Golden Age of short fiction?
There was a panel at the recent Science Fiction Worldcon in Reno, where a few notable figures from known short fiction markets discussed how technology changed or will change short fiction. You can re
I am back!
One of my earlier posts was titled “Procrastination is a bitch” … and that is still true. I still haven’t managed to make it my bitch, so here goes another try. Lots has happened in the meantime in
Hollywood is out of ideas
Shocker … I know. But I just read this list: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/866031/95_movie_sequels_currently_in_the_works.html And it is sad, really. Anything that made halfway decent money the pa
Amazon Kindle Store in Germany
So its been a month since I managed to blog about something. Back then I wanted to do a post about how Amazon should finally open their Kindle store to the rest of the world … or at least to my neck
$500,000 vs. $2,000,000
Wow … what a week so far. Let’s recap the 2 major news I want to a adress in this post. 1) Barry Eisler, an NYT bestselling author turns down a $500,000 deal from St. Martin’s Press in order to self
Procrastination is a bitch!
I have a dream! It is nothing as grand as what Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt about when he made that speech nearly 50 years ago … but it is a dream nonetheless. I want to be a writer and I want to g
Flash Fiction – Follow up
Today Chuck Wendigs Flash Fiction challenge ended and here are the results: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/02/25/it-goes-down-smooth-the-shackletons-scotch-flash-fiction-results/ Nearly 30 write
Flash Fiction Challenge
Chuck Wendig over on TerribleMinds.com issued a challenge for authors to write a piece of flash fiction inspired by the discovery of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s whiskey, which he left there ove
On writing
So I am trying this blogging thing again. And since I am a writer, I might as well start with writing about … writing. Right now it seems, that there is a bit of a revolution going on in the US publ