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2024 Awards Eligibility Post

Somehow it's time for another awards eligibility post already! 2024 has been another year of health-related setbacks and challenges for me, so time has really flown by. Even so, I've been quite fortunate to have a number of stories, poems, and translations published this year. (This will be a living post, so I'll update it … Continue reading 2024 Awards Eligibility Post

Picture of several handmade chapbooks with different covers and sizes. Some have stripes, some have sea creatures and undersea life, some have marble patterns, and some have pinball with pinball flippers over watercolor background.
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Things I’ve Been Working On

It's been a little bit since I've written, and I feel like I've been rather busy, so of course it's time for an update. Chapbooks I've done a few batches of chapbooks in preparation for con season. I'm setting up an online shop so I can sell them there, too, but here's what I've got … Continue reading Things I’ve Been Working On

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2021 Annual Wrap-Up Post

As you can see, I'm a bit behind on my annual wrap-up stuff. Better late than never! 2021 was another busy year for me! I started taking on more editing clients via Quasar Editing, which helped me reaffirm my love of helping speculative fiction authors with developmental edits. I'm way more passionate about analyzing stories … Continue reading 2021 Annual Wrap-Up Post

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Kickstarter Anthologies in 2020

Since I'm curious how the COVID-19 pandemic affected crowdfunded anthologies on Kickstarter, I decided to do as complete a review as I could to create a dataset for future analysis (for example, in case I decide to go back and do an analysis of full calendar years pre-2020 or continue to do future year-in-review Kickstarter … Continue reading Kickstarter Anthologies in 2020

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Review of Single Author Anthologies Published Between 1 January and 15 July 2020

A couple weeks ago, I volunteered to do some research on average science fiction single-author anthology page counts and story quantities for an established writing colleague. It was a really interesting project, so I thought I'd share some of the challenges I encountered, my methodology, and key findings here. Getting started: Challenges & Initial Methodology … Continue reading Review of Single Author Anthologies Published Between 1 January and 15 July 2020

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So You Want to Kickstarter A Genre Fiction Anthology: More Stats and Qualitative Info You Should Know

This is a quick follow-up to my previous post about my analysis and findings regarding Kickstarter-funded multi-author anthologies. If you have questions, comments, or requests for additional data analysis, please let me know! Quick Methodology/Scope Summary Please see my previous post for the full methodology breakdown. I sampled all successfully funded Kickstarter multi-author anthology projects … Continue reading So You Want to Kickstarter A Genre Fiction Anthology: More Stats and Qualitative Info You Should Know

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So You Want to Kickstarter A Genre Fiction Anthology: Stats You Should Know

Since it's been a while since I've done an analysis of Kickstarter-funded anthologies (aka back before I started this blog), I decided it was time for a new one. If life permits, I will try to make this an annual analysis. This post is long and very stats-heavy, because these are the kinds of questions … Continue reading So You Want to Kickstarter A Genre Fiction Anthology: Stats You Should Know