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One more hit in Google
Oh hey look, Edge Publishing has added details about Tesseracts 14 to their website. So that's one more place my name will appear when I go ego-surfing. Looks like it's ready for pre-ordering, too: Brandonites: Pennywise Books Canucks: Amazon.ca Americans, and the rest of the world too: Amazon.com (Hint hint. Also, aside to Keith, if [...]
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The game's afoot
Pirates! (and not the zombie-fighting kind either)
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Everything that Never Happened
…is a go. I finished the high-level outline of the novel last night. I printed the outline this morning — 18 pages — and at lunch hour today I'm going to start into writing the actual first draft. Even after two months of outlining, I'm still really excited about this project, which is a good [...]
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Touring the Nonsuch
My current WiP, Everything that Never Happened, is set mainly aboard a small 17th-century sailing vessel, a square-rigged ketch named the Mandalay. It's not a coincidence that it's a square-rigged ketch, just like the historical Nonsuch; ever since the first time I visited the Nonsuch gallery in the Manitoba Museum, I've been fascinated by the [...]
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Tesseracts 14
So yeah. Tesseracts is an annual Canadian anthology of SF and fantasy. This year, my short story "Heat Death, or, Answering the Ourobouros Question" will be in it. To say I'm excited is to somewhat understate the case. Edit—comments from the editors: "[One editor] wrote down 'funny, lively, likeable.' [The other] was even more enthusiastic!"
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The jetpack theory
42. Jetpack Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream. Tom Gauld has it right. 100% right, IMHO.
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Tonight's fiction
A romance between a worm and a giraffe -- seriously
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Writing group meeting
So tonight I went to the second Group Voice meeting. Group Voice is a local writers' group, newly-formed. Last meeting, two weeks ago, we pretty much just introduced ourselves. This time we all brought something to read to the group — I brought the first couple sections of my current WiP, Once I was you [...]
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Indispensable for writers…
…the latest Dresden Codak webcomic wossname deals up a list of the Essential 3rd Act Twists.
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