http://cgbauer.net “The thing I write will be the thing I write.” Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:07:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many authors with book titles that look wonderful on the cover (and because they're really good titles to begin with) often slip into acronym-speak when blogging and interviewing about their books. I'm giving in to the pressure of this acronym-frenetic world and will now, occasionally, refer to my debut novel as SOTFOG only because it actually ... http://cgbauer.net/sotfog/ Took some vacation time off from my new novel to write another degenerate pulpy crime fiction short story called Dirty Pool. It's equal parts predator, coal country bowling, small town crime, and comeuppance. It geminated from a suggestion I made to my wife's friend when they were looking for a catchy name for their women's ... http://cgbauer.net/so-go-ahead-and-write-something-else/ Supposedly I'm done my edits for SCARS. I nudged the editor over the weekend re when her/our finishing touches are going to the publisher for final review, haven't heard back yet. Still no date on print publication--it's sometime after November--and we're now past the month (July) the ebook was supposed to ... http://cgbauer.net/edit-finished/ Had a great time with published authors Jonathan Maberry, Greg Frost, Marie Lamba, soon-to-be published author Dennis Tafoya (Dope Thief), other folks interested in the craft. Good exchanges, great insights, a fun way to network and mucho glad I was invited. http://cgbauer.net/yesterday-at-bucks-county-coffeehouse/ Sorry, headline isn't for me or any new submission of mine. My publisher Drollerie Press is having a July 4th 10% off sale. Go. Buy. Tell your friends to do the same. http://cgbauer.net/sale-sale-sale/ I jokingly tell friends that my SCARS/DEVIL'S BIBLE manuscript is cursed. Not in the way most of us aspiring, hope-to-be published novelists think all our manuscripts are cursed, where agents and editors back away from them when delivered to their doorsteps, crucifixes and wolfbane raised high, most of them clearly part of that publising industry cult whose rules preclude having relations ... http://cgbauer.net/okay-so-we-had-a-false-start/ I just learned that You're A Moron, a pulpy short story I asked one of my writers' groups to critique a few meetings ago, was accepted by the crime fiction e-zine DEMOLITION (http://www.demolitionmag.com/) for publication in its Fall 2008 issue, available sometime in September. It will be my first published short story so yeah, I'm ... http://cgbauer.net/short-story-accepted/ I was immensely entertained by Mr. Shilstone’s debut novel CHANCE (Breakaway Books, 1996), ostensibly an authorized biography of the greatest baseball shortstop of all time, a fictional Hall-of-Fame ballplayer named Chance Cain. I want to read more of his stuff, can find nothing else from this talented author. I won’t ... http://cgbauer.net/so-where-is-the-world-is-steve-shilstone/ Yesterday we bussed into NYC to see the ten-year-old hit and I was really, really impressed. Stage, scenes, costumes, gadgetry, voices. Wow. A stunner. We experienced a very touching moment when the character Nala, young adult girlfriend to Simba the future Lion King, came onstage and sang the lights out during one solo. ... http://cgbauer.net/lion-king-on-broadway/ My first blog post, folks. Just learned which Drollerie Press editor was been assigned to edit my novel: Amy Garvey. Accomplished novelist as well as an editor, has impressive credentials and an attractive, clever website. We haven't met yet. I did read a short story of hers on the Drollerie website. ... http://cgbauer.net/i-have-an-editor/