My First Publication in a Book

No, not that one. Seems an article I wrote will be reprinted in an anthology before the memoir is published. I wrote it for the online magazine "Strange Horizons," and they'll print it in STRANGE HORIZONS: BEST OF YEAR TWO this summer. (The memoir won't be out till fall 2005.)

They're only expecting to sell copies to the authors' relatives, apparently, and the book will get probably get zero distribution. But hey, I'll get a copy to put on my shelf.

The article is called "Eleven Blades and Zero-G Ki: The Evolution of Martial Arts in SF and Fantasy" and you can read it for free online:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020902/martial_arts.shtml

My First Publication in a Book

No, not that one. Seems an article I wrote will be reprinted in an anthology before the memoir is published. I wrote it for the online magazine "Strange Horizons," and they'll print it in STRANGE HORIZONS: BEST OF YEAR TWO this summer. (The memoir won't be out till fall 2005.)

They're only expecting to sell copies to the authors' relatives, apparently, and the book will get probably get zero distribution. But hey, I'll get a copy to put on my shelf.

The article is called "Eleven Blades and Zero-G Ki: The Evolution of Martial Arts in SF and Fantasy" and you can read it for free online:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020902/martial_arts.shtml

Cheer me up with Recommendations

In search of consolation from free-floating angst, I drifted about my shelves looking for a Barbara Hambly or Megan Lindholm book I hadn't read recently (no dice) and realized that what I craved were fictional depictions of people who love each other and have relationships that, while they may be absolutely loaded with conflict and trouble, are still basically healthy and functional and conclude happily.

That is, they may have personal issues that get in the way, be married to other people, or be too busy fighting flying tentacled bloodsuckers to have time to work things out, but they don't do or say horrible things to each other and they're not in some creepy co-dependent I-can't-live-without-you-so-don't-leave-me-even-though-I deserve-it thing.

Frienships are OK too-- they don't have to be romantic, as long as they're the passionate, die-for-each-other type. Like Sam and Frodo or the guys in SAIYUKI or Bel and Rowan (Stop snickering and saying "Those first two _are_ romantic," you know what I mean.)

Any genre is fine, including romance, mainstream fiction, and TV, but be aware that I've either read or deliberately avoided most well-known fantasy and sf novels.

Cheer me up with Recommendations

In search of consolation from free-floating angst, I drifted about my shelves looking for a Barbara Hambly or Megan Lindholm book I hadn't read recently (no dice) and realized that what I craved were fictional depictions of people who love each other and have relationships that, while they may be absolutely loaded with conflict and trouble, are still basically healthy and functional and conclude happily.

That is, they may have personal issues that get in the way, be married to other people, or be too busy fighting flying tentacled bloodsuckers to have time to work things out, but they don't do or say horrible things to each other and they're not in some creepy co-dependent I-can't-live-without-you-so-don't-leave-me-even-though-I deserve-it thing.

Frienships are OK too-- they don't have to be romantic, as long as they're the passionate, die-for-each-other type. Like Sam and Frodo or the guys in SAIYUKI or Bel and Rowan (Stop snickering and saying "Those first two _are_ romantic," you know what I mean.)

Any genre is fine, including romance, mainstream fiction, and TV, but be aware that I've either read or deliberately avoided most well-known fantasy and sf novels.