So I’ve been working on this huge and possibly insane data project, where I am trying to count all the women writing as women (psuedonym ignoring) over time in speculative fiction magazines. I started with Astounding / Analog, because I love them, and they’ve shown their excellent taste in buying Read more
I was commenting to a fellow-writer that, in the slush piles I read, lately female main characters outnumber male main characters so much that the males stand out more and might have an unfair advantage because I find them refreshing and different. She lamented that we’ve “gone too far the Read more
Clarion is not running a write-a-thon this year, which made me panic, because I had been for the past two years promising to return to my 50-stories goal and failing to because I had a novel on deadline. (Good problem to have.) My short story stash was running dry! But Read more
I pledged to write 50 short story drafts in six weeks, at at least 1000 words each. After writing a few under-1000, I decided to count those as 1/3. Sometimes a story has a length and I didn’t want to discount them, but I did want a slight punishment to Read more
So there I was, in the middle of teaching a class on selling short stories, and on my “post sale” slide I included “announce sale on social media after contract is signed” and “post again when the story is live, with links to view or buy.” A student raised her Read more
Now mark ye what I say. Silks I have myself; see ye that men do bring us jewels upon their shields and thus we’ll work the clothes. – Das Nibelungenlied This is a story that starts in 2010. I was at the Pennsic War – a two-week medieval recreation (SCA) Read more
Some time ago, (judging by photo dates, November 2022) I decided to put pockets on some of my clothes that didn’t have pockets. Let’s face it, it’s all for my cell phone. We now live in a world where you have this thing you are expected to carry 24/7. Also, Read more