So Black Gate magazine, has provided their most recent issue for free on their website as they rampup to begin providing an electronic version of the publication. I’m not a reader of the magazine simply because there is nowhere nearby that I could get my hands on a copy. They publish fantasy work primarily however [...]
Archive | July, 2008
How cool is Cuil?
So apparently there is a new dog in the search engine fight and its name is Cuil (pronounced, cool). Developed by an ex-Google engineer, cuil boasts a larger number of web pages searched than Google. Much large actually, three times as large they say. This begs the question: Is bigger really better? Phallic references aside [...]
The next big step…
So I sent a story off to market yesterday. This is my first attempt at getting a story published. I feel like I’m shooting pretty high with this particular market. It’s a pretty tight publication that posts brilliant work. They don’t seem to buy a lot of pieces and I hear they get a ton [...]
The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
I’ve read over and over again, as I scour the internet and other sources for information that might help me hone my craft as a writer, that it is important to be well read in whatever genre that you intend to write for. So I picked up the August issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction [...]
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
I just wrapped up Orson Scott Card’s How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy. I really enjoyed the read, which is interesting because I don’t typically like non-fiction. This was about a subject that I am passionate about however so I muscled through it. He touches on some very obvious, but insightful points that every [...]
In between stories
Much like when I finished my first story I find a bit of a letdown following the completion of this latest story. At first I thought that it was some sort of separation anxiety that plagues a writer when they are no longer living and breathing alongside some fictional friend or foe. I now think [...]
