Post Category Paul on 18 Dec 2010
Lois Tilton at Locus Online was lukewarm regarding my “Stereogram” piece, but when my story “Small Burdens” came out in Strange Horizons back in March, she gave it a “Recommended.” The other day, in her year-end wrap-up, she called it one of her three favorite Strange Horizons stories of the year: Strange Horizons, now on […]
Post Category Paul on 04 Dec 2010
This isn’t the type of thing I usually put up on this site, but someone may find it useful one day, and it should be on the internet somewhere. A friend is studying to be an opera singer, and for a performance project she was assigned an old, traditional Japanese folk song called a min’yo […]
Post Category Paul on 01 Dec 2010
The BSFA’s Short Story Club has ended, and they are in the post-mortem phase now. My “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory” got some of the harsh treatment I expected, but it looks like my story polarized the group more than most, and the discussion also included a few comments […]
Post Category Paul on 11 Oct 2010
The members of Altered Fluid are donating a critique as part of the KGB Fantastic Fiction raffle. All ten current members of the group will critique a story up to 7000 words from the winning ticket holder, either in person or via Skype. Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a NY-based reading series featuring luminaries and […]
Post Category Paul on 22 Aug 2010
The editorial staff of Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, is running an online short story club – each week from late August through November, they’re discussing a noteworthy or interesting story that has been published on the internet recently. And I’m stunned to say they’ve selected my “Stereogram of the […]
Post Category Paul on 02 Aug 2010
This month, Clarkesworld Magazine is running an interview with (most of) the members of Altered Fluid, in which we discuss writing, and writing groups, and each other. It was a lot of fun. Jeremy L. C. Jones emailed us the questions and we shared them as a Google doc. This let each of us answer […]
Post Category Paul on 24 Jul 2010
I’m a little late to the party on this one, but nevertheless I am delighted to announce that Sybil’s Garage no. 7 went on sale this week. I had a blast helping out with this magazine — finding gems in the slush, guiding authors on rewrites, and copy editing. I’m rather proud to see it […]
Post Category Paul on 26 Jun 2010
Fantasy Magazine has published an Author Spotlight interview to accompany “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory.” I discuss writing the story, and also attempt to describe what makes a successful writing group. The story has already gotten some feedback. In an absurdly flattering review in Locus, Rich Horton writes: And […]
Post Category Paul on 21 Jun 2010
I’m delighted to announce that my story “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory,” has been published in Fantasy Magazine. I’m a big fan of this publication, and I’m very happy this piece has found a good home there. A couple of different things came together to inspire this story. The […]
Post Category Paul on 01 Mar 2010
I’m proud to say my short story “Small Burdens” just went up on the wonderful speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons. You can read it here. This piece began as my first Clarion story, written during the week our workshop was led by Kelly Link. A bit of spoiler — It’s a fairy story, and I […]