Shmorgh is Bored – the Interweb Home of Randy Henderson

The April 2011 issue of Realms of Fantasy is now available for PDF purchase and download if you like your magazines digital.  It includes my story “A Witch’s Heart.”  http://www.rofmag.com/

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Nostalgia! Old school scholastic book order forms. Dune! Michael! Lloyd Alexander! And what ever happened to books with snippets of programming code in them that you could use to build actual computer games or challenges that characters in the book had to overcome? I remember those BASIC books, they were cool. Where’s the javascript books for today’s youth? (Link yoinked from Saladin Ahmed.)
http://ht.ly/4oIxx

Breaking News: GOP criticizes Obama for breathing in before breathing out. House Speaker Boehner said, “We believe in breathing out first, giving our breath to the American people who deserve it, while this President is working first and foremost to take your air away. This is another example of Big Government out of control.”

Only 3 more days to apply for Clarion West 2011 if you would like to spend 6 weeks doing nothing but focusing on writing (and making 19+ lifelong friends) while learning from Paul Park, Nancy Kress, Margo Lanagan, Minister Faust, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Charles Stross.

www.clarionwest.org

My holiday gift guide for fantasy film fans is up at Fantasy Magazine. It does not include the obvious mass merchandising stuff like LotR action figures or superhero toys, nor Science Fiction gifts (for the most part).
http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/12/holiday-gift-guide-for-the-fantasy-fan/

I was following a rabbit hole of links in Psychology Today, and thought I’d share three of them that I see as somewhat interrelated, as well as some of my own thoughts on the whole liberal vs conservative culture war.

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I always see people posting what they’re eating, so I’ll do the same: Raisin Bran. Huh. That didn’t seem very interesting. So, um, I’m actually eating grilled unicorn strips drizzled in a sweet chipotle raspberry sauce, served on a bed of finely crushed dreams and garnered with lightly toasted fairy wings. I forgot to take a picture, but you can order the unicorn meat here.

And in other news:

My first thought when I saw the back of the new penny was “Cool! This could be made into a shield charm!” And then I acted out deflecting spells, complete with “Piew! Piew!” sound effects.

Why, yes, I am a fantasy fiction writer.  Why do you ask?