Boy, what a couple of weeks. Spin Doctor is published in AntipodeanSF, Save Galaxy Fast! is born unto the world in Outcast (okay, it hasn't been officially released yet, but people are buying it), and (drum roll please):
I just won the Magic Casements festival writing comp!
My story Weeding took it out, from 150 entries! On Saturday I attended the festival (thanks to the hard work of my supportive wife), met lots of people like Richard Harland, Chris Barnes, Robert Hood and Robert Hoge, chatted to lots of people I'd met the previous week like Cat Sparks, Gillian Pollack, Kaaron Warren and Nicole Murphy, then got up in front of them all (eek!) and read my little 500 words. Felt a little like getting up at the ARIAs and singing a Play School song, but a few of them (Chris, Cat, Robert H) took the time to catch me afterward and tell me how much they liked it. It's not very often I'm a winner at something (I can't remember the last time, actually), so it was good to have a moment that can shut my self-esteem voices up for a while.
The festival was great, I picked up a couple of pointers and found out a couple of unexpected things. For example, I've caused more real-life death and witnessed infinitely more blood and guts than some of the best horror writers in the country. The joys of growing up on a farm.
This should lift my writing out of the doldrums. Onward!
4 comments:
Huge congrats! But leave some for the rest of us, hmm? :)
Congratulations, that's awesome! Most importantly, Did you get any pictures from your first reading?
No, I didn't think of it and Vanessa had her hands full keeping the kids quiet (hint: comments of 'there's daddy!' can be impeded by the application of chocolate). She still got a couple of dirty looks by selected childless people who think kids have an off switch.
Greets to the webmaster of this wonderful site. Keep working. Thank you.
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