Writing

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They liked it

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That went well.
As they say, “That went well.”  The Face­book com­ments for my sto­ry “Exit Inter­view” were all very pos­i­tive. (Whew.)

You can click the lit­tle wee screen­shot to see ’em, if you want.

On tap for tonight: Write Club. (Fol­lowed up, almost cer­tain­ly, by a farewell to a cou­ple of our writ­ers, who are going to Guelph* and Chi­na, respectively.)

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* I think it’s Guelph, anyways.

Íslendingadagurinn

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This week­end my wife and I went up to Gim­li with my moth­er for the 122nd annu­al Ice­landic Fes­ti­val.  I had­n’t been to the fes­ti­val in many years — it’s on a long week­end in sum­mer­time, so it tends to attract wed­dings, fam­i­ly reunions, and oth­er events — but this year Mom called us up about a week and a half before the week­end and said, “Hey, you want to go?”

We said “Sure!”

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Íslendin­gadagurinn” →

Coming Soon

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If you want to have my short sto­ry “Exit Inter­view” emailed direct to your inbox, you’ll need to sign up for Dai­ly Sci­ence Fic­tion, and soon.  My sto­ry’s com­ing in ear­ly August.

(If you don’t sign up, all is not lost; sto­ries show up on their site about a week lat­er, and I will for sure post a link to it here, and on Face­book, and on Twit­ter, and prob­a­bly Google+ …)

Contract

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The con­tract for my Tesser­acts sto­ry arrived in my email inbox today, as well as the lay­out ver­sion of my sto­ry for me to proof­read. Awe­some. If you need me, I’ll be proofreading.

Hey, does any­one know — can you spell Ouroboros with a low­er­case “o”?
Update: Yes.

One more hit in Google

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Oh hey look, Edge Pub­lish­ing has added details about Tesser­acts 14 to their web­site. So that’s one more place my name will appear when I go ego-surfing.

Looks like it’s ready for pre-order­ing, too:

Bran­donites: Pen­ny­wise Books
Canucks: Amazon.ca
Amer­i­cans, and the rest of the world too: Amazon.com

(Hint hint. Also, aside to Kei­th, if you’re read­ing this — if you’ve got a pre-order email address or some­thing, I’d be abun­dant­ly hap­py to add it to the head of this list.)

I’m pret­ty excit­ed, all over again! Also: I’ll be read­ing from my sto­ry “Heat Death, or, Answer­ing the Ouroborous Ques­tion” at Words Alive this year. If things work out, I’ll also be able to sign books there, just like a Real Prop­er Author.

Woo-hoo!