My periodic short fiction update blog post.
I notice that, if three more people join my mailing list, another piece of free short fiction will release for everyone on the list, so if you’re not a member and you like short stories, hop on: http://csidemedia.com/gryphonclerks/membership.
http://csidemedia.com/gryphonclerks/2015/11/13/short-story-news/
The Overcast speculative fiction podcast has just released my story “Something Rich and Strange”.
In an alternate version of the Victorian era, a young woman accompanies her professor father to the Change Storm, the bizarre phenomenon on which he’s a leading expert. Her father and his mansplaining assistant expect her to fall into the role of audience/love interest/impediment/rescuee that is the lot of professors’ daughters in so many pulp adventure stories, but she has ideas of her own.
http://peoples-ink.com/podcast/episode-17-something-rich-and-strange-by-mike-reeves-mcmillan/
Want to put a really interesting billionaire tech genius in your story? Here’s a place to start.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-man.html
Some good medical news this week.
Originally shared by Larry Panozzo
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Physics breakthroughs, new discoveries, and impressive biomedical advancements. The Caltech and gene editing articles are excellent. It’s all in the links below!
• Superposition of Ordered Events
http://m.phys.org/news/2015-11-quantum-superposition-events.html
• Life-saving Gene Editing
• Reprogramming Neurons
http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-neurons-reprogrammed-animals.html
• Mars Barren Due to Solar Storms
http://futurism.com/links/nasa-says-solar-storms-destroyed-mars-atmosphere-and-water/
• Using DNA in Blood to Track Cancer Development
http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-dna-blood-track-cancer-response.html
• Dissolving Cataracts
• Caltech Finds New Multipolar Order
http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-physicists-uncover-novel-phase-matter-48573
• 3D Printing with Embryonic Stem Cells
http://m.phys.org/news/2015-11-scientists-d-method-capable-highly.html
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Space-based future stories, pro rates.
Putting this in my Diversity and Representation collection for reasons which will be clear if you read the article.
The writer is right. Publishing rejections are, at least in part, a mark of inefficiency in the system. If we were coming up with the publishing industry from scratch today, I suspect that what we’d have is one or more “marketplaces” where authors put up samples of their work and publishers or publications bid on them, rather than the other way around.
Originally shared by Lisa “LJ” Cohen
This is a very powerful indictment of the publishing industry. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/why-the-literary-world-shouldnt-romanticize-rejection/414229/
Not one, but two drone delivery mechanisms, steel-hard glass, better memory through electronic implants, and self-improving cars.
What a time to be alive.
Originally shared by Larry Panozzo
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Highly sensitive artificial skin, a new electric car brand, glass almost as strong as steel, a device that boosts human memory, the success of Tesla’s Autopilot, drone delivery from Google, a robot that delivers groceries for £1, and 3D printed artificial hair! It’s all in the links below!
• Artificial Skin That Detects Texture, Temperature, Pressure, and Sound
• Mysterious Electric Car Maker
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9674314/faraday-future-electric-car-1-billion-factory
• Unbreakable Glass
http://gizmodo.com/japanese-researchers-make-glass-thats-nearly-unbreakabl-1739673940
• Memory Boosting Device
http://gizmodo.com/japanese-researchers-make-glass-thats-nearly-unbreakabl-1739673940
• Tesla Autopilot is Learning
• Google Drone Delivery Service in 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34704868
• Grocery Delivery Bot
• 3D printing Artificial Hair
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/10/sorry-hair-club-for-menwe-can-finally-3d-print-hair/
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Well, “Brother Blue” is still a novelette, just, at 16,300 words (the cutoff is 17,500).
Why is this important? Because there are some markets that will take a novelette but not a novella, and even those that take both will think harder about buying a novella.
On the other hand, if it needs another 1500 or 2000 words to be the story it needs to be, it will by all means get them.
Today I strengthened the romance section (made it a site of conflict, not just a thing that happened on the way to the resolution), and also pumped up the part just before the ending, so that it relates more clearly to the middle, and the ending doesn’t seem abrupt, rushed, and unearned.
At least, I hope it doesn’t. My faithful editor will tell me. And then I’ll show it to some other people, and get their thoughts. I want this one to be the best it can be, because I feel like if I work on it hard enough, I’ll be able to sell it to a pro market. I’m not rushing to get it out, because I’d rather take the extra time and do it right.
Originally shared by Laston Kirkland
Open source plans for making large atriums/community centers in dome focused tiny-home villages.
Domes. Domes rock.
My story “Something Rich and Strange” will be podcast on The Overcast next week.
A Victorian miss in an alternate version of our world finds her true self at the Change Storm, the bizarre natural phenomenon that her father studies.
(I’ll drop a link once it’s up.)