Martin Livings

Finally finished Fantastic Wonder Stories, edited by punkrocker1991, today. It was both fantastic and wonderful, as befitted its title. Good stuff, Russ, and all contributors!

Now I'm working on 2012, edited by girliejones and benpayne. Only part-way into the first story by deborahb, and utterly loving it. It's a good excuse to avoid working on a story for markdeniz which is due in a couple of days.

Uh... how did I end up with more editors than writers on my LJ F-list? :)

The Fantastic Wonder Stories character bribe continues!

http://martinlivings.livejournal.com/48709.html

So far I've had three people take me up on that... so ashamel, chrisbarnes and azhure are now officially going to be characters in my next book I'm gonna write, the young adult fantasy The Changeling Child.

I can't promise to be kind to them, of course... ;)

punkrocker1991 is also going to be in it. Seven hundred and fifty of him, to be precise. He really should have been careful what he wished for...

Still seven more opportunities for people to appear in the book... see the original post for details!

Please excuse any typos, the wonderful cat we loved so much when we first brought her home has turned into the demon cat from hell and prevented us from getting any sleep last night, especially fun for my first day back at work! :( But punkrocker1991 has now announced the contents list for Fantastic Wonder Stories, and it's looking like a ripper!

http://ticonderogaonline.org/publications/fws.html

Steven Utley . . . "The Can-Opener"
Kylie Seluka . . . "Burning Bright"
Martin Livings . . . "There Was Darkness"
Patty Jansen . . . "Bigger Fish"
Rowena Cory Daniells . . . "Soulshaper"
Rob Hood . . . "Luxury Goods"
Nick Evans . . . "Goon of the Month in Lagerland"
Sonia Marcon . . . "Phantom Limbs"
Peter MacGregor . . . "Sandcastles, Spaceships and Worms"
Simon Brown . . . "Lonely as Life"
Deborah Biancotti . . . "A Scar for Leida"
Geoffrey Maloney . . . "'P' is for Power Station"
George Ivanoff . . . "The Colonist and the Choirmaster"
Shane Jiraiya Cummings . . . "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon"
Deborah McDonnell . . . "Brolga Dreaming"
Marty Young . . . "The Wildflowers"
Tracey Rolfe . . . "Cast Off"
Cat Sparks . . . "Arctica"
Penelope Love . . . "Tell Him I Too Have Known"
Kate Eltham . . . "Tam Likes Green Bananas"

I can't wait to see it!