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A Man Sans Soul

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 9, 2009
Here’s a treat: the rights for this story were purchased by “The Mount Zion Review,” but the magazine folded within weeks of the release of the issue with my story in it. So, rather than try to sell it again, I’m going to publish it here, for all to enjoy. This is a story about a [...]
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A Movable Feast

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 4, 2008
I had a revelation yesterday that I wrote briefly about, but now I’m going to elaborate a bit more on it. It’s one of those things that creeps up on you, that you don’t realize it’s there until it’s bitten you on the throat and sucked out all your blood (but in a good way). [...]
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Douglas Adams Tribute

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 23, 2008
Someone should put together an anthology of humorous science fiction. Maybe even make it a tribute to Douglas Adams, the man who proved that humor and scific was possible. It’s been almost 30 years since the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first published, and Adams remains the only successful author of humorous SciFic that [...]
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ARRGGHH! [Query Writing]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 14, 2008
Queries suck. At least writing them does. The entire novel-writing process has never made me feel so futile as penning these two vexing paragraphs. I could fill this page with links to query-writing suggestions and formats and information I’ve read from various outlets all over the web, all of it very helpful in its own [...]
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Milestones

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 24, 2008
Interesting note, today I uploaded the picture of the Aurora Borealis to my Flickr account, and then made a post on the blog about it. As it ends up, that was my 200th picture uploaded into Flickr, and my 200th post on Unabashed, which is kind of freaky. As milestones, the Flickr one is dubious, [...]
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Brouhaha Brews in the Ranks of the SFWA

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 2, 2007
In a tumultuous series of blog posts, begun by Charlie Stross, and then spreading to John Scalzi, Warren Ellis and Cory Doctorow, it seems the SFWA is once again churning amidst its members’ dissention. For an outsider looking in, it’s got a kind of soap opera appeal, especially since the SFWA is the beacon to [...]
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Quote of the day

By Matt Mitchell | Published: February 1, 2006
One is foolish to feel sorry for writers. They’re all fucking liars, and they fatten on pain. Also, they invariably steal women. –Godwin Lloyd-Jons If you liked that post, then try these...A Scent of Rain on November 2nd, 2009Time in a bottle on October 13th, 2009Wagon Hill, my Sleepy Hollow on October 5th, 2005Publishing vs. Self-Publishing [Once Again] on [...]
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