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World Domination Continues Apace

7/14/2008 – 7:28 am

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The Quest for World Domination by the Clarion 2004 class continues apace with the latest sale by my good friend Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon to a little rag known as Analog for his story “The Johnson Boys of Ames Iowa” (although the title will be changing). Since a number of us still share [...]

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Finish Lines

5/12/2008 – 6:59 am

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After I put the finishing touches on one more paper, I’ll be officially done with school for the 2007-08 academic year. It was a very good semester as I really liked all my classes but man, it was a lot of work too. I’m on 33 books read for the year. Next year [...]

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Naive American Lit and Artistic Struggle

3/6/2008 – 11:55 am

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No, that’s not a typo. I was reading for my Native American lit class and an article used the word “naive,” which suddenly seemed quite funny for being one letter off “native.” “Naive American Lit” could almost be a moniker for Native American literature.
I say this because we’re reading The Education [...]

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Book Splurge and Writing Thoughts

3/3/2008 – 11:32 am

I made my second multi-volume book purchase yesterday and have sternly told myself “no more” until I get these read. See if you notice a trend.
First batch: Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God by Cormac McCarthy)
Yesterday’s batch: Love Medicine and The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual [...]

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Heading Back to WisCon

5/26/2007 – 12:06 pm

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Had a lovely night last night chatting people up at WisCon. Went out to eat and had a few drinks with Clarion homegirls Tenea Johnson and Rebecca Rowe and had some great conversation about the boundaries of sci-fi, fantasy, slipstream, China Mieville, Octavia Butler, genetics, babies, foreign wars, European football, and probably [...]

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Yay Phil! & What I’ve Read

5/3/2007 – 11:57 am

Clarionmate and all around great guy Dr. Phil Kaldon has sold his story “Machine” to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. I know he really enjoys this publication as well, so it’s always fun to sell to a market you especially like. Yay Phil!

Last year I read a lot of short fiction and only about [...]

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Clarion vs. Grad School

4/30/2007 – 3:12 pm

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I’ve been thinking about the different experiences of attending Clarion and completing my MA in Creative Writing. Not surprisingly, they’re very different experiences, and both have been overwhelmingly good experiences. For me at least. And I should say that I had a great (and successful) Clarion class and that [...]

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Black Jack

1/26/2007 – 4:20 pm

I walked into my local book peddler yesterday to pick up one final text for class when lo! I saw that the new Realms of Fantasy has hit the shelves. This is the April 2007 edition which features:

* A Touch of Hell by Richard Parks
* The Rope: by Noreen Doyle
* Stephanie Shrugs by [...]

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Submission

9/13/2006 – 12:09 pm

I dropped a gently edited version of “Castleneff” in the mail yesterday, bringing my total number of stories submitted since January 1 to 29. That was my total for last year and 2006 still has a few months to go.
I’m more selective in where I send stuff now and more selective in what I [...]

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“A Change of Seasons”

8/31/2006 – 2:40 pm

/ Hey, good news! My contributor’s copies for the Sep/Oct issue of Cicada arrived in the mail today. Cicada’s harder to find than some other mags, but try looking in the children’s or young adult section of the magazine rack of your favorite bookseller.
My story "A Change of Seasons" was written in week 3 [...]

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