SATIRICA Cover Art

Satirica Cover Image
Fri, 08/15/2008 - 13:13 | Jason

Cacodaemonia's final cover art for the Satirica anthology is just fantastic. There was a long collaborative process involved in choosing the artist and general direction for the book jacket, but in the end, it rides on Cac's talent. As far as I know, we're still looking at an availability date somewhere around late August to early September.

I've read most of the stories and virtually know many of the writers in the TOC. Here's the full line-up from the Cowboy Logic release:

Downloadable Versions of THE HERETIC

Digital Sphere - detail from The Heretic cover art
Sat, 03/01/2008 - 09:17 | Jason

If you're looking for downloadable eBook editions of The Heretic. The editions produced by the fine community at MobileRead are the only ones out there that were produced with my permission. My thanks go out to Jon Wolf for crafting and formatting them with his usual care and attention to detail.

THE HERETIC is Back Online

Heretic Cover Partial Image
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 11:25 | Web master

The online edition, hosted at HappyHacker.org, has down for quite a while, and the e-mails have been pouring in. Problem solved! The online edition is now being hosted right here. As an extra added bonus, the viewing script has been tweaked for a better reading experience. And, as always, you can read it absolutely free.

Read the new online edition of THE HERETIC. The new layout maintains the page form better and copes well with adjusted font sizes. Overall, it should make for a much easier reading experience.

Must Read List for Writers

Thu, 06/14/2001 - 06:07 | Staff

Here's a list of suggested reading material for the modern fiction writer. Taken together, it touches on story structure, process, word choice, lifestyle, and dealing with that other world that keeps intruding on the fictional worlds you're trying to create.

Thinking Out Loud

Asimov's Author Copies

Submitted by Jason on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 13:25.

Woot! I got my author copies of the October/November Asimov's today. When I saw the listing for "This Petty Pace" in the TOC, I flashed back to a thirteen-year-old me holding the then-current issue in his hands and thinking "Some day...." Well, it's been a long, weird road from there/then to here/now, but yes, it's just as good a feeling as I thought it would be.

Rock isn't dead after all!

Submitted by Jason on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:25.

I caught Ponywhip at a free show in the neighborhood yesterday. Awesome sound! Just good ol' butt-kicking rock. Benatar-esque vocals (early, pre-popish Benatar, that is), but gutsier. They did an interesting cover of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is".

Do yourself a favor and give a listen to their debut EP.

Audio edition of "The Architect of Heaven"

Submitted by Jason on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 19:40.

My thanks to Kate Baker for the excellent reading she did of "The Architect of Heaven" in the mid-May Clarkesworld Magazine podcast. She does a nice job of putting just enough acting into the dialog to get the point across and to help keep the different voices distinct. And I loved Valikova's accent!

"The Architect of Heaven" is live

Submitted by Jason on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 09:25.

The May 2011 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is live with my story The Architect of Heaven in it. I noticed in a note from Neil that the story will get a podcast version on May 15th. That's awesome. I'm assuming Kate Baker will read it. She has this amazing, classical music radio station kind of voice that just sounds great doing readings.

Clarkesworld Magazine - May issue

Submitted by Jason on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 06:41.

I just got word from Neil over at Clarkesworld Magazine that my short story "The Architect of Heaven" will be appearing in the May issue. Once again, I'll be ToC-mates with Cat Rambo. Neat, huh? Last time, my story "Brief Candle" appeared with her story "The Mermaids Singing Each to Each" back in the November 2009 issue.

I should mention that, if you prefer to read on a reader device (as do I), instead of the Web, Clarkesworld is available by subscription from Weightless Books, along with Bullspec, Lightspeed, and others. Weightless appears to be filling the void left when Fictionwise stopped doing magazine subscriptions, signing up small press and Web-based magazines and handling e-fulfillment. It's not quite as convenient as a nook or Kindle sub, in that it doesn't just appear on your device, but neither did Fictionwise subs, and I did those for years.

I have no idea how successful Weightless is for the publishers, or what the deal is on sharing subscriber information, but more outlets are better. Period. Also, Weightless is using the standard "buy it all at once" subscription model, as opposed to the "pay per issue" model. So I'll add that more business models are better, too. Choice and diversity are the only real way to see what the market wants.

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