Skillset
My story Skillset just came out in WyldBlood Science Fiction & Fantasy #13. Wyldblood is a UK-based SFF magazine. It is also available from Amazon. Skillset is a story about a man who can permanently take skills from other people–although …
Author: Arlen
Kintsugi Piano Table
Anna got me the Lego piano kit for my birthday, and it is really cool. As well as looking fairly realistic, with the ability to open and close the various covers, it also has some clever mechanisms; The pedal makes …
Skin Deep – The Audio Book!
My story Skin Deep came out about a year ago in Kevin J. Anderson’s Gilded Glass Anthology. At the time there was talk about do audio recordings of some of the stories. For various and sundry reasons, this took rather …
Map Photos
(Don’t care about the blather and just want the app? Click here). In April we went to New Zealand along with some friends. The trip was amazing and we all took a lot of photos, including this one of the …
The Museum of Lost Dreams
My story The Museum of Lost Dreams came out this weekend in the anthology Museum Piece! (hardback) As the title suggests, all of the stories in the anthology are set in museums (aren’t you glad that I’m here to point …
Hacked!!
So, Cowthulu got hacked! First I heard of it was a friend telling me that she’d been emailed about two posts that were just strings of letters and numbers (or GUIDs — unique, randomly generated values). I’ve spent the last …
Deos Amnis
Seems like it’s been a while since I’ve been able to write about anything new coming out, but just got notified about the release of my story Deos Amnis in The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen & Other Things That …
Interviewed about Story and Writing
I have a story coming out in a month or so called Judgement in an anthology called Apologue of the Immortals. (An Apologue, for those who haven’t swallowed the OED, is a moral fable.) Anyway, I was interviewed by the …
Art Imitates Life
A few months ago I sold a story called Second-Hand Eyes. The premise was that implanted medical equipment (in this case, eyes) could stop being supported and leave users out of luck. I thought I was being cleverly futuristic. But …
Lego Typewriter
The other day, we were shopping for a birthday present for a friend and decided on a particular Lego set. We join the scene in progress: Arlen: Are you going to order it on-line? Anna: Or I could just run …