I got "FRESHMAN EATS" published on The Purple Wall on the first of the month. The site's pretty unique -- all stories go into a head-to-head bracket, competing for votes. On the 10th I won my first round, and you can read and help me advance (if you wish!) by clicking here. Now, a few …
Continue reading “FRESHMAN EATS” Moves to Round Two on The Purple Wall
Yesterday I got a story “published.” I made a blog post about scifi podcasting magazines a few months back, and I truly believe that audio fiction will grow exponentially in future years. Books on tape have been around for decades, but with everything just so much more digital now, and devices so small… anyway, I’m …
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This is my first podcasted story, and my third paying piece of fiction overall. You can listen to it—or read it—on The Centropic Oracle by clicking here. The title is “Lizzy’s Last Chance,” and it’s about the fictional Djinn family. And hopefully some part of that name rings a bell! Now with that out of …
Continue reading “Lizzy’s Last Chance” Podcasted in THE CENTROPIC ORACLE (7:36)
All You Need is Kill is an awful name for a novel. Written in 2004 by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, this is the book that was later turned into the 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Now, here are two facts: First, Edge of Tomorrow is one of the best science fiction …
My previous post was a publication announcement, and so is this—Lite Lit One put my story “The Real McCoy” up about a month ago. So like with that last post, this one is a bit late. But also, this is MY SECOND PAID STORY FOR THE YEAR, and I also think the “The Real McCoy” …
Continue reading “The Real McCoy” Published in LITE LIT ONE (598 words)
I recently sold a story to a science fiction podcast. This is exciting news (to me, anyway!), because for the second time ever I'll get paid for writing, and for the first time something I’ve written will be performed. I don’t believe I can say more on that now, but did you know there are …
Continue reading Some of my Favorite Scifi Podcasting Magazines
So, is slipstream fiction a genre? As I first wrote when starting to read Feeling Very Strange, an anthology that tries, in part, to exemplify just what slipstream fiction is… I don’t think it is. I’m not sure if there are any stories here that don’t already fall under the regular speculative fiction umbrella, and …
Continue reading Feeling Very Strange: A Fantastic (Scifi?) Short Story Collection
A week after being trapped in the mountains by snow and Leah and I are finally caught up (can you tell—not a lot of blog posts last week, right?). So more things about writing and books and food to come, but what did we do when stuck in a cabin? Well, we slept a lot. …
Schlock Magazine just published my short story “Robot Plague.” If you want to check it out it’ll only take five minutes, and you can read it by clicking here. And, of course, I’m really proud of this story. I’m proud of all the stories I write, though I’m extra proud of this one. This is …
Continue reading “Robot Plague” published in “Schlock Magazine” (1,422 words)
I recently picked up my collection of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazines. I was visiting my parents in Oregon, and for once I was both checking a bag and had some extra room inside it. Side note: my parents gave me an EXCELLENT Christmas gift—a “disposable” piece of luggage they got at a yard sale …
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