07-15-08: Beneath Ceaseless Skies is Online
The website for my fantasy magazine
Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now online. You can read a little bit about how the magazine
will work, check out our Submissions Guidelines (we open to public subs on Aug. 1), or read
and post in our online forums.
My cohorts at The Homeless Moon and I are releasing a chapbook of all-original SF/F stories. We will have copies this weekend at ReaderCon 19. If you can't make it to the con, you can download a PDF copy or get info on how to pay postage so we can send you one.
06-11-08: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
I'm starting my own fantasy magazine,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I've always wanted to edit short fiction again, and I've
always thought that the world could use a market dedicated to adventure fantasy written with literary
flair, so I've started a new online magazine to do just that. You can read more about
the exact type of fantasy I'm looking for in this blog post: "Literary Adventure Fantasy"?.
05-07-08: ReaderCon
I will be attending
ReaderCon #19 this July, but I will only be there for Thursday night and Friday
during the day before I head to an Odyssey alumni workshop. If you see me, please
feel free to say hi.
03-20-08: Writers of the Future
My
Writers of the Future Finalist story unfortunately did not win one of the top
three places. However, the contest administrators have asked to hold the story for
possible inclusion in
the annual anthology as a Published Finalist.
02-18-08: Writers of the Future Finalist
I have been named one of eight Finalists in the
Writers of the Future contest, for the First Quarter of 2008. The stories
from the Finalists are passed on to the professional judges who will pick
First, Second, and Third Place Winners sometime in March. I like those odds!
02-15-08: Weird Tales Reviews
Weird Tales #347 has been out for a month now, and reviews
of my story "Excision" are trickling in from blogging readers and review
sites like The Fix.
I will be acknowledging several of them soon in my
own blog.
01-05-08: Weird Tales Available for Order
Weird Tales #347, featuring my story "Excision," is now
available
for order. This issue also includes a nonfiction article by my friend and
colleague Michael J. DeLuca.
Grab a copy soon!
12-19-07: Guesting on Jeff VanderMeer's Blog
World Fantasy Award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer has temporarily turned
over his blog Ecstatic
Days to his wife Ann, the new editor of Weird Tales, and
she has invited upcoming WT authors to write guest blog posts.
With my forthcoming story in issue #347, she asked me for a contribution.
My post should run sometime late next week, around Dec. 27th; I will announce
it in my own blog when
it does.
11-29-07: Weird Tales Website Redesign
Still no word on a Table of Contents or release date for Weird Tales
#347, but they have done a snazzy redesign of their website.
I hope the new site and all the other the buzz about Ann VanderMeer taking over the magazine will result
in lots of people reading my story.
10-24-07: Update on Weird Tales #347 Release
I received a very nice e-mail from Stephen H. Segal, one of the management
folks at Wildside
Press, in response to my blog post
about the release date of Weird Tales #347. That issue will be out in late November / early December.
Incidently, those on-line comics stores that were showing an Oct. 17 release date still report this issue
as not yet in stock. November awaits!
10-05-07: Capclave?
I may be attending this year's Capclave--I'm
not sure yet. I really enjoyed Capclave 2005, when Howard Waldrop
was the GOH. This year's lineup isn't quite as cool, but Wildside
Press in the Dealer's Room might have pre-release copies of Weird
Tales #347. Hmm...
09-30-07: Story in Weird Tales
My first SF/F sale, a short story called "Excision," is forthcoming
in the Oct/Nov issue of Weird
Tales magazine. That's the first issue of material selected by
new editor Ann VanderMeer. Several on-line comics stores, including Mile
High Comics, are reporting a release date of Oct. 17 for this issue. And
they're showing the cover, which has a cool picture of a severed head!
