I’ve been experimenting with the new aStore from Amazon. Some of you have noticed the link Science Fiction in the left sidebar under the heading ‘Bookstore.’ It’s only in beta currently and the features are pretty limited, but still it’s a cool way to add more features and more value to your site.
When Amazon rolls [...]

Jay Lake is an extremely prolific writer of science fiction stories and novels. He once told me that he’d written 20,000 words in a single day. Amazing productivity, not to mention quite a bit of success in getting published.
There’s a posting and discussion on his LiveJournal page you might find interesting: A brief discussion of [...]

Here’s another snippet of a story I’m working on revising:
The street lamps’ sickly yellow light slid greasily over the sky blue Monte Carlo as the long shape prowled the asphalt. With the windows down, the humidity of the night seemed to pour inside, sticking thickly to the stained and cigarette burned cloth seats. The smell [...]