http://www.alexwilson.com/journal.php Alex is an author of fiction, comics, and other projects. Copyright 2009 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:24:14 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.35 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss No real way to look at my brain healing progress test results as positive news, and no real advantage to looking at them as negative. Not giving up or anything (though I think I've had enough of failing different medications),... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/disconnect.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/disconnect.php Journal Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:24:14 -0500 Momentarily caught up on all the free Telltale releases, maybe for the first time since we hit the five-year mark in February. Late last year SF author Charles Platt interviewed me for a Boing Boing article, but his column ended... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/telltale_interview_thoughts_on_spoken.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/telltale_interview_thoughts_on_spoken.php Journal Wed, 27 May 2009 18:37:35 -0500 Memorial Day weekend (May 22-25, 2009):Program can change, but the schedule is public. We'll get there Friday night and leave Monday afternoon, I think. I'll be posting my whereabouts frequently on Twitter (@alexotica) if you're trying to find me or... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/wiscon_33_schedule.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/wiscon_33_schedule.php Journal Thu, 14 May 2009 13:29:57 -0500 Okay, if you haven't read The Last Christmas of Mrs Claus as discussed here, go ahead and do that before I spoil you with some spoilish spoilers below. And if you don't care to read the story, what follows will... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/the_last_makeover_of_mrs_claus.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/the_last_makeover_of_mrs_claus.php Journal Tue, 12 May 2009 14:51:01 -0500 I share a table of contents with some amazing authors this week in Thoughtcrime Experiments, an online anthology created and edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson.(Direct links to my story The Last Christmas of Mrs. Claus and to the... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/the_last_christmas_of_mrs_claus_in_thoughtcrime_experiments.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/the_last_christmas_of_mrs_claus_in_thoughtcrime_experiments.php Journal Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:36:26 -0500 Resurfacing for a minute because I just found out a short film I wrote (back in 2007 maybe?) is finished and screening tonight at Duke University at 7PM in the Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Center. It's a free... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/i_get_half_screening_at_duke_tonight.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/i_get_half_screening_at_duke_tonight.php Journal Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:02:32 -0500 Shimmer #10 is out now, and includes a pseudo-early story of mine "Spoils of Springfield," which is kinda my first attempt at zombie fiction, but not really because it cleverly fails to satisfy any of those things readers look for... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/spoils_of_springfield_in_shimmer_10_out_now_plus_an_interview.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/spoils_of_springfield_in_shimmer_10_out_now_plus_an_interview.php Journal Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:28:01 -0500 Originally recorded/for sale five years ago; now free with a Creative Commons license:The Magic Shop by H G WellsLeaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions by Walt WhitmanA Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwitftAnd then there's a new one you'll have to... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/telltale_audio_march_2009.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/telltale_audio_march_2009.php Journal Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:03:29 -0500 When I signed up for Twitter in August, I saw great potential for use in the future (especially for finding people at cons/on the road), but right then it seemed like just one more thing to keep track of. But... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/new_phone_twitter_bidness_and_future_dumpi.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/new_phone_twitter_bidness_and_future_dumpi.php Journal Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:48:30 -0500 The title might change, the story revised multiple times, but my Week 3 Clarion Story has been purchased by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson for their online anthology Thoughtcrime Experiments.Very helpful feedback from the editors both on this story and... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/sale_the_last_christmas_of_mrs_claus_to_thoughtcrime_experiments.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/sale_the_last_christmas_of_mrs_claus_to_thoughtcrime_experiments.php Journal Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:27:40 -0500 My LCRW story A Wizard of MapQuest was a nominee in the 2nd Annual Micro Award for very short fiction published in 2008, which means (if I understand correctly) I was a pick of at least one of the three... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/micro_award_nominee.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/micro_award_nominee.php Journal Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:02:33 -0500 My phone finally gave up the ghost yesterday, but because of some technical/connection difficulties at the wireless place (yes, I will one day look back and enjoy that), there was a longer than expected time period between the time I... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/voicemail_dead_zone.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/voicemail_dead_zone.php Journal Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:46:42 -0500 I'm here to come through on a promise.I launched Telltale Weekly/Spoken Alexandria on February 27, 2004. Five years is an especially big deal here, because, as longtime followers of the audiobook project might remember, the heart of the business model... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/telltale_turns_five.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/telltale_turns_five.php Journal Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:32:21 -0500 Real quick:Webcomicker Karen Ellis (of the wonderful Planet Karen) just lost everything in a housefire.More details in Rachel Edidin's blogPlease help if you can.... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/help_out_karen_ellis.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/help_out_karen_ellis.php Journal Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:28:52 -0500 Last November I got the chance to narrate "Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky" by Ken Scholes. It first appeared in Clarkesworld last year, is currently on the Nebula preliminary ballot, and is the featured story this week on... http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/summer_in_paris_light_from_the_sky.php http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/summer_in_paris_light_from_the_sky.php Journal Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:17:27 -0500