3/21/05
I'm closing in on the end of The Brakan Correspondent, my novel-in-progress. Based on the entry below, it looks like I've been fussing with this monster for two years. Considering the manuscript's biceps-building mass, I guess I'm not doing so bad.
Um . . . editors do base their decisions on the weight of the manuscript, don't they?
I've had a few successes lately: two manuscripts accepted by Continuum, a print zine, and one accepted (soon to be published) by Neverary, a spec fiction zine. "Sex and the Single Wendigo" should be out this August at The Dark Krypt.
5/3/3
I'm the host/co-host of the SF discussion forum . . . at least until the powers that be wise up. If you have a question or comment for me in that capacity, please send an email to hoffmand@northcoast.com.
I write science fiction, if you can call it that. Those wankers who insist on pigeon-holing everything would, I suppose, call my stuff "soft" or "social" science fiction. My stories are obsessed with how people find meaning through their work, or (more often) become whores in their professions; relentless bitter condemnation of bureaucratic and religious hypocrisy; obsession with animals, sex, and food, usually not all together.
I've finished two novellas and four short stories. All four are under submission. The novellas are on the back-burner; I'm too wrapped up in my NiP (The Brakan Correspondent) to worry about a couple of wordy novellas. My NiP will serve as prequel to the monster novel I've been grinding on for the last 2.5 years (Karakoram).
As for my day job... well, if you click on the link below, you'll learn more about me than you could possibly want to know.
Me and my boy Jake
And here's a subtle hint as to my political leanings:
