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It struck me the other day that some of my readers may have looked at my blogroll (the links under Blogs I Read over to the right) and wondered “Why should I care about these other blogs?” Well, here’s why. Aestril calls her blog “Oh, Who Knows . . .” Well, I know: it’s a blog featuring some really good writing that I think you’ll enjoy. Dro...

Somewhere in my brain I’ve been harboring secret hopes that people other than family and friends would discover my blog, and perhaps enjoy reading it. That’s part of why I’m writing, and why I want to get published. I want people to enjoy my writing. And yet I was jarred badly the other day when I found out strangers had been reading my blog. F...

I have found out that posting something on your blog may prevent you from publishing it elsewhere. I didn’t know that! Here’s a quote from the submission guidelines for Strange Horizons magazine. Like most magazines, we consider material that has appeared on publicly-accessible websites to be published, and therefore cannot consider it. Be...

I found the short story Three Days and Nights in Lord Darkdrake’s Hall, by Leah Bobet, in the fiction archives for the magazine Strange Horizons. I thought it interesting that of the 28 short stories the magazine has posted on-line this year, only two were fantasy. The rest were science fiction. This was one of the fantasy stories, and I enjoye...

The other night I was thinking about short stories. In the speculative fiction genre, the market seems to favor science fiction short stories over fantasy short stories. Why do you think that is? Or am I wrong about that? I think science fiction short stories are easier to market for several reasons. It’s easier to write science fiction stories...

Polaris is a game that looks like it would be an amazing experience to play. I’ve tried describing it to people, but the author, Ben Lehman, does a much better job. The following image and quoted material is taken from his Web site. “Once upon a time, as far north as north can go, there lived the greatest people that this world will ever see....

Universalis is a role playing game I recently ran across. Unlike most role playing games out there, Universalis is not based in a specific genre and uses no dice. You use your first game session to define the game world you’ll be playing in. Each player has a pool of Coins (beads, chips, whatever) they use to add new facts and events to the game...

Edit: There used to be a poll here. And why are you interested in that character? Poor Weathulf—I didn’t get to finish his first story, but he’s got some interesting things to undergo, too. Or maybe you want to know more about one of the unnamed characters. Cool! Let me know.