And So it Continues...
Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 07:33PM Well, the upgrades have started--as you can no doubt tell from the awesome banner Mr. George Foster Esquire hand-wove for the site. There will be more to come in the near future, as he continues to make improvements, and I continue to unwittingly undermine them.
I've had some luck with short story sales in recent days, having pieces accepted by Heroic Fantasy Quarterly (a personal favorite of mine) and Toasted Cake Podcast (another personal favorite). The first is a Mezoamerican sword-and-mythos story set in the late Aztec Empire, and the second, a flash piece about leaving behind childhood friends during an apocalypse. Other than that, I've been up to my elbows in rewrite requests on previous sales, changing this and that to better fit with the tenor of the publication, which I'm more than happy to do.
I'm still waiting on all the publications I listed in my last update. Not that I'm getting pushy, any editor that was generous enough to accept one of my stories can expect nothing short of my full support...okay, maybe not my full support, but close enough as to make no difference.
On the reading front, I've been alternating chapters of R. Scott Bakker's The Warrior Prophet, with Aliette de Boddard's Servant of the Underworld, and Iain M. Banks' The Algebraist. It's an interesting combination of wild historical fantasy from Bakker and Boddard and sheer post-singularity weirdness from Banks. Come to think of it, I should tandem-read more authors alphabetically.
Reader Comments (5)
Hey Evan, really enjoyed Moving Away when I read in 10Flash. To bad the site's gone, but I'm looking forward to hearing it live!
Dave
Hey, I enjoyed your eZine story about the astronauts. Is mouth of the jaguar similar?
Molly and Dave, thank you very much. Molly, "Mouth of the Jaguar" is similar in that it ties into the Cthulhu mythos, but it's very different in tone from "And The Did Live By Watchfires." I was trying for a more fantastic, sword-and-sorcery vibe, so it's a bit more rough-and-tumble than Watchfires.
Really enjoyed Mouth of the Jaguar. Did you get the name Tamoachan from that old first ed. D&D module?
Yes, I did, in part. Tamoachan is also a real place mentioned in the Codex Mendoza. It was home to a tribe the Aztecs called "The Rubber People," a somewhat creepy name if you ask me. So, Tamoachan appealed to both the geek and the historian in me.