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Oh Happy Day!

6/26/2006 – 9:43 am

Andy Duncan—Clarion instructor, writer extraordinaire, and all around great guy—has a new blog. Andy is responsible for some ridiculously good stories including some of my all-time favs, like “The Pottawatomie Giant,” “The Chief Designer,” and “Liza and the Crazy Water Man” (alas, no link available).

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Quest for World Domination Continues

5/11/2006 – 12:16 pm

Clarion homie John Schoffstall (slithytove) just sold his story “Bullet Dance” to Asimov’s. Yay John! Yay! Yay! I don’t know what the current tally is for our class, but it’s pretty good. A number of novels, half-dozen or more pro short story sales, several prize winning stories. I should try to find that out and [...]

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“Floating in Lindrethool” by Jeffrey Ford – An Appreciation

4/26/2006 – 10:10 am

In which I chap Jeff Ford’s ass with kisses. You can also read it on the Ellen Datlow/SCIFICTION appreciation site, so kindly created by Dave Schwartz. Without further ado: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Imagine Tony Soprano as an eloquent philosophy professor. That was my first impression of Jeff Ford when I met him in June of 2004, when [...]

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So Much To Read…

4/14/2006 – 1:40 pm

I finished this month’s F&SF a few nights ago. My favorite of the issue has to be M. Rickert’s story. The lady can flat out write. I enjoyed the Cowdrey as well, but it was pretty light fare. Rickert’s stories always have a dark undertone and sharp edges—I like that. What next? I’m taking “The [...]

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Busy Busy Busy

11/3/2005 – 11:25 am

Work is busy — going in early, working through lunch, and doing my best to leave on time. Not what I wanted, but it should let up. In November. At home, I’m trying to study for the GRE (which seems to be an excercise in either reviewing stuff I already know and stuff I don’t [...]

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Shout Out to John!

10/27/2005 – 12:47 pm

Clarion buddy John Schoffstall sold his week 3 story from Clarion to Strange Horizons. It’s called “Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery” and the sale comes as absolutely no surprise to me. In fact, the only surprise is that it’s taken this long to sell. One of my favorite workshop stories from last summer. Looking forward [...]

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Sacked Out Tired

10/21/2005 – 9:50 pm

Been a long week. The migraine that wiped me out last Friday was really just a precursor to this week’s head cold. Sniffles. Cough. Ugh. Not a lot to report here. I finished the Oct/Nov issue of F&SF and really enjoyed it. Good stories by Jeff Ford and Peter Beagle to round out the issue. [...]

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Stating the Obvious?

9/29/2005 – 1:11 pm

I started reading Ted Sturgeon’s “Thunder and Roses” last night and it struck me that this was where John Kessel got the idea for “A Clean Escape.” There’s no doubt about it. There’s a line in there about forgetting, and boom, there’s the genesis of Kessel’s story. It always seems odd when this happens. I [...]

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Stats Boy

9/1/2005 – 12:27 pm

Despite my fear of math, I happen to like stats. At Clarion, I created a little database to track the stories we read — the length, the author, what day we read it, word count, etc. It was fun at the end of the six weeks to look back at things like The Longest Stories, [...]

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Divining Tea Leaves

8/24/2005 – 11:17 am

I wish there was a correlation between checking email, checking the mailbox, and faster response times. Like if somehow the whoosh of opening the mailbox could somehow bring the answer forward a little more each day. Lord knows how many times I check my multiple email accounts per day, but it’s many. However, I’m also [...]

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