Two of the most common pieces of advice you’ll hear about writing are: * Write more * Read more I’ve also read many interviews where writers say they no longer have time to keep up with other novels published in…
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The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologised
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Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter-watts-canad.html Ten Ways Space Travel Isn’t Like Television or the Movies http://www.satelliteinternet.com/news/ten-ways-space-travel-isnt-like-television-or-the-movies/ The Funniest Reasons Customers Reject Books http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266/post/210048821.html “I don’t do books about elephants set during the…
How to Respond to Worried Parents
A couple of fun articles on the Guardian about how scary books and movies for children should be. Maurice Sendak tells parents worried by Wild Things to ‘go to hell’ Do you know what today’s kids need? Thumb amputation, that’s…
Who Would Have Thought Collecting Severed Heads Would Be So Difficult?
From Warriors of Medieval Japan by Stephen Turnbull Head collecting is a tradition found throughout samurai history… When a battle was won, the taking, recording and presentation of these ghastly trophies was as systematic and as thorough as the battlefield…
Hidden Statues
From Lost Japan by Alex Kerr. Japan is fascinated by secrets. They are the defining feature of the way traditional arts are taught and preserved. They cause problems for governments and business, since different departments of the same organization…
Writing & Reading Update
I finished a proposal (outline and sample chapters) for a book about weird things from Japan. So will be sending that off to agents. I sold Love’s Apprentice, a micro fiction story to Thaumatrope. Have been doing some planning for…
200th Rejection Letter
This week I got my 200th rejection letter. It was for a story I’d originally written long ago (1998) and revised over the years. I did a major revision after Clarion, and since then it’s earned me a couple more…
