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Friends of the Merril Contest Update
Trophy by snaku6763 Late last month I decided to break my own rule about not entering literary contests in order to sub to a good cause. I sent a story to The Friends of the Merril Contest. Last night...
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Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest: Winners Announced
Happy 2016 by TornTethers Here’s an update from my last post about having a story sent on to the judges of the Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest. Mine didn’t win but I’m still feeling so...
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Up and Coming!
Cover by Holly Heisey, http://hollyheiseydesign.com Fellow SFF writers SL Huang and Kurt Hunt have graciously taken on the task of compiling stories from all those writers eligible for the John W....
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Press Release: Up and Coming Anthology
LINKS Get your copy here: http://www.badmenagerie.com/up-and-coming-stories-from-the-2016-campbell-eligible-writers/ Or here: http://www.writertopia.com/awards/campbell#anthology
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The Age We Are
When I hear younger writers talking about how they wasted their youth or are too old to do what they want, I find myself tsk, tsking—as old people do. Hah. But more so, it reminds me that we all feel...
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Pre-order Now: Futuristica Vol. 1
The folks at Metasagas Press have announced that Futuristica, Volume 1 is ready for pre-orders in all the usual formats. My story “Hu.man & Best” is right there between those covers somewhere....
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20 Years of Canadian SpecFic
Blood and Water, by Bundoran Press Editor Hayden Trenholm, is just one of ten finalist and award-winning titles available for a limited time in the Aurora Awards Bundle from StoryBundle. From the...
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Another FunBundle!
And while I’m talking funbundles (not the kind the cable companies want you to think are “fun,” but aren’t), check out the new site BundleRabbit. They are currently offering The Middlings Bundle, a...
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Tesseracts Twenty!
Super-happy to have a story in Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela, edited by Spider Robinson and James Alan Gardner. This promises to be a wonderful addition to this all-Canadian series that’s been on-going...
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Fallow
For a field to be fallow means that it’s already been plowed. To be plowed, means to have been prepared. So, prepared, but not seeded. Some definitions say “unseeded.” And—getting at what I like—this:...
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Futuristica Vol 1
It’s out! Futuristica: Vol 1 by Metasagas Press is available online in print and ebook versions. This 359 page anthology of science fiction has nineteen stories chosen from over 650 submissions. There...
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“Bedroom Community” in FSM!
I woke up to this lovely review of one of my favourite stories this morning. I’m delighted that it’s just been published in Issue 13 of Fantasy Scroll Magazine—my second story with this magazine....
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I’m Back
This site has been down for months, but I am back. It’s been a year of health issues, surgeries, recoveries and distressing world events that kept me from prioritizing online visibility. But with the...
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Compostela
About the title of this anthology: For more than 1,000 years, Santiago de Compostela (Compostela means “field of stars”) has attracted pilgrims to walk to the cathedral that holds St. James the...
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Have a Halloween Story
Playground of a Lesser God Just in time for Halloween, I’m pleased to offer my short story, Playground of a Lesser God, online for free! Alone in her abandoned neighborhood on Halloween night,...
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