Anthologies
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After a few dedicated and hard-won writing sessions, I put the finishing touches on the first draft of a story I’m doing for an anthology. Entitled “Damn, It’s Hard Out Here For A Brownie!”, it is a sometimes twisted tale about pride in one’s work, labor relations, and how one crazy person can fuck it
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Just saw roughs for the cover of Cobalt City Timeslip, featuring the new, unifying background for all future Cobalt anthologies. I can barely contain my excitement. There should be a cover to show in the next week or so, with a table of contents in early August. I’ve seen three of the stories so far,
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I realize I’m a little late with this reminder, but I’ll be reading from “Frames of Reference,” my story in Close Encounters of the Urban Kind tonight. There will be several of us reading snippets from the collection, including Rosemary Jones, Erik Scott de Bie, Shannon Page, and Alma Alexander. If you’re not familiar with
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Which is pretty much just my pretentious way to say that my books have been deactivated from my original Lulu.com store. I hope to have these live again from Timid Pirate Publishing by September, but there are a lot of production hoops to jump through first. Rest assured, you’ll all be the first to know
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Ah, I can’t believe I didn’t post about this earlier this week. It goes to show how insane the past five days have been, I guess. My short story “Ink Calls to Ink” which originally appeared on WilyWriters.com in February of last year has just been selected for a Best of anthology. Entitled Night-Mantled: The
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When I first started self-publishing my novels with Cobalt City Blues and Greetings from Buena Rosa, it was a little home enterprise. It was a way to make my novels available to friends and family in an easy-to-read format. If other people wanted to read them, that was fine by me. For those purposes, Lulu.com
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It’s been a chaotic month. In the past four weeks (in addition to my regular 9-5 job), I did one reading for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE URBAN KIND at the University Bookstore, celebrated one wonderful relationship milestone, celebrated my birthday, and finished the first draft on three original short stories — two of them started
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My not-so- secret project is starting to take shape. Last year, I put together the Cobalt City Christmas in a very short amount of time, thanks in no small part to some fantastic stories cranked out quickly by author friends of mine. I feel that the anthology was a great success. Much was learned, and
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The Wayward Coffeehouse reading for Close Encounters of the Urban Kind went very nicely. We had a decent turn out, including the wonderful folks from Seattle-Geekly.com. Books were sold and autographed, nightmares were seeded (I blame “Frames of Reference” for that, but Rosemary Jones’ story “Two Out, Wendigo” might trigger some cannibalism fears in people),
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I’d like to thank Doree from the Phinneywood Blog for the lovely press coverage of the upcoming Wayward Coffeehouse reading that turned into a brief interview of yours truly. I recommend reading the article not because I’m as narcissistic as the average writer, but because I’ve adored the Phinneywood Blog for a while now. And
Tales from the Ragged Edge 