Inchoate Incites

On the Road Again

2009-07-12T01:23:15Z

This broadcast is brought to you briefly by the city of Kuala Lumpur. On the road again for the next six weeks or so.

Okay, I'm Loving This Link

2009-06-26T20:07:44Z

A Couple of Story Sales

2009-06-24T11:24:04Z

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.

Idiot Thief

2009-06-20T20:27:03Z

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.

A Science Fiction King Lear

2009-05-16T08:53:22Z

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

New Stories Up

2009-04-25T07:43:56Z

Several up at http://www.anthologybuilder.com

Build yourself a nice anthology...

You Wanna Know the Reality of Publishing?

2009-04-18T06:17:06Z

Go here http://tinyurl.com/dgb9gc

Back from the Road

2009-04-10T11:52:51Z

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.

Bounces and Other

2009-03-29T07:44:00Z

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."

On the Road Again

2009-03-24T16:23:01Z

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.

Bounces

2009-03-23T11:08:08Z

Apex Digest -- 128 days
Fantasy -- 2 days

What writing is like

2009-03-21T11:11:46Z

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...

Bouncearama

2009-03-10T22:58:02Z

Midnight Echo -- 114 days.

Today I am older, but definitely no wiser.

Stats Roundup

2009-03-09T22:29:56Z

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.

Brief Check In

2009-03-04T23:27:29Z

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.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

2009-02-27T22:21:44Z

Singapore to Australia for my brother's wedding. Offline for a few days. Much writing to be done too.

SIngapore and Jetlag

2009-02-22T22:49:52Z

Up at 4:00. Up again at 5:00 and writing. 1500 on one of the two currents WIPs. Now 6:50 and time to start getting ready for the workday.

Meanwhile, a bounce from Clarkesworld at less than a day.

Industry be Damned

2009-02-15T12:11:19Z

I have just posted an entire novel online for reading. Binary is 120,000 words, 38 chapters. Set in a binary star system, warring families struggle for supremecy between the guilds, the indigenous aliens and the trials that their dual stars throw at them.

Enjoy: BINARY

Followed Closely By....

2009-02-09T19:02:44Z

A polite and professional bounce from Interfictions at 90 days.

Work, Work, Work....

2009-02-09T14:29:49Z

The roadtrip continues. Madrid is cold, windy and grey. Not much going on except as the title says.

The only other report is a markedly uncomplementary bounce from Aurealis at 87 days. It appears there's a new editorial crew since when I was last published there and the nature of this response leaves something to be desired. Really, you know, I send to Australian publications out of a sense of loyalty as much as anything else. Sometimes I wonder....

Greetings from a frigid Brussels

2009-01-31T07:28:22Z

Two bounces

Shock Totem--26 Days
Flash Fiction--79 days

Off Again and a bounce

2009-01-24T11:22:02Z

Brussels for about 10 days. Not too bad, not too far. Good food, oh woe is me.

JJA came back to me on Federations at 73 days. Nicely, but no cigar.

Back from Singapore

2009-01-18T14:28:59Z

Dead and punchy. Have worked for the last eight days. Very tiny amount of writing done.

Bounce

2009-01-05T22:21:33Z

Gordon alased me at 46 days. Must be something to do with the postal service. The letter was dated 6 December.

The Travel Schedule

2009-01-05T13:52:54Z

For those of you who may be interested, the next couple of months:

In date order...
Jan 8th-Jan 17th Singapore
Jan 26-Feb 4th Brussels
Feb 8-Feb 13 Madrid
20 Feb-28 Feb Singapore
28 Feb-7 March Sydney
7 March-13 March Singapore
14 March-19 March Tokyo
25 March-3 April Paris

In between times I will probably be back in Germany, though not guaranteed.
Such is my life.

Which reminds me...oh hairy one...check the Singapore dates.