Category: Writing
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Baseball for the Holidays
Stumped about what to get the baseball fan in your life for the holidays? Worry no more! The Comic Book Story of Baseball is the perfect companion for hot-stove season. If you order from Print: A Bookstore, I’ll head over there toot sweet and sign your copy so you have it in time for holiday giving.…
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20 Years
This month marks twenty years since I sold my first professional short story — “Rossetti Song,” to Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF. So everything that has happened since then is his fault. I am profoundly grateful to everyone who has ever read anything I wrote…which, if you look back over those twenty years, includes: 47…
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Writing, Rejection, Revision: A Parable, Sort Of
I wrote a story and submitted it to a magazine. It was rejected. I took a look at it and changed a single line of dialogue in the ending. I submitted it to a different magazine and it was accepted. Things I will never know: Whether the first magazine would have accepted the story if…
Crooked House Fictions 