Appearances elsewhere.
Thaumatrope is a—a Twitterzine? “A magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror fiction under 140 characters, available on your mobile phone via Twitter,” to quote their tag line. The 140-character restriction intrigued me—not so much tennis-with-a-net as tennis-in-your-pocket. (Um.) —I’m a big fan of negative space, of what isn’t said, perhaps because I’m so adamant about tucking exposition away out of sight where you don’t notice it exposing itself; 140 characters leaves a lot of room not to say something. So I’ve written a couple for them, and the one appeared back in March, and I was keeping my eye out for it but somehow I missed it, and anyway, here it is. —The other is slated for December 10, so help me remember that, okay?
Also, I read a story for Podcastle—“The Fantasy Fiction Podcast,” part of the Escape Artists along with Escape Pod and Pseudopod—called “Bottom Feeding,” written by Tim Pratt. It’s a chilly little phantastick, a riff on all those stories about Fionn mac Cumhail or was it Taliesin or maybe Gwion Bach and that dam’ salmon, only it isn’t a salmon this time, and Georgia ain’t Ireland. —Rachel asked Barry if he knew anybody who could read well with a Southern accent, and Barry, bless his heart, suggested me, despite the fact that despite the fact I was born in Alabama and spent most of my childhood south of the Mason-Dixon, I can’t “do” Southern to save my life. —Anyway, it’s slated to post on June 2, which is oh Christ Tuesday. So listen, if you like, then if you like discuss.
And I’ll be wandering around MoCCA again this year, which isn’t in the Puck Building but is at the 69th Regiment Armory instead, which I’ve never been to. Anyway, my beard’s bushier than last year and I’ll probably have a seven-month-old girl strapped to my chest, in case you want to say hi. —But I won’t have no. 7 done by then, as I’d hoped. (Yes. I am working on it. And no. 8, too. They come slowly, but they do come.) —For that, I’m afraid, you’ll have to wait until the Zine Symposium, knock wood and come hell or high water.
So that’s some of what I’ve been up to. How’ve you been?
—posted 5468 days ago
