April 2010

DMP Spring Slush Invitational!

April 29, 2010

These guidelines are already posted on the Dragon Moon Press website, but I thought I’d do something a little different today. Tonight, I’ll be joining the hosts of PodioRacket.Com to talk about Dragon Moon Press, editing, podcast fiction, submitting manuscripts, how to get published, and any other questions that the listening audience decides to throw [...]

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PodioRacket call-in show: Thursday, Apr 29

April 26, 2010

This Thursday, April 29 at 6:00 PM Pacific (9 PM Eastern), I’ll be a guest on PodioRacket.Com‘s hour-long call-in show, hosted by Blog Talk Radio. I’ll be talking about editing, the submissions process, query letters, self-editing, and anything else you want to call in and ask about. …Just please don’t pitch me your manuscript on-air! [...]

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Lone Star State of Mind

April 22, 2010

What’s more disheartening to a writer: a rejection letter or a bad review? Both can crush your spirit if you let them. The trick is not to let them. Tastes are subjective. If they weren’t, we’d all like the same things and there wouldn’t be a wealth of different genres out there to appeal to [...]

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Round-up

April 19, 2010

It’s been a busy couple of weeks! I went to Ad Astra and had a wonderful time! I staffed a Dragon Moon Press table with Erik Buchanan and Chris Jackson – a couple of really great people. I spoke on four panels, we had a very successful launch (click for pictures) for Erik’s new book [...]

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Synergy

April 15, 2010

Sometimes the whole really can be larger than the sum of the parts. On many levels. I find it to be true in my working relationships. Editing with Dragon Moon Press has introduced me to some fantastic people with whom I’ve had instant chemistry and rapport. Delving into something so creative and personal together is [...]

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Dragon Moon Press Store

April 8, 2010

Dragon Moon Press now has a store on Zazzle, featuring mugs, t-shirts and other merchandise… including mousepads made from some of our book covers! This one is for our (forthcoming) anthology of podcast fiction, Podthology, edited by Tim Reynolds: (clicky) If you have a product request or you don’t see your favorite DMP book cover, [...]

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Hugo Nominees Announced

April 5, 2010

Congratulations to the 2010 Hugo Award Nominees! From the Aussiecon 4 News feed: “Aussiecon 4 received a record number of nominations for the 2010 Hugo Awards: 864, up from 799 nomination ballots at Anticipation in 2009 and 483 at Denvention 3 in 2008. This year’s Hugo Award nominations will be announced 22:00 BST, Easter Sunday [...]

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Questions Answered

April 1, 2010

Each day, these blog posts collect dozens of comments that aren’t fit to print. Spammers are so inspired by my posts that they write in to tell me all about their lives and their creative endeavors, and even their personal bedroom secrets and the medications that enrich their private lives! I have one spam-bot that [...]

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