admin | July 31, 2009
I did it! Wrote and submitted a new short story to the Esquire fiction contest, that is. I’ve been working on it all week, and now it’s done! What a great feeling…especially because I hadn’t written many short stories for a while. De-emphasizing short stories was a conscious choice, because I really wanted to focus [...]
admin | July 30, 2009
If you’d like to read the full story of “The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake,” just follow this link. It’ll take you to the subscriptions page for Space and Time magazine. Scroll down to “Single Purchase of Current Issue” and order away! Better yet, order a year’s subscription to this fine publication. It [...]
admin | July 29, 2009
See the little cutie pie…I mean cake…in the upper right corner of my home page? His name is Smidgen, and he’s the star of my new story in Space and Time magazine, “The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake.” In many ways, he’s an evil little snack cake, but you can understand where he’s [...]
admin | July 28, 2009
Well, I’m back in the trenches again, fighting to crank out a short story. Struggling with it, too…much more than I should be. I know what the problem is: I’m overthinking, trying too hard. Trying to rope in everything I learned in my recent workshops plus make every line scintillate and sparkle. The result is [...]
admin | July 27, 2009
Over the weekend, the ladder leading from my back deck into my above-ground swimming pool collapsed right under me! The metal struts on either side of the ladder just literally cracked apart in multiple places, eaten away by decades of chemical abuse. Fortunately, I wasn’t hurt when the thing crumbled, but I came close. The [...]
admin | July 26, 2009
This weekend, I was busy from start to finish thanks to celebrations surrounding two family milestones. On Saturday, I attended a party in honor of the 90th birthday of my father-in-law, Bob Snavely. It was a first-class shindig at a local country club, featuring every last one of Bob’s children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and all spouses [...]
admin | July 25, 2009
Remember the new story in Space and Time I told you about? It’s called “The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake,” and it’s about a futuristic pastry with a malevolent mind of its own. Well, here’s the magnificent Alan Beck illustration that accompanies the story. I think Alan did a wonderful job of bringing [...]
admin | July 24, 2009
Yesterday, I wrote about my new story, “The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake,” in the latest issue of Space and Time. I also mentioned some other writing news, so let’s talk about that a bit. This fall, a story of mine will appear in a new fantasy anthology from DAW Books titled The [...]
admin | July 23, 2009
A story of mine appears in the latest issue of the ultra-cool Space and Time Magazine. The story, “The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake,” is a dark romp through the aisles of a futuristic supermarket, where a snack cake with baked-in intelligence seduces a reluctant customer. It’s a demented tale of twisted baked [...]
admin | July 22, 2009
During the last bunch of weeks, I’ve been too busy and preoccupied to perform certain tasks…or do certain things properly. For example, I couldn’t seem to make certain financial calculations. I was unable to figure out how to adjust my federal tax withholding to compensate for this year’s across the board decrease in withholding. I [...]
The Fictioneer will be appearing at World Fantasy 36, set for October 28-31, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.
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