While there are still a few hours left in September, I doubt I’ll get any more short fiction read this month, especially since the Yankees open the division playoffs tonight at 8:30. You know where I’ll be. But since I wrote a while back about at least trying to read a piece of short fiction…
I am delighted to announce that a new story of mine, “If By Reason of Strength…” has been published by 40kbooks. The folks over at 40kbooks publish e-book version of novelettes and novellas and they do a wonderful job creating the e-book and making it presentable. They’ve published folks like Paul Di Filippo, Kristine Kathryn…
I’ve worked at my day job now for nearly 17 years. (Indeed, less than three weeks and I’ll have been there for exactly 17 years.) I started at this company 3 months after graduating from the University of California, Riverside back in 1994. I work for a public policy “think tank” and that means there…
Had a horrific night last night trying to get the Little Man to sleep in his own bed. It involved carrying him back into his room 61 times. My nerves are completely frayed. Couple that with the fact that I have a busy work day today and I may not be popping up much on…
My oh my was last night a doozy. The Little Man has entered a phase where he no longer wants to sleep in his own bed. I’ll put him to bed and say goodnight and he will have a full on tantrum. Last night I just went downstairs. We have a gate at the top…
I’ve have participated in NaNoWriMo for the last several years. Indeed, I have “won” in the sense that for the last two years, I’ve written at least 50,000 words in 30 days. This year, however, I won’t be participating in the traditional way. I am not a novelist. I understand that is where the money…
Beginning today I’m working off a new schedule. Over the last few weeks, I’ve tried figuring out the best way to integrate everything I do into a schedule that will not wear me down within the first week or two. I need a schedule that allows me plenty of time with the family, as well…
I’m mostly avoiding the Internets today, although I will have a post later on this afternoon or this evening discussing some upcoming changes to my schedule that will hopefully help to accomplish some time-management improvement in all areas of my life. Meanwhile, I feel like I need a lazy day. I’m sitting around with the…
I started trying to write science fiction for publication in January 1993 and I like to think of my entire body of work as an iceberg. There is a small part that sticks above the surface. This fraction of my work that has seen the light of day is the stuff that has been published.…
When I picked up the Little Man from school yesterday, we went through the usual preliminaries (“What did you do at school today?” “Play toys! Outside!”) and then asked him a very important question: Do you want to watch the Yankee game with Daddy tonight? So at 7pm, we headed upstairs to watch the Yanks.…