Filed Under: Speculative Fiction
This is not an idea for me, but for someone else. Write an alt history where the point of divergence is that the followers of Presbyter Arius of Alexandra win out over the adherents of St. Athanasius the Great. How do you think that would change history?
Filed Under: My Writing, SF Business, Speculative Fiction
I was asked, along with the rest of the authors in Seeds of Change to make suggestions for change in the field of science fiction. Regular readers can probably guess exactly what I said, but check it out and see what you think. Not as revolutionary as I might have been in my youth, but still calling for big changes.
There are a lot of things I wouldn’t mind seeing changed in science fiction, but they mostly revolve around growing the audience. I am most interested in creating ways for people who would like science fiction short fiction to learn that it even exists. At one time, the defunct magazine SF Age had nearly 175,000 in sales of a single issue. The largest circulation of any magazine is barely over 20,000 today and has been falling for nearly a decade.
That’s probably the last thing I’ll say on the issue of the magazines for a while. I’m going to focus my energy on getting my work inside of them, instead of worrying about saving them. It’s wasted energy at this point and has become just another way for me to focus on the wrong things.
Filed Under: My Writing, Photography, Speculative Fiction
The concluding chapter of the Case of the Steam Wraith is now live on the Dr. Rounbottom website.
This four-part story has had some bumps, and if I wasn’t writing without a net, I can see some edits that I would make. I’m going to try to write these things farther in advance of posting in the future so that I can smooth out some of the inconsistencies that develop. It’s far easier to write one-shot observational posts than the storyline based posts. I made some strides towards that goal of getting ahead this weekend, designing a new capture and we’ll hopefully get a podcast made this week as well.
One problem with writing the posts in advance is that I like having Roundbottom being responsive to the comments. one of the things that sets this project aside from the usual fiction serial is this aspect of involving the input of the audience. If you weren’t aware of that–Roundbottom does interact with his readers, so if you want to jump into the story, you’re perfectly able to do so. Just start posting comments. Make up a character for yourself if you like. I’m not sure who my commenters are because of the aliases, and it’s a blast to read what they have to say on things.
Filed Under: Uncategorized
I was asking you all about bad 80s movies for this article that has now gone live on Fantasy Magazine.
It’s kind of an odd mix of childhood nostalgia, remembrance of my father, and 80s movie jokes. I hope you enjoy it.
Hi! My name is Jeremiah Tolbert, but you can call me Jeremy. I am a fantasy and science fiction writer, photographer, and web designer living in Northern Colorado. I am currently starting a new job and cannot take freelance work at this time. Drop me a line if you have any questions or comments. I love hearing from new people and I now have a lot more time to chat.
Hi Folks. After a ton of work on the part of myself, Sarah, and my sound engineer and good friend Nate Periat, we’ve finished and posted our first Dr. Roundbottom Field Sounds podcast. It’s only 5 minutes long, so don’t hesitate to just go to the site and hit play. Please let me know what [...]
Do you remember that Disney CG film Dinosaurs? It’s original concept involved a feature length movie with animals that only emoted, and never spoke. Having always been a big fan of computer animation, I was excited at the early rumors of the film. Unfortunately, Disney execs got involved and the result was the talky-travesty that [...]
I forget where I got this, but I think that it’s the level of quality I’d like to see in more book trailers online:
Having Tim Curry as a narrator is probably outside of the range of what we can afford as SF/F writers, but still. Let’s go over what makes this awesome:
Tight pacing. 2 minutes [...]
Located 15 minutes south of Fort Collins, Coyote Ridge is a natural area consisting if a couple hundred acres of prairie. A trail runs from the road up across several ridges. Today, I walked to the base of the second ridge before coming back. I’ll make the full hike to the end [...]
The Dream Zine?
I hear what you’re thinking, “You mean your dream magazine wasn’t the Fortean Bureau?” At the time, it was everything I could make it be with the constraints (financial, content, format) I worked under. And even though the magazine is on semi-permanent hiatus, I still follow the publishing side [...]
see clockpunk.com for information. Strobist Info: Three lights! FInally got a three light setup going. One FL-36 bounced on an umbrella pointing at the background. A speedlight into a softbox camera right, up close to the foreground figure (rear figure is the same person, added from a different exposure). Finally, a Vivitar on 1/4th about 10 feet back extreme camera left as a fill.
Dragon flies are big enough that I can take some very high magnification shots of their faces. They look so unusual at this scale, but quite beautiful, in my opinion.
