my writing news

3/4/2011

A long stretch of bad news here. Over the course of two holiday seasons, both parents died. And I've been ill, worn out, wiped out. A few highlights, though:

I had a one-page flash fiction featured in NATURE magazine (June 3, 2009). Big news!
Link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7247/full/459744a.html

My fun anthology The Book of Tentacles was released in Dec. 2009.
Link: http://tentaclepower.com (yes, I also did the cover art AND the website)

A few other minor sales along the way, but not much new writing.


11/28/08

It's finally here, my new book "Improbable Jane."

Jane is a 3-in-1 chapbook of sci-fi longpoems.

Includes "The Improbable Notebook of Jason V---" about an inventor afraid to share his breakthroughs with the world;

plus "Jane Doe Discovered", a cloak and dagger cybertale set in a political prison,

and "Coyote Village", a classic fable about stealing the Moon.

For full details and some samples (and to order a copy) here's the page:
http://scott.virtes.com/bk_jane.php?inw=wri

Thanks!

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3/4/08

New blog launched in Feb 2008:
"The Unlikely Times" - news of the improbable but true
URL: http://unlikelytimes.blogspot.com

"Remember the Ancient Mariner" (article) accepted by Illumen (Autumn 08)

"Cougar Village" (longpoem) to appear in Aoife's Kiss (Jun 08)

"fire snakes" (haiku) posted at Mindflights
http://www.mindflights.com/item.php?sub_id=3717

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3/1/08

My story "Lugosi Rock" was just posted at Postcards from Uranus:
http://postcardtales.blogspot.com/2008/03/lugosi-rock.html

I sold two haiku to Scifaikuest

New book cover designs for SamsDot:

- Family Tradition, by Dev Jarrett
- Jane Doe Discovered, by s.c.virtes (Art & Design)
- Tarantula Stampede, by Tom Galusha
- The Poetry Workshop & Beyond, by Terrie Relf
- Little Creatures, by Michael McCarty

Otherwise a quiet two weeks with a few rejections.

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2/10/08

New acceptances & publications:

"tangled up in true" (poem) accepted by Space & Time

Stories (reprints) now available on AnthologyBuilder.com:
"Bricks"
"Last of the Soft Things"
"Tuesday Came Apart"
URL: http://www.anthologybuilder.com/authordetails.php?byline=Scott%20Virtes

Poetry (reprints with art) posted on writersCafe.org:
"the shape of things to come"
"all those toys"
"in the blackout"
URL: http://www.writerscafe.org/writers/scottVee/

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Feb 1, 2008:

Hot off the press:

- "Old Emmett's Grave" (flash) posted at Postcards from Hell.
URL: http://postcardtales.blogspot.com/2008/01/old-emmetts-grave-pfh.html

Recent works accepted:

- a haiku accepted by Mindflights
- "Lugosi Rock" (flash) accepted by Postcards from Uranus.
- "supernobody" (poem) accepted by Not One of Us

New book cover design:

- Sounds of the Night, Feb 2008 (SamsDot)

Books & stuff:

"Blank Spaces & other dangers". Now available again! The original publisher dropped all projects, and I have posted a second edition myself over at Lulu.com. A collection of 27 of my stories - all kinds of fantastic flights and weirdness. For more info and excerpts:
http://scott.virtes.com/bk_blank.php

Also (I forgot to mention this earlier) ... I have a stack of the July/Aug 2007 Analog with my story, "Jimmy the Box", in it. If you'd like a signed copy, email me at [e-mail] - $8 includes postage in the USA. Thanks.