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It’s time to buy a new computer when….
Today I got absolutely no writing done, because my desktop computer is so ridiculously slow. My plan was to submit a story that had recently been rejected to another magazine, to see if they were interested, then spend the rest … Continue reading
Tell, Don’t Show – another link to an old post
Another entry in the category of Stuff I Should Have Linked To When it Was New, but at least this time it’s only from June of this year, not 2005. This is from my boyfriend Donald’s blog, an interesting critique … Continue reading
How much money do writers make?
This is so old that it’s almost embarrassing to post it! But I didn’t have a blog back in 2005. Author Tobias Buckell collected and analyzed a bunch of data (from a survey he took of published authors), to determine … Continue reading
Which famous writer do YOU sound like?
Someone on one of the mailing lists I’m on sent this around. You enter some text in the box, and it’s supposed to analyze your writing style and tell you which famous author writes like you. I wouldn’t put much … Continue reading
Top Five(-plus) Novels
A few months back, on the mailing list for my Clarion West class, someone started a thread asking people for their Top Five novels. I hesitated to contribute until it became clear that a lot of other people in the … Continue reading
Readercon photos
I took my camera to Readercon, but didn’t remember to take a single picture. Fortunately, others are not so lax. Here’s my friend Matthew Kressel’s Readercon photo album. There a few pictures of me. Interestingly, I think there are more … Continue reading
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Top 10 Habits of Highly Irritating Editors
There’s a lot of material on the internet about how not to be a deadbeat writer. Much of it is posted by fiction editors, often in exasperation after the latest badly-formatted 30,000-word story about zombie mangosteens, submitted in response to … Continue reading
Readercon 2010
My boyfriend Donald and I attended Readercon at the Burlington Marriott Hotel this weekend (Burlington Massachusetts, not Burlington Vermont). Readercon is one of my favorite science fiction conventions, and I’ve gone every year since 2005, except for 2008 when I … Continue reading
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“Looking-Glass Milk” now available online for free
My story “Looking-Glass Milk” is now available to read online at Scribblers and Ink Spillers, as part of their Crystal Codices series. They initially published this story back in November, charging $1 for a downloadable e-book and $2 plus shipping … Continue reading
Not “soda”-licious
I don’t like wasting food, but not everything I cook is delicious (I know, I know, hard to believe, right?–ask my boyfriend about the Tunisian pumpkin stew). So sometimes I end up eating things I don’t like all that much. … Continue reading