D. Thomas Minton
writes speculative fiction from his home in the mountains of British Columbia.
Tag Archives: Publishing
New Release Date for IN SITU
“Hoodoo” was the first story I sold in 2011, and it has yet to appear in print. The anthology in which it was to appear has been delayed multiple times. In January, the publisher, Dagan Books, approached me about extending my soon-to-expire … Continue reading
Don’t Be Afraid to Break the Eggs
A couple of days ago, I wrote a post about past versus present tense, so when I came across a wish list of writing rules to break by Charlie Jane Anders at io9, I got a crazy, déjà vu feeling when I saw “No … Continue reading
On Being a Writer and Getting Eaten by a Shark
I aspire to make a living one day from writing fiction. It’s something I’ve aspired to for most of my life, but never pursued because I was always told the chances of success were so slim, and therefore it was prudent … Continue reading
Wrong Goals ===> Disappointment & Misery
I recently had an email discussion with a writing colleague about how he was discouraged by the relatively few “returns” on his writing “investment”. That got me thinking about writing goals again—I think a lot about writing goals. In this case, … Continue reading
The Waiting
I like to think I’m a patient person, but I am of the generation that grew up on a steady dose of MTV (when it actually used to play music), 24-hour news cycles, and the internet. I know I’m a lot less patient … Continue reading
Who Gets Screwed by the Borders Bankruptcy?
Over the past month, I’ve been watching the discounts climb at our local, on-its-way-out-of-business Borders bookstore. Recently I’ve picked up several novels by authors I’ve been meaning to read but have never seemed to get around to reading, like Charles … Continue reading
Ten Down and It’s Only August
Recently I hit the first of my annual writing targets when I made my fortieth story submission. Over the weekend I hit a second of my goals by completing and submitting my tenth short story of the year, a piece called … Continue reading
Three Cheers for Hitting Forty
I wanted to get serious about my writing this year, so I set writing goals back in January (I’m a goal-oriented person). I developed four goals and what I thought were realistic targets for each: Write and/or edit at least 500 … Continue reading
Hopeful(l) Monsters
Yesterday I was catching up on a back issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. A short story called “Signs of Life” by Carter Scholz contained a paragraph that struck a chord with me: “DNA copies itself imperfectly, or evolution … Continue reading
To Write, Write, Write
Like everything in the world, there’s considerable variability in productivity from writer to writer. Some writers are notoriously slow, whereas others seem to have a steady stream of novels, short stories, poems, articles, graphic novels, blog post, etc. flying off their fingers. … Continue reading
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