Recall a few weeks back when I was the randomly-selected winner of Strange Horizons’ donation drive? Well, yesterday, my prizes arrived, the two gorgeous, hardcover volumes of Paul Cornell’s Superman: The Black Ring. And Mr. Cornell was kind enough to sign them, too: Thanks again to Strange Horizons and Paul Cornell. This was a really…
The good folks over at SF Signal are hosting a giveaway of my new story, “If By Reason of Strength…” put out by 40k Books. You can find all the details over at their site if you are interested.
Via Edmund Schubert, Apex Science Fiction and Horror digest is having it’s third annual Halloween Short Fiction Contest. The stories have to be 2,500 words or less, and the theme has to be on the post-apocalypse. As it turns out, I had a 600-word short-short that I have not yet sold, but that I like…
For reasons I am still unclear on, I proposed, over the weekend, that all us guys going on vacation in 19 days refrain from shaving until said vacation was upon us. Everyone agreed and jkashlock has already posted a picture of himself. He challenged me to do the same. When I proposed this, I hadn’t…
The winner of my secret 1,000th comment contest (secret because no one but me knew about it) is none other than strausmouse, who put the 1,000th comment on my blog with this ditty. Eric’s prize is a one-year paid subscription to LJ. Think of it as a “thank you” to all my loyal readers. (Of…