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Publication: The Miracle on Tau Prime
“The Miracle on Tau Prime” went live on the Daily Science Fiction web site today. So if you haven’t subscribed to free DSF e-mails (and shame on you if you haven’t!), you can now read it online. This...
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Win a copy of Unidentified Funny Objects!
There’s a giveaway on GoodReads that’s beginning tomorrow. Click to enter! Goodreads Book Giveaway Unidentified Funny Objects by Alex Shvartsman Giveaway ends January 23, 2013. See the giveaway details...
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Schrodinger’s Story
I enjoy every aspect of creating a new story, but one. I like the brainstorm part, where an idea settles in, usually over the course of multiple days, before I ever type the first word. The first...
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Publication: A Brief Respite from Eternity at Toasted Cake Podcast
Tina Connolly did a great job reading my flash story “A Brief Respite from Eternity” at the Toasted Cake podcast. This is a space opera about love, eternity, and the heat death of the universe. It was...
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“The Far Side of the Wilderness” accepted at Beyond the Sun
I first heard about “Beyond the Sun” when editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt launching a crowdfunding campaign for it on Kickstarter. I love space opera, and was intrigued by the concept as well as by the...
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Publication: “The Field Trip” in Nowa Fantastyka
My short story “The Field Trip,” was was originally published in the In Situ anthology from Dagan Books, appears in the February issue of Nowa Fantastyka, Poland’s premier SF magazine. This is the...
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2013 Campbellian Pre-Reading Anthology
The award season is upon us. Hardcore fans are furiously catching up on their reading so they can nominate their favorite books and stories for Hugo and Nebula Awards. But for those of us who only...
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“Spidersong” at Drabblecast
“Spidersong” was my first SFWA-qualifying sale and remains one of my stronger flash stories written to date. It’s been a busy week for this little story. First it was reprinted in the anthology of...
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The Great Short Story Ebook Experiment
I finally did it — I took several of my previously published short stories and made them available as e-books. They’re currently up on Amazon and over the next few days I’ll be making them available on...
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Hugo Noms and Adventures in Self Publishing
The Hugo Awards nominations were announced earlier today, and there is some great reading material on that list (and a number of things I haven’t yet read as well). The complete list of nominated works...
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UFO2 Kickstarter is live
Unidentified Funny Objects 2 is coming to the bookshelf near you this September! I already have stories from Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick and Ken Liu. In addition, Esther Friesner, Jody Lynn Nye,...
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UFO2 Submissions Open Tonight
The submissions are opening tonight for the UFO2 anthology and will remain open throughout the month of May. Please read the guidelines here and feel free to submit when ready (yes, a few hours early...
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UFO2 Kickstarter Campaign Ending Soon
Just over four hours remaining in the UFO2 Kickstarter campaign. We raised nearly $6500 so far, with $1500 to go! Over 200 people backed this project already, and if you haven’t yet, please do, and...
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UFO2 Submissions Update
First of all, thanks again to everyone who pledged and promoted our Kickstarter campaign. We are fully funded and are able to produce the book in the fashion we wanted to, without cutting corners! We...
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It Came from the Slush Pile
It was only yesterday that I wrote a blog post about the UFO slush pile and had this to say: This doesn’t mean that you can’t sell us a zombie reality TV story about a road trip in space. But it won’t...
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UFO2 Submissions Update – May 17
We read just over 350 submissions to date. Everyone who submitted prior to 5/12 should have heard from us by now. If you haven’t, please query ASAP. I accepted seven stories so far, totaling 35,000...
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My 2013 BaltiCon Schedule
I am going to spend four fun and very busy days at BaltiCon this weekend. My schedule is full of fantastic events, panels, and even an author gala. Here’s where I’ll be: W-4 Broadening Horizons...
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UFO2 Update
Submissions are now closed for UFO2. We received well over 600 unsolicited submissions in addition to the stories from authors whom I asked directly to contribute to the book. Most of the round 1...
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Market Report: Betwixt Magazine
Click here for detailed guidelines. Genres: Speculative fiction Length: 1000 to 30,0000 (4000-7000 preferred) Pay rate: $0.02/word up to $150 Rights: First worldwide English-language serial,...
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Father’s Day Fiction
Happy father’s day to all the dads out there! It occurs to me that I write a fair amount of fiction centered around a father-child relationship. Undoubtedly, being a father myself has much to do with...
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