The Tuesday night contingent of the AAAWG will be meeting at Patrick’s apartment complex’s club house for the remainder of the year. Read the rest of this entry »

I just posted my 25,003-rd link to delicious.com and, after checking for the exact date, I found that my last major bookmark milestone was 20,000 back on March 27th, 2008.

"Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" just went beta. If you are interested in being a beta-reader, drop me a line. It’s only 7000 words. What are you waiting for?

Congratulations Karen on the forthcoming publication of Grace! Read the rest of this entry »

The Ann Arbor Book Festival is currently running a short story contest. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve finished another polish pass on “All You Quantum Zombies”.  There has been some significant modifications.  If you are beta reader, I’d like your opinion.  You can find PDF files posted on the other blog.

Drop by RayGunRevival.com for your latest fix of space opera SF (PDF file).

OpenOffice, the open source alternative to MS Office and my writing tool of choice, has released version 3.0.  You can get it here.  A little review of this release can be found here.

The new online ezine Beneath Ceaseless Skies has posted its first issue today.  Go check it out.

Jim Van Pelt had a post on LiveJournal yesterday linking to an announcement of novella length SF and Fantasy anthology / market that is open for submissions.  I’ve added Alembical at Paper Golem to my market research links and am currently reviewing my novella length stories to see which one I would like to submit.  I would like to submit “Up in the Nightgaunts Gang”, but it needs a polish pass, and at 18,500 words, is a little short of the 20,000 word minimum that Alembical is looking for.  But given my prior track record and writing process, it is likely that it will break the minimum by the time I am done polishing.

I just hit 20,000 bookmarks on my del.icio.us account.

Hazzah!

Sadly, Gary Gygax, who along with Dave Arneson created the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, has died at the age 69. (Updated: 2008/03/11 2:22 PM) Read the rest of this entry »

Ella Thayer’s Wired Love scans have arrived and the OCRing will begin this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Just came across this bit of news: UC-Santa Cruz to put Heinlein’s archive online.

Also see: http://www.heinleinarchives.net/

Karl Schroeder releases Ventus under Creative Commons License.

I signed up with SiteGround today at 9:30 PM and was basically operational with a WordPress and WikiMedia by midnight. Their respective links are:

• http://fritzfreiheit.com/wiki/
• http://fritzfreiheit.com/blog/