Explorer of Worlds Real and Imagined
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.