My story, "So Glad We Had This TIme Together," is up on Apex in an issue that includes a lot of really good stuff from Gregory Frost, Sarah Dalton, and Jim C. Hines. I hope you'll check it out!
The story itself was my week six Clarion West story – with "Zeppelin Follies" getting published last year, that means I've only got one story, "I Come From The Dark Universe," left from that batch that hasn't seen the light of publication yet.
JB: I’m submitting my resignation, effective immediately.
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I can hear the distant hum of the building’s heart, the slow steps of a janitor cleaning its chambers with wafts of…
What a fun story. Read it this afternoon thanks to the apex subscription. I loved it. It’s interesting that you’ve had this one around since Clarion. Just out of curiosity, did it sit in a drawer since then, or have you been submitting around in the meantime?
I’d stuck it aside, meaning to rewrite it, but then one day looked at it and thought, “Well, you know, actually, that doesn’t need much reworking.” It had been to a couple of markets before Apex, but then Lynne asked to see something when she took on the editorship, so I sent it along to her. 🙂
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7 Ways to Spread The Word Everywhere of Neither Here Nor There!
Announcing my new collection, Neither Here Nor There. If you’re familiar with earlier collection, Near + Far, this is the same double-sided format, with secondary world fantasy stories on one side and fantasy set in our own world on the other, including an original story, “The Wizards of West Seattle,” that will appeal to fellow Seattleites.
I’ll make B&N, Kobo, Powell’s, etc links available when I have them as well.
But here’s some other, better ways that you can help spread the word:
1. Request it through your library. Most will even let you do this online. The information you need is publisher: Hydra House and ISBN: 978-0989082877
2. Request it at your local bookstore. It’s available through Ingram, a major book distributor, so they should be able to get it.
3. Write an Amazon, GoodReads or other booksite review. Amazon reviews are great! So are other book selling/reviewing sites such as Goodreads, LibraryThing, and Shelfari!
4. Blog about the book. Any mention of the book, particularly one that explains why you liked it, is awesome. Or come blog for me! I’m looking for guest posts about writing, F&SF, or related subjects. Mail me if you’re interested; the offer has no expiration date, since this is something I’m planning on doing on a regular basis.
5. Share news of it on social networks. Sharing links on Facebook and other social networks is great. Just favoriting, plusing or liking posts helps give them a little Google juice. Even going to the Facebook page and clicking “Like” helps. I’ve attached a couple of images that can be used as social media icons and/or backgrounds.
6. Share news of it on mailing lists and other groups. Pass the news along to your fellows on writing, literary, or SF-related discussion boards, BBSes, mailing lists, and other forums
7. Let me know if I’ve overlooked something! Many of you are writers and creative types who also often have something to promote. Please feel free to send me your notices, and if you like the idea of this post, feel free to use what you can from it.
Thanks for reading through all this, and thank you very much for your support in the past. I’m pleased with how lovely this collection looks, and very happy that it’s out in time for holiday shopping!
This is from Wayne's Wear a Wacky Hat to Work Day. Other days including Give Yourself a Mohawk Day, Office Chair Roller Rink Day, and Tiki Bar on the roof Day. They do have fun at Smilebox.
I’m listening to Lady Gaga’s Alejandro and pondering a foray through World of Warcraft with Brightweed the Tauren warrior, who is only a bubble away from leveling, but first I thought I’d catch up with recent news. I’ve got quite a few publications coming out next month, and there’s some that I’m really looking forward to seeing.
In video gaming, I’ve been (as noted) working on WoW. Wayne and I were talking about and agreed that the more we played, the more we were liking this new Cataclysm expansion. The goblin starting area is a ton of fun, even if a little sketchy and unfilled-out in places, archaeology has been not only fun but a clever way for Blizzard to encourage people to go back and explore changed areas, changes to lower level quests in terms of number of things slain quests are well thought out, and the journey from 80 to 85 has been pleasant. I will say that the financial rewards from the water area seems all out of whack compared with, say, the Twilight Highlands.
But enough of that! Here’s some writing-related news.
“Close Your Eyes” will appear in the February issue of Apex Magazine. Here’s the origin of the story: we watched “Paranormal Activity,” which was generally stupid, but did have a few genuinely scary moments. I went to bed and was thinking about how I would have rewritten the movie to make it scarier and managed to work myself up enough envisioning terror that I had to get up and go read Winnie the Pooh for a half hour to cleanse my mind. I finished getting it out of my head by writing this, and I’m glad to see it find a good home. I’ve liked many of the stories I’ve read in Apex, and I’m looking forward to appearing there for the first time.
That’s not February’s only notable publication: “Long Enough and Just So Long” will be appearing in Lightspeed Magazine, while “Karaluvian Fale,” which is an Armageddon story, will be published in Giganotasaurus. The first is near future sf, while the second is heroic fantasy.
At the same time, February’s Seattle Woman Magazine will run a piece I did on local female science fiction writers, which focused on L. Timmel Duchamp, Louise Marley, Vonda McIntyre, and Cherie Priest. I tried to list as many of the local sf illuminaries as possible, but there was limited space and they trimmed some stuff. But! I’m really pleased with the way it turned out and am looking forward to seeing the accompanying photos, which were taken at Seattle’s SF Museum.
I’ve continued writing reviews for HelloSeattle.com, and am working on some profiles for them, a new feature which allowed me a chance to swap e-mails with local figures Nancy Pearl and Greg Bear.
Tomorrow I’m headed into the city for a screen-writing class with Michael Cassutt at the Richard Hugo House. I’m looking forward to it – the Hugo House classes are usually great.
By Cat Rambo
1. Request it through your library. Most will even let you do this online. The information you need is publisher: Hydra House and ISBN: 978-0989082877
7. Let me know if I’ve overlooked something! Many of you are writers and creative types who also often have something to promote. Please feel free to send me your notices, and if you like the idea of this post, feel free to use what you can from it.
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What a fun story. Read it this afternoon thanks to the apex subscription. I loved it. It’s interesting that you’ve had this one around since Clarion. Just out of curiosity, did it sit in a drawer since then, or have you been submitting around in the meantime?
I’d stuck it aside, meaning to rewrite it, but then one day looked at it and thought, “Well, you know, actually, that doesn’t need much reworking.” It had been to a couple of markets before Apex, but then Lynne asked to see something when she took on the editorship, so I sent it along to her. 🙂