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Writers of the Future Video

Brad — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:08:06 +0000

A while back I mentioned that I was contacted to give an interview for the Writers of the Future 25th Anniversary. I didn't realize until recently, but the collected interviews have been edited into a presentation about the contest and what it's meant to a variety of past winners. I am in deed in the video, but, um, don't blink, or you'll miss it. Really.

I suspect that I was perhaps too nervous during the interview, maybe a bit shy. I need to get over that. I didn't seize up, but I certainly could have been a bit more relaxed and could have opened up more about what the contest meant to me. Well, 0.74 seconds is a start. Maybe someday I'll have a fully fledged interview to share, or at the very least 3.2 seconds of one…

Revamped web site

Brad — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:31:48 +0000

I've been wanting to update my webpage for some time now, and I finally broke down and did it. I'm still tweaking, but take a look and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

Just came across this picture and had to share

Brad — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:36:17 +0000

My daughter, nearly three years old in this picture.

New (re)Sale to Stalking the Wild Hare

Brad — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:15:56 +0000

My story, "In the Eyes of the Empress's Cat," will be printed, along with many of my fellow GenCon Writers Symposium members, in the Stalking the Wild Hare anthology, which will be released just in time for GenCon this year. More info, like a solid publication date, will be available soon.

Testing my new WP –> Twitter Plugin

Brad — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:20:35 +0000

Man, am I behind the times…

Training your child

Brad — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:46:59 +0000

I consider myself still relatively new to parenting. My daughter, Relaneve, is four years old. My son, Rhys, is four months. I have learned a few things, though. I'm not a complete neophyte. For example, I used to think that as your children grew, that you would teach them. Train them, so to speak. I mean, when they're really young, you're not so much communicating with them as you are making examples for them, right?

Wrong.

If I've learned anything about parenting, it's that the children train you, not the other way around. Case in point. I went to the Betty Brin Children's Museum last weekend with my wife and two kids. Relaneve was having a grand time playing on this massive slide/jungle gym/fort thingy. she'd run up to the top, slide down in the innards of this contraption such that we couldn't see her, and then exit from the bottom chute, exaltant. Then she'd go after it again, determined to beat the slide one more time.

Meanwhile, Joanne and I were sitting, keeping Rhys occupied. And to do so I was wagging my wedding ring by a ribbon to make something shiny and fun to look at. And then I thought: hey, I have this fancy Blackberry. Why don't I take a video as long as I'm here. So, I did, and then I started babbling to him, much as I do at home, to get him to make some fun sounds. Training him, right? But then it occurred to me that I'd had the relationship wrong the whole time.

Case in point. The video evidence. Yes, that's me babbling away like an utter fool completely oblivious to whoever might be watching. Sometimes I tell myself that I'm just being a good parent, ignoring the noise and focusing on my child and his needs. But in the back of my head, I know the truth…

The Bay Area Minimalist

Brad — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:38:51 +0000

My friend and Clarion classmate, Vincent Jorgensen, has a new website called the Bay Area Minimalist, where he focuses on living large without spending a lot. It's worth checking out.

http://bayareaminimalist.blogspot.com/

Bitter Seeds

Brad — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:18:55 +0000

My friend, Ian Tregillis, has a new baby book. It's called Bitter Seeds, and you can find out more about it on his website. The best pitch for this that I've heard is Watchmen meets Inglorious Basterds. If you have even a remote interest in alternate history, WWII, or realistic takes on super-hero stories, then I strongly recommend this book.

I was lucky enough to read a very early version of the ms. It was already great, and I know it's gone through a ton of revisions since then, so I can't wait to read it. (I will be waiting for the Kindle version, though. I think I'm largely done with buying physical books.)

Congrats, Ian!

More free fiction

Brad — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:10:18 +0000

I've added two new stories to my free fiction page. They're two stories that I'm very proud of. They're just sitting there now, dying to be read. Go. Read…

New story sale!

Brad — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:47:19 +0000

I'm very excited to announce that I've sold a story to DAW's Steampunked anthology, edited by Jean Rabe. I really like how this story turned out. It's set in the late 1800's (natch), and it's about an augurist, Maks, who foretells the future for a mining outfit that scours the Ural mountains in a steam-powered walker for meteor strikes to mine. When his auguries begin to fail him, Maks finds himself adrift, unable to navigate the world without them. With danger growing from the pirates who plague the miners, Maks must find the key to the mystery surrounding his young apprentice before the crew suffers a terrible fate.

There's no publication date yet for the antho, but I'm guessing it'll be late this year or early next year. More info as I have it…