busy and have been reading a lot less than I did a couple years ago. But we make time for...
View ArticleSome things I do
My wife, K. Sekelsky, recently put together a new portfolio site to help her find new clients for art commissions. In an earlier version of the website, she had tried to keep her avenues open by not...
View ArticleRe: “The Eternally Obscure Writers”
Context: Yesterday, the 2016 World Fantasy Convention posted a list of programs for the meeting in Columbus, Ohio, this October. (Full list here.) Program #25 on the list is a panel about “The...
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