Writing News

This has been a good week for writing. My novelette, “Entropy’s Girlfriend,” has been accepted for publication in Analog. This is my third sale to Analog, and the first after a long hiatus from fiction writing, so it’s especially satisfying news for me.

Also this week I learned that the writing workshop and I founded will be reading at the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series at the South Street Seaport on Monday, February 7, 2005. has posted the Official Release with all the relevant details on his blog, but here’s the short version:

Hosted and guest-curated by William Shunn, featuring Richard Bowes, Jae Brim, David Barr Kirtley, Barbara Krasnoff, and Robert J. Howe.

The 8TH OF FEBRUARY GROUP is a private writing workshop specializing in science fiction and fantasy which meets monthly in Manhattan. It is named for Jules Verne, the genre pioneer who was born on that date in 1828. The workshop was founded by Robert J. Howe and William Shunn, both 1985 graduates of the Clarion Workshop, and has just celebrated its first anniversary.

WHERE: The South Street Seaport Museum’s Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street (near Beekman).