Category: Writing

  • Electrum Novellas=Way Coolness

    Please distribute far and wide. ____________ Velocity Press Announces New Electrum Novella Series Fans of the acclaimed Rabid Transit anthology series will be excited to hear that, here at Velocity Press, we’re evolving for your reading pleasure. Our purpose has always been to bring interesting and hard to classify fiction into print, work that might…

  • Interfictions give-away

    Small Beer Press is giving away some free copies of the new Interfictions anthology, but the free copies are limited, and here’s the way you get one for free:  reply fast to his post on the Small Beer “Not a Journal” website, review the book online or in print, interview one of the authors in…

  • A real writer

    I have been working at one of those put-it-together-yourself shoddy desks since I moved into my apartment last summer, because it was cheap and I needed to use my money for things that were more essential at the time.  But writer friends sometimes talk about their desks and I’ve always felt like I wasn’t a real…

  • Something Awful

    Bob Mackey is funny.  He’s a local internet writer who just graduated from Youngstown State University and will be heading off to graduate school this fall.  In this piece, the world of temping and the world of Youngstown buildings that haven’t been kept up meet and marry like an internet version of Kafka.  Call it The…

  • A question

    I’ve been thinking a lot about blogs and online journals recently.  To be honest, not in any consideration of what I’m doing with my own so much as just being very interested in them as a form or mode.  I’m interested in knowing what other people think about them.  What are they for?  What are…

  • Writing thoughts and questions

    Do you have any thoughts on why writers can’t tell if their own writing is any good or not? I mean, I think there are probably some writers who do know (or believe) that their writing is good, and there are probably some writers who do know (or believe without any trouble) that their writing…

  • I Will Shout Youngstown

    I have been officially interviewed at the “I Will Shout Youngstown” blog.  If you haven’t checked out that weblog before, do take a look.  Tons of really interesting entries there about Youngstown and issues related to community revitalization, a subject many American cities are faced with at the moment.  I talk mostly about Youngstown in…

  • Females, the Fantastic and Tin House

    Hey all you gals working in the tradition of the fantastic with your writing, check out the guidelines for the Fall issue of Tin House.  Give it a chance.  Send them a story, poem or an article of some sort.   UPCOMING ISSUES: We will read until May 31, 2007 (postmark date) for the Fall…

  • Copyediting

    Yesterday I got the copyedited manuscript of One for Sorrow in the mail.  Today I began going through it, checking everything out, correcting anything that needed correcting, adding/excising, etc.  I’m almost halfway done with it after a few hours, but my head is hurting something fierce, so I’m taking a break for the day and…

  • Map of Seventeen

    I found out this past weekend that my novelette, “Map of Seventeen”, will be published in the next installment of Viking’s YA anthology series that editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling are putting together.  So far Ellen and Terri have edited three in this series:  The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, The Faery Reel:…