I’m thrilled to say that I have a story in the latest issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It’s called Epidapheles and the Insufficiently Affectionate Ocelot, and it recounts the adventures of the decrepit wizard Epidapheles and his familiar, an invisible sentient chair named Door, in their quest to save a kingdom whose regent has [...]
Mark Pilgram dishes out some sage advice:
I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this, they invariably ask what word processor I use. It doesn’t fucking matter! I happen to write in Emacs. I also code in Emacs, which is a nice bonus. Other people write and code [...]
Sakura Park is a beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking poem from Rachel Wetzsteon, who died recently, and too soon.
This passage, from Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, just blew me away:
When he and Hooke and Wilkins had cut open live dogs during the Plague Years, Daniel had looked into their straining brown eyes and tried to fathom what was going in their minds. He’d decided that nothing was, that dogs had no conscious minds, [...]
I’ve got an essay about Edgar Allan Poe, called Leaky Graves, in the latest issue of Weird Tales:
It’s part of the magazine’s Growing Up Poe feature, in which a bunch of us write about what Poe meant to us when we were kids. Here’s Cherie Priest’s excellent contribution.
From a BoingBoing post about über-crank Ignatius L. Donnelly, who Charlie Pierce profiles in his book Idiot America:
“Cranks are noble,” Pierce says, “because cranks are independent. A charlatan is a crank who sells out.” It’s like the difference between kitsch and dreck–people who make kitsch are sincere. Cynical purveyors of political and cultural [...]
From Kater’s World Fantasy Convention diary:
The SF community runs on love, not money, and we sometimes forget how much of themselves so many people have to give to keep everything going.
I’ve never heard it said better.
Jeff and Ann VanderMeer have put together an anthology with a simple premise: ask a lot of talented writers to write the first thing that pops into their head when they hear the phrase “last drink bird head”. Anything goes. This has led, as you can imagine, to an explosive cacophony of awesomeness. It’s called [...]
Michael Ian Black:
Maybe it’s an obvious thing to say, but any creative endeavor is a very frightening proposition. You work your ass off on something, give it everything you have, then put it out there, and, inevitably, wait for other people to tell you how much it sucks. That’s a hard thing to [...]
Submission guidelines for online magazines are often informative and hilarious. Here’s a particularly awesome gem from Eyeshot’s Hindenburg Complex of Infidels & Crusaders:1
… we are always open to reading anything you want to send (as long as it doesn’t involve dentists — lately lots of people have been sending dentist-related fiction and we’d [...]
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