Seth J Rowanwood, my rather awesome illustrator from Writers of the Future (who took out the Golden Award in the sister contest, for his illustration of “The House of Nameless”) was lucky enough to have one of his book covers packed onto the last ever space shuttle launch and sent up to the International Space Station (just the cover, book itself was over the strict payload limit). That’s right – the squeezings of his brain got flown into space. I don’t care where you’re from, that’s damn cool 🙂
Few people get to cross that one off the ole bucket list. Well done Seth!
Having been a luddite for some time, I’ve finally dragged myself into the 21st century, kicking and screaming (well, grumbling and shuffling). I…I should have done it sooner. It’s really not that scary, and all quite useful and informative. Given that my method of gaining most writer-type news was second hand or via the erstwhile LiveJournal, it’s nice to not be out of the loop on things.
I’m now twitting over at Twitter, and my handle is @jasonifischerio
I’m also at Facebook now, and can be found at http://www.facebook.com/jasonifischerio. All going well, this post should port directly to Facebook, my luddite fingers are crossed. Couldn’t get the dratted thing to work, have kicked Networked Blogs app to the KERB.
Just trying out the embedding of You-Tube clips via WordPress…was having some troubles, but an update looks like it stops the code from just dropping off the page when I hit update. It’s been flipping ages since I got a video clip to work on this site. To my sadness though, I seem to have lost the awesome banner that Nyssa Pascoe designed for me. Sigh.
It seems fitting that the attempt at embeddery is used to share the most ridiculous Gunners song. I think that “So Fine” was recorded as a joke, but it is hard to dislodge this early 90s ear-worm. I apologise for the excessive shots of Axl Rose’s junk, which the white shorts do little to disguise (or indeed, flatter).
The flash-fiction collective known as the Daily Cabal is winding its way to a dignified end, and myself and several of the previous contributors have given final short pieces of fiction to the site by way of goodbye.
My own piece “Shore-Birth” can be found at the following link:
This piece has much meaning for me, and I wrote it shortly after my son was born, and we first dipped his new toes into an almost still sea, on a weird muggy day. It became the opening for a much longer story, but I could never quite get it to work. This story narrates the birth (or rebirth) of Raoul Mithras, the protagonist of my WOTF winning story “The House of Nameless”.
So a story about birth amongst death seems an appropriate send-off for a noble venture. Something like four solid years of flash fiction, updated daily. Previous writers for the Daily Cabal included Angela Slatter, Sara Genge, Jeremiah Tolbert, Luc Reid, Daniel Braum, and Jason Erik Lundberg amongst many other talented and prodigious scribblers. Thanks for having me folks, it was a blast!
