Oh. My. Lands. This has been a two day firestorm. I have been shocked, angry, saddened, and finally bolstered and encouraged by the sense of community and support. And then the biggest treat of all was hopping over to Ray Veen’s blog where he wasn’t talking about ugliness and theft, but his insane word [...]
Archive for September, 2009
WIP Wednesday. Magic Happens!
Posted in Writing, tagged Battle Bunny, Ray Veen, WIP Wednesday on September 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Plagiarism Ticks Us Right Off. Obviously.
Posted in Writing, tagged Aaron Polson, Plagiarism, R.M. Valentine, Richard Ridyard, Shock Totem, Stephen King, The Boogeyman on September 30, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Wow. This hit and it hit HARD. By now most of you are familiar with the idea that a person going by the name Richard Ridyard submitted a plagiarized version of Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman” in to the magazine that I work for, Shock Totem. We immediately contacted Mr. King’s people and got the ball [...]
We Interrupt This Blog Post…
Posted in Writing, tagged Night Shift, Plagiarism, Richard Ridyard, Shock Totem, Stephen King, The Boogeyman on September 29, 2009 | 44 Comments »
to give you a warning. A few days ago Shock Totem received a story called “Baboulas” by an author calling himself Richard Ridyard. John Boden, Assistant Editor of Shock Totem, read the story and immediately cried foul. “This is plagiarism,” he said. “This is Stephen King’s ‘The Boogeyman’ from his Night Shift collection. Even the [...]
Pitching For The Terrified. First Impressions.
Posted in Writing, tagged breathe, first impressions, pitching agents on September 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
All right. It’s time to talk pitches. I am qualified to write on this subject because last week when I gave my first pitch, I had absolutely no idea what a pitch even was. How does that qualify me, you ask? I’m going to discuss Pitching for the Terrified, Mercedes Style. What does that mean? [...]
Running Through the Mojave…Part 2
Posted in Writing on September 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Like it wasn’t hard enough the first time! (Heat exhaustion, throwing up on the course, longing to die for days afterwards.) And that was only a 5k! (True, it was in the heat of the day. ”Running With The Devil” indeed.) But I’m going to be running my very first half marathon on Halloween morning. Where, you [...]
Be Mysterious: An Official Call
Posted in Writing on September 25, 2009 | 39 Comments »
So if you have to blame somebody, blame Natalie Sin. Come on, it’s easy. I blame her all of the time! My daughter is so into dancing boys in bunny suits, now. Thanks to Sin herself, I may be raising a Furry. But I digress. We were talking about online personas and how we want our [...]
Robert Duperre Reviews…Moi!
Posted in Writing, tagged Michelle Howarth, review, Robert Duperre on September 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Robert Duperre, author of The Rift, wrote an especially nice review of Michelle Howarth and I. That’s pretty cool. I waver between being all blushingly demure and “Yay!” excited. Stop by his blog A Journal of Always to read it, if you’d like. It would make all three of us happy. Tomorrow I make my [...]
Come Back, My True Love
Posted in Writing on September 24, 2009 | 9 Comments »
It’s still officially WIP Wednesday, at least for another 8 minutes. I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately. I read slush, work from my writer’s group, and I’m going to town on a friend’s novel, since I’m good at removing back-story with a lethal stroke of my fiery pen. I read stories that my [...]
Luck Be A Lady…I’m Not Buying It
Posted in Writing, tagged hard work, luck, pitching, Writing on September 22, 2009 | 13 Comments »
If there’s one thing that I don’t have, it’s luck. Or I do have luck, but it’s usually terrible, black luck, so I simply choose to ignore it. But when it comes to writing, you hear it all of the time: A lot of things depend on luck. You run across the right agent at [...]
Putting Life Back In Order
Posted in Writing on September 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Why, greetings, family. I haven’t seen you in a long time. How are you? Lovely. I spent today cleaning house, in both the writing world and Real Life. I’ve been MIA because of KillerCon, so I had to reassemble the house a little bit. While I was at it, I returned emails and neatened things [...]
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