Company Out, Company Inn

Home in the Rookery

The last of our company left today.  We’ve had at least one extra person in the house since the second week of June, and our total number of people bedding down reached about twenty.  Surprisingly, everyone was accomodated, there were no bloody spats over couch territory, and the left-overs do not exceed the space limitations

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Flash Sale

Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

My flash story, Ghost Spider, has been accepted by AlienSkin and is scheduled to appear in there Aug./Sep issue. The editor referred to it as my ‘creepy little tale’, which is an apt description, but connoisseur’s of the taste of souls will especially appreciate it.

Fireworks Fallout

Home in the Rookery

I really wanted to hold this post until I had pictures to go with it, but at this rate I think that would be Christmas. We gathered up the troupe on the Fourth (extra people in the house totalling just over 20) and went to watch fireworks at the State Fairgrounds. We got there just in time to

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Ruins New Cover

Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

I really enjoyed the Ruins cover that Hadley Rille Press has posted for the last while, so when they said we extraterrestrial ruins people would be coming out under a new cover, I was nervous. But it looks good.  In fact, I think I like this Guillaume le Tual version just as well as the Bob Eggleton

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Rolling into July

Writing

I’ve finally looked up and realized July has arrived.  Might have had something to do with the fireworks last night.  More on that later.  For now, I wanted to post the July demotivator from 101 Reasons to Stop Writing. Maybe I’m just contrary (maybe?), but if I ever feel discouraged over a rejection, I can

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Big Picture Baen Review

The Bookshelf

My overall take on Jim Baen’s Universe was quite positive.  I think I can safely say that every story had its strong points to think on, and every story engaged me as a reader.  Most the stories went well beyond that feeble praise, however.  I’ll not belabor this point, since I have already reviewed each

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Baen Review: Introducing Spots

5 CommentsThe Bookshelf

The Men in the Mirror, by Steve Ray* A well-told tale of alternate time travel, this story was engaging and carefully plotted.  I occasionally found the descriptions long-winded, but they were also poetic.  Some nitpics: In the first scene it is clear from the pov character’s reaction to his older self that he’s not met Chuck

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The Magic Submission Number, Round Three

Writing

At some point a few weeks past, I reached the lofty number of having ten submissions out at once.  Shortly afterwards, ‘Bovine Aspirations’ was accepted by Bewildering Stories. A couple stories came back as rejections, I kept up the writing and revising, and soon I had my total count of stories out back up to ten. 

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