I have just deleted the worst ‘About Me’ page that has ever existed.
No joke. It was awful. It was also written in 2008, so I think for that it deserves our pity. Time for a new page, one more to the point and less full of itself and its grand ideas.
And then I deleted the second one. Just now. It harped on weirdness as a self-defining trait. Enough. I’m weird. Let’s just move on.
So this is my blog.
Don’t let mundane matters of bread-making, cat-wrangling and stationary-fetishing fool you. This blog is about my writing journey, with some digressions.
You’ll find a series of pages breaking down the books I read per year and pages touching briefly on computer programs I have used over the years. (Strangely, the latter continue to get hits, even though they are monstrously out of date. Go fig.)
I write fantasy, but flirt madly with science fiction and horror. I am trying my hand at both novel-length work and short stories. I’m in the middle of revising my third novel and I have a half-dozen short stories I’m revising and sending out to markets. I’m still learning. I occasionally try too hard, get things wrong, pick myself back up and try again. And sometimes I get it right.
My first short story sale was PEARL, which you can find here at Allegory Magazine. I’m also a graduate of Viable Paradise 2012, which I can’t recommend highly enough. It is run by terrifically smart and wonderful people. Check ‘em out.
Meanwhile, back to it.
Its good to know you are still writing Stephanie and wish I had a way to read what you have done but alas. I have not yet found anything. Odd as it is I have taken up writing a bit myself… fanfiction.
You probably have no clue who this is but I will give you a small series of clues and likely you will never hear from me again.
Ashtal, I lost a flannel shirt to you, an Amber character named Ze.
I wish you well in life.
I’ll always remember you, Russ. Email me: scribofelidaeATgmailDOTcom.
“Enough. I’m weird. Let’s just move on.” That made me giggle, and oddly enough, I’m still giggling!