Category Archives: work in progress

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Publishers Weekly, trade journal of the US book publishing industry, reviewed You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home in the 14 May issue. Nice review, much appreciated. Although I can’t figure out how the reviewer got the impression all the stories were linked in any manner other than being written by the same guy. …

15 May 2012 – 5:55 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, short stories, spec fic, work in progress, You Will Meet a Stranger… | Comments (0)

return to Astreiant

Nicolas Rathe and Philip Eslingen are back! And I am really very extremely pleased to be involved in their renascence. Point of Hopes, the novel in which Rathe, Eslingen, and the great city of Astreiant were introduced, was the second collaboration of science-fiction novelist Melissa Scott and her partner, Lisa A. Barnett, following by several …

25 February 2012 – 8:43 PM | By AX | Posted in design, fantasy, fiction, Lethe Press, recommendation, spec fic, work in progress, You Will Meet a Stranger… | Comments (0)

the unexpected draft

Today ought to be one for celebration, except I feel as though I’ve been run over by a truck. Massive, massive headache, nausea, compromised balance. Bleargh. Also I’m too broke to buy Champagne. Maybe when the income-tax refund appears in my bank account. Around 7:30 (EDT) this morning I wrote the last line of the …

19 April 2011 – 3:53 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, spec fic, The Unexpected Thing, work in progress, YA | Comments (0)

stocktaking, early spring

Tl;dr. Winter 2010-2011 was not enormously successful in terms of getting things done. Well, I made a lot of books for other people and one for myself. But not a great deal of consummated writing. Stories I worked on, ought to have finished, but did not: “Liam and the Changelings”—the fourth Liam story, following “Liam …

31 March 2011 – 5:59 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, short stories, spec fic, work in progress | Comments (2)