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SJHigbee
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  		   Posted 3/10/2008 11:39 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Stumbled across the site by chance and really enjoy the threads...

I live on the south coast of England and have been seriously writing sci fi novels for longer than I care to think. (Actually, I've sort of lost count of EXACTLY how long as I've only started adding the date at the end of the last three...) Although I belong to a writing class, I'm the only sci-fi writer there - and the raised eyebrows and head-shaking that goes on over some of my placenames and characters does get a tad tedious, sometimes.
So finding you folk has made my decade - or the last couple of days, anyhow...

It's been a solid relief to find similarly peculiar people. In a nice way, I mean. Not THAT sort of peculiar- But, you know, the OTHER sort of peculiar. Well... maybe not even peculiar. Maybe the word I'm reaching for is weird. In a good way, of course.

Anyway... hi.

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RHFay
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  		   Posted 3/10/2008 11:53 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Who you callin' peculiar?

Wait, I'm a freak, I guess that does make me peculiar.

Actually, weird is more suting anyway.

Oh, by the way, welcome to SFReader!

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!" 
 
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H.P. Lovesauce
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  		   Posted 3/10/2008 12:07 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Greetings! We are pleased to accept Englishbeings among our ranks.

I know how you feel in your local group, mate. Many of us have tried to interact with the humans in regional writers' groups and have been stifled by their provincialism.
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Anaconda
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Welcome, SJ, from a fellow British citizen.
 
jumpin   hop rofl rofl roll turn yeah

Alec Anaconda, author of “Slaves of Janice”, “After Janice”  and “Toxic Retribution”.

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Mike Lynch
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  		   Posted 3/10/2008 1:27 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome to the Forum. Glad you found us.

Mike

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  		   Posted 3/10/2008 3:18 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome!

Buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2008!
"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, TBA
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008
"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, TBA
Still in print!
"The Stars by Law Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, Journey Books, 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Tenoka Press, 2007
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C.L.
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  		   Posted 3/10/2008 7:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi!

Icon and Art by Selina Fenech www.selinafenech.com

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Bill Ward
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Hey SJ, welcome aboard. Next time those stiffs in your writing class roll their eyes, remind them that they are living in a scifi world, and that the lit crowd of fifty years ago wouldn't have taken anything about today's world seriously, either.

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Welcome :) I went through the same sort of experience with an online writing group I was in. They all wrote literary fiction, I write sci-fi/fantasy and genre. They were on the other side of a vast chasm and we just couldn't bridge the gap.

you'll like here.

We're glad you found us.

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G.L. Douglas
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Hi, SJ, welcome to our shore.  It's great to have another peculiar person aboard lol
 
However, Let me warn you about RHFay (he's the weird one).  When I first got here I snerted in front of him and he kinda took it personal!  heeee  cool

Please visit my website: http://www.alpharising.net

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Thirdy Lopez
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Welcome, SJ. Don't mind the banshees, and don't feed the werewolves.

Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press).  His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.

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SJHigbee
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  		   Posted 3/12/2008 9:47 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thank you, one and all, for your kind words of welcome. I really appreciate them.

Feeling a tad guilty about whining about my writing group. They're a nice bunch of people, actually. And now I always produce copies for everyone as I'm reading aloud, they mostly keep up. It's just nice not to have to make the effort to explain every phrase the likes of us would take for granted - like holo, for instance...

By the way, GL - what were you doing snerting in public??? I make it a rule only to snert behind closed doors in the presence of a very CLOSE friend. No wonder you caused offence. Maybe you need to refer back to the trusty handbook: MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF OUR ALIEN FRIENDS.

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Gustavo
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  		   Posted 3/12/2008 11:28 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hey SJ, great to have you here. How was the storm? Hope everyone's OK. I flew out of London just hours before it hit!

Visit my livejournal!  http://bondo-ba.livejournal.com/ 

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Michael
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Hey there, SJ.  Welcome aboard.  And I'm glad to be counted among the weird!

Tower of Light Fantasy http://toweroflightfantasy.myfastforum.org/

TOL Guidelines http://toweroflightfantasy.myfastforum.org/about16.html

Avatar Lore http://avatarlore.blogspot.com/

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  		   Posted 3/12/2008 1:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi SJ, welcome on board! The south of England is a favourite holiday destination - just haven't managed to get there in a long time.

Glad you found us. :-)

- Call me Firle.

Hannah Steenbock

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"Der Weg nach Eridani" in Earth Rocks 3/2007 (pdf)

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Dean
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  		   Posted 3/13/2008 11:17 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well, SJ ; looks like youll fit in with this bunch rather nicely. I havent written much and im not published,but i read..a LOT! The best authors I know write from experiance. Oh boy have i got experiance! US Navy Seabee,civillian construction jobs,cook,marksman,swordsman,judo brown belt just to nan
me a few.
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  		   Posted 3/14/2008 1:56 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome, SJ.
Enjoy theboard.
I think the writer's group experience is probably near universal amoung those of us who write "genre" fiction, in some form or another.

Mike

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"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
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"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Morning Coffee" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/morning-coffee-by-michael-d-turner/
"The Jewel Below" in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com/issues/issue8/vol2-iss8-05.htm
"Happy Landings" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/happy-landings-by-michael-d-turner/
"Teller of Tales" in Every day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/teller-of-tales-by-michael-d-turner/
Read "Silver Shells" In Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/silver-shells-by-michael-d-turner/

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Nicholas
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  		   Posted 3/14/2008 7:13 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Welcome, SJ!

You need to start the Inklings back up!

 
 

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Lyn
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Welcome as well...just now getting to the new folks!

Lyn from Residential Aliens
Purchase ResAliens Anthology

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RHFay
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G.L. Douglas said...
 
However, Let me warn you about RHFay (he's the weird one).  When I first got here I snerted in front of him and he kinda took it personal!  heeee  cool

Yeah, watch out for me!  I'm hopelessly emotional, and proud to be weird! hop roll hop
 
(Better being a Snert than being a Smurf - smurf - there's something really wrong with Smurfs.)

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Steven the Git
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Hello from the West Country of England. Love the avatar.

    “Hello, I am William Burton, Head of Recruitment and Integration for the Agency for Peaceful Regulation and Definitive Cooperation of Extraordinary Existence.”
 
spinetinglers.co.uk   Bakemono will not stop!

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SJHigbee
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Hi everyone,

I can't get over the warmth of the welcome. I'm really enjoying the site. And thank you, Steven the Git, for your kind words on the avatar... Hope your part of the world isn't too soggy. I keep looking up at the sky for that yellow ball that used to hang there, but there's only clouds, more clouds and rain...

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SJ, have you had a chance to put your publication credits into the published authors thread yet? If you haven't found it, go to the On Writing forum here, and you'll find it stickied at the top. Read the first post in the thread, the please add yourself.

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SJHigbee
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Hi CW,

Thanks for the info - but sadly, apart from a series of commissioned articles for a magazine on educational issues five years ago, I've had nada... zip... NOTHING published...

My problem is that I write sci fi novels - and nothing but novels. I'm full of admiration for you guys that manage to straddle both the novelist's and short story writer's craft - but I get an idea, want to layer it - and then there's this cool sub-plot. Next thing I know, I'm two chapters and 6000 words into another damn novel... It looks like there's vibrant market for short stories - I just wish my talents and inclination went that way.

I'm currently waiting on DAW, who have shifted one of my m/s across from the slush pile into the "Promising m/s pile." Since then I've written a trilogy and am currently re-writing my next book.

Only a handful of agents in the UK will even consider science fiction submissions and half of them have closed their lists - and only small press publishers will take work direct from the writer. I've sent a m/s off to a couple of them - and heard absolutely nothing. Even after chasing them up. So am reluctant to continue down that route...

Sorry... this appears to have turned into a long whine... Didn't mean it to! However, it can be a lonely dispiriting business. And then I tripped over this site! I've found it really enjoyable reading the threads - and occasionally taking part. I've just submitted a couple of reviews on books I've recently read that hadn't been covered by previous reviewers that I thought were outstanding. Maybe I can contribute towards the site as a reviewer...

www.sjhigbee.com

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  		   Posted 3/31/2008 8:20 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
SJHigbee,

So shop for an agent on this side of the pond.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Morning Coffee" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/morning-coffee-by-michael-d-turner/
"The Jewel Below" in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com/issues/issue8/vol2-iss8-05.htm
"Happy Landings" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/happy-landings-by-michael-d-turner/
"Teller of Tales" in Every day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/teller-of-tales-by-michael-d-turner/
Read "Silver Shells" In Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/silver-shells-by-michael-d-turner/

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