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Vacation Report

I’m back from summer vacation, having gone to San Francisco, Reno (for WorldCon) and Las Vegas. Great trip! Here is a photo for each city:

Alcatraz in the background. I actually missed visiting Alcatraz in SF because the tickets were sold out for at least another week. Ugh. But had great ramen at Tanpopo in Japantown, saw relatives, and rode the cable car.

Me, on the Throne of Swords at Renovation (WorldCon). I didn’t do any panels but did participate in the Clarkesworld authors reading and the Edge Books book launch (reading from my story in Tesseracts 15).

Vegas was terrific, as always. It costs an arm and a leg but is totally worth it. I finally saw Cirque du Soleil’s O, and it was stunning.

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ASH Wednesday: Deep Armageddon

This is part 7 of my weekly series on Dave Van Domelen’s Academy of Super-Heroes universe, a collection of musings, interviews, writerly insights and historical notes about the free super-hero serials (which started on the newsgroup rec.arts.comics.creative back in ’94 and recently released as Omnibus editions.)

Deep Armageddon was the first crossover arc in the Academy of Super-Heroes universe, based on an idea that I had but developed by Dave Van Domelen, with the assistance of Matt Rossi and Marc Singer in their own respective titles.

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The Dragon and the Stars excerpts and stories

The Dragon and the Stars

The Dragon and the Stars now has excerpts and full stories online at editor Eric Choi’s website.

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Recent Stop-Watch Gang Successes

So various members of my writing group, The Stop-Watch Gang, have had some success with short story sales and publications this year thus far. Stephen just sold another one today to Interzone. (Woot!) The most amazing bit, though, is that 3 of us sold to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show this year, appearing in 3 consecutive issues!

The current tally is:

Mike Rimar

Four Wizards and A Funeral“, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, June 2011

“My Name Is Tommy”, Tesseracts 15, forthcoming

“From the Files of the E.F.P.D.”, Mother Goose is Dead: Modern Stories of Myths, Fables, and Fairytales, forthcoming September 2011

“Chicka-Chicka-Bow-Wow”, Cucurbital 2, forthcoming November 2011

Stephen Kotowych

“A Time For Raven”, Interzone, forthcoming

“Under the Shield”, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, forthcoming this month

Suzanne Church

Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle“, nominated for Best Short-Form Fiction in English, Prix Aurora Awards 2011

Tony Pi

“The Tremor Road”, Tesseracts 15, forthcoming

We Who Steal Faces“, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, April 2011

Brine Magic“, When the Hero Comes Home

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ASH Wednesday: Conclave Arise!

This is part 6 of my weekly series on Dave Van Domelen’s Academy of Super-Heroes universe, a collection of musings, interviews, writerly insights and historical notes about the free super-hero serials (which started on the newsgroup rec.arts.comics.creative back in ’94 and recently released as Omnibus editions.)

Conclave of Super-Villains marked my entrance into the ASH Universe, introducing the first true super-villain team in the setting. This Omnibus is a prelude to the first crossover event as well, which I’ll discuss next week. But I’ve asked Wil Alambre to write an introduction to this Omnibus. Wil actually wrote an issue of Time Capsules (much after I wrote these) that took some minor characters in the story I was telling, and told their personal stories in their own point of view. I’ve included his story in the Omnibus. Here are Wil’s thoughts on Conclave Arise!

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ASH Wednesday: Pandora’s Box

This is part 5 of my weekly series on Dave Van Domelen’s Academy of Super-Heroes universe, a collection of musings, interviews, writerly insights and historical notes about the free super-hero serials (which started on the newsgroup rec.arts.comics.creative back in ’94 and recently released as Omnibus editions.)

This week features Dave Van Domelen’s first twelve issues of Academy of Super-Heroes. I’d like to discuss the text comic form in this article.

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