M-Brane SF #17 has been released to the wild.
One of my longer shorts to date, "One-tenth of One Percent" can be found within. Rather appropriate for Memorial Day, it features a few members of the armed services as secondary characters. If you drop me an email or direct message me on Twitter, I'll tell you the story's original title.
Also included in this issue is a lengthy piece from Jason Sizemore of Apex fame and some other delicious tidbits. Thanks to Chris Fletcher for taking a chance with the story; he always puts together a nice mag, and I'm happy to have something sci-fi enough to make an issue.
Head over and check it out.
(and if you happen to read "One-Tenth of One Percent", I'd love to hear your thoughts...good, bad, or otherwise)
Someone found my blog today by googling
Shakespeare Angel... Ah shucks! But you found the wrong place. Though I am, of course, angelic most of the time (except when I'm doing bad things to innocent characters).
Cool weekend. Drew pictures with beautiful nephew and niece, and said niece joined the, 'will you please stop singing' club - all family members join in the end. :( See googler, even my singing is demonic.Then, the wonderful Chris Fletcher accepted my science fiction story
'Treading the Regolith', which is neither dark nor fantastical (I think), at least it's not my usual flavour of dark, for M-Brane SF. It will appear in the April issue.
And today, I fell back in love with my WIP. Let's hope we don't have a one-night stand.
Two stories published in one day - I feel almost famous.
Insomniac Ink is available to read at Jodi Lee's New Bedlam. I'd love it if you have the time to head over their and read it and possibly leave a comment. You'll also find fiction from Barry Napier, R Scott McCoy, Jeff Parish, Jodi Lee plus others. But be warned, it's a scary place to visit even for a little while. If you have heart problems perhaps you should creep away and pretend you were never here.
And the folks at M-Brane SF have published my funny (I hope) sci-fi short 'See Saw', which is available in print & pdf.
Don't forget New Bedlam is now open to new residents, check out the submission guidelines
Fantasy Magazine have adopted a Clarkesworld like submissions tracker so you can now submit through the site. I find these things addictive. It's a long way from the bad old days when you had to submit everything by snail mail, only it wasn't 'snail' then, just plain old mail. I know things can disappear into the ether with emails, but back then the post office could lose them for decades. At the moment I'm number 7 in line at Clarkesworld for a rejection, I mean consideration.
In other Fantasy news, if you have the time, I highly recommend checking out The Adventures of Petal, the Paperdoll Pirate by Paul Jessup. Wonderful, surreal, and engaging.
And in YAY! news: 'See Saw' - a humorous, dark sci-fi tale - sold to M-Brane SF yesterday. Nice start to the month.
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Congrats! Adding it to my "to buy list".
I remember the first time I wrote something sci-fi enough to be published. Made me want to watch a few episodes of Star Trek ; )
All the covers of the mags you've shown lately are fantastic, this one too. Second billing, very nice. : )
Danielle - Thanks.
Natalie - Ah, the sexual tension between Kirk and Spock has become too much for my writerly brain.
Becca - M-Brane always has pretty covers. ;)
I have it downloaded, now I just need to find the time to read it. I wish I wrote more science fiction so I could send Chris more material.
Jamie - Let me know what you think. I was kind of coloring outside the lines.
A copy of M-Brane is in my inbox waiting for me to open it.
Congrats. :D
Very cool, I'll check it out!
I actually just recently finished my first sci-fi (ish) story. I tried to channel Matheson. :D
I just read it over lunch and it left my stomach in knots-- in a good way. I feel like I'm always commenting on your ability with tension, but it really is above and beyond. The way you handled the PoV, with scenes that contained no internal exposition here and there but still made the emotional responses perfectly evident, was really excellent. It sounds like a daft thing to applaud, but it's something not many people can manage properly.
Cate - Thanks.
Anthony - Best of luck with it. Matheson is an excellent choice.
Katey - Glad you enjoyed. I've been really laying off the internal exposition (we are talking about characters' internal thoughts here, right?). I'm glad it paid off.
Yeah. I mean, it's a balance. You need some or it's just a script. But someone skilled with that balance, particularly in respect to the story they're telling and the mood they're creating, is a brilliant thing.
Congrats! I definitely need to pick that one up.
Congrats, Aaron!
Congratulations again Aaron! I'll be back to read it as soon as the fuzz clears free of my pre-morning eyes :D