http://www.alanbaxteronline.com According To Me Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:47:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en alanbaxter/XmFjhttp://feedburner.google.com Time Pink Floyd (Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/11/08/time-ticking.html I've updated a couple of things here at The Word today. Firstly, my flash fiction piece The Book, which was published in issue 136 of Antipodean SF, has now been archived so I've added the story to the Dark Shorts page here. You can also still see it in the ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/11/06/flash-fiction-links.html I've just added a couple of new links to the Markets For Writers page: 52 Stitches and Seizure. These are both very cool markets for spec fic and they're also well worth a look if you're not a writer. There's some great stuff to be read there. 52 Stitches is a ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/11/05/52-stitches-seizure.html When I gave the "Write The Fight Right" workshop at Conflux 6 back at the start of October, one of the people attending was Phillip Berrie. He asked me if I'd answer a few questions on the subject for the A Writer Goes On A Journey website. I was more ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/11/03/interview-writing-fight-scenes.html Karen Lee Field, over at Karen's Desk, is running a little contest. The winner will get a AU$25 Amazon voucher and an ebook version of the short spec fic anthology "Speculative Realms: Where there’s a will, there’s a way". When you vote on the contest, you are also in with ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/11/01/read-flash-fictions-vote.html I have to thank Michael over at aNadder for this one. I'm a big fan of collective nouns. There are the old favourites like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls. But what about collective nouns for supernatural creatures? We've all heard of a host of angels. Well, ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/11/01/stoakes-whibley-natural-index-supernatural-collective-nouns.html There are a few bits and pieces that cropped up over the last couple of days that have been entertaining me greatly. Firstly, remember this daft post from a week or so ago? Just a dumb sign in a shop that said, "WE STOCK LADIES SIZE 4 - 24". I'm easily ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/11/01/misunderstandings-misrepresentations-quote-week.html All right then. Seeing as I’m a writer of all things macabre and occult (among other things) I thought I’d celebrate Halloween. Along with the fantastic joint promotion with Gryphonwood Press, where we're giving away loads of ebooks for free, I thought I'd post on what Halloween is really all ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/10/30/halloween.html My independent press, in conjunction with Gryphonwood Press in the US, is running a Halloween special where we're offering all our books in ebook format for nothing, just for Halloween. Here's the announcement from the Blade Red Press website: Here at Blade Red Press we're very pleased to announce a special offer ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/10/29/free-ebooks-for-halloween.html A while ago when I did my blog book tour for RealmShift and MageSign one of the people kind enough to host me was Pat Bertram. She hosted the interview with Isiah, the protagonist from the books. I'm very pleased now to return the favour and host a guest post ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2009/10/28/guest-post-write-lofty-carry-big-chisel-pat-bertram.html