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I’m part of “Women In Genre”? Yay! Have some free fiction.
Several people are writing about their favorite “Women in Genre” this month. There’s even a hastag for it on Twitter if you’d like to see more of the discussion. Haralambi Markov (a Bulgarian writer,...
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April 2013 Stats
In April, I: Read Billy Hazelnuts, a graphic novel by Tony Millionaire. (109 pages) Alternative Alanmat, edited by Paolo Chikiamco (collection of speculative fiction based on Filipino mythology) Wrote...
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Excerpt: “The Night Hours”
A couple of people bought stories from me, which I will write and post here (free) for you to read. The first is a Mythos noir piece, by request, and this is the opening: The Night Hours by Carrie...
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Innsmouth, 1939
I am, as I usually am, writing on a couple of different pieces at once. Though I have the plot outlined for my Mythos noir story, “The Night Hours“, I’m taking my time writing it because the research...
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Haiku for Procrastinators
Without a deadline Words pile up in advance of A reason to be. — I always know I Should be writing. I never Forget that I’m not. — I think if I wrote You would see my heart beating In letters, and love...
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When We Think Different is Brave
I use Pinterest for a couple of reasons. It’s a think-ahead, a place to put ideas for things I want to own, because I tend not to be an impulse shopper. I like to know that if I’m spending my money...
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May 2013 Stats
In May, I: Read The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (for the third time) More of Howard Waldrop’s Other Worlds, Better Lives and Charles Tan’s anthology Lauriat, though I didn’t finish either. the...
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Free Fiction: “Notes On My Recent Job Interview With Your Firm”
Excerpt: Dear Nancy from HR, I am writing to reply to the survey I found attached to the letter informing me that, “we have determined that other applicants’ skills and experience more closely meet our...
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Advice for Writers: How to be found on the Internet
Last week I posted a huge list of Asian speculative fiction writers, and yesterday I updated it to over 100 authors. It’s been linked to from several places, including Angry Asian Man (don’t read that...
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WOMEN AND OTHER CONSTRUCTS, a collection of short stories
I’ve been nervous all day. Checking text, code, files, sizing images… I want everything to be right. Is it a fair price? Did I include the right stories? Could the whole thing be better? All of this...
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June 2013 Stats
In June, I: Read Parasite, by Mira Grant. (ARC) re-read Sam Kieth’s The Maxx trade v.1 (and reviewed it for SF Signal here). (842 words) read several months worth of Nature Futures flash fiction;...
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Pay what You Want Ebook Bundle: Women and Other Constructs (32 hour sale)
Part of my goal in self-publishing my short fiction collection, Women and Other Constructs, was to gather information about what sells, at what price, and so on. Already I’ve learned to offer PDFs of...
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Results of the ebook experiment and an update on pricing “Women and Other...
I ran a brief experiment–for about 32 hours, part of July 3rd and all of July 4th–where I let buyers choose the amount they wanted to spend on a bundle of Women and Other Constructs ebooks (ePub, mobi,...
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Print copies of Women and Other Constructs have arrived!
Look what I had delivered while I was at Readercon: 5″x8″ trade paperback, 84 pages, with a color cover and b/w interior. Anyone who’s already ordered one will get the numbered (x/30) “Readercon 2013″...
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11 Exhausted SF Tropes You Should Avoid. Really.
Some ideas have been done to death in science fiction. We all know there are no new ideas anymore, and what matters most is the execution of the idea you stole have, but there are a few things that are...
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Self publishing stats: Women and Other Constructs, First 30+ days
When I published my first collection of short fiction, I said I would add up the stats after 30 days. The highlights: The book cost me $0 to create. I did every bit of the work myself: writing,...
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Writing Advice: Shop at ALDI
Where I live, we have several options for buying food. In addition to the local grocery store chain, there’s a fancy yuppie market, a “whole foods” -style store that sells a lot of vegan/veggie foods,...
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Little Bits
For a variety of reasons, I’ve written several tiny stories in the last two months. Mostly they’re nothing I’m going to use, but a few are seeds from which I will (or have) revised into longer works....
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Dear (Jackass) Just because I’m a woman, don’t assume I’m talking about women...
Dear Jackass, When I talk about increasing diversity, or problematic tropes, or the state of publishing today, you always assume I’m talking about women. If I say, “using alien space hookers in your...
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New workshop! “Nuts and Bolts of Submitting” starts Monday, Sept 30
Like my last class, this is a four week, online workshop designed around your busy schedule. There is no set meeting time! I send out lectures each week, and you have several days to participate in the...
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