My “pays the rent” free­lance project load is such that I’m going to have to hold off on my “pipe dreams of the video game indus­try” project right now.  I’m going to shoot to start it up in November now (although I’ll be squeez­ing read­ing in any­where I can). It’s embar­rass­ing to have made that post on Monday and by Wednesday have to change my sched­ule and plans, but as always, my first pri­or­ity is pay­ing the rent.  I always seem to think there’s more time in the day than there really is.  I should prob­a­bly be work­ing more on my time man­age­ment skills (which really aren’t bad) before I should be work­ing on my game writ­ing skills.  Anyway, more to the point, I’m not see­ing a lot of work com­ing down the pipe right now, so I need to hus­tle some up.  If you’ve been think­ing about hir­ing me to build a web­site, now’s a good time.

In writing-related news, my story in Interzone issue 224 (on news­stands and in book­stores now!), “Godfalls’s Chemsong,” received a very nice review from John DeNardo over at SF Signal.  I’ll take 4 out of 5 stars any day.  The story is an exper­i­ment of mine to cre­ate  biz­zare alien biol­ogy and soci­ety using mostly real Earth biol­ogy traits that exist in real crea­tures.  I only impro­vised a lit­tle bit, and I’m pleased with the results.  I really should write more sto­ries like that, but they’re a bear to come up with.  But I guess if it were easy, every­body would be doing it.

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