Authors… in… SPAAAAAAAACE!!!

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…Well, not exactly. But as close as we can get without becoming astronauts or paying $5K for the privilege. I’m a-goin’ to Launch Pad! Bwhuh? you say. To which I reply, from the Launch Pad website: Launch Pad is a NASA-funded education/public outreach effort supplementing Mike Brotherton’s space-based astronomical research. Our budget allows us to provide a workshop that is essentially free to participants. Our primary goal is to teach writers of all types about modern science, specifically astronomy, and in turn reach their audiences. We hope to both educate the public and reach the next generation of scientists. Though […]

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You are likely to be eaten by your unfinished wordcount.

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This. Is too funny. Go read it. My only regret is that now I get to follow this awesome post with my own tomorrow. -_- Since I never got to play games like this as a kid (no computer, though the family did have a Pong unit, go figure), I figured there had to be a way I could experience the awe and majesty of Zork online, now. And lo and behold, there is! But now I’ve been playing for an hour and haven’t gotten any writing done. And f#@$ing grues keep eating me…

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Copyediting and Agents and Gardens, oh my!

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Been awhile since I posted here, so now I’ve got “diarrhea of the mouth”, as my grandmother used to say. Here’s what I’ve been up to lately: Received the copyedited version of Book 1 last week and have been steadily working my way through it, checking to make sure all my i’s are dotted and t’s crossed. I’ve never seen something professionally copyedited before, so it’s fascinating to see how someone who really knows their English has interpreted my sometimes loosey-goosey language. I’ve learned two things from this: a) that I overuse commas and hyphenated compounds like no tomorrow, and

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Observations… theory?

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Got the copyedit of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms today! I’ve never done this before, so I kind of boggled when I started flipping pages and saw all these little squiggly things on it. The folks in my writing group helped me decipher the first few pages, and the stylesheet included with it helps too. It looks like it’s going to be fun to work on this — and I needed to re-read it anyway, now that I’m working on Book 3, for congruity’s sake — but there’s definitely going to be a learning curve involved. Wish me luck. And in

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New Post at the Magic District: Retreats

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OK, I know I’ve been posting more at the Magic District lately than I have been here. Sorry, ya’ll. =( Still learning how to juggle all this stuff. And apparently I’m going to be adding more soon; Altered Fluid is thinking about starting a blog. Yo ho, yo ho, a blogger’s life for me… Anyhow, this week’s post is an expansion of my post here (last week) about the retreat my writing group undertook. So check it out!

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Tired, but happy

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I love my writing group! Last week we went on a retreat, taking over a farm in western Pennsylvania (near Gettysburg), where we spent 5 days doing nothing but writing and hanging out. I have to tell you, I’m not the sort of person who hangs out with a bunch of people easily for 5 hours, let alone 5 days, but this was worth gold.

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Sale to Postscripts!

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Woo! I sold a short story. It’s called “Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters”, and is set in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Sold to the UK print ‘zine, Postscripts. No info yet on publication date, but I’ll keep you posted. I don’t write short stories often. The problem is that I rarely get discrete ideas. For example, I once started a story about an assassin in a vaguely Egyptian setting who viewed killing as a transcendant religious experience. But that got me thinking about why a religion might consider murder a good thing…

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