I see it like this. There’s a bus full of schoolchildren, plus several bags of money earmarked for things the kids need, like repairs to the school and teachers and health care and food and such. The schoolchildren have two adult escorts. One of them is driving the bus. TheContinue Reading
Okay, so I managed to get myself together enough to submit an existing story, not the new one I’m not happy with. Two submissions. Two stories. Two thirds victory.Continue Reading
What?!? Final Friday already? All right, it’s time for an update. The second short story is still in edit mode. I still feel like it’s just missing something. Okay, tomorrow I must send it somewhere even if I still think it’s not all that. Who knows, maybe I’m not theContinue Reading
All right. It’s Sunday and the last couple of weeks were kind of a miserable failure write-a-thon wise. Naturally, I am duty-bound to tell you the whole pathetic story. For my life is nothing if not a big weepy pile of self-caused angst. My plan for this was: 1 weekContinue Reading
I know, this Ginia Bellafonte Game of Thrones review was back in April, but I’m slow to get to these things and I worked on this when none of my short story ideas were going anywhere. The gist: it’s less a review of the actual program, and more of aContinue Reading
Internal dialog on a Saturday morning Hey, it’s Saturday of Clarion West Week 2 and you know what that means! Fourth of July weekend? No, you have to submit that story you wrote. Oh. Right. I… I promised to do that, didn’t I? Yes, and you have to. But —Continue Reading
I have successfully written a brand new short story that I don’t (yet) think is entirely horrible. It’s science fiction but it could be fantasy. Victory 1! But I have not yet overcome submitaphobia. That’s okay. My goal is to, over six weeks, write and submit three stories. I haven’tContinue Reading
First failing: writing a post every day of the write-a-thon. I was totally going to do that. Then I didn’t. Second failing: getting much writing done. Actually that might not be a failing. I have been in novel-writing mode for a couple of years and am trying to switch gearsContinue Reading
Heads up: I will be in Bellingham Tuesday night (9ish) and departing Wednesday evening (8ish) via Amtrak.Continue Reading
Contents of Julie’s head as she checks email during a lunch break: Sigh. My first formal pass on representation for the werewolf novel. Oh, well. That’s how it goes. I just have to send it to somebody else. There are a lot of agents in the world after all. It’sContinue Reading
Thursday 9pm Cascade 8 Fantastic Fantasy Females Friday 11am Grand 3 Dark Urban Fantasy and Horror Friday 5pm Evergreen 3&4 Supernatural Seattle Friday 6pm Cascade 4 Supernatural /vs/ Sci-Fi Friday 11pm Cascade 9 Has Hollywood Sucked the Vampires Dry? Sunday 3pm Cascade 5&6 Should Genre Labels Disappear?Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine killed himself. I didn’t know him that well. He wasn’t a really close friend, and I hadn’t seen him for years. But for a while, in the early 90s, I saw him a lot. We both contributed to Throwrug, the BellinghamContinue Reading
Hey, everybody! This is, I think, the more or less final pitch for the werewolf novel. And it will go to agents. Honest. Really, I promise. (Heart thuds. Deep breath. Submitaphobia rears its ugly head.) I just wanted to pass it by y’all and see if there are any reallyContinue Reading