Ante Mortem – before death.
Life moves on, and in this day and age it moves on very quickly. We, as writers, move on quickly – if we get a rejection, we’ve almost always got another market to submit the story out again; if we see a contract die without notice from the publisher or editor of note, we move on.
Inspired by Joel Sutherland and Colleen Morris (expectant parents and editors of Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths) and an idea bandied out by Greg Hall and Doc Pus on the Funky …

I have strange ideas and odd plans at 3:30 AM. It’s now 4 AM, and here I am, giggling away like a mad woman, with the plot already in motion.
Just when I’ll find time to do my own writing is beyond me, but I do so enjoy the idea of throwing a lifesaver out onto the choppy waters of publishing…

More info will come, I promise. But for now, I’ve gotta get some sleep..LOL

So another Preditors & Editors Reader’s Poll has come and gone (or will be gone shortly, as it ended at midnight 01/14/10). I saw a lot of snarking about the awards because of the dubious possibilities of ballot-stuffing, self-nomination and ‘who has got who’s back’ for vote trading.
Guess what? For some of us, it’s not whether we win or even come into the top ten (much as I like the nifty banners P&E does up) it’s new readers, new friends and best of all – new markets – that we …

War of the Worlds: Frontlines that is.
I received notice that my story, My Beautiful Boy, was accepted into Northern Frights Publishing’s War of the Worlds: Frontlines anthology. It is an homage (one of two they’re releasing soon) to HG Wells and War of the Worlds. I guess you’d probably figured that out, huh?
*happydance*

And for once, I actually mean it literally. Temperatures soared overnight (steadily climbing since Friday) and as a stark contrast to Thursday’s temps (-47C w/windchill) it is now +1C.
o_O
That bearing in mind, I’d like to give a push to the Spring Thaw Fiction Contest we’re running over at The New Bedlam Project. Entries are slowly trickling in, and we’re getting really excited! You’ve still got time to enter, so put your thinking caps on:
General Information:
New Bedlam is celebrating its bicentennial.
The town has expanded their annual spring festival to include a …