Yep, you read that right. It’s National Badger Dave Kirtley Into Going to World Fantasy Week! Come on folks, let’s use the power of the internet to convince my boy Dave to leave the land of dead babies in dumpsters for the frigid cold of Madison in November. Go to his LiveJournal and post annoying comments until he relents and buys himself a membership.

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I’ve been meaning to post on a number of topics recently and have been continually forgetting to do so, so…

(1) Deanna Hoak posted some interesting thoughts about her copyediting process.

(2) David Barr Kirtley has some of his short fiction up at Fictionwise now, which I recommend you all go purchase right away. In particular, I recommend “The Black Bird” and “Seeds-for-Brains.” And if you’re a SFWA member, you can read what I think is his best story, “Veil of Ignorance” here.

(3) Speaking of short stories, go read Tobias S. Buckell’s new short in Nature.

(4) I’ve been doing some transcribing for Ellen Datlow for SCI FICTION’s classics. I recently transcribed “Under the Hollywood Sign” by Tom Reamy, “The Water Sculptor” by George Zebrowski, and “Painwise” by James Tiptree, Jr. Go read. Not that it matters that I did the transcribing, but it makes me feel special to point this out.

(5) Tim Pratt had a scary encounter with a road-rager with a gun on the highway. Read the harrowing account here.

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So, last week, my computer chair at home broke, *and* the computer chair at work broke. As it happens, they’re both the same model chair, and I think I’m going to be able to scavenge parts from one to fix the other, but if we cobble together a frankenchair out of my base and the seat from the office chair, who does the chair belong to, me or the office?

But anyway, I thought my chair breaking days were over when I lost all that weight. Yet now here I am breaking two chairs in the same week.

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I was just perusing Bioware’s website and noted that they’re currently looking for video game writers. Since many of my readers are writers, I thought it might be of interest. The position is on-site, in Canada, and requires the writer have previously published a novel or have had two television or movie scripts produced.

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