Speculative Reminiscences: Weekly Recap for 1/26/2014

Photo of speculative fiction writer Cat Rambo with Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother at Disneyworld. — I will say that running for SFWA VP makes me feel a bit more publicly exposed than I usually am. Luckily I have had strong women before me as role models. Here's one of them, Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.

Here is some of the stuff that appeared on my blog and social media in the week ending 1/26/2014.

Stuff I posted on the blog:

I announced I am running for SFWA Vice President. #sfwapro is a tag you’ll be seeing on posts intended to appear on the @sfwaauthors feed as well.

The Women Destroying SF Kickstarter will sponsor my destroying Fantasy if they hit a $35k stretch goal.

I talked about my January writing news and provided a teaser from a still-untitled steampunk piece

Stuff for Writers:

In the new You Should Read This series, I read:

Writing classic from one of the greats, About Writing by Samuel R. Delany
Classic fantasy novel, The Forest of Forever by Thomas Burnett Swann
Self (and writing) help, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by Suzette Haden Elgin
19th century novel of manners, Miss Mole by E.H. Young
Terrific book for MG/YG writers of any age, Turn Not Pale, Beloved Snail by Jacqueline Jackson

I said of this urban fantasy that it had touches of both Stross and Strugatski. Lots of fun. Cover for John Golden, Freelance Debugger, by Django Wexler, from Ragnorak Press.

I blurbed this book by Django Wexler.

Time Wasters!

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Stats for March

April 4, 2011

Very little writing writing done, but the second to last and much of the last read-aloud pass done for the current manuscript. Lurking in the background is the sequel, which is halfway drafted. One 6k word story finished.

2 galleys checked; 18 queries sent; 3 reviews written; 2 stories rewritten; 6 submissions; 2 reprints appeared; 4 job apps; 1 unsuccessful interview because recruiter had misrepresented my experience; 2 guest blog posts written.

Plans for April: Crank on sequel, keep freelancing where possible (HelloSeattle, mainly). I have two manuscripts I need to finish notes on (Hi Lilah and Alicia :p) and three reviews to write. I’ll be at Norwescon April 22 through 24 and at Penguicon in Troy, Michigan, April 29-May 1, where I am a “Nifty” Guest.

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