Another milestone, if a very small one: today I got the page proofs for the upcoming issue of Subterranean Magazine #6, with my story neatly inserted into it. It was sort of thrilling and nauseous all at once to see my name in the TOC. I printed out the entire ms, and flipped to my story. It's very small - I didn't realize how tiny it is compared to the ginormous stories by Elizabeth Bear and Caitlin R. Kiernan. Then again, I feel ok with having such a small story in the middle of such a huge issue. It seems right to start off with a modest size. I have plenty of time to work my way up to the big projects.
I'm going to be putting a non-explicit portion of "At the Edge of Ellensburg" onto this website, probably in the next couple of weeks. I need to have something up here that shows my writing, whether people like it or not. People like to read free fiction, and if I can at least offer a snippet of the novella, it might get them to buy the anthology. It's not just about sales, though - I need to show what kind of style I write in. It's important that people see that I write well, even if it's "not their thing" or they don't like the subject matter. At some point this year, I hope to put up a least one good story as well, just something that will show what my writing is like. I might post a trunked steampunk story - "The Girls of the World". It's one that I have no desire to resubmit to anyone, as I've already planned on rewriting the characters and setting into my novel "The Cemetery Queen". The story is good, although flawed - I think it'd be an interesting read.
I'm also in the process of setting up a new Livejournal where I'll eventually post what I'm calling "Antediluvian Juvenilia" - a selection of poetry from my college years, and a series of very weird dark fantasy stories/prose poems from 1995, only two years after I'd moved to New York City. The poetry is good, but not spectacular - but the stories and "ephemera" from 1995 have held up considerably well. I'm also going to serialize my erotic novellas there, as I have no desire to e-publish them, but can't find a traditional print publisher who'll touch them. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to keep the livejournal "friends-only", partially to keep underage kids from reading the erotica (as well as people from my workplace), and partially to keep some semblance of copyright. Also, while posting something on the internet does NOT constitute publication, there's still so much confusion over this that I think it's better to simply keep the fiction private, just in case I someday have the opportunity to legitimately print-publish any of the works in question. At any rate, I'll link to the journal when it's ready to go live - that should be sometime in February.
That's it for now. Back to reading about filthy 19th century Tacomans and writing lurid college sex scenes. Mine is the glamorous life, for sure.
I'm going to be putting a non-explicit portion of "At the Edge of Ellensburg" onto this website, probably in the next couple of weeks. I need to have something up here that shows my writing, whether people like it or not. People like to read free fiction, and if I can at least offer a snippet of the novella, it might get them to buy the anthology. It's not just about sales, though - I need to show what kind of style I write in. It's important that people see that I write well, even if it's "not their thing" or they don't like the subject matter. At some point this year, I hope to put up a least one good story as well, just something that will show what my writing is like. I might post a trunked steampunk story - "The Girls of the World". It's one that I have no desire to resubmit to anyone, as I've already planned on rewriting the characters and setting into my novel "The Cemetery Queen". The story is good, although flawed - I think it'd be an interesting read.
I'm also in the process of setting up a new Livejournal where I'll eventually post what I'm calling "Antediluvian Juvenilia" - a selection of poetry from my college years, and a series of very weird dark fantasy stories/prose poems from 1995, only two years after I'd moved to New York City. The poetry is good, but not spectacular - but the stories and "ephemera" from 1995 have held up considerably well. I'm also going to serialize my erotic novellas there, as I have no desire to e-publish them, but can't find a traditional print publisher who'll touch them. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to keep the livejournal "friends-only", partially to keep underage kids from reading the erotica (as well as people from my workplace), and partially to keep some semblance of copyright. Also, while posting something on the internet does NOT constitute publication, there's still so much confusion over this that I think it's better to simply keep the fiction private, just in case I someday have the opportunity to legitimately print-publish any of the works in question. At any rate, I'll link to the journal when it's ready to go live - that should be sometime in February.
That's it for now. Back to reading about filthy 19th century Tacomans and writing lurid college sex scenes. Mine is the glamorous life, for sure.
Labels: erotica, free fiction
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