I’d thought I’d posted my last pre-release posting on Constellations, the 40th-anniversary Star Trek anthology, two weeks ago with the announcement of the anthology’s contents and running order. I’d thought, at the time, that my next posting would be a comments-thread for “Make-Believe,” my story in the volume. But no! There’s more pre-release news. FromContinue reading “Still More on Constellations”
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On a Story's Scrapbook
Yesterday, cleaning around the office, I went through a pile of papers. There, at the bottom, was the galleys for “Make-Believe.” A few months ago after going through the galleys for misplaced punctuation and misspelled words I left the papers there, and other things–from job postings to work spreadsheets to store supply orders–were placed atop.Continue reading “On a Story's Scrapbook”
More on Constellations
Today, editor Marco Palmieri announced the table of contents for Constellations, Pocket Books’ 40th-anniversary Star Trek anthology. The authors involved have been known for about six months now, but today the anthology’s running order and individual story titles, some of which had not been revealed, were announced: Introduction by David Gerrold “First, Do No Harm”Continue reading “More on Constellations”
On Page Proofs
The page proofs for “Make-Believe,” my story in Star Trek: Constellations, arrived today. There's a part of me that keeps expecting Ashton Kutcher to come along and say, “Dude, you've been Punk'd!” Edits, copy-edits, contracts, now page proofs, and I just can't shake that feeling, that I haven't really sold this story, that it's allContinue reading “On Page Proofs”