One of the highlights of placing in the Writers of the Future Contest is that my winning story will have an illustration created for it by one of the winners of the Illustrators of the Future contest. I can’t wait to see what part of/character(s) in the story will be illustrated.
I have been lucky though [...]
Currently I’m struggling through editing/rebuilding a story I wrote the first draft of back in January. I’m really procrastinating (hence this blog post). It just has never had the ‘magic’ I thought the original concept would deliver.
Anyways, I went through some old notes on other stories as a way to avoid the dread edit and [...]
Finished reading Writers of the Future Volume XX this week. Stories that stood out for me more than others:
Kinship by Jason Stoddard. A very interesting story with a future-human investigating whether a tribe of creatures qualify as human. The main character is torn about how humans have already changed and how much more some of [...]
This week I finished reading Volume XXI of the Writer’s of the Future series of anthologies. Stories that particularly interested me were:
“Betrayer of Trees” by Eric James Stone. A stone worker with a troubled past is called to work on a new palace back near where he grew up. We learn early that he betrayed [...]
Finished reading Writers of the Future XXII. Many good stories in this one, a few that stood out for me:
Broken Stones by Judith Tabron. The main character’s faith is challenged when she disagrees with how the aliens are being treated on a world that her people have colonized for generations. I thought the world well [...]
The fourth quarter writer winners for the Writers of the Future contest have been announced:
1st Place – Laurie Tom from Torrance, California
2nd Place – Scott W. Baker from Monterey, Tennessee
3rd Place – Lael Salaets from Oakridge, Oregon
A hearty congratulations go out to the winners and it will be great to meet them this summer [...]
Jason Fischer, who placed first in the 2nd Quarter of this years Writers of the Future Contest has posted that his novella “After the World: Gravesend” is now available. Check out the details on Jason’s blog
More»Just a few days before finding out that my Writer’s of the Future submission had qualified as a finalist, I received acceptances to two anthologies. Both anthologies will be available in 2010. When I’m allowed I’ll post details about the markets and stories (one is a fantasy story set in the same universe as The [...]
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