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They say never edit the editor. I can't help it. Sitting here looking at stories and thinking where they might go and I know...yeah this might fit them, this might not. It's like I know I can't write a 'Stan' story. It's just not how my brain works. I have to write what I write. It's another reason why I have such difficulty with themed anthologies. Sure, I can write a story to the specs, but is it what I do? Not really. The image, the line, the dream sequence in my head build their own tales. Don't want to fight against that.
Meanwhile, back from the road for a while. Trying to find my sense of wonder and love again. I know I put it here somewhere.
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Hot, dusty, nothing to do. Oh yeah, there's tv and bars.

Oh wait, it costs lots of money. Well, the tv doesn't.

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This broadcast is brought to you briefly by the city of Kuala Lumpur. On the road again for the next six weeks or so.
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I have been tardy in posting. Anyway, my story "Herd Mentality" has been picked up by French magazine Galaxies SF to appear any day now as "Instinct Gregaire." I've seen the translation and I have to say, it looks way cool.

I have also sold "Radio Sounds" to Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts release TBA.

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Some arsehole has spent hours/days/weeks scanning millions of pages, pdf-ing them and posting them on various torrents.

http://www.greek-force.com/ebooks/3648-ultimate-fiction-ebook-collection.html

Bastard fool.

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BINARY is now completely madeover and available online at http://tinyurl.com/p8yzp3
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Several up at http://www.anthologybuilder.com

Build yourself a nice anthology...
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At least for a little while. A couple of bounces in the meantime, but not worth mentioning per se.

This weekend, I have a new story coming out. "Disney's World" in Borderlands 11, the august Australian publication.
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Still in a wet and rainy Paris. Visited Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust yesterday.
In the meantime:

Catastrophia--82 days (he really didn't like the story)
Clarkesworld--2 days

But, the good news is, French magazine Galaxies wants to pick up my story "Herd Mentality."

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Back to Paris in about an hour for around 10 days. All day meetings and conference calls, as per usual. In Paris, at least, I should be able to get up at 5:00 and continue the production routine, if I get over the lurgy I picked up on the way back from Tokyo.

Oh, and another bounce. Fantasy -- 1 day.
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Apex Digest -- 128 days
Fantasy -- 2 days
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It's like having your partner walk out on you forty or fifty times a year. Sometimes he or she comes back, but mostly not. You know, all you have to do is learn how to handle rejection...
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Midnight Echo -- 114 days.

Today I am older, but definitely no wiser.
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Back in Singapore, a week of meetings prior to Tokyo next week, with a few returns to report.


Clarkesworld - 3 days
Fantasy Magazine x 3 - 2 days, 2 days, 12 days
Brain Harvest - 7 days


Borderlands - 111 days, Sale. "Disney's World" planned for Easter.

Meanwhile, doing more scribbling in the background. I'm into my get up at 5:00 before work and do work regime. There's a slightly odd novel that is growing as I write, untitled as yet.

I am unsure which one of us lives and which one is in hell. I am in endless sheets and it is so hard to tell one from the other. Sometimes I am myself and sometimes I am my mother. We love each other equally and at the same time, we hate. She sent the dolls today, but they were more than dolls and when their transforming faces erupted in matt white flesh and my mother gently lowered the blood machine around my head—or was it my sister?—all became red.

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Okay, sitting in the Northern Beaches of New South Wales in a place called Terrigal, north of Sydney. It has been hectic the last few days with family stuff. My brother's wedding tomorrow. I had no internet connection at all while in Bathurst which is in the west of New South Wales. I had no idea withdrawal pains would be so bad.

Anyway, quite a bit of scribbling done and more to be done today. I might manage a little tomorrow before I have to head off to the event. Then Saturday, transfer to a Sydney airport hotel in preparation for an early flight on Sunday morning back to Singapore.

After that, maybe, it's back to business as usual.
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Singapore to Australia for my brother's wedding. Offline for a few days. Much writing to be done too.
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