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WorldCon Remainder
Tales From the Raven | August 18th 2008
I really should make this several nice, long, chatty blogs…but, ya know, life is moving on and I’m moving on with it. So you’ll get the crammed, somewhat shorter version. And my graduation report? It’ll probably be even read more
Days 1 and 2 of WorldCon 2008
Tales From the Raven | August 7th 2008
I was swaying on my feet by the end of the day, so this will be shorter than it should be. Yesterday (Wednesday) we caught a couple panels after registering, and I thoroughly enjoyed the one on writing a good query letter, offered by Kristen Nelson read more
Trinocon Highlights and WorldCon Clothes
Tales From the Raven | July 28th 2008
The pieces fell into place at the last minute for us to attend Trinocon, so we scooted over there and enjoyed our first relaxacon. We made a pretty full day of it, with lots of good panels, but my favorite panel would have to be the world building read more
Dragonforge
Tales From the Raven | July 14th 2008
On Tuesday last I recieved my signed copy of Dragonforge, James Maxey’s newly released second book in the Dragon Age saga. This book was one I got to see in the development stage, and had read the first half months ago, so I expected to s read more
Sample Taste of IGMS
Tales From the Raven | February 5th 2008
Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show is doing a promotion in which one story from several issues is free! I’ve read several of these stories (since I generally buy a subscription) and can tell you that these are great stories read more
My Doubly-Delayed Announcement
Tales From the Raven | December 4th 2007
I mentioned before that I would be making an announcement about a new venture, but our guidelines didn’t satisfy and I felt I should plead the fifth rather than stumble through an apologetic attempt at posting the guidelines here. However, read more
Storm’s Rising and New Venture
Tales From the Raven | November 14th 2007
My flash story Storm’s Rising is up at EDF. I’ll look forward to chatting with all of you in the comments section. Soon I hope to disclose the guidelines for a new venture I’ll be a part of–just as soon as we can stop argui read more
A Lovely amd Promising Collection
Tales From the Raven | October 31st 2007
In my completely unbiased opinion! My contributer copy of Extraterrestrial Ruins came today–and who needs tricks or treats after that? I’m looking forward to reading the other stories included, it will be interesting to see how many way read more
Extraterrestrial on Sale!
Tales From the Raven | October 26th 2007
How often can you get a discounted alien these days? Not a common thing, right? Well, we’re selling our aliens and extraterrestrial worlds CHEAP, on amazon now! Get yours before the centaurians, ferooni-sha and galactic collectors of the read more
A Scabby Interview
Tales From the Raven | October 23rd 2007
Pat Esden has posted an interview with Ginger Churchill, so you can get all your scabby facts straight. I’m delighted to report that my copy of the book, Carmen’s Sticky Scab, is coming soon from Amazon. Can you guess what my five- read more
Bovine Aspirations Debut
Tales From the Raven | October 8th 2007
My story of a singing cow (and her not-so-gullible neighbor) is up on Bewildering Stories. It’s short, funny and free–enjoy! — On a side note, I looked up the spelling of gullible on dictionary.com, and liked this explanation o read more
Robert Jordan
Tales From the Raven | September 17th 2007
You’ll forgive me if I feel like a lot of people are dying of late…just my perspective, I’m sure. Robert Jordan was a wonderful author, with an incredible series populated by fascinating people. My condolences to his wife and fam read more
A Comedy of Errors and a Memorial Revisited
Tales From the Raven | September 11th 2007
I’ve been enjoying the fluff and stuff hitting the fan over the SFWA vs. Cory Doctorow showdown. I’m aware that my finding the whole thing amusing is probably unkind, just as my quietly laughing when I whiz by people stuck in traffic, w read more
Writing Items of Interest
Tales From the Raven | September 9th 2007
First let me direct you all to Every Day Fiction and my story, Sweet Revenge. This is my first publication to go live this year. I’m excited to chat in their comments with any readers who stop by. On a not-so-chipper note, I got my letter f read more
Welcome News
Tales From the Raven | September 7th 2007
I got in last night after a fourteen hour travel day to a welcome note in my inbox. Riding the Dream Dragon has been accepted for publication in From the Asylum! This particular acceptance seemed especially apt, given my life the last week or s read more
Ruins Extraterrestrial ToC Up
Tales From the Raven | August 29th 2007
Hadley Rille Books editor Eric Reynolds has the table of contents up for the anthology. My name is way down at the bottom–but it’s there. The cover art looks good, too. I’m crossing my finger that this means the anthology wi read more
WOTF Awards and Chit Chat
Tales From the Raven | August 28th 2007
The wotf blog has some good info and a couple pictures of the ceremony. I’ve been keeping an eye on the blog, and it sure sounds like the winners had a great time. Congrats to winning Gold illustrator Lorraine Schleter and Gold writing win read more
Quick Sale
Tales From the Raven | August 25th 2007
I day or two ago I sent a flash fiction piece over to Every Day Fiction. I was kind of cringing ’cause it’s only been a couple weeks since my last sale there, but already they’ve bought it! The story is about an angry appren read more
Every Day Fiction ToC
Tales From the Raven | August 19th 2007
My story ‘Sweet Revenge’ has joined its fellows on the Every Day Fiction September Table of Contents. It will run on Sep. 9th, so remember to read it and savor a moment of angelic spite. read more
Trinoc Report
Tales From the Raven | August 5th 2007
We had a great time, and came home laden with books and booty. Friday night we arrived later than planned, thanks to a traffic snarl, so we only attended the ‘meet the guests’, by way of scheduled activities. There we bumped into James read more
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