Quick news that I’ve sold this flash fiction story, a sort of trapped-by-forces-beyond-our-control horror/fantasy story. With clowns. It will be my fourth story in DSF.
Story sale! “Carnival Days and Days” to Daily Science Fiction
Month: November 2019
Boundless, slightly annoying optimism
I’m fantastic, cos life’s brilliant, isn’t it? Why the boundless (slightly annoying) optimism? Well, it’s my new philosophy. I’ve decided it’s much too easy to be negative, especially if I happen to catch an episode of Strictly Come Dancing or see some…
The Blight of the Morning Grump
It has come to my attention that there are people who behave abnormally and in a totally unacceptable manner when they awake in the mornings. As any rational and well-behaved human should know, the morning is for being chipper, awake, breakfasting, and socializing. Unfortunately, we are faced with a blight upon the earth—those that are […]
2019 eligibility post
Lots of posts going up on Twitter about this year’s eligibility for various awards, etc. I have two more short stories that I’m expecting to come out before the end of the year, so I’ll add those in tentatively and update it with links, new stories if …
“The Game” in the Lyrical Worlds newsletter
I mentioned in my November Lyrical Worlds newsletter that I would share pictures of the original publication of the reprinted story in it, “The Game.”Fictitious Force had a unique shape. I suppose it was simply folded the other direction (hotdog bun st…
Goodreads Review: Shades of Milk and Honey – by Mary Robinette Kowal
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette KowalMy rating: 4 of 5 starsIn a setting that pays homage to Jane Austen, young women of quality weave glamour, the delicate powers of illusion. This is the gift of the plain narrator, her only hope at finding…
Dying Earth cover art
I announced a story sale to this anthology some months ago, and at the time it was expected to come out fairly soon, but there were some delays in getting to publication.Now it’s finally getting close to publication, and we recently were sent the cover…
#NaNoWriMo and a #Free #Writing Tool
(Beth Turnage Blog) So you are deep in NaNo and emotions run high. Perhaps you’ve finished a chapter or two, but then the dreaded crash. You know where you are heading but now you’ve become stuck in the mire. Because I write a lot of novels each year for my clients, I don’t have the… Continue reading #NaNoWriMo and a #Free #Writing Tool
#NaNoWriMo and a #Free #Writing Tool
(Beth Turnage Blog) So you are deep in NaNo and emotions run high. Perhaps you’ve finished a chapter or two, but then the dreaded crash.
November newsletter almost ready to go out.
Here’s what could be in your inbox soon…This newsletter includes a short story that has never appeared online before, a story that appeared (I’m just rediscovering now) alongside some now well known, award-winning short story writers. So if you haven…