Monday, March 10, 2008

Roads To Writing With Orson Scott Card

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Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to do a presentation along with Orson Scott Card (who organized this day-long workshop), Jake Bla...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Agent Insight

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I was recently invited to give a presentation at the the Greensboro campus of the University of North Carolina about publishing science fict...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

More Free Stories

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On February 1st we made two of IGMS 's early stories available for free. Now two more stories, "Xoco's Fire" by Oliver Dal...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Lost Soul – by Marie Brennan

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Sometimes you write the wrong story first. A while back, I was working on a story set in Tir Diamh called "Returning to the Nest....
Friday, February 01, 2008

Free IGMS Stories

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Below is a letter that just went out to our e-mailing list. Apologies if it's something you've already seen. We're making some o...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

The Smell of the Earth - by Joan Savage

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I started writing “The Smell of the Earth” one day when I needed a break from the novel I was working on. I had been exploring, in the novel...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Unrhymed Couplets of the Universe - by Sharon Shinn

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"The Unrhymed Couplets of the Universe" was one of those stories that just comes together for you when the disparate elements of ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

"After This Life" by Janna Silverstein

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The first germ of this story was planted when I saw a news piece about a prison inmate named Tommy Silverstein. He’s no relation of mine (th...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

The Braiding - by Pat Esden

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I believe that in every profession there are moments when a person stops using logic, truly focuses on their work and acts automatically in ...
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Friday, January 04, 2008

Silent As Dust - by James Maxey

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I grew up in Roanoke , Virginia , in a little house on Courtland Road that was full of hidden rooms. Most adults probably wouldn't have ...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

A Little Business

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Working hard to get issue seven of IGMS out as soon as possible. It should be in the next week to ten days, but it really can't be soon ...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Metaphors, Similes, and Analogies, Oh My...

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One of the (other) things I've learned about writing - especially in the area of non-fiction, is that a good writer will find ways to re...
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Friday, December 14, 2007

Would You Stop?

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Suppose you were an employee at a bank, and you knew that millions and millions of dollars were kept in that bank. The amount varied, but th...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

First Peek At The IGMS Antho

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Got this in the mail today; it's a sneak peek of the cover of the IGMS antho coming out next summer. It's like an early Christmas p...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Write Because You Love To

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I debated titling this post "A Harsh Dose of Reality," but that sounded scary and I didn't want to scare anyone off with the t...
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Friday, November 30, 2007

Five Things I've Learned About Writing

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Here is the beginning of the series posts I promised regarding things I've learned about writing. As I mentioned earlier, after writing ...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

New Freak Added To The Show

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I’m very pleased to announce that starting in January of 2008, IGMS’s monthly book reviews will be written by Tobias S. Buckell. Tobias is a...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Whateverville

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Wow, I can't believe it's been a whole month since I last posted anything on this blog. I was off-line for about a week because of m...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Sorting Through The Wreckage

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I'm back online for the first time in a week or so; last Tuesday my harddrive crashed and it took me until this past weekend to get onli...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Great Mother, Great Father - by William Saxton

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Hurricane Katrina and the Weltangschauung On Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans . The destruction was horrendo...