No Clothes

Those of you who follow the publishing gossip will by now have heard about Harlequin Horizons. For those of you who haven’t been following, here’s the long and short: Harlequin has decided to expand into pay-to-play publishing.
Needless to say, this hasn’t gone over well at all. Apparently the folks over at Harlequin are “very surprised [...]

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Mount Baker Senior Secondary

This is my old high school. Back then, it looked essentially the same, except the sports team was the Trojans, which, when you’re 17, is just about as funny as it gets. So now it’s not the Mount Baker Trojans, it’s the Mount Baker Wild, but that’s about all that’s changed. [...]

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In Which I Vomit Up Crow and Light it On Fire

It’s been a hell of a day.
I can’t tell you the feeling of horror and shock I had when it looked like I’d spent the last two years lying to every one of my publishers, editors, friends, readers and critics. I can’t tell you how much it sucked to be sure I’d been nominated [...]

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Somebody should write some serious SF one day.

Apparently Kim Stanley Robinson is chewing at the SF ghetto walls. Good for him. And may I just add, it’s nice to see writers who aren’t afraid to call ‘em as they see ‘em. It’s not like we’re blowing our chance to win those prizes, guys, they’re never going to take us seriously anyway. Well, [...]

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On Seasoningz, et al.

Dear Seasoningz,
You are not the first, and I am certain, will not be the last operation to link to one of my blog posts in order to both sell your product and, by providing a couple quicklinks, hope to drum up more business for your business. You are not the first, nor will you [...]

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Damn and Blast

I took five days off training and three off the gym last week, but it looks like I’m still over trained. All the signs are there: My heart rate won’t go up or down, it just hovers in a weird spot, meanwhile my little aches are getting worse and not better and I’m a total [...]

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Non-Writing Work

On of the things about becoming a writer is having people. Not, say, fans and groupies, which would be great (ladies, gentlemen, this way please), but editors and publishers and accountants. Yes, accountants. Today, I’ve finally admitted to myself that 1. my US accountant doesn’t care about my taxes as much as I do and [...]

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Unsolicited Advice

So, for all you folks who are submitting stories to BWS, no, scratch that, anywhere*, please remember something:
There’s plenty of objectification of women in the real world and in fiction. I am sick to the back teeth of reading submissions where the women in the story exist only to be beautiful, or worse, where the [...]

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Use Your Vowels

Just got a day-job related email from someone who’s asking me to part with serious money. They made their pitch and then signed the email “b. rgrds”.
I love that working in coffee is so unstructured and informal. I hate it when people in the industry are too damn lazy to be polite.

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Ways in Which I am So Not a Samurai

Here it is. Warnings: My opinion lies ahead. You may not like it. Also! Much swearing.

So I picked up this book by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman entitled On Killing a little while ago. I picked it up because I was encountering a lot of people who were assuming two things that I was not sure [...]

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