Sat, 25 Sep 2004
Excuses time (again)
I know, I know, I haven't been updating the blog enough lately. That's
because in between travelling to far-flung places I'm currently spending
a lot of time with family and the rest of my time being exhausted. (I
haven't even had time to migrate the rest of my web site and
email setup onto this spanking new server I've paid for and am
running ... hopefully in the next week or so this'll happen.)
I've worked up a backlog of committments to write
short stories and novellas for various anthologies. I'm now
planning to spend the rest of this year trying to catch up with
them all so I don't blow any deadlines. This means that if you're
thinking of asking me to contribute to an anthology or magazine
... just don't, okay?
(If your deadline falls after
mid-2006 I might be able to do something, but right now I'm
logjammed, with about 60,000 words of short fiction committments
to meet.) If
you'd told me five years ago that there'd come a time when I'd be
turning down invitations to write for paying markets I'd
have thought you were nuts, but that's what's happened. The
flipside of this (if you're a reader rather than an editor)
is that it means I might eventually have enough material for a new short story
collection in 2006/2007. We shall see ...
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