I did a short story blitz over the holiday weekend, sending out stagnant stories back into the market. As a result, I sold two more stories. 1. Road Rage, a story that has been floating around for a while, sold to new SF online magazine M-Brane SF.2. A Rock by… Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving. I finally finished cleaning out the home office today. It took me 5 days to do the deep thorough cleaning starting with the closet and working my way out. Along with that work came two large loads to Goodwill and more recyclables than I can fit in my… Continue reading
One of the priorities while I’m off work this week is to give the house a thorough cleaning. We did the curtains already. Now, I’m hammering away at my home office. It’s become the room where everything we don’t know what to do with ends up. Also, anything we haven’t… Continue reading
Today, I started going through my list of stories that are sitting on my hard drive. This has been an incredibly tough year for me in the real world, making following Heinlein’s rules numbers 4 and 5 (You must put your story on the market, and you must keep it… Continue reading
For the fifth consecutive year, Audrey competed in the Arizona Flute Society Young Artist competition. Recap: 2004 – Debut Division – Honorable Mention (unshared)2005 – Debut Division – 3rd Place2006 – Debut Division – 1st place (tied)2007 – Junior Division – Participant In the Debut (4th – 6th Grade) division,… Continue reading
I finally did it. I ordered my 16-track recorder last friday and it’s due here on thursday. You can see the one I ordered here. (I didn’t buy it from Zzounds, but they have a decent photo.) So, the Iapetus Project is on the launch pad. For the past few… Continue reading
I am pleased as punch to announce that I did make the deadline for submission to Jay Lake’s anthology. It took a late night with the wife asking when I plan to turn off the light, but I made it. Now that the submission window is closed, I don’t mind… Continue reading
13 months and Baen rejected my novel “Neanderthal Swan Song.” Not a surprise. I spoke with Alan Dean Foster back in August, and he said that he and his agent had some discussions with Baen shortly before that. According to him, they are really only buying military SF and alt… Continue reading
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I’m trying to finish a short story in time for the deadline to the Jay Lake anthology Footsteps. Every time I get a block of time to work on the story, it’s taken away by some other obligation. Aargh. Still, I think there’s… Continue reading
A nice two-night camp out finished up today. we took the troop to the Heard Scout Pueblo. There are two main attractions of this camp. First, it’s close. 30 minutes and we arrive. Second, they have a rifle range, which we reserved from 9:00 to noon on saturday. They had… Continue reading
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