The man who did more than any writer to define the look and feel of high fantasy died yesterday. His Conan style paintings covered best selling paperbacks from the 1960s on. Frank Frazetta Dies – Comics Illustrator Was 82 – Biography – NYTimes.com.
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: May 2010
$20,000 in a week
Friday, May 7, 2010
I lost some money this week in the market crash. I hope to make it back next week. You can’t think about this stuff. The stock market goes up and down. I never really had the money in the first place. This is all paper money. I won’t start taking money out until I retire […]
Retracing Rover’s Steps out of Victoria Crater
Thursday, May 6, 2010
This incredible animate gif loops through retracing Rover’s Steps out of Victoria Crater. I love the Mars Rovers. Let’s think of a good story where the rover saves the day. Maybe a murder mystery where the guy who programs the rover is murdered but leaves a clue in the path the rover is programmed to […]
Blocked
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Each morning I open a bunch of blogs and read them during the day as I get bored. This morning about half of them were blocked by the County firewall software. It looks like the county has blocked most of the blogger blogspot sites. I will now have to wait until I get home to […]
Tor.com – who knew?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
I just found out that Tor.com has been accepting short stories and pays pro rates. I missed this entirely. They are not listed in Duotrope or any of the other market guides. Their current response time is well over 6 months, but they have just hired on another editor and that may change. Now, all […]
Asimov’s Opens to Electronic Submissions
Monday, May 3, 2010
The big pro magazines have required snail mail submissions forever. I always thought that the $3 postage cost of submitting to them was a kind of toll gate that was maintained to keep the submission levels at a tolerable level. As it is the pro slush piles are 10s of thousands of stories per year […]
Genre Mall Bestsellers
Sunday, May 2, 2010
My name appears in the table of contents of 3 of the top 5 best sellers for the month of April at the Genre Mall. Note to editors: You need to buy more stories from this Graham guy. Genre Mall Bestsellers.