“Telepath,” my short (12 line) poem about the positives and negatives of being able to know other people’s innermost thoughts and feelings (and maybe being unable to NOT sense them), has been published in the Summer 2023 issue of the genre-focused magazine Illumen. The issue, originally scheduled for July release, was recently finally released (just […]
Read more "MY POEM PUBLISHED: September 2023"I’m making an effort to diversify the subject matter covered by this blog. Accordingly, here’s a review of a long-running online SF/F/H magazine’s current issue. A double issue, this installment of New Myths offers up 7 short stories, 6 pieces of flash fiction, 8 poems and 3 nonfiction articles. And the quirky musical robot cover […]
Read more "SF MAGAZINE REVIEW: NewMyths.com #56/57"Yes, it’s time for me to run down what I did (and did not) achieve in the year just past. Much of my writing time in 2021 was taken up with work on my (still unfinished) SF Novel, Too Real a War. Finishing and then selling/publishing that one is, of course, a major goal for […]
Read more "Jim Lee’s 2021 Writing Recap (And Preview of What’s Ahead)"A White Christmas looks unlikely here in Windber, Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, a flurry of news about my writing career brings yours truly a distinct measure of Good Cheer! I do a market news column for a bimonthly newsletter, THE PENNWRITER, and yesterday I received my contributor’s copy of their upcoming January-February 2022. Today, marking the first […]
Read more "A FLURRY OF PUBLISHING NEWS: December 2021 & BEYOND"Available in e-book, paperback and hardcover editions from Amazon.com, the SF space adventure anthology Smoke in the Stars has garnered a fistful of 5 and 4 Star review ratings since its release in early October. It includes all-new genre fiction and poetry from an international cast of 20 authors (including yours truly, with one of […]
Read more "MORE PUBLISHING NEWS: 24 November 2021"Dreams & Nightmares #116 edited by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (SF/F/H poetry, September 2020). 20 digest-sized pages. Okay, something different today. As the issue number should indicate, this little magazine has been putting out work for a very long time–since 1986, to be exact. I apologize for not showing you the cover art–I don’t have access […]
Read more "POETRY MAGAZINE REVIEW: Dreams AND Nightmares Issue #116"FICTION PUBLICATIONS: I had 3 new stories published in 2019: “The Wounded Nark” (SF Story) published in the US-based print/electronic magazine OUTPOSTS OF BEYOND. “Sarcophagus Birthdays” (SF Story) also in OUTPOSTS OF BEYOND. “Alien Mating Habits: A Brief Overview” (Satirical SF Story) in the European-based online magazine SCI PHI JOURNAL. I also had one previously […]
Read more "2019: Recap of My Year of Modest Publishing Successes"This month I had 2 original short stories and a book review article published in a single issue of the science fiction magazine OUTPOSTS OF BEYOND. The stories, both of which take place in my Cygnus Alliance Universe and both taking place during the Great Alliance War, are “The Wounded Nark” and “Sarcophagus Birthdays.” Also […]
Read more "My July Publishing News"As always, I have a number of projects going at once. Hence this blog is in the nature of a ‘head’s up’ for any and all interested parties. In the next couple days (probably this Thursday), I’ll be posting my review of the 2013 film Lee Daniel’s The Butler here. It’s a somewhat fictionalized account of […]
Read more "Various Coming Attractions"Since my previous update: I’ve made my first fiction sale of the new year, had two more book reviews accepted for a fellow writer’s website and had my regular nonfiction column on market news published in The Penn Writer, the bimonthly newsletter of Pennwriters, Inc. The latter is only available to members of that statewide organization […]
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