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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The 10th Circle Project has been nominated for three Aurora awards (Canada’s fan-voted Sci-Fi & Fantasy award): Best English Related (the 1st Circle Project, volume one of the 10th Circle Project); Best Short Story (for Randy McCharles in the 2nd Circle); and Best Fan Publication (Bourbon and Eggnog). Editor’s Note: it seems strange that we’re nominated in a fan category, but since Bourbon and Eggnog was a free offering, it is thus not classified as professional).
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Auroras, Bourbon and Eggnog, Eileen Bell, The 1st Circle, Writing
The poor bad guy. Why does no one cry for them? They work hard. They have determination. And they have vision. See what happens when they return home after a rough day at the battlefield/office/matrix/attic co-edited by Gabrielle Harbowy and Ed Greenwood – Forthcoming from Dragon Moon Press (August 2012).
What’s that you say? My name is in the Table of Contents? Why so it is!
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