Articles up at Associated Content

Finally, my first two reviews are published at AC. That only took more than a week. They can be found here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1236322/review_of_darkened_horizons_issue_3.html?cat=38

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1236304/review_of_more_frightening_than_fiction.html?cat=38

I've Become a Content Provider at AC

Yes, I've joined the party at Associated Content. My profile is here.

I hadn't planned on joining and posting anything because Tim was doing such a great job, and AC seemed to be his path to annoying our favorite closeted gay boi. But he expressed to me in an e-mail that he felt the more reviews at AC, the merrier. So I've just now submitted my reviews of "More Frightening Than Fiction" and "Darkened Horizons, Issue 3". I don't know how long it will take them to post, but I'll edit this entry when they go up.

I've also got some reviews of the Tabloid Purposes series coming up after Nano is over.

Darkened Horizons Review up on Lulu

I've posted my review of Darkened Horizons Issue 3 on Lulu. It's an abbreviated version of the review because Lulu limits the number of characters one can post.

Darkened Horizons Editor's Humor

Jordan Bobe, the editor of Darkened Horizons Issue 3, has some humorous things to say in his "note" at the end of the issue. I don't think he intended them to be funny, but I couldn't resist sharing them:

"I also attribute a good deal of the problem to the greed associated with writing. Authors are people and as the prices of gas and utilities goes up, so does the need for the story writers to be paid for their contributions."

I'm confused about the message here. Greed is bad, but...it's OK for writers to want to be paid. Huh? With logic like this, I can see why Mr. Bobe might like Nicky's writing.

"Editors of other publications have become greedy with their desire to sell copies. The result of this is that they refuse to publish previously unpublished authors. … publishing firms refuse to give the new guy a chance."

I read this complaint most often from frustrated writers who have received a few too many rejections. Instead of looking at the quality of their own writing, they bitch about how no one will give "new" writers a chance. Um, no. The truth is that serious publishers are loath to give bad or weak writers a chance.

"To the critics that attempted to stifle the voice of one of my more controversial contributor’s: No respectable market would turn down a well written submission just because of a man’s reputation."

At first I thought he was talking about Nicky, then he mentioned a well-written submission.

Cross-posted to my Xanga account.