Monthly Archives: September 2009
On the Useful Side …
Josh Catone over at Mashable has provided 5 Rules for Better Web Writing:
“Perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of putting together a website or social media campaign is the copy. Many people assume that the same words that work for print campaigns or materials can just be copied and pasted for the web, but that’s just not true. The
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The Soundtrack to Your Writing
The song you write to, the one you use to get you into the mood, the groove – what is it?
Maybe it’s a different song for a different project. My all-purpose pumped-up for writing song? Depending on the level of rejections it may be Christina’s Fighter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7pQpNx-F4 or Pink’s Bad Influence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsM0RLAK1nY&feature=related.
Some days it’s Richard Ashcroft’s* Break the Night
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Excitementery for Queensland Writers
Queensland Writers Centre is shifting to a new home – the State Library of Queensland.
For the full story go here: http://www.qwc.asn.au/AboutUs/LatestNews/newsid394/26/Queensland-Writers-Centre-finds-a-new-home-at-the-State-Library-of-Queensland.aspx
As for me, I know it shows me as having not-so-hidden shallows, but I’ll just be so damned happy to have a building with a working elevator that doesn’t look like a reject from a film of something by H
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Squeeeeee
From lovely, lovely Tartarus Press, the ToC for Strange Tales III:
25th August 2009: We are pleased to be able to announce the line-up for Strange Tales III, which is due to be published in November:
‘Sanctuary Run’ – Daniel Mills
‘The Lammas Worm’ – Nina Allan
‘Morpheus
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Nerdly Holy of Holies … or something
*Sits in reverent silence – or is that revenant silence? Who can say?*
Neil Gaiman’s Library at Shelfari http://blog.shelfari.com/my_weblog/2009/09/neil.html
Books. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooks. Look at all the boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooks.
Did I mention the books to be looked at?
Horning In
Oh, it was about time I got to make a bad, vague pun about something (Jason Fischer will be proud of me).
Peter Ball’s debut novella Horn has had a sweeeeeeeet review in the September ish of Locus. Rich Horton is frequently a source of good, informative and informed words about short fiction and he
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Would You Like Editing With That?
(kitteh snurched from Lolcats)
I spend much of my time editing, both for myself and for other people. Some days I enjoy it. Some days I think it is a punishment from the universe not only for my sins in this life, but also the sins I’ve committed in, oh
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What is that sound?
I do believe it’s the sound of Fantasy Magazine re-opening to submissions. Huzzah! The world is back in alignment.
Go here and submit http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?page_id=2 – you know you want to.
Mammals Underfoot! An Interview by Jeff VanderMeer! Excessive Use of "!" by Me!
Let’s try this again (after yesterday’s premature effort!) …
Jeff VanderMeer interviews some emerging authors, of whom I am apparently one, at the wonderful Clarkesworld. There’s also the gravy boat of awesome in the many and varied forms of Jesse Bullington, N.K. Jemisin, Tessa Kum, Meghan McCarron, Shweta Narayan, Jeremy C. Shipp and Genevieve Valentine. Huzzah!
“Every once in awhile, it’s good for a fool
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So, I've been thinking …
… about evolution and because it’s me, it’s not about the usual, ordinary, everyday kind of evolution. It’s about the evolution of monsters. The question I put to y’all is this:
Are we soon to see the Zombie Superhero?
Or has there already been one? I’ve seen some Marvel Zombies stuff in my surfing of t’intertubes, but did not find it convincing.
Talk
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