Something wonderful happened on Twitter last Friday night. That something was #SportsNight2014. If you follow my writer persona, you may have noticed me retweeting some of my favorites: Natalie gets really into Call of Duty #SportsNight2014 — Alice has a…
Category: writing
I’M OLD
AND THAT’S OKAY. ISN’T THAT RIGHT, THE DOUBLECLICKS? RIGHT. http://youtu.be/zCF_js2y0Ec I don’t have any big plans for my birthday this year—mostly because, honestly, it’ll be hard to top last year’s incredible awesomeness—but it’s been a really good year so far……
I Don’t Worry Too Much about Piracy and Here’s Why
TL;DR: oh, just go read Cecilia Tan’s blog post instead. This summer, my friend Katrina Archer self-published her YA fantasy novel Untalented (previously a 2009 ABNA quarterfinalist): This week, she discovered that the eBook version had been pirated: If I…
I Support Movie Reboots with All-Female Casts
And I have been thinking about it probably too much, thanks to this sidebar from the August 15th issue of Entertainment Weekly (click for larger version): Yeah, I know, that’s pretty tongue-in-cheek. The online article “Would all-girls ‘Ghostbusters’ be a…
I Am Home
It’s been less than a week since my Clarion West (CW) adventure concluded, and I’m still readjusting to normal life and catching up on all the e-mails I’ve been ignoring for six weeks or more. I’m almost done clearing out…
I Will Miss Being Here
It’s the middle of Week Six now, the final week of Clarion West 2014, and I’ve turned in my final story for critique tomorrow morning. It’s all downhill from here: just seven more stories to read and give feedback on,…
I am Pitching My Novel on Twitter Today
Because though I’ve gotten some very encouraging responses from my agent queries, nobody’s asked for an exclusive yet, and I definitely haven’t gotten “the call.” Plus, let’s be honest, I live on Twitter. How could I pass up #SFFpit? I’m…
I Knew Jay Lake
And now he’s gone forever. Photo by Waterloo Productions I didn’t know Jay very well, but I did have the privilege of spending some time with him over the past few years—in local “co-working” writing groups, at a few different…
I Am Going to Clarion West
When the phone rang on the afternoon of Saturday, March 15th, I didn’t answer it because I didn’t recognize the number. The call rolled over to voicemail, and a few minutes later I got this transcript by e-mail: (Though that…
I Am in the One Percent
…of unsolicited stories which were accepted for publication in Cohesion Press‘ upcoming military horror anthology SNAFU. Just signed the contract last night! Here’s the cover: Per the official announcement: “Out of a total of just over 1100 submissions, only 11…