I, in the guise of Aplomb Pomilio in Second Life, will be reading my original short story “NetWorld” this Saturday evening (February 19th at 6pm SLT). This story originally appeared in Undercurrents, published by Third Person Press. This is the fifth of The Quillians Fantasy and Science Fiction Workshop monthly readings and other special events, [...]
Anti-Valentines Day Challenge
Sherry Ramsey, fearless, interim, co-leader of our online, Second Life writing group affectionately known as The Quillians, issued a writing challenge last week. We were to write an “anti-Valentine” poem. Here’s my tongue-in-cheek, bumpity-thumpity response: heart words: an anti-valentine poem february 14, 2011 thump beat beat-beat-beat heart beat-beat-beat up beat-beat-beat thump lump skippity-beat beat thump [...]
Authors with Glasses
It is Airborne night next Tuesday, February 15 at Governor’s Book Pub: Authors with Glasses starting at 7pm. Come hear Sherry D. Ramsey and Julie A. Serroul read from their stories published in Third Person Press’s Airborne. There’s also an open mike and, just so that the three-legged entity that is Third Person Press doesn’t [...]
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The Nashwaak Review
Check out my short story, “Worker Bee” in the new double issue of The Nashwaak Review (St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick). From the website: “The list of international award-winning contributors in this issue shows how far our magazine has come,” says Stewart Donovan, Professor of English Language and Literature and Irish Studies at St. [...]
A New Chain Story!
The Cost of a Tasmanian Tiger The Chain Story is pleased to release its twenty-third story, The Cost of a Tasmanian Tiger by Paul Genesse. Click on the story title to read to the tale. Paul Genesse is the author of several short stories featured in anthologies such as Steampunk’d, Fellowship Fantastic, The Dimension Next [...]
Book Review: Remnant Population
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ofelia is an old woman who only wants to do just what she wants with the rest of her days without criticism or interference from anyone else, including her own inner critic. When the colony she’s lived in for forty years is evacuated for [...]
Book Review: Steal Across the Sky
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Atoners–an alien race–has set up a base on Earth’s moon and asked for volunteers to “witness” human populations on distant planets. They admit to having committed a wrong against the human race 10,000 years earlier. Having these Earthlings visit settlements is [...]
There’s still time
Third Person Press has announced an extended deadline for its next anthology, Unearthed–Volume 3 of The Speculative Elements series. Writers have until the end of February to polish your story. Make sure to read the full guidelines here to improve your chances of acceptance. The stories MUST be speculative and you MUST have some connection [...]
Airborne Launches!
We here at Third Person Press are thrilled to announce the publication of Airborne, Volume II of The Speculative Elements Series. Third Person Press is an independent publishing venture based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Third Person Press, founded by Sherry D. Ramsey, Julie A. Serroul and myself in 2007, is interested in promoting speculative [...]
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Quality I – Critiques
Last time, I wrote about the benefits of quantity as a beginning writer. The more you write, the more experience you gain, the more you know, the easier the process becomes. Practice, practice, practice. But, of course, that’s not the whole story. Improvements in quality come mainly from repeated revisions. That doesn’t mean endless revisions. [...]
Quantity
Some people don’t want you to know this, but writing is like most things*: the more you do it, the easier it gets. Way back in the 90′s when, for the first time in my life, I decided to take writing seriously, I signed-up for classes. One of my teachers, an assistant professor of literature [...]
Leaving Leftism Behind
This is a reprint from my creativity zine, The Practically Creative Quarter…with a few changes. While in the process of writing an article about using the non-dominant hand in journaling as a way to reach the R-mind, I had an epiphany. I realized that my icon and ‘short-hand’ talk of R-mindfulness, based on Betty Edwards [...]
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