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Topic started by request.  I’m about a third of the way through the first draft of Tiassa.  Or, as I affectionately call it, Hadassah.
– Hadizsákmányapa

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Especially to Midori Snyder and Terri Windling for special award, non-professional (although: huh?) and to Ellen Datlow for the anthology Inferno.
And, out of courtesy to their sensibilities I will not now be gnashing my teeth and screaming about rigged elections because neither Will Shetterly nor Emma Bull won.  They would certainly not appreciate such a [...]

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Draft of Iorich sent off to Teresa.  Now to find out if she can read it.
Meanwhile, on to work on Super Sekrit Project.

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…Steve has a new book out*. :)
*with a new chapter every month…

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The murder mystery I wrote with my poker teacher Don Hill is being serialized on an online poker magazine called Blind Straddle.  The sample can be found here.
It’s a subscription site: you have to pay a fee to get access to the story.  I think it’s like $15.00 a year or so.   They have writers [...]

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Just finished the first draft of Your Itch.  Starting revisions tomorrow, I think.   I have no idea what I think of this one; have to wait until the revisions to see how it feels.

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I received my contributor’s copy of this year’s Triangulation anthology in the mail the other day. (Triangulation: Taking Flight) It is very exciting to see my story (”The Reap Assessors”) in it! It’s my second short story sale but due to how these things work out, it’s actually the first story to [...]

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Gene Wolfe coined the term ‘golden book’ to refer to a book that utterly opens up your head, stirs around your brain, and changes how you look at the world — I think it was singular in his coining, the one book that changes you, but I think many of us have several over the [...]

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Yet again, I have to start a full rewrite before finishing the first draft.  This is unusual for me–I like to get to the end before doing major revisions.  But all of a sudden PLOT showed up in the book, so what can I do?
The good news is that this is a much less significant [...]

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I really like to plow straight through the first draft, however often the plot suddenly turns on itself and surprises me, figuring to fix it in the rewrite.  Sometimes, however, there are just too many unexpected changes, and I have to stop and get things in line before I got on.
Iorich just did that, around [...]

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