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M. Darusha Wehm

Explorer of Worlds Real and Imagined

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      • Act of Will
      • The Beauty of Our Weapons
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    • The Voyage of the White Cloud
    • Retaking Elysium
    • The Qubit Zirconium
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      • Packet Trade
      • Sea Change
      • Storm Cloud
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    • The Home for Wayward Parrots
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    • The Stars Beyond
    • Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy, Volume 4
    • KeyForge: Tales From the Crucible
    • Trans-Galactic Bike Ride
    • Fireweed: Stories from the Revolution
    • Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume I
    • The Dame Was Trouble
    • Dystopia Utopia Short Stories
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    • Procyon Press Science Fiction Anthology 2016
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News

Finishing

September 3, 2009

I finally finished the first draft of a story I started in El Salvador. I have such trouble finishing things without a deadline, even a totally fake one. I have to start making them for myself.

Editing will go faster that writing, I hope. The only problem is I have two more story ideas that I want to get on to before I tire of them. I guess it’s fake deadline time!

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Playas del Coco, Costa Rica

August 27, 2009

Timeshare seller: Hi! Where are you from?

Me: I live on that boat out there in the bay.

Timeshare seller: Cool. Let me tell you about this new resort we have just up the road…

Me: No, that’s okay. I live on my boat.

Timeshare seller: That’s really awesome. But this new resort is blah blah blah.

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Real print version of Beautiful Red on Amazon

July 7, 2009

Link: Real print version of Beautiful Red on Amazon

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Earl Newton on Rejection

June 30, 2009

Link: Earl Newton on Rejection

The usual advice regarding the stony silence most creative submissions receive, but also a nice bit at the end about success and what that really means for artists.

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On work

June 28, 2009

People often ask us if we’re on vacation or working. They mean, working for pay, which we are not. But we are working, often pretty hard.

It’s hard to explain that we work on things that people on land would usually hire a pro for, but we have to do it all.

Work is more than just getting paid for somthing. Writers and other artists know that, often working very hard on a piece that may or may not ever bring in cash. It’s too bad we’re all so hung up on whether or not a person is getting paid for the work they do.

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Good news, bad news

June 22, 2009

Beautiful Red is now available at amazon.com! The bad news is it costs $21. This is not my doing, and I’m working to reduce that amount by a lot. I will keep you all posted.

Feel free to pick up a copy if that price suits you and or write a review!

“Beautiful Red” (M. Darusha Wehm)

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More fun with Facebook

May 25, 2009

I’ve gotten a few friend requests from fans, which is kind of awkward for me as I don’t accept FB friends unless I have another connection with them first.

So, now I’ve now made a page for myself on Facebook as a writer. Feel free to become a fan, and I’ll keep it updated on what’s going on with my writing.

Also, feel free to follow me on twitter, though be prepared to get a lot of tweets about traveling, as that’s what I’m mostly doing these days.

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Good Company

May 23, 2009



Beautiful Red is in great company on feedbooks.com.

I came across BR as a featured book on their front page, next to Victor Hugo’s classic Les Misérables. Amazing.

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Beautiful Red is a Parsec Award Finalist!

August 26, 2008

The podcast of Beautiful Red was nominated for a Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form), and I’ve just found out that it is a finalist.  I am in amazing company – works by Timothy Callahan, Patrick McLean, Mur Lafferty and Scott Sigler are also nominated in this category.  I couldn’t be happier to be thought of in the same category as these authors.

The Parsec Awards celebrate excellence in speculative fiction podcasting, and will be held at the Dragon*Con convention in a few days.  I won’t be able to attend, given that I’m only a few weeks out from departing on a long world sailing trip, but my thoughts and well-wishes go out to all the nominees.

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SFFaudio

February 3, 2008

Beautiful Red got a nice mention on SFFaudio recently.

If you like SF and you like audio fiction, do yourself a favour and subscribe to SFFaudio. They’ve got the low down on all kinds of great audio, online and offline.

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Beautiful Red on Facebook

November 9, 2007

The Beautiful Red podcast novel now has its own page on Facebook.  If you’re a facebooker, go add yourself as a fan of Beautiful Red.  To become a fan, click the “Add to my Products” link on the profile page.

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Describing the Present

November 8, 2007

My pal Steve Holden (of Tech News Radio and the Jersey Boys podcast) sent me an email saying “Your book is happening in the real world …” with a link to this story:

The recent armed robbery of a Chicago-based co-location facility has customers hopping mad after learning it was at least the fourth forced intrusion in two years. They want to know how C I Host, an operator that vaunts the security of its data centers, could allow the same one to be penetrated so many times.

…the same location has been the target of at least four burglaries or robberies since August 2005, according to police reports and former customers, some of whom say they lost sensitive data and hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware.

via The Register

As William Gibson might argue, science fiction is more about the present than any imagined future.

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Primary Sidebar

Book cover for “Hamlet, Prince of Robots” by M. Darusha Wehm. A blue-green robot skull with a golden crown in the style of a neon sign, over a dark glitchy background. In the top left is a quote reading “Enormous fun and a real gift to lovers of Shakespeare or science fiction or both. Familiar and surprising, clever and moving.” From Kate Heartfield, author of Sunday Times bestseller The Embroidered Book.

Hamlet, Prince of Robots

Like Succession meets Blade Runner … an extremely compelling and satisfying read that allowed me to investigate my own place in our time of communion and interdependence with machines.

—Pip Adam, author of Acorn Prize winner The New Animals

Something is rotten in the state of cybernetics.

Elsinore Robotics is on the cusp of a breakthrough—the company is poised to create the first humanoid androids powered by true artificial intelligence. Their only rival, Norwegian Technologies, lost a publicly streamed contest between their flagship model, Fortinbras, and Elsinore’s HAM(let) v.1.

But when the first Hamlet model is found irreparably deactivated, the apparent victim of wild malware, the field of consumer cybernetics is thrown wide open.

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Free Stories

The Interview

Originally published in Podioracket Presents - Glimpses “I was working at this stim joint, a place called Ultra-Sissons. It’s not where I’m working now — I wasn’t a bartender then, just a busser. … Read More... about The Interview

Fame

"Pupusas?" The woman's nasal voice reached Randall at the back of the bus before he saw her pushing her way down the aisle. He could smell the warm, raw meat smell of his own sweaty body, and his … Read More... about Fame

Chekhov’s Phaser

I never planned to end up here. I've never planned anything, really. All my life has been like that: I see an opportunity and I take it. Sometimes that works out better than other times. So why should … Read More... about Chekhov’s Phaser

Publications

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  • A Most Elegant Solution
  • A Most Elegant Solution (audio)
  • A Thorn in Your Memory
  • A Wish and a Hope and a Dream
  • Alexander Systems
  • Fear of Lying
  • Force Nine
  • Good Hunting
  • Home Sick
  • Home Sick (audio)
  • Homecoming
  • I Open My Eyes
  • if ink could flow backward
  • Microfiction @Thaumatrope
  • Modern Love
  • Modern Love (audio)
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • recursion
  • Reflections on a Life Story
  • Showing the Colours (audio)
  • The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, v. 2.1
  • The Interview
  • The Stars Above Eos
  • War Profiteering
  • War Profiteering (audio)
  • we are all energy

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  • 140 and Counting
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  • we are all energy

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