There’s an article in the recent issue of Time magazine (available online) on the state of publishing that’s well worth a read: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1873122-1,00.html “Self-publishing has gone from being the last resort of the desperate and talentless to something more like out-of-town tryouts for theater or the farm system in baseball.” For myself, I think self-publishing…
Here at Mutterings Central, I’m pretty honest about my goal to eventually make a living writing fiction. It doesn’t mean I’m unrealistic about it, or that I’d be willing to put my family at risk to achieve it, but it has been and will always be one of the ways in which I measure my success…
I just received word from Weird Tales that my story, “Directions to Mourning’s Deep,” certainly one of the strangest and shortest stories I’ve written (only a couple of pages, and written in second person), is scheduled to appear in the April/May issue. They’ve done a major revamp of the magazine, and in honor of this,…