Same in print SF/fantasy too. I tell new people, don’t worry about “networking,” just make friends. There’s a culture of helping out and giving a hand up when you can

Oh huh my next book might be full of queer rage

Later in the episode he says "maybe we could all learn a thing or two from those sandwiches" and I think of that a lot, too, but I am willing to admit it's not as profound

I think often of Ice King's line from one of my favorite episodes of Adventure Time, "Thank You," where he exclaims in frustration:

You don't understand! If you were me, you would do things I would do!

IF YOU’RE STILL IN BED STAY IN BED

It's a revision day again, and I'm going to start my session half an hour early

because I'm supposed to get a new dryer delivered sometime today

and there's no better way to make that happen promptly than to get deeply into working on something

Though there was a time LONG ago I had a story rejected by an editorial assistant at a magazine where I'd sold the editor-in-chief a bunch of pieces and I emailed to say "Hmm, did YOU actually look at this story?" and she said no and told me to send it again and then bought it. The arrogance of me!

This prompted me to look at my submission log (which is just a word doc dating back to 1999, so nearly the start of my attempts)

the story with most rejections that eventually sold was "The Tyrant in Love," which had TWENTY-NINE magazine and anthology rejections before it got a yes

(It has not)

I've sold like 180 stories since 1999

so I've gotten maybe a thousand rejections

There was ONE time I got rejected, and then later the editors wrote to say "We can't stop thinking about your story, can we buy it after all?"

Since then every time I get rejected I think "maybe it'll happen again"

Go chip in if you can. No other magazine covers the SF/fantasy field as thoroughly or knowledgeably as Locus does.

I believe you mean “so badly”

I revised a story!

Tomorrow I’ll revise another one. Unless getting a new dryer delivered is too disruptive to my attention. Which it may be!

He is NOT weak on crime like some popes I could name

Ranch Faraway

It’s a revision day! I used to hate revising & lived for the rush of drafting a new story. But I learned to like the puzzle and problem solving aspects of revising; it’s fun like doing a crossword, while drafting is fun like doing drugs

And I admit, as I age I do more crosswords and fewer drugs, so

Hero shot of The Confessor from the comic Astro City, character created by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson and Alex Ross. A Batman-like masked figure in a flowing black cloak with a big stylized cross on his chest

this is MY pope

I watched podcaster SF movie Monolith last night and it would make a good triple feature with podcaster horror movie Undertone and radio station weird movie Pontypool as “films where it’s fine if you’re a little sleepy and you rest your eyes a bit” (I like them all)

hold onto your tits bitches

do you want Crater McCraterface, because that’s how you get Crater McCraterface

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories Stories

Y’all! The White Cat Black Dog ebook is currently 1.99 on all platforms. If you buy from bookshop.org, you can pick which indie bookstore you want your money to go to. 🖤🐈🖤

zackeryatlas 12h The degradation of society: 1. Celebrating the k!lling of a CEO 2. Cheering on warehouse arsons 3. Making heroes out of people who attempt political violence You can be outraged at the system and still not glorify violence. These aren't wins. This is a society losing its moral compass. [Coming from a liberal btw]

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

My oncologist broke up with me. She said my cancer is gone so we really don’t have anything in common any more.

I beat inoperable, incurable cancer. I kicked it down the stairs, took its lunch money, & threw rocks at it as it ran away crying.

Yeah, cancer, you *better* run.

lol what baby brains. what if your neighbor likes a different sports team. oh no they might have a different color house. what if they like choo choos more than vroom vrooms. I hear some don’t even agree apple is the best juice. I don’t feel safe

Screenshot of a book page of a text exchange reading: Michelle I know it's a foreign concept for you But sometimes, people experience attraction and they don't act on it Mal That doesn't sound right

Listen here Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun, there is no call for attacking me like this

Name Four Non-Person Things That Make Your Life Livable:

1) my various library cards

2) Fiestaware

3) bourbon

4) my ability to enjoy almost any horror movie regardless of its quality

Thinking about my next novel. I have this feeling like I’m standing on the edge of a cliff and about to jump off but it’s okay because I have wings. Or at least a parachute. Or like a golf umbrella. Or there’s a big air mattress down there. Or a soft pile of garbage maybe? Anyway. Exhilarating!

Happy birthday Trevor!

They are architects of sorrow

I have written TWO; the second is out later this year!