Category Archives: writing

“Winter,” the stand-alone trade paperback that is to hold my novelette “Winter” and a reprint of my story “The Adjoa Gambit” has been pushed back to May at the earliest due to problems with the cover illustration. www.ricknovy.com

Before I get to today’s main topic, I want to welcome all the new blood passing through and looking for eggs in my basket off to the right under my profile. I know you swing by to find hatchling eggs, but do I hope you’ll occasionally take a look at… Continue reading →

A while back, I talked about my novel submission coming back from Baen. I submitted it using their online submission process. I had already been waiting about ten months when I visited Alan Dean Foster’s home. We discussed it for a few minutes, and he told me that he and… Continue reading →

My short story, “A Rock by Any Other Name,” is now live at The Future Fire. You can read it here, or first view the cover page and art here. This from the Future Fire’s manifesto: This magazine is intended to showcase new writing in Social, Political, and Speculative, Cyber-fiction…. Continue reading →

If you live in the Phoenix metropolitan area and enjoy fiction, you might be interested in a joint reading from two writers groups. We’ll be reading at 2:00PM on Sunday, December 14th at Dog Eared Pages Used Books. Here is the announcement from their mailer: Sunday, December 14th 2:00 pm… Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Here’s another first for me. I sold a prose poem to Astropoetica. Nominally, I don’t do poetry. Except limericks. I do sometimes write limericks. There was a man incredibly crass,Who had horribly flatulant gas.Smells? There were plenty.Friends? There weren’t any.But he sounds like a section of brass! That’s generally the… Continue reading →