For context: Clarkesworld Magazine, one of the best-regarded short fiction outlets for science fiction and fantasy, closed submissions Monday due to a flood of bot-generated spam. I’m not as confident about the last line as OP, but it sure seems plausible. If it’s correct, though… maybe it’s self-correcting? Email spam works because you can email… Continue reading Automating income… ?
Author: Matt
Work week 2023-02-14
Maker: NA Manager: Continue transcribing HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT (46p left). Marketer: Complete book list for Shepherd; publicize WINDBURN WHIPLASH go-live on social media. This week’s picture is sunset over the Delaware, from the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex parking lot. The nights are getting shorter, is the point. Currently listening: IF BOOKS COULD KILL: “The End… Continue reading Work week 2023-02-14
Work week 2023-02-07
Maker: NA Manager: Figure out why I can’t write posts on this site without getting a Critical Error; continue transcribing HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT. Marketer: Couple blog post ideas in the tank but, honestly, may need to fuck off with this in favor of just being done with transcription already. Item #1 under “Manager” is already done,… Continue reading Work week 2023-02-07
Subtle syncopations and latencies
… the plan directed the last dreadnought, with its hypertrophied weapons, to open with a power chord against the more discordant forces of the Diamantines’ enemies. The orchestration manuals of the day called for a ratio of a single dreadnought to one hundred battle cruisers or equivalent. The percussion line alone should have demolished the… Continue reading Subtle syncopations and latencies
Happy to be here
I have a couple of friends from middle school whose houses I was at a lot as a kid. Later in life, I always thought it was a little odd — in the best possible way! — how nice those friends’ parents were to me, both while I was at their houses a lot and… Continue reading Happy to be here
Work week 2023-01-30
Maker: Finish newsletter Manager: Continue transcribing HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT; research Kobo promotions. Marketer: Ideate a promo stack; send out newsletter; maybe a couple of small blog posts? Last week we were a sick house, and we’re still not quite over it. Trying to take it slow for a little longer. Photo is a magnolia bud on… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-30
The enfloofification of TikTok
As a human who’s never done more than beer money from fiction sales, I’m not here to tell anyone to quit something that’s working, but I think this article ought to give some pause both to all the folks who are hoping to kill it on #BookTok and those who’ve actually succeeded. Social media platforms… Continue reading The enfloofification of TikTok
WINDBURN WHIPLASH available for preorder!
It’s been six years since Zaya Shearwater lost her wife and her dragon in the most dangerous race in Yemareir. She’s retired from the dragon-racing circuit, supporting her family as a security guard on long-haul trade expeditions… until she comes back one night to discover that her newly adopted daughter, Vanako, has been dealing for… Continue reading WINDBURN WHIPLASH available for preorder!
Work week 2023-01-23
Maker: Figure out January newsletter content Manager: Continue transcription of HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT Marketer: WINDBURN WHIPLASH to socials and blog for real this week, you god-damned animal Today’s featured image is a drawing my 11-year-old daughter made when she discovered her Kobo is apparently also an Etch-a-Sketch? Recently watched: THE RENTAL, dir. Dave Franco. I might… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-23
Post-holiday TBR
Two rereads, one stalled book, three gifts, and an acquisition. I’m especially excited about SHE EATS THE NIGHT; I had no idea Liu & Takeda were doing a collaboration other than MONSTRESS! (Which continues, IMO, to be the best epic fantasy currently being produced in any medium.) Thanks to Fantom Comics in DC for the… Continue reading Post-holiday TBR