Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter
This is a beautiful story, I read it over a year ago and just reviewed it today and was surprised at how readily I remembered this interesting tale. Set in a Cambodia that is not…
Update…
I am off work for a while and am attempting to catch up on numerous projects. I finished my first story since our second son was born last year and have sent it to the…
Writers of the Future XXIII
I have a huge backlog of books to read, among them a bunch of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future volumes. Anyways I just finished volume XXIII and there were several stories I really…
Writer profile added to Writertopia
The kind folks at Writertopia have added a profile for me on their site. I’ll be keeping that up to date, along with this site going forward. Check it out here: Brent’s Writer Profile This…
Murky Depths
Murky Depths is a relatively new magazine of dark, speculative fiction. I have subscribed to it for a while now. The magazine features an interesting blend of comic versus traditionally formatted stories. The one common thread…
Kindle 2, audiobooks, and the elusive Writing Career
Reading recent posts by Stephen Kotowych and Robert Sawyer about the Kindle’s ability to read books aloud and how that might impact the future revenue of writers, has got me thinking about whether a writing…
“End of the Road” review – podcast
Stumbled upon an older podcast that contains (among other things) a review Not One of Us #35. This was the issue in which my first Wanderer story “The End of the Road” was published. Listen…
Fast Ships, Black Sails
Still scanning Richard Horton’syear-end updates and noticed that he mentioned that he really liked Naomi Novik’s story “Araminta; or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake” in the anthology Fast Ships, Black Sails. Congrats go out to…
A Ragman’s Vow
Richard Horton does a yearly summary for many magazines, highlighting the stories he most enjoyed. I have always found his summaries quite interesting and was very pleased to see “A Ragman’s Vow” (a story of mine…
Scrivener
Just stumbled across Scrivener, a writing program for the Mac OS. http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html A very nice program! More polished than YourOtherMind but lacking some features that we have, though its emphasis appears to be more on producing…
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