I’m excited to announce the followup to the 2009 Aurora award winning Women of the Apocalypse. The Puzzle Box is to be released at the When Words Collide convention in August 2013. It is a collection of four novellas (plus one framing story written by me and Eileen Bell).
An intriguing anthology where reality is transient and the puzzle box holds the key to the meaning of life.
Archeology Professor Albert Mallory understands reality. He knows the way the world works. When he steals an ancient puzzle box to pay off gambling debts, he thinks the only mysterious thing about the artifact is how to get it open. But when a stranger appears at Albert’s door demanding to see the box, Albert is plunged into mysteries he never dreamt possible.
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Last year, I launched eBookTechnician.com, a site highlighting e-coding that I’ve done for small presses (such as CZP and Bundoran Press), for collaborative work (The 10th Circle Project), and more recently freelance work. I’m a big supporter of ebooks, and I absolutely despise poorly rendered ebooks. I remember one book (The Wheelman by Swierczynski) where all letter Ps had been replaced with Fs. Yeah, I can guarantee you that no one actually ever looked at the file before putting it up for sale. Read more…
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I recently sold a story to an anthology called Blood and Water.
Blood and Water will gather the stories of the new resource wars that will mark the next fifty years – stories of conflict and cooperation, of hope and despair – all told from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Conflicts with America over Canada’s resources, Canadian solutions to global problems or personal narratives of coping with change and conflict could all inspire your stories. Or you could surprise us!
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Bundoran Press, an independent publishing house the specializes in speculative fiction (Fantasy and Science Fiction), recently decided to redo their webpage. I volunteered. Because it would only take me three hours — max. My friend, Brian Garside, once told me that whenever he told his wife he was going to the Home Depot, that whatever time he thought he was going to be, he knew he had to double it and then add 20. So an hour: 2 hours 20 minutes. Surprisingly, this was a very effective measuring tool.
Unfortunately, I need something like triple it, add five, multiply by 2, and then subtract negative five. Because see how nice and clean that site is? You see it? Look again. It’s very clean and simple. That took miles and miles of code. And I didn’t even design it. I paid $12 for the layout from Themeforest. Then I bought a simple shopping cart called PHP Shopping cart from Code Canyon for $9. Wow, what a deal! Except merging the two together was horrific. Because I was doing something that didn’t want to be done.
I’m like Seth Brundle from the fly (pre-transporter). I am not an expert at any one thing. I cobble. I take some CSS, I take some PHP, I use MySQL…but in this case, the code was written by a real computer programmer and so I was fighting waaaaay above my weight class. Then the design…errr…you’ve tuned out.
Either way, swing by and took a look. It’s a super nice site…I think.
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I’m excited to announce the followup to the 2009 Aurora award winning Women of the Apocalypse. The Puzzle Box is to be released at the When Words Collide convention in August 2013. It is a collection of four novellas (plus one framing story written by me and Eileen Bell).
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