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Mar.18.2013
The Flat and Weightless Tang-Filled Future, by Lyn Fairchild Hawks
Many short story collections these days come in something of a random format, the stories a montage of writing experiments, tenses, and tones, as the writer tries to unfold and develop a voice. Not so with this one. Fairchild...
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Nov.04.2012
Writing is a process that delves deep - we all know that - but it also integrates. Let me give you an example.
I've recently finalized a "good-stopping-point" draft of my many-times-mentioned medieval historical novel. Then I took a couple of days off to twiddle thumbs and bwadda-wadda my lips...
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Oct.18.2011
Just got word from my editor that the third in the Fenway Fiction series of short story collections has been picked up by a publisher, at long last!
Look for it in the Spring of 2012, just in time for the wreckage of this last season's Red Sox campaign to re-take the field...
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Dec.15.2010
The collection of connected short stories I've been working on this year is about finished in first draft. Strangely, it's probably my most coherent body of work yet. It's odd because I've written them without any idea where they're going as separate entities, and each story - except the last two...
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Oct.06.2010
CDs (in roughly chronological order):
1. The Decca audition tapes, January 1, 1962: The complete 15-song tape of their unsuccessful audition for Decca Records, long bootlegged, with five cuts finding official release on Anthology 1. This is the first studio-quality, album-length recording of the...
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Jun.30.2010
I am a book collector. My husband is another one.
When we got married, he already had a considerable collection of books; and when we moved from Florida to Washington state fully two thirds of our moving boxes were stuffed with books, probably 1,500 of them. In Washington, my own moving boxes...
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Sep.30.2009
Starting on Sunday afternoons in October, I am giving a 5-session workshop in assembling a collection of short fiction. It's limited to 6 people, and I have 3 spaces open for people living in the Bay Area. The short story is coming back into vogue, and assembling collections (I've published three...
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Mar.04.2009
Finally, there is some good news to report on the publishing world. According to the Short Story Review blog (http://theshortreview.blogspot.com/2009/02/100-short-story-collections-published.html) in the past month there have been at least 96 short story collections published in February alone.
Of...
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