A new how-to guide has been added to help users update to YourOtherMind 8.1. New users don’t need to worry about this and can just download the full version directly from the download page.
Click here to read the How-to guide.

As I mentioned in the previous post I’ve made another sale.
The story “Tale of Lady Spite” has been sold to Tales of the Talisman and should appear Fall 2009. I’m very excited about this sale. The story is one of my favourites (it received an Honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest a [...]

I took the day off today because it’s my birthday and I wanted to relax. In the morning I received a very cool e-mail… I’ve sold another story! More details later once everything is finalized but I’m very excited. It is another fantasy story set in the same fictional world as “From the Sea” (which [...]

I’ve been playing Little Big World (available for Playstation 3) for a couple weeks now.
Great game, highly recommend it.
The game brings many unique and modern elements to what is otherwise a fairly standard side-scrolling adventure game. The core gameplay is familiar to any player of the Mario games and the controls are easy to intuit.
The [...]

SFCrowsnest has put up a favorable review for a “A Ragman’s Vow”, you can find it here:
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz13477.php

I only finished one story this year, what with moving, Dragon Age and a second child I found little time for writing. I’m taking a lot of time off in 2009 so I’m going to see if I can increase my productivity back to what it was in 2007.
In 2008, I:

Sold and saw in print: ‘A Ragman’s [...]

Okay I’ve moved the site from yourothermind.com/publish to yourothermind.com. The /publish part was just for testing and it took me a while to figure out how to change it.
Let me know if anything seems broken.

I’ve just finished making my Aurora Award nominations for the best Canadian fiction of 2008. This is open to all Canadians… nominations can be made here http://www.prix-aurora-awards.ca/English/AwardProcess/nominationForm.php and a list of eligible work at http://www.canadiansf.com/node/24
Please put your nominations in!

Added a new video for YourOtherMind – the writer’s organizer. This video demonstrates the simple steps required to rename a page you’ve added to your idea notebook (or to change it into another page type).
You can view all of the YourOtherMind help videos on the main YourOtherMind details page or just this new video [...]

If you haven’t played Sonic Chronicles yet, I encourage you to give it a try.
Although I work at BioWare I was not involved with the development of Sonic Chronicles at all. So assume me completely unbiased. The second disclaimer is that I’m not really a fan of the Sonics character at all, so I’m addressing [...]