My first Esperanto-language short story “Paŭzo en la stacidomo Union,” appears in the new issue of Beletra Almanako! My contributor’s copy arrived today. I even made the cover. I am in very good company—a veritable who’s who of current Esperanto literature. “Tiu,” Emma diris Otto rigardis kien ŝi kapmontris. “Tiu alta viro en la drelika [...]
Archive of posts filed under the News category.
Cool Scrivener feature: show stamps
Tobias Buckell’s recent post on chapters was not only interesting in its own right. It also brought me to Scott Westerfeld’s valuable post on pace charts. Even more cool, though was a tidbit in a comment on that post, with details on a cool feature of Scrivener: You can show stamps on the note cards! [...]
First meeting of the incognito writers group
A few of us here in Champaign-Urbana are trying to get a local writers group going again. Caleb Wilson, Kelly Searsmith, Charlie Petit, and I got together last night at the Urbana Library for the new group’s first meeting. I had suggested that we might want to talk about a name for the group, simply [...]
Theordora Goss to edit Folkroots column
My Clarion classmate Theodora Goss just announced on her blog that she’ll be editing the Folkroots column for Realms of Fantasy starting in February. Dora is a perfect choice—a great writer with a distinctive voice and comprehensive knowledge of literature.
Open Source Fiction?
Frank Gilroy, a guy I used to work with at Motorola, has written a post called My Thoughts on Open Source Story Telling about why he’s putting his fiction up on the web. I had a few thoughts on the topic that I would have shared in a comment, except that he’s got comments turned [...]
My Workspace
My Workspace, originally uploaded by bradipo. I haven’t actually been writing at my desktop for the past couple of weeks. While Steve and Daniel were visiting, we were taking our laptops to the library and using one of their “study rooms” as an office. I’m fixin’ to get back to working here, though. What’s here: [...]
Clifty Creek
Clifty Creek, originally uploaded by bradipo. According to some plaque I saw in Shades State Park a while back, the trees in the area that turned into the park cast such deep shade it was called “Shades of Death.” I thought this shot, taken in Pine Hills Nature Preserve, right next to Shade, captured a [...]
Sale to Redstone!
Just learned that Redstone Science Fiction has accepted my story “Like a Hawk in its Gyre” for publication, probably in early 2011. I’ve signed the contract and mailed that in already. I still need to write a bio to send along with a headshot. Until I start selling more frequently, I have the luxury of [...]
Lazy River
My mom, brother, and nephew are visiting, and at my nephew’s enthusiastic request, we all spent the afternoon at the “aquatic center” yesterday. Getting out of the water was hard. After four or five trips around the lazy river, I’d gotten very used to floating. Putting my feet down and standing up in three-foot water [...]
George Turner at V Picasso
We went to eat tapas and hear George Turner play at V Picasso this evening. George is a great jazz guitarist. He’s been a local performer since coming to town to work on a Masters and now a PhD at the university. We first encountered him playing with his trio at the Iron Post a [...]
