Busy month at Chez Joel. Early in the month was an all-consuming business trip, and mid-month was Paradise Lost 2, a reunion of sorts for Viable Paradise grads. On top of that was determined progress on a final pass through my novel which is going slower than expected, but it’ll get done. As I mentioned [...]
Spending a weekend with Jay Lake has a funny way of making one aware of all the un-submitted stories you’ve got lying around. Duotrope shows 13 in the active list, and as of last weekend, only 4 of them were out. Some really are just sitting there. A few need a light clean-up. A few [...]
I spent an extended weekend in the surprisingly-pleasant weather conditions of San Antonio at the Paradise Lost 2 reunion/workshop. We had Jay Lake, John Joseph Adams, and Steven Brust as guest instructors, all of which I was very happy to meet and learn from. VPXIV’s Seamus Bayne did a great job of organizing and rallying the [...]
Not that anyone reading this would be opinionated <pause role=”for laughter”/> but I’d appreciate any feedback on this cover art for Ritchie Boss, Private Investigator Manager (which you can read in full here under a Creative Commons license). I haven’t yet decided on the details, and thus welcome feedback in this regard as well, but this will [...]
Last year, a colleague of mine noticed this contest involving a near-future timeline, program source code, and a Vinge-ian flavor, and said ‘you really ought to enter something here. The end result: I did, and my story took the top prize. It will appear later this year as the final chapter in the book Finding [...]