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New Short Fiction: “L’esprit de L’escalier” by Peter M. Ball …

September 19, 2010 | News, Pimping/Promoting! | Leave a comment

… is over at Apex! Huzzah!  And it totally got io9‘d! Double huzzah!!

Rat opens the double doors and the stairwell smells of baking, the air thick with dull warmth and the smell of yeasty dough. He wrinkles his long nose and wonders if it will be like this for the entire way down, or if the
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Catherynne Valente – Rules for Editing

June 29, 2010 | On Writing: General | 6 Comments

Via the Bibliophile Stalker, this from Catherynne Valente (she of Palimpsest fame)  made me laugh and nod … this is my favourite line, but I’d suggest reading the whole damned thing:

I cannot begin to understand the logic that says: BORING STUFF UP FRONT, AWESOME TO THE BACK.

http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/590003.html

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For I Am a Nerd

October 14, 2009 | On Writing: General, Random | 7 Comments

… and I love this stuff. Thanks to Brain #2 for the linkery

The Wicked Witch has Hansel caged

Once upon a time there was a world of tragic princes who had been transformed into small amphibians, beautiful princesses who were temporarily languishing in a life of drudgery, unprepossessing trolls with rights-of-way issues, and a variety of
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