1.21.20 Legislators are coming for your freelance jobs. Time to take action.
If you are a freelancer. If you do piece work. If you in any way have multiple outlets that pay you for the work you do. Time to sit up, and pay attention. State governments, some with good intentions and some without, are coming for your jobs. And that includes mine. Of all the things…
Read More12.31.19 2020: The Year of Not Buying Stuff, in 4 easy steps
There are a lot of things that can be said about 2019. And for me, personally, in my day-to-day life — I can’t really say it was a terrible year. It’s a terrible year for the world and society at large, and my heart breaks daily while trying to cope with all the little fires…
Read More11.01.2019 31 Ways to Say ‘I Scare You’: The Collected 100-Word Drabbles of October
A hundred words is not very much. Especially if you want to tell a whole story. But a fantasy publication put out a call, looking for 100-word drabbles with a Halloween/scary theme, and I gave it a shot. The five I spat out fairly quickly were all rejected. And yet … I was not deterred.…
Read More08.15.19 ‘Across the Universe’ Table of Contents Reveal!
The book is on its way! That is, our alternate “what if” Beatles anthology Across the Universe, which I’m co-editing with Michael Ventrella, has been sent to our fantastic publisher, Fantastic Books. The ETA for publishing is December, and here is our Table of Contents: Introduction by Nancy Holder “Rubber Soul” by Spider Robinson “A…
Read More6.25.19 On anthologies, eclairs, paring knives and the merits of learning something new
I recently spent a week at the International Culinary Center in New York City learning all about the essentials of pastry making. It wasn’t easy: Five hours a night standing on a concrete floor, going until about 10:30 each evening, for five days straight. I gouged my thumb with a paring knife. But I made…
Read More6.4.19 Frederic Durbin on how ‘Typewritten Tales’ key readers into post-digital collapse worlds
As a big fan of Frederic S. Durbin‘s work (especially his 2017 novel A Green and Ancient Light), I was delighted to discover he had new work in a new set of anthologies, which he’d co-edited with Richard Polt and Andrew V. McFeaters). Not only that, the angle “keys” in directly to one of Fred’s…
Read More5.02.19 Across The Universe’ Beatles anthology still open: Here’s what we need!
We’ve got just 6 weeks until stories are due in on the Across the Universe Beatles alternate universe/”what if” anthology and we are here to tell you we are definitely still looking for your brilliance! So this post is reaching out to those of you who haven’t yet started a story and those who might…
Read More4.8.19 9 thoughts on the anthology submission process or: why taking the shot is critical
One of the first things anyone will tell you when you say you’re editing an anthology is this: “That’s a lot of work!” They’re not wrong. It helps immensely having a co-editor, as I do on Across the Universe, the upcoming Beatles spec-fic collection you may have heard me bleat about a couple of times.…
Read More3.22.19 3 days and counting: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Gail Z. Martin
In honor of our OMG WE GOT FUNDED AND WE’RE NEARLY ABLE TO ADD IN ANOTHER STORY FROM OUR STRETCH GOALS AND ALSO NOW SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN* excitement for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I am spotlighting one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our…
Read More3.22.19 5 days and counting: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Lawrence Watt-Evans
In honor of our OMG WE GOT FUNDED NOW LET’S HIT STRETCH GOALS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS ALSO NOW SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN* excitement for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I am spotlighting one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed,…
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