Tuesday, January 4, 2011
It's finally here!
After many a false start and detour, the day has finally arrived! "The Curse of the Golden Inca" is now in print and available for sale! I'm waiting on the deadtree version, but the Kindle version is up and available right now so click on the title and go enjoy it!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
THE GIANTS WIN!!!!!
Saturday night and the Giants just beat the Phillies!!! They're going to the World Series and they're going to beat the living crap out of the Rangers!!!!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
New short stories on scribd!
This happens every once in a while. It's like the floodgates just bust wide open and short story ideas just come and come and come. I've written two stories in the last week.
First, it was "A Good Provider". Read it here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/38654433/A-Good-Provider
It's another vampire story, with a little twist. I've got it entered into a short story contest that ends tomorrow. Keeping fingers crossed.
Second, a story called "Envy". http://www.scribd.com/doc/39213855/Envy
I think the title says it all - not for the squeamish!
First, it was "A Good Provider". Read it here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/38654433/A-Good-Provider
It's another vampire story, with a little twist. I've got it entered into a short story contest that ends tomorrow. Keeping fingers crossed.
Second, a story called "Envy". http://www.scribd.com/doc/39213855/Envy
I think the title says it all - not for the squeamish!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
As always...ONE MORE THING!
Since I can't seem to find a writer's group that fits me around here, I'm forming my own! So, if you're a writer (published or not) and you live in the SF/fantasy/horror neighborhood, drop me a line at Writer_TonyC@hotmail.com.
Join the Metaluna Society and make the world safe for great writing!
Join the Metaluna Society and make the world safe for great writing!
I'm back, baby!
I know, I know. It's been awhile since I posted anything new here. I've been busy. You know, life and other stuff. Lady Di is hard at work with her business, Young at Heart Communications. I'm still banging away at my keyboard writing stuff that nobody wants to buy.
But...as every writer knows, you must have a certain amount of both arrogance and narcissism to survive this lifestyle. I'm accumulating quite a collection of rejection slips but I'm getting better at shrugging off the disappointment and write it off to fershluginner editorial assistants with no attention span or taste. Unless, of course, you ARE an editorial assistant reading this in which case I have to commend you on your impeccable taste and have you checked out my stuff at:
http://www.scribd.com/Tony_Castro
We have a very nice young man staying as our boarder until the end of the year. His name is Maxime Paulus, from France, and he's working as an intern for a local tech company. Bright kid with a lot of ambition and brains. And well-mannered, to boot.
As for my beloved Freddy...well, he's now a special-needs pooch. Yes, the time has finally come to admit that poor Fred is now completely blind. He doesn't seem to mind, though. It's amazing how well dogs can adapt to losing a sense or a limb.
Politically, I'm still a damn liberal. I truly hope that Meg Whitman, or Queen Meg, loses and loses badly. A plutocratic hypocrite who didn't bother to register until a couple of years ago, has broken the all-time record for personal money blown in a political campaign, and knowingly employed (and allegedly abused) an illegal immigrant as housekeeper and nanny. Oh, don't forget that the reason she gave for not registering was that she was too busy raising her kids...so why the nanny? I'm glad that Gloria Allred (as annoying and hateful as she can be) has produced the evidence publicly. Jerry Brown may be a career politician but, damn it all, isn't experience what we want in a governor?
Well, enough of the ranting. Back to writing!
But...as every writer knows, you must have a certain amount of both arrogance and narcissism to survive this lifestyle. I'm accumulating quite a collection of rejection slips but I'm getting better at shrugging off the disappointment and write it off to fershluginner editorial assistants with no attention span or taste. Unless, of course, you ARE an editorial assistant reading this in which case I have to commend you on your impeccable taste and have you checked out my stuff at:
http://www.scribd.com/Tony_Castro
We have a very nice young man staying as our boarder until the end of the year. His name is Maxime Paulus, from France, and he's working as an intern for a local tech company. Bright kid with a lot of ambition and brains. And well-mannered, to boot.
As for my beloved Freddy...well, he's now a special-needs pooch. Yes, the time has finally come to admit that poor Fred is now completely blind. He doesn't seem to mind, though. It's amazing how well dogs can adapt to losing a sense or a limb.
Politically, I'm still a damn liberal. I truly hope that Meg Whitman, or Queen Meg, loses and loses badly. A plutocratic hypocrite who didn't bother to register until a couple of years ago, has broken the all-time record for personal money blown in a political campaign, and knowingly employed (and allegedly abused) an illegal immigrant as housekeeper and nanny. Oh, don't forget that the reason she gave for not registering was that she was too busy raising her kids...so why the nanny? I'm glad that Gloria Allred (as annoying and hateful as she can be) has produced the evidence publicly. Jerry Brown may be a career politician but, damn it all, isn't experience what we want in a governor?
Well, enough of the ranting. Back to writing!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Another rejection
Got another rejection notice this morning. FriedFiction rejected "The Return of Doctor Schull". Still working on monster-hunting kid vs vampire elf short story. Got the blues playing - right now, it's the great T-Bone Walker bending string on "I Hate To See You Go".
Helped the Lady Diane with a vendor problem - a familiar story: jerkoff idiots in IT (and I should know because I work in that field) that rolled an upgrade or a change to their servers without testing it. Result: client's email gets blowed up good for almost two days with no freakin' explanation, contact or even the barest attempt at giving customer support. After messing around with SMTP settings and port numbers, it's all back to normal...but this third-party joke of a company has now been fired by my lovely wife.
And now, back to writing!
Helped the Lady Diane with a vendor problem - a familiar story: jerkoff idiots in IT (and I should know because I work in that field) that rolled an upgrade or a change to their servers without testing it. Result: client's email gets blowed up good for almost two days with no freakin' explanation, contact or even the barest attempt at giving customer support. After messing around with SMTP settings and port numbers, it's all back to normal...but this third-party joke of a company has now been fired by my lovely wife.
And now, back to writing!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
The eternal waiting...
Saturday morning. Waiting, eternally it seems, to hear back from magazines, agents and publishers over the many submissions I've made over the last few weeks. I guess that's just part and parcel of the writer's life. Oh, well...I'll just keep waiting.
Taking poor Fred the Wonder Terrier to see his doggie doctor today. Poor guy, his tummy's giving him lots of problems. He's not eating much, either. Fingers crossed.
Rewriting "The Return of Doctor Schull" from top to bottom. I'm trying very diligently to follow Heinlein's Rules of Writing - especially "show, don't tell." It can be tough because it's forcing me to rewrite almost the whole thing, but the results are better than expected. More action, more atmosphere, and a lot less boring exposition. Once I'm done, it goes back out on the market...that's another of Heinlein's rules: put your writing out on the market and keep it there until it sells.
That's the writer's life for you!
Taking poor Fred the Wonder Terrier to see his doggie doctor today. Poor guy, his tummy's giving him lots of problems. He's not eating much, either. Fingers crossed.
Rewriting "The Return of Doctor Schull" from top to bottom. I'm trying very diligently to follow Heinlein's Rules of Writing - especially "show, don't tell." It can be tough because it's forcing me to rewrite almost the whole thing, but the results are better than expected. More action, more atmosphere, and a lot less boring exposition. Once I'm done, it goes back out on the market...that's another of Heinlein's rules: put your writing out on the market and keep it there until it sells.
That's the writer's life for you!
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