Category Archives: self-publishing
This might be a bit on the long side. That’s the warning. Some of you may remember a couple of months ago I said things were… stressful (possibly worst month ever) on Twitter. If I had been thinking, I would have made certain to separate terrible month from pandemic, which has – for my family – remained a large and consistent weight in the background. We’ve been lucky; we’ve lost no one. We made sure that the less internet-savvy were signed up and vaccinated, and we got vaccinated ourselves; I have no under 12s in my household, and there are none in the household we bubble with when its safe to do so. Mostly, however, what I was thinking was: How do I tell people? And what do I do going forward? So let’s start … Continue reading →
So, this is late. And people who are looking at the covers will realize that I have jumped from 17 to 19. Story 18 was an alternate history, written over a quarter of a century ago (yes, I’m old), and I am just not comfortable with it. It was alternate future, not alternate past, and the key character is… someone who is alive now, adult, and not in any way but name associated with the character in the story. Don’t write stories with fictionalized real people T_T. Because I was angsting about this — and about the face that I know nothing about photoshop and cannot therefore change the numbers on the covers of the stories — I may have fallen off the stability wagon a bit and therefore did not get a new story … Continue reading →
This is a bit late today. I got up at 7:00 in the morning and came downstairs and did all the proofing and formatting and… woke up. So, in fact, it wasn’t done. Grumpy, I rolled over and got up and came downstairs and proofread and formatted and then… woke up again. Third time apparently is the charm, but it’s unusual to have dreams that mundane. You can’t call them nightmares because it’s awful only once you’ve woken up and realize that all that theoretical work was a dream and it still has to be done. I have no idea why my subconscious is trying to give me ulcers. I mean… once? Okay. But twice? As I’ve been doing, the story in .pdf download is here. The story has … Continue reading →
It’s Monday again. Today’s short story is What She Won’t Remember. As usual, the .pdf, linked above, can be downloaded for free (you might have to “save as” after you’ve clicked on the link). The book page is here. B&N and iTunes have not gone live yet; the former is propagated through Smashwords. I’ll add links as they go live. This was written for Mike Resnick’s Alternate Outlaws just over a quarter century ago. It was only a little bit longer than what was requested. I was still far more comfortable with novel writing than with short story writing. And in some ways, this has continued, which will probably be a surprise to no one. *** I am still writing. I can’t remember if I mentioned that I’ve sold the … Continue reading →
And it’s Monday. Today’s short story is Winter. Mike Resnick was editing an anthology about Deals with the Devil, and he wanted a story. So I wrote him a story. I would have bowed out of this one because it was before the birth of my first child and frankly, I couldn’t understand why morning sickness was called “morning” sickness, as I was nauseous all day long, with maybe an hour or two of sort of normal. That hour or two was the time in which I could sit at a computer and write. And it was early days, and because I was young and new, I really didn’t want to make another professional angry. But I liked the story I did write. It’s here. Click the link and you should be able to … Continue reading →
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