A Bit of Everything

This is one of those posts where there's a little bit of everything. First up is a link that the lovely Michael Bracken emailed me yesterday, which piggy-backs nicely with Jim Hines essay from yesterday. http://angelaslatter.com/2009/04/09/your-writing-is-not-you-%e2%80%93-or-how-to-interpretdeal-with-writerly-rejections/

Shroud magazine is getting ready to launch their online edition called Shroud DE. You can get a free copy delivered straight to your inbox by signing up their newsletter. They're also looking for column, art, photography, or poetry ideas for the new zine, and they're asking potential contributors to send them a pitch. Oh, and there's payment involved! You can find all the details at http://shroudpublishing.blogspot.com/2010/07/shroud-de-get-it-for-free-and-call-for.html

For fans of Bill Pronzini's Nameless character, there's a new interview with Bill up at the Big Adios where he talks about his new book and Nameless. http://thebigadios.yuku.com/topic/1223/t/Bill-Pronzini-7-19-10.html

There's a great essay, by Will Hindmarch, over at Ecstatic Days about writing fight scenes. While his examples are about fighting with swords, the basic mechanics will work for any type of fight scene. He's included a list of authors to read and many of those suggested authors who write great fight scenes come from the mystery genre. You'll find the essay here http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/07/27/writing-fighting

I'm thinking that maybe the zine, Storyglossia, has closed their doors permanently. The last issue was posted in February which is when they closed to submissions, plus their blog hasn't been updated since December. Anyone know for sure?