Alleypat / Patty Pulsar

Short Story Contest Deadline March 1 The  Yuri’s Night Short Story Contest   deadline is March 1, 2013 . Human Spaceflight became a reality over 50 years ago with the launch of a bell-shaped capsule called “Vostok 1.” The capsule was carrying Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who took his place in history as the first human to leave the bounds of Earth and enter outer space. This year,  Yuri’s Night  will be co-sponsored with the  Greater Ft. Worth Chapter of the Moon Society  and the  North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop  at the Benbrook Library, Benbrook, TX. Along with snacks, poetry readings, and short story readings, Ken Murphy from NSSNT will bring a movie about Yuri Gagarin. Part of this year’s celebration is a short story contest. The theme must be about space, space exploration, development, and/or settlement. Prizes will be awarded  April 13, 2013  at the  Yuri’s Night celebration  at the  Benb...

New Online Class:  The Art of Critique : Digging the Dirt out of Your Draft   begins Feb 4 In this class, we’ll look at the attendees’ manuscripts/WIPS, learning how to analyze a story on different levels. WIPs are expected to be shared with the class for discussion. We’ll have guest speakers as well as contests and prizes. Click here  to find out more about this class.  Registration information is here .

I'll be teaching a class at FF and P this July and here is my guest post about the class: http://bit.ly/Mgmnt6

My short story, "Catsup" has been accepted at Bewildering Stories!

After the Romance Writers' meeting ( http://www.ntrwa.org/ ), went to Alex's booksigning at the Hurst Barnes & Noble Bookstore and had a blast! He signed two of his latest books for me, MONSTER , which looks fantastic and a lot of fun (I heard parts of this in our weekly workshop, the DFW Writers' Workshop ) and the phone number it says to call on the back of the book is hilarious! Call it! 214-364-1177 It's a hoot :). Now I'm off to work on websites.

Our Speculative Fiction group, North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop, with the help of Barnes & Noble, Hurst, TX, is having a short short story contest! LENGTH: 1400 words DUE: Sat Aug 9 AWARDS: Sat Sep 13 For more info, check out the websites: www.ntsfw.com www.myspace.com/ntsfw