Urg

Am sick. Back to the couch with me.

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Before submitting anything anywhere, read this:
I do not want your D & D.
I do not like your elf PC.
I cannot stand your purple prose.
I want to punch you in the nose!
Would you like a hot sex scene?
I wrote it for my online ’zine!
I do not like your pervy tale.
Your metaphors make readers pale.
Your paragraphs are [...]

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Bamboo

Well, folks, Monday and Tuesday have been considerably less exciting than Friday, Saturday, Sunday was. I’m waiting for my second round of edits on Field Guide, pondering what to do with Onsen and enjoying the first really rainy day of autumn by drinking lots of tea and listening to the radio.
I see I’m on [...]

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Three Tips for New Writers

A friend of mine asked if there are any tips I’d pass on to people who are new writers. Yes. And here they are.
1. Get a job.
It’s going to take six months to a year before anyone sees your submission, if you’re sending out a book (less if you’re sending stories, but that’s usually a [...]

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VCon

If any of you are going to VCon, October 2-4 at the Marriott Pinnacle in downtown Vancouver, don’t be afraid to say hi! I’ll be the lost one with the map in hand, staring at the “Staff Only” sign on the kitchen door and muttering to myself, “But it looks like this is where the [...]

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BTW

Ooh, by the way, I had a rumor confirmed at the RWA event on Saturday. It turns out agents (and presumably editors, though I’ve not had that confirmed) do in fact google your name. This is something I had heard about but didn’t actually believe.
According to the notes I took with Sally Harding spoke, [...]

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Round Up

Friday:
Well, that was a promotion I shall never forget, for a few reasons, one of which was my colleague training so hard she passed out, but before she did, she completed a tonfa kata even though she was out on her feet. I’ve never seen anything like it. Talk about having your kata down. [...]

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Success!
That was a night to remember.

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Am off for the exam pretty quick here. Gi is blindingly white, so everything is going according to plan.

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What I’m Reading Now

Well, I was reading Joe Abercrombie’s book The Blade Itself, but then I started writing this new book, and started doing the reading for it, so now I’m reading Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, which is the kind of book I’m scared to pick up again because last time I picked it up, I read [...]

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