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 (just the) "Cats" Entries SALE - "Spoils of Springfield" to Shimmer December 21, 2007 It's a Christmas miracle! Very happy about this. Shimmer's one of my favorite SF publications these days, if this post (LJ mirror) didn't already make that clear (and, incidentally, they're running their own subscription drive through January 10).  No, Loki, we don't have to do something every time someone holds a subscription drive. 
That's right. Back to bed. "Spoils" is another pre-Clarion humor piece. With zombies. Or class warfare. Or my attempt to write a manga fight sequence as prose. Something. More about it later; I wanna save some stuff for the "reader bonus content" Shimmer runs for each issue.
 SF Small Press Arrival Day November 29, 2007
Guess what day it is!
 It's SF Small Press Arrival Day! * 
(*Not a real day.) How do you feel about that? 
Okay. Loki gets Shimmer, because he called it and there are rules, people! 
Thor takes LCRW because she is mighty and demands it to be so! 
And I'll start with Apex! 
But wait! Just what the hell is going on here? 
Two copies of Apex #11? 
D'oh! 
I only have two cats, people! 
Excess copies should be going to new subscribers, not me! Because they only need seven more subscribers this month and they can raise their payrates! Hmm. Don't know what made me think of that just now. Anyway, what am I going to do with two copies (FWIW I did offer to send one back)? 
If only I could give one away! Oh, wait a minute! 
I can! Sweet nectar of being able to do things, I drink thee! Take a bow, Thor! 
Or a bath. Baths are cool, too. Whatever. To get my extra copy of Apex # 11 (which, incidentally, goes up to... naah, too obvious), go read about their Subscription Drive and come back here and be the first to post a comment on LiveJournal. Thassit. No purchase/subscription necessary or test to make sure you've read it or anything. This is the honor system, people, and I'm not going to send my extra copy to a cheater, except on accident. Like how they sent it to me. No animals were hurt during the making of this journal entry. 
Loki and Thor dismiss all rumors about sharing a trailer on the set. They're just good friends and would appreciate it if you respected their privacy. Thanks!
Scott Pilgrim is in my Pants November 14, 2007 Ah, so this is why Harry Potter fans did the whole midnight-waiting-in-line thing. Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, volume 4 was in the store this morning and is now is in my pants:  (Great thing about these jeans is if someone asks me about SC on my walk home, I not only know they're cool, but also that they've been checking out my ass. One of those means they've got taste.) Andrew and Vanessa, owners of Chapel Hill Comics had placed bets on whether it'd be me or one other customer first in the store today to pick said comic up. Strangely I'm bothered neither by this nor for the fact that I was second. Thanks for having, err, faith in me anyway, Andrew. I'll try to read it over lunch. But no spoilers, please. Loki's still on vol 2: 
Clarion Epilogue: They Remember Me August 11, 2006
We rescued Thor and Loki from the shelter in November, when they were three months old. That puts their birthdate in mid-August, so we decided that the three of us (Alex, Thor, Loki) should all just share a birthday. They'll be one year old when I turn 30 next week.
Clarion Week 5: Ten More Days... July 27, 2006 ...til I see my babies again.  I've become such a sap in my old age.
Loki - Glamour Shots with a Camera Phone April 15, 2006 Finally done with a huge pile of work. So what's something meaningless I can do without getting up from the computer? My Treo has a camera and these are the best shots I've taken in the five months since I got it. The only reason they don't look even worse is thanks to Photoshop's color correction abilities (and the low, low resolution threshold required for the web). So these pictures of Loki (taken as rapidfire as the Treo allows) are either disgusting or adorable. I love my baby, but I'm leaning toward the former.    
First Catmas January 29, 2006 They were four months old over Christmas. Since the boarding places were all filled up even before we decided to adopt them, that means we got to spend Christmas as a family. Two nine hour car rides and adjusting to a new place.  
Thor and Loki: Two New Additions to the Family November 24, 2005 We knew they'd be indoor cats so we wanted to adopt two. If they couldn't play outdoors we figured at least they should have each other to play with and bond with.
They don't meow as much, and instead do a lot of purring, which I guess is a good sign. I recorded Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" for Telltale last month. It would be rather funny if that was one of the last recordings I could ever do without the sounds of cats meowing faintly in the background. Thanks to The Orange County Animal Shelter for bringing them into our lives. And special thanks to Zondra, a staff member (or volunteer?) who had taken Thor and Loki (as Lottie and Leslie) to live with her when they were sick before we met them, and who came in on her day off to answer our questions, recommend some books, and to see the babies off to their new home on Monday night when we picked them up. Anyway, today we celebrated our first Thanksgiving as parents. We're learning as we go. See the complete batch of photos if this entry didn't sicken you enough with its cuteness.
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate. Blog Archives 2008 - Clever Label TBA 2007 - BadYearNoCookie 2006 - Clarion! 1st Pro Sale! 2005 - Peers and Peerless 2004 - Telltale Launch 2003 - Dog bites, acting out 2002 - In my mind, I'm going... 2001 - Marriage, Macs, 1st Cons 2000 - Setback, Milestones 1999 - Engaged, Graduated 1998 - Creative Independence    Powered by MT 3.35 MySpace Profile Technorati Profile |
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