Site update soon

Site update coming either this weekend or next. I probably won’t post much until it’s ready.

Report on Brain Harvest

Since it’s a new market, I thought I’d put in a plug for Brain Harvest from a writer’s perspective.

5 cents a word for flash fiction, fast response time, prompt payment. A good experience and I recommend them. I think they’re buying a lot right now because they’re new and building inventory.

Send them your stories! I love flash fiction and I’d like to see this market growing.

The purplest prose ever

This description is even worse than that Viking Warrior book that gets passed around Clarion West.

Break your brain by reading it.

A quote: Her hair had the sheen of the sea beneath an eclipsed moon. It was the color of a leopard’s tongue, of oiled mahogany. It was terra cotta, bay and chestnut. Her hair was a helmet, a hood, the cowl of the monk, magician, or cobra.

And it gets better (worse). It’s from a published book too.

Sale to Sybil’s Garage

Just signed the contract for “Fulgurite” to be printed in Sybil’s Garage 6. I love the magazine and I’m happy to be there again.

Published at Brain Harvest

Here’s Sky and Sea, a flash story at Brain Harvest.

Just back from a gaming convention, which was lots of fun. Very tired now. Sleep beckons.

Fashion disasters

The 25 stupidest outfits you will ever see. Work-safe.

Standard manuscript format and the Zoom feature

Question for editors, since I know a few of you read my blog.

When I e-sub a manuscript, I follow standard formatting. I recently learned that the Zoom function, which shows the manuscript at different sizes, stays with the file rather than the computer. Which means that when I work at 150% like always, and submit the story, it’s still at 150% when you open it.

Is this distracting? Do you notice? Do you care?

I’m wondering if I need to remember to size back down to 100% or if it’s no big deal. Thanks.