Archive for July, 2009

In a discussion with book reviewer Shaun Duke on Twitter, he made an interesting comment. He said that he couldn’t think of any lead female characters in Science Fiction books. When I tried to respond right away I realized all the books that were coming to my mind were more Fantasy or Speculative than true [...]

I received my rejection letter on Friday of last week and I’m posting now because I’ve been away on a camping vacation. It was a form letter stating that my novella was not chosen for Quarter 2, nor did it make any level of the finals, or get honorable mention. Oh well. It would have [...]

A friend of mine was having a bad day at work. There were a lot of challenges he had to overcome to complete a “project”. Anyway, in an attempt to make him feel better I wrote him a little story based loosely off the information he told me.  I wrote in one hour, and did [...]



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      February 3, 2010
      Chinese Whisperings are 10 stories about 10 different people. The twist in this collection is that each new story takes a minor character from the story before and makes him or her into the main character. The whole thing works extremely well. It is not a novel in chapters, and therefore slightly disconcerting when you meet the person or persons from the story before in a completely different setting. But it works wonderfully.”
      by Heike Margot Heike Margot's Blog The Red Book

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