I’m running a little low on inspiration for blog posts, so I thought I would ask you all– what do you want me to address? Any topic you like, please post it in the comments. Be sure to look through the posts from the last Reader Question week (about a month ago) to make sure your question hasn’t already been answered.
Writing
Upcoming Fiction
My story “Groob’s Stupid Grubs,” a story of a goblin’s hopes for his idiot children, is available in Black Gate 15.
Currently Writing
I recently finished the first draft of a YA novel called Takedown Notice set in the net-mage universe of my stories “Captain Blood’s B00ty” and “One Click Banishment.” What happens when the Magical Association of Atlantis finally gets the upper hand against the net mages in the spell program copyfight?
I’m repeating this one, because this question stands outside my decisions to build a social media presence:
“I don’t have a website or blog. And I don’t know if I want one.
I understand if I’d create a blog for nattering on, but most of that itch gets scratched by Twitter. I’m not much of an essay writer, because I think I find others who say what I’m thinking better than I would.
That leaves self-promotion, possibly, of my fiction (plays, poems, short stories). If I don’t want to go the full Doctorow and Creative-Commons license everything, then how do I decide how much of my work to publish online?
I’m not going to be the type of writer who obsessively searches for online theft, but I need to find a way of talking about what I’m doing before I’m published regularly by magazines, online or otherwise — learning how to be part of a writing SF/F/H community, I guess, but without my questions getting lost on web boards.”