Sep
29
Chaucer Criticism
2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Postings are not required, 203ers. Your grade will depend solely on the paper copies. But if you want to show off and share around, here’s where you can do it.
Sep
29
Big Football Hits
2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Lost in the debacle that was another defense and special teams embarrassment for my beloved Broncos yesterday, was this monstrous tackle by one of the rookies:
Nice hit, rook!
Sep
28
More Honor for “Angel of Marye’s Heights”
2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
From fellow writer Aliette de Bodard comes a note this evening that my short story “The Angel of Marye’s Heights,” which appeared in Paradox Magazine, has been accorded Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for 2008, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant. I think this is the second [...]
Sep
27
Novel Revisions Complete
2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I’ve turned the last page on Four Shards of Heaven. Feels good.
Now to get an agent …
Sep
26
English Department Website
2008 | Filed Under Academics | 3 Comments
Last August our new department chair asked for volunteers to look at redesigning our current website; long story short, I ended up doing a full revision of the layout and coding from scratch. The new one is hosted on the “testing” area of my site here while the department looks it over and gives [...]
Sep
25
Sequel Research
2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I still have a handful of things to do before Four Shards goes out into the world — and those are held off by grading at the moment — but none of that is stopping me from starting some research on its sequel. On my desk right now are books and articles on Petra, Khirbet [...]
Sep
24
Editable Comments and Other Plugins
2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Sep
23
Novel Revisions
2008 | Filed Under Fiction | 6 Comments
The last of my first draft readers got back to me yesterday, and the news was good. Very good, in fact. It can be terribly difficult for a writer to get a clear sense of success without external input, and I feel quite privileged to have such able first readers. I’d name them, but I [...]