Category: editing
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The Joy of Haverin: A haver
It’s the third of my blog posts on Haverin, the GSFWC anniversary anthology. This time the plan is to talk about how much I like it and what it contains. Which could be dangerous, considering there are 43 stories and we all know how well the questions “Who is your favourite child?” goes. It is…
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On editing an anthology: A haver
This year marks forty years of the Glasgow SF Writer’s Circle and to celebrate this they are producing an anthology called Haverin. It is my “delight” to be one of the editors, following up on my helping out with the book released at the last Worldcon in Glasgow called Gallus. To note the release and…
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The Circle and I: A haver
Hello all. As you may be aware, I am once again working on an anthology of short stories for the Glasgow SF Writer’s Circle. Two years ago I was a junior part of the team who produced Gallus, a collection released to coincide with the Worldcon being in Glasgow. And it did, if I may…
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2024: The Year of the Editor
Hello all, it’s December and so time for the annual roundup of my writing year, be it thick or thin. And this year has a hefty thickness. I have had three stories published, one about an old gnome, one about a shepherd and one about a talking cat. I also have a fourth due soon.…
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Revelling in the editor’s power
For ten years and more I’ve been writing stories, getting them critted by my local group, the Glasgow SF (where SF stands for Speculative Fiction, although it did start out as Science Fiction) Writers’ Circle and pinging them out willy-nilly into the universe and hoping that an editor will like them and publish them. To…
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The Purple Patch Continues
I’ve been oddly hanging back on announcing this one (damn weirdy paranoia) but last weekend I had another acceptance, this time from some lovely people at Crossed Genres. They are putting together a superhero anthology and I felt it needed some mention of Nitshill Bowling Club. It appears to be another step along my educational…