New Story: “In the Cloud” available on Amazon (40K Books)

I’m pleased to announce that my novelette, “In the Cloud” is now available on Amazon, put out by 40K Books. This is the second story of mine that 40K has put out. The first story, “If By Reason of Strength…” recently received a positive review in Analog. Here’s the cover for the new story, done [...]

Goals for 2012: Fiction writing

I’ve learned a few things about setting goals for writing over the last few years. One is that they need to be realistic. The other is that they need to be entirely within your control. The last few years I realize that I’ve set not only unrealistic goals for my writing, but also goals that [...]

Year in review – 2011: Fiction writing

I didn’t do so well meeting my writing goals for 2011. I now have some idea of why that may be, but I’ll discuss that in due course. First, let me review my fiction-writing goals from 2011 and see how I measured up in reality. My writing goals for this year included some elements that [...]

New story: “If By Reason of Strength…”

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 [...]

Nice review of “Take One for the Road” in Tangent Online

Tangent Online recently reviewed the June 2011 Analog, which included my story, “Take One For the Road”. In general, the reviewer had some nice things to say about my story: …this was a really nice story. It took several of the basic tropes of science fiction – rockets and other worlds – and used it [...]

More of a writer’s daydreams

I recently received a promotion in the day job. I am now a senior application developer. Upon getting this promotion, one of the things I did was to update LinkedIn, and the tagline there. Before, it read: “Science Fiction Writer and Application Developer” now it reads: “Science Fiction Writer and Senior Application Developer”. But I [...]

Nice review of “Take One For the Road” over at SFRevu

I happened across a review of the June 2011 Analog over at SFRevu, which contains my story, “Take One For the Road”. The reviewer thought the issue was “a pretty good one” and had this to say about my story: Next up is “Take One for the Road” by Jamie Todd Rubin. Rick has a [...]

My contributor’s copies have arrived!

Recall that I received two copies of the June 2011 Asimov’s in the mail a while back. I speculated at the time that they were supposed to be my contributor’s copies for my story in the June Analog, but perhaps there was a mixup? Well, I mentioned this to the Stan Schmidt, editor of Analog, [...]

My first Analog story has arrived!

I can still remember that January day when I was a junior in college and decided that I was going to try to be a science fiction writer. I sat down and wrote a story in about 2 hours and it was uniformly awful, but I studied the guidelines for the various magazines and sent [...]

Anxiously awaiting the June Analog

Though I don’t have any snail-mail stories out for submission out the moment, I have been anxiously checking the mailbox every day in the hope that the June issue of Analog will be there. Yes, it is late March, but the June issue hits news stands around April 4 and I tend to get my [...]

One month until “Take One For the Road” appears

Among the various items in the mail today was the May 2011 issue of Analog. It’s always fun to see Analog or Asimov’s in the mail (despite the fact that I also subscribe to them on the Kindle). But this time it was particularly exciting because my story, “Take One For the Road” is scheduled [...]

A science fiction writer’s discipline

I’ve been a lazy bum lately when it comes to writing. I can’t quite explain why. I am at a point in my career where I’ve sold some stories and where a few editors would happily look at more stories that I send them. And yet, I can’t seem to motivate myself to get up [...]

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