Almost there

Looking forward to Daily Science Fiction publishing my story "Great White Ship" tomorrow, May 11. It will be going out to their 4,000 subscribers. It will be posted, as per Daily S-F policy, on their web site a week later, May 18 - which is the day I arrive in Washington for the Nebula weekend. So because of the timing, it will be the weekend story both times, email and internet.

'Great White Ship' ready to sail

Spent some time this afternoon proofing my story "Great White Ship" which will be going out to the over 4,000 subscribers of Daily Science Fiction on Friday, May 11. It will be posted on the web site a week later. I also sent along my bio and some story notes the editors asked for. DSF has also bought my flash (995 words) story "Double Exposure". Both these two stories are, in my own estimation, some of the best, not the best, stuff I have written.

Leaving on a jet plane

Bought my tickets this evening to attend the Nebula Weekend in D.C. I will arrive Friday morning at Reagan Airport - which is less than two miles from the hotel - on a United flight from Little Rock. I will return Monday afternoon on an American Airlines flight. I am taking two days off from work, Friday and Saturday. Monday is normally a day off for me because I work Saturdays.

Daily Science Fiction's May 2012 line-up

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Daily Science Fiction's Editor Jonathan Laden writes on their web site: "The following stories are scheduled for email distribution in May of 2012. Each story will be posted at www.dailysciencefiction.com one week after its exclusive email distribution. The stories from May 2012 will appear in a Kindle edition available on Amazon." May's table of contents is: 1 May: "Seven Losses of Na Re" by Rose Lemberg 2 May: "Clem" by Cassandra Rose Clarke 3 May: "An Old Acquaintance" by K.G. Jewell 4 May: "Dancing in the Dark" by Stephanie Burgis 7 May: "One Childhood of Many" by Andrew S. Fuller 8 May: "The Rush of the Wind and the Roar of the Engines, and the Call of the Open Road" by Lavie Tidhar 9 May: "The Tome of Tourmaline" by Ken Liu 10 May: "Wrong World" by Steve J. Myers 11 May: "Great White Ship" by Lou Antonelli 14 May: "The Call" by Erin M. Hartshorn 15 May: "Dragoman" by Helen Jackson 16 May: "Monsters Big and Small" by Jakob Drud 17 May: "Hoist with an Ark to the Stars" by David Glen Larson 18 May: "The Vault" by Leslie Claire Walker 21 May: "Fantasies" by Jasmine Fahmy 22 May: "The Numbers" by Timothy Moore 23 May: "Wishes" by Patricia Ash 24 May: "Pocket" by Elizabeth Creith 25 May: "Ballad of a Hot Air Balloon-Headed Girl" by Douglas F. Warrick 28 May: "Endgame" by Thomas Canfield 29 May: "Brief Interviews with Therianthropes" by Alec Austin and Marissa Kristine Lingen 30 May: "The Girl She Truly Was" by Lauren K. Moody 31 May: "Sapience and Maternal Instincts" by Krystal Claxton

"Pirates of the Ozarks"

David Riley is working on Issue No. 8 of the annual Science Fiction Trails, and he emailed me today about my story, "Pirates of the Ozarks". He pointed out a stylistic inconsistency towards the very end that might be more of a problem that a plus. I told him I have no problem with him striking the paragraph.

 I sent "Crab Apples" off to Stanley Schmidt for consideration as a possible Probability Zero piece. Right now I have a half dozen stories in various slush piles

 My wife and I went to Longview Sunday afternoon. I am loathe to shop out of town, since I firmly believe in shopping locally, but there is no Long John Silver's in Mount Pleasant and I was craving some of their friend clams and batter-dipped fish. I stopped at the Books-a-Million there and found a copy of an illustrated book, "NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration". I have been thinking about writing an alternate history story set on a Mars or Moon colony, and looking over the images collected from the NASA Art Program tweaked my imagination. It may prove to be a worthwhile purchase.

"Crab Apples"

I've been working off a list, sorting story ideas from conceits, and I've worked a few of the conceits recently into flashes. This evening I finished up "Crab Apples", which like "The Return of Alfred Bester" and "The Relic" is exactly 995 words. It got into this 990 word kick after writing "Double Exposure", which has been bought by Daily Science Fiction. It came in at 991 words, and honestly, I think it's the best thing I've ever written, certainly my personal favorite. By writing a few flashes, I get the list of story ideas trimmed and have a better idea of what I really have in terms of potential stories.

"The Starship Theodora"

I got a note in the mail today from Wesley Kawato, who runs the small print magazine Nova S-F, that Issue No. 29 is almost ready for the printer. My story "The Starship Theodora" will be the feature story for the issue, according to Wesley.

Nova S-F is a nice small print magazine that been around many years, a real labor of love for Wesley. He printed my short story "Good Old Gal" is Issue No. 18 in the fall of 2006.

"The Starship Theodora" will be my third publication this year, my 64th since 2003.