…to this day. I was, in the parlance of children, eight-and-a-half. Apollo 8 had left Earth’s orbit and was the first crewed spaceflight to fly to the Moon. They orbited 10 times. What I remember the most, though, was their travel to “the backside” of the Moon. Their signal would cut out. The first time […]
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…to writing this particular novella. I’m not even sure it was supposed to be a novella. (I kinda doubt it.) A book editor of mine, Lou Anders, asked me to take part in an anthology of his. Sideways in Crime is a really good anthology of alternate history crime stories. I was writing something else […]
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…no. Not that one, the one we all remember. This one happened about 100 years ago, in the financial district…in the tallest building at the time. I have no idea how I came across this little tidbit, but of course, it attracted my writerly brain, and of course, I had to write about it. September […]
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…about the title for this novella. The End of the World gets used a lot, and while the title is accurate, kinda sorta, for this piece, it’s not the kind of title that makes you—or even me, the author—go, “Oh, yeah! That story.” Whoops. Not changing it now, though. I promised you all I’d tell […]
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We started a Kickstarter on Tuesday of six of my standalone science fiction novellas. As I mentioned in the first post here on the site, I was a bit stunned to realize how long it had been since we did any discoverability work on any of these novellas. That includes letting you all know what […]
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I learned something a bit startling late last year. I was putting together the reading list for my in-person science fiction mystery class, and I realized that most of the books I wanted my students to read were out of print—and there was no electronic edition. Most of them were anthologies that came out in […]
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My husband, Dean Wesley Smith is a master at that same kind of eerie and just off-kilter story that appears on the Twilight Zone. He wrote for several Twilight Zone properties back in the day, so he’s good at a TZ story. But TZ inspired him from a young age. When he started writing, he […]
Continue ReadingThank you, backers and supporters of the Hearts Collide Kickstarter! We did very well and that’s because of you! I love making short stories available to all of you, and you backers make that possible. So thank you, thank you, thank you!
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…on the Hearts Collide Kickstarter. We hit three stretch goals so far, including a special stretch goal that includes an online writing workshop. Thank you, backers!!!! We have a chance of hitting one more stretch goal, which would include one more writing workshop, if we get to 10K before the Kickstarter ends. There’s a slim […]
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I gave myself a self-imposed deadline to post about all of the books in the Hearts Collide Kickstarter before today’s Free Fiction Monday post goes live at noon. Part of that deadline included a three-hour window for this post to be at the top of the home page. Oh, and I wanted all of this […]
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