Yes, there is nothing like waiting six months for a reply on a submission only to learn it got eaten by a spam filter. I guess there is something to be said for paper.
But that is about all. I immediately check off my list any venue that requires paper submissions. Too much hassle.
Three future tech things I could live without: flying cars, jetpacks and transporters.
If I had the skills, I'd do it in exchange for free books.
He was my fourth cousin; fairly distant. My father interviewed him a few times for the AP. He signed my copy of "The Good War". It read: "Cousins are like good stories: one can never have enough of them".
Umm, do you always refer to wife by her last name?
While on Rt 2, take Route 7 south in North Adams, MA, where you can get a breathtaking view of Mount Greylock across a wooded valley. Truly, a sight to see.
So sad and tragic. Words escape me.
His talents aren’t in punching people out—they’re in talking people into donating their pants to him
This is Harrison Ford we're talking about. He needs to punch someone into submission.
It's unfortunate this is happening because Helix is a fine online magazine and this will only hurt.
I think Sanders was a dunderhead for writing such a rejection letter. I don't know what he was thinking but clearly it wasn't very clearly.
It's very sad.
This awesome because it truly is one of the finest works of fiction I have ever read.
Wheeeeeeeeee! Got my copy in this morning! There is something to be said for living three hours from NYC. I am already devouring it. Work? what work?
Thanks PNH!
Request sent. It looks awesome and a couple of book worms I work with are already lining up to read my copy.
Whenever I visit the Netherlands, am I always amazed by how flat it
is, a flat you can't find in the US, a flat you really can't describe
because it's so amazingly flat.
Don't forget Ray Bradbury. He's the last one of his class left.
As you know Bob, I want to be a beta tester. I hope they let me in.
I first starting playing D&D in 1982, when I was 13. I have been semi retired from it since 2000.
In 1985 I went to my first Gen Con and went to a talk by Gary Gygax. I took a back hall to get there and lo behold in that same back hall was Gary Gygax, walking along side a man who turned to be Famous Amos himself.
In that hall was just me and a couple of buddies, along with Gygax and Famous Amos. I was severely fan boy stricken by the sight of The Man but he was very nice and pleasant, and radiated a fatherly warmth. We talked as we walked but I don't remember what he talked about. I do remember just before the stage door to the conference hall he turned to me and handed me an open package of cookies and said, "Here, try my friend's cookies." and he said goodbye.
A good soul has passed on and the world is a little poorer from for his absence. Gary Gygax was amazing writer and creative mind, the father of D&D and roleplaying games.
His First Edition Dungeon Master's guide stands as a classic roleplaying reference, an epic work of game genius.
Good bye, Gary Gygax.
My cousin lives in Park Slope. I better warn him a floods a-commin'.
I met him at a conference once. My wife thought he was a sexist but I liked him. Principled, smart and witty.
God bless, RJ!
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