Dead Letters, 2.2

The newest issue of Dead Letters is now available. This issue contains my zombie story titled "With the Dead, Change is Inevitable."



Check it out!

Upcoming reviews...

Well, it's about that time again (What time? you ask. What are you even writing about?). The time when I make a list of what reviews I'll be doing soon. Duh. And hopefully in this order.

• Aberrant Dreams, #7, Spring 2006
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Timeweb by Brian Herbert
• Ending an Ending by Danny Birt
• The Dreamer by Matthew G. McMillan
• The Forest King: Woodlark's Shadow by Dan Mishkin & Tom Mandrake
• Hammered by Elizabeth Bear
• The Flock by James Robert Smith

Also, if I ever get unlazy enough I'd like to write up some comic book reviews and movie reviews. We'll see. I am lazy though. Well, not that lazy.

Coming out at the beginning of June will be my story "Chance on Catella" in AlienSkin Magazine. I shall have a link for you all soon enough, don't you worry yourselves too much.

Other than that, still writing away and waiting for the slush gods to take pity upon me and accept the virgin sacrifices I offer in return for world domination and a few more print publications. So say we all...

Fiery review!

Check out my review of Heir to Fire: Gila Flats by Rob Worley and Mike Dubisch!

Shimmer Spring 2006!

The newest issue of Shimmer is out now, and contains my very first fiction sale, "The Dealer's Hands," which you all should check out!

Very excited for my contrib. copy to arrive!

Stormy review!

Check out my review of David Niall Wilson's The Mote in Andrea's Eye!

Reflection...

It seems the slush gods have been quiet as of late. I shall say a prayer, and know that now that I've posted this they will destroy my hopes and dreams with forms and semi-personal rejections in the next few days.

Ah, the life of a writer. Slow, quiet, and filled with enough anxiety to belittle a classroom of kids with ADD.

That's all for now. I'll have some new reviews coming up soon of David Niall Wilson's The Mote in Andrea's Eye, Brian Herbert's Timeweb, and a couple of YA fantasy books. Stay tuned!

The Sword Review, uh, review!

Check out my review of The Sword Review, Issue 13, April 2006!

Hypergalactic review!

Check out my review of What I Did on my Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation by Adam Beechen and Dan Hipp!

Rumored review!

Check out my review of 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead by Steve Niles and Jeff Mariotte! Yay for vampires!

What a thing, a Farthing!

Check out my latest review of Farthing, Issue 2! It's a great publication with a wide variety of stories to be enjoyed. What are you waiting for? Get reading!

We're off to see the Wizard...

Over the weekend I swung by a yard sale and was happy to find a couple copies of L. Frank Baum's Oz books. Four of them are the Del Rey editions, which aren't too bad looking, but one of them is much, much older. It's Ozma of Oz (L. Frank Baum, 1907):



It's not in the greatest condition, but its copyright is 1907. Yes, 1907. In one more year, it'll be 100 years old. Well, not the book itself as I think it was published in the 60s, but the idea...that'll be 100 years old. Crazy. And I got is for .50 cents. I happen to think that's pretty darn cool.

Now I have to go and fish out my copy of The Wizard of Oz that I've had since I was maybe twelve or thirteen.

Magical review!

Check out my review of Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom!

Star-tastic review!

Check out my review of John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars!

Review time!

Check out my review of E. Sedia's According to Crow! You'll be glad you did!

Glorius contests!

Hey, you. Yeah, you. D'you like contests? Wanna enter one? How about two? Come on, kid, everybody's doing it these days. It's not gonna kill you.

You could possibly win autographed copies of Vellum by Hal Duncan and signed copies of His Majesty's Dragon and Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik.

Pretty sweet deal, right? So, what d'ya say? Feelin' lucky?

Get to it!

Shimmer cover!

This has already been posted on my LJ, but I wanted it here as well.

Check out the cover of Shimmer's Spring 2006 issue!



It's got my name on it. Woo hoo!

New review up!

Check out my review for
The Sword Review, Issue 12, March 2006!

Woo, another one!

Just made an 87-day sale of my story "Chance on Catella" to AlienSkin Magazine for their June/July 2006 issue! Happy happy joy joy...

I wrote this story after reading a ton of Lovecraft though I doubt anyone will see a connection. It is a symbolic piece of dark science fiction. I like all things dark...

Story sale!

My Romero-esque zombie story, "With the Dead, Change is Inevitable", sold to Dead Letters for their 2.2 issue!

Woop woop!

Updated review queue!

All right, kiddies...here's an update on my review queue!

1. The Sword Review, Issue 12, March 2006 (will be posted this weekend)
2. David Drake's Surface Action (will be posted this weekend)
3. Hugh Cook's The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers
4. Cat Collins's Sleeping Dragons
5. Dan Simmons's The Fall of Hyperion

More books are being sent via FBS and those will be added to the list as they arrive. Plus, I also have Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom coming soon along with the fact that E. Sedia just contacted me and is sending me a copy of According to Crow to review. Woo hoo!!!

I'm a happy book-reading boy.