Geez, two weeks since I last posted an entry? Shows you where blogging is on my list of priorities. So, what have I been doing?
Reading, mostly. I finished my ninth book in three weeks tonight. If you’re interested to see what I’ve been reading, count backwards on this list (or everything between Gordon Henry’s The [...]
2009 flew past, didn’t it? Quite a bit better than 2008 I must say, and I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in store.
Well, first things first. 2009 was definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, dominated by the one we call G-Man, G-Money, the gooch, the goon, Mr. Moo, and every so often we [...]
Things are winding down quickly in school; I only meet with my classes one more time as a large group and then in individual conferences. Teaching two new classes in my last semester of coursework isn’t ideal. Generally I was writing or modifying assignments each week based on how things went. Next semester should be [...]
Sun. 8/9 – Tottenham Hotspur 3 – 0 Olympiakos
Sun. 8/16 – Tottenham Hotspur 2 – 1 Liverpool
Wed. 8/19 – Hull City 1 – 5 Tottenham Hotspur
Sun. 8/23 – West Ham United 1 – 2 Tottenham Hotspur
Wed. 8/26 – Doncaster Rovers 1 – 5 Tottenham Hotspur
Erm. Hel-lo Tottenham Hotspur, how do you do? Please don’t [...]
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First off, a big win for me! I sold my story “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter” to Zahir: A Journal of Speculative Fiction, which is a gorgeous little magazine. Lots of “close, but not quite right” rejection slips too, so it’s good to find a home for it.
I wrote this story for a workshop [...]
I sent out a 4100-word (14 page) story yesterday to ten different literary markets. Paper and toner aside, postage and SASEs came to almost $20 on the nose, or $2 a sub. For some reason, I feel better about paying the USPS to deliver my deathless prose than paying a magazine a submission fee for [...]
I’ve been a bad blogger lately. It probably correlates to the fact that I can either blog or use my scant free time doing things that actually matter. In a bulleted list, here’s what I’ve been up to:
– Parenting! Grey turned 10 weeks on Monday and things have definitely gotten better. He cries less [...]
Summertime means a break a from school and allows for brain to dwell on things not (directly) related to academics. Dwelling is not always a good thing since it usually equates to keeping me from sleeping, either getting me out of bed late and night or too early in the morn because the brain is [...]
The other day I posted some brief thoughts on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, to which I received an interesting (and troubling) response. Catherynne’s take on Kavalier and Clay is perfectly justified and what I find disturbing is that I didn’t notice it as much as I should [...]
The TOC for The Best Horror of the Year #1 has been announced, and can be seen here along with the cover art. Still pretty damn pleased with my inclusion in this volume.
Also, I was working on my CV yesterday and searched for my name in Amazon so I could get the dates of a [...]