December 10th, 2009
The Speculative Literature Foundation has the 2009 Gulliver Grant press release up:
http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Grants/SLFTravelGrant/TravelGrant2009.php
I’m really excited and very honored. Looks like I was up against some serious competition, just from the announcement of the honorable mentions.
I am going to use the grant to offset expenses to travel from Seattle up to Orcas and Whidbey Islands, and then southwest to Ocean Shores (during various times in February, March, and April 2010) for research for the book.
Tags: making a living, my work, on writing, publishing, SF writing, woot
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November 21st, 2009
Dang, I really love this book.
“No one has ever written truly immortal poetry about how good their dog looks in knitted garments.”
Amen, brother.
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November 12th, 2009
A super sweet one line review of my mini space opera in BIG OTHER : “Caren Gussoff offers a fine cyberpunk junket in her story “Correspondence.” ” Thanks, John Madera! I love the word “junket.”
I’ve been having a lot of fun lately guest blogging for Jeff VanderMeer while he is on tour. It’s especially cool because the other guest bloggers are so brilliant that they make me seem much smarter just by posting near them.
Also, in odd news, I’ve become one of the Seattle Literary Scene Examiners for Examiner.com. Kind of a random and strange little gig, but becoming pretty awesome. I’m keeping up with this stuff because it’s uh, my life, so I may as well grow some discipline and write about it. I can see wicked potential to pimp my friends and loved ones in here (because you people do such really cool things, anyway). I’m planning on spotlighting Seattle writers and editors weekly, so drop me a line if you are interested in being featured (caren at spitkitten dot com).
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October 27th, 2009
So, the awesome Eden Robins (co-editor of Brain Harvest) has a story, “The Empire Builder” in Fantasy Magazine’s final three flash-fiction Halloween stories. Readers get to pick their favorite, and I think you’d really love her piece. You can go read it and vote here.
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October 17th, 2009
I was really happy to find out that my vampire alt history/vampire academia story–one I really like, but am aware was a weirdly hard sell for most places–was snapped up by Daikaijuzine today, and will appear in an issue at the end of December.
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September 28th, 2009
Miles Klee’s “Nurse on Terror Island.” Not your mom’s Little Mermaid.
Trivia point of great interest: you can read another great piece by Miles in Birkensnake 2–we are ToC mates. It’s a weird, cool feeling when you publish someone and are published alongside them.
Anyway, go do some reading. Good stuff.
Tags: brain harvest, my work, publishing, SF writing
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September 25th, 2009
Potlatch, the convention, is coming March 5-7, 2010 to Seattle, WA.
Potlatch, an all-volunteer, non-profit, literary event for the readers and writers of speculative fiction. Proceeds from Potlatch benefit Clarion West. And this year, I will be acting as the workshop administrator for the Friday writing workshop–open to all speculative fiction writers, regardless of experience, who want to get critiques in a round-robin Clarion West style.
So, read more about it, grab a copy of the book of honor (Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny), mark your calenders, book your room, and plan on being there.
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September 2nd, 2009
…you can skip past my story, “Correspondence” at Birkensnake, and instead hit “Basic Biology,” my retell of Rapunzel, at Cabinet des Fées–which is also, now, live.
Or better yet, read both.
I’m evvvvvverrrrrywhere. W00!
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