For those of you who watched SIX FEET UNDER last week (the 7/11 episode, the one where David’s ex-fiance’s father dies), here’s a question:

Could any of you tell he was about to be struck by lightning? There was something about the direction of that scene that told me it was going to happen–particularly, the way the shot stays inside the building while the man exits. I’ve had this same thing happen when I’m watching a scene and a car blows up (or some other type of explosion happens). Though in this case, there were other clues, such as the rain outside and his theft of the umbrella (thus providing a SIX FEET UNDERish irony to his death).

Is this bad/lazy direction/shot selection, or is it just that we who notice these things are astute observers?

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Check this out — Praise for me!

Dear Editors,

Theresa Pantazopoulos
Publicity Manager
Simon & Schuster Audio

For those of you who don’t read Locus–first, shame on you. But if you don’t read Locus and you still want to read my reviews, they will be reprinted on Locus Online in the near future. Stay tuned.

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This past week or so of slush seems to have been uncommonly good. I set aside quite a few stories over the past couple days, much more than usual.

Was everyone waiting to send their good stuff until Gordon was away teaching Clarion?

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More good news!

Amazing Stories has accepted two audiobook reviews by me for their September issue (which I believe will be issue #2). It also looks like I’ll be contributing audiobook reviews to them on a regular basis, so stay tuned. This, of course, being in addition to my Locus reviews.

Not to suck up or anything, but I have to say that I’ve been very impressed with editor Dave Gross thus far. His suggested edits to my reviews tightened up several spots nicely and really improved them overall.

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Sorry I haven’t been posting more recently. Been very busy with freelance stuff. That and haven’t thought of anything interesting to post.

Some good news in the mail yesterday: I received my July 2004 Locus contributor copy (and payment) which features my first audiobook review column. It should be on newstands soon. Go buy it.

Oh, last week Gordon and I saw TV’s The Bachelor/New York Giants QB Jesse Palmer at Liberty Bar & Grill in Hoboken when we were out having lunch. Palmer was having lunch with another rather large gentleman who I assume was a fellow football player, but I didn’t recognize him (looked to be a linebacker or lineman of some sort). This siting didn’t make my day or anything (I will never watch any incarnation of The Bachelor, and I’m not a Giant’s fan), but it was somewhat amusing.

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I’m the assistant editor at
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.  My
non-fiction has appeared in
Amazing
Stories,
The Internet
Review of Science Fiction, Locus Magazine,
Locus Online,

Publishers Weekly, and
Science Fiction Weekly. 
I’m an affiliate member of SFWA,
and served as a judge for the 2005

Audie Awards.  I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the
University of
Central Florida in December 2000. 

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Here’s a list of reviews I’ve posted to my blog.

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

I just started doing this, so it’s kind of sparse right now, but I
expect there will be more soon.  Here are some
reviews I’ve had published in magazines:

Audiobook Review:
The World is Flat, in
Publishers Weekly
June 6, 2005

Audiobook Review Column:
Locus
Listens
to Audio #2, in
Locus Magazine
December 2004 [contents],
reprinted in
Locus Online, February 2005

Audiobook Review:
Dune: The Battle of Corrin, in
Amazing Stories
(Issue #605)
November 2004

Audiobook Review:
A Canticle for Leibowitz, in
Amazing Stories
(Issue
#604)
October 2004

Audiobook Review: The Curse
of Chalion, in
Amazing Stories
(Issue
#604)
October 2004

Book Review:
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, in
Science Fiction Weekly
August 2004

Audiobook Review Column:

Locus
Listens
to Audio, in
Locus Magazine

July 2004 [contents],
reprinted in
Locus Online, July 2004

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I was having lunch in the city on Friday with a couple other writers and
editors, and the subject of slush came up.  Eventually, we got around to
discussing how the term "slush" came about.
 
No one knew for sure where the term came from, but Gordon recalled something
he’d heard once, that if not true, at least makes sense.  The gist of it is:
 
The term slush came about back in the old days, when writers would actually hand
deliver manuscripts to the magazine’s offices.  When the offices weren’t open,
the writers would toss their manuscripts over the transom (what’s
a transom?), into the office.  So when the editors came to work (or back
from lunch), they would have to wade through the pile of submissions, which was
in some way similar, apparently, to wading through slushy snow.  Thus, the slush
pile.  This is also appears to be the source of the term "over the transom."
 

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I just saw that my interview with Richard K. Morgan has been published in the new issue of Science Fiction Weekly. Go read it!

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue373/interview.html

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