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Part Three of “The Guild of Swordsmen”
Part 3 of “The Guild of Swordsmen” is up at Silver Blade. Featuring a tavern brawl and a sex scene!
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Imaginarium 2012
I finally had a chance to read the other stories in the Imaginarium 2012 anthology, the one that reprinted my story “The Kiss of the Blood-Red Pomegranate” from Aoife’s Kiss. There are a lot of great stories in here! I … Continue reading
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Tagged Ada Hoffmann, Canada, Carolyn Clink, Derek Kunsken, Gemma Files, Geoffrey W. Cole, Imaginarium 2012, Kathryn Kuitenbrower, Madeline Ashby, Peter Chiykowski, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Kiss of the Blood-Red Pomegranate
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“Clear Skies in Pixieland” now available in Kindle edition
I just released my story “Clear Skies in Pixieland”, originally published earlier this year in the first issue of Nine, as a Kindle e-book for $1.29. I’ve been charging 99 cents for the other individual short stories, but this one’s longer. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Clear Skies in Pixieland, Kindle, Nine
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The Curious Case of the Shoemaker’s Daughter
About a year ago, I started making my previously published short stories available on Amazon as individual Kindle e-books. I’ve already written about my reasons for trying to get my stories published in magazines before self-publishing them, and I still feel … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Kindle, self-publishing, The Shoemaker's Daughter
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Part Two of “The Guild of Swordsmen”
In which our heroes attend a festival, and discuss excessive government regulation of food production and how dead rats make things taste better. Click here to read it.
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Part One of “The Guild of Swordsmen” now up at Silver Blade
The first part of my novella “The Guild of Swordsmen” is up now at Silver Blade. Click here to read it for free! They’ll be publishing it as a serial over the next several weeks, so I’ll be sure to … Continue reading
Don Quixote: Worldbuilding and self-publishing
I recently participated in a panel at the World Fantasy Convention on the importance of getting real-world details correct when writing fantasy fiction. One suggestion that came up for authors writing in a historically-based setting was to read fiction written … Continue reading
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Tagged Don Quixote, history of shaving, Monty Python, self-publishing, worldbuilding
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World Fantasy 2012 Report and Crochet Update
I think at this point I should just accept that I’m not going to get around to blogging about Readercon back in July or the World Science Fiction Convention in September. So … World Fantasy! This was the first weekend … Continue reading
At World Fantasy this weekend
Donald and I will be attending the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto this weekend. This is like a science fiction convention, only for fantasy. It focuses on the writing and art of the genre, whereas many other conventions have a broader … Continue reading
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Imaginarium 2012, again
Okay, it seems to be available from all the American online booksellers now (links are here). Enjoy!