In Geor­gia, I mean, where I just was (GC&SU) to do a read­ing and meet many cool peo­ple. All kinds of fun (no record­ings or pics that I know of, though); they have really old build­ings there. I think some of them are Roman, even. And, Lobo — he was out of Geor­gia, right? I […]

Was por­ing through some story or novel the other day, to sub­mit it, and real­ized, now that the story was more or less in place, at least until some­body else jammed their hands into it, that all I was look­ing at were the words, the sen­tences. Which is nice, yeah, makes a piece feel ‘done.’ […]

[ or, just http://www.edrants.com/segundo/?p=116 ] Too, that “mon­key tor­ture” — thanks to Car­olyn for sug­gest­ing YouTube — it’s (t)here. And, talk­ing Lind­say Bal­lard — this is kind of from the pod­cast — that alien race, they’re the Kobali, of course, from the “Ashes to Ashes” episode of Star Trek Voy­ager. Which I know because I’m […]

Just got word that that “Raphael” story from Ceme­tery Dance 55 has made the short­list for a Stoker. Super­cool. Here’s the whole bal­lot. Some pretty steep com­pe­ti­tion, I’d say: SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION “Hal­lu­ci­ge­nia” by Laird Bar­ron (The Mag­a­zine of Fan­tasy and Sci­ence Fic­tion) “Graf­fiti” by Jason Bran­non (Winds of Change) “Winds of Change” by […]