Just thought I'd stop in to announce that Offbeat will be participating in Absolute Write's 2007 December Holiday Flash Fiction Carnival! It was always my intent to, along with news and commentary, give you guys a few short stories and the like to read.
So, look for a New Year's (I've decided on a NY story instead of any other holiday) themed short to be posted here soon.
Other than that, I'd also like to say that I'm entertaining the idea of serializing a novel here on Offbeat, one written specifically for the purpose of being posted here. I'm not sure I'm going to, though. I'll let you know more about that in the future.
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Welcome to Offbeat!
I have arrived!
Okay, so most of you (the polite and less sad way of saying zilch, since I never announced Offbeat before it launched) weren't eagerly awaiting my online debut like I was, making that exclaimation slightly much. But now I've got it out of my system, and we should all be thankful for that.
Offbeat is my new and shiny blog, which features commentary on fantasy books and comics (and occasionally general book news, since fantasy books are books, after all, and things effecting the industry as a whole are interesting to post about). So yes, no movie or game stuff, but you wouldn't want me commentating that anyway. Just trust me.
So, why Offbeat? Well, for those of you wondering, and those who weren't, I wanted to name the site Fantasy Fan (which became my pen name). But of course, someone else had taken it. That pushed me to plan B, Offbeat, because I'm an offbeat fantasy fan who doesn't really like a lot of traditional stuff that's filling up bookshelves.
In the coming months I hope to invite authors to post, (or at least convince them to let me interview them), share news and other tidbits with you, and generally waste the time I'm supposed to be using for writing.
Offbeat's Quick News:
Daily Dose of The Web
On most days, if I'm feeling up to it, I'm going to give you a couple of tidbits to chew on from the rest of the web, that I found particularly interesting. Here are today's!
Okay, so most of you (the polite and less sad way of saying zilch, since I never announced Offbeat before it launched) weren't eagerly awaiting my online debut like I was, making that exclaimation slightly much. But now I've got it out of my system, and we should all be thankful for that.
Offbeat is my new and shiny blog, which features commentary on fantasy books and comics (and occasionally general book news, since fantasy books are books, after all, and things effecting the industry as a whole are interesting to post about). So yes, no movie or game stuff, but you wouldn't want me commentating that anyway. Just trust me.
So, why Offbeat? Well, for those of you wondering, and those who weren't, I wanted to name the site Fantasy Fan (which became my pen name). But of course, someone else had taken it. That pushed me to plan B, Offbeat, because I'm an offbeat fantasy fan who doesn't really like a lot of traditional stuff that's filling up bookshelves.
In the coming months I hope to invite authors to post, (or at least convince them to let me interview them), share news and other tidbits with you, and generally waste the time I'm supposed to be using for writing.
Offbeat's Quick News:
Daily Dose of The Web
On most days, if I'm feeling up to it, I'm going to give you a couple of tidbits to chew on from the rest of the web, that I found particularly interesting. Here are today's!
- Amazon.com Posts First Reviews of J.K.Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard
- Author Adrienne Kress announces Alex and the Ironic Gentleman is Magical Realism (That's so not stopping me from blogging about it, though. I'm calling Magical Realism a sub-sub-sub genre of fantasy.)
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