brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Nov 18, 2009, 10:06 pm
 M-Brane SF #11 cover has been been revealed.  Strangely Christmasy.  And there's a phrase to drive your English teacher crazy.  This issue contains my story, Broken Vessels, a...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Nov 16, 2009, 12:34 am
There is more content to come over at the anthology site, but in the mean time, go check out the site and leave a comment, become a fan, join the facebook group, or hook up with the official mbrane tw...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Nov 14, 2009, 10:42 am
I realized I posted this on Facebook, but not here.  If you go to the Amazon Things We Are Not page, you can read the first few pages of my story by clicking on the 'search inside' link j...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Nov 14, 2009, 12:27 am
Image by Untitled blue via Flickr But, hey, it's #followfriday ... so it's all good in the neighborhood... This one is long overdue!  Thanks for being such great friends with th...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Nov 12, 2009, 10:16 pm
I want to offer an initial --because there is more to come-- promo shout for someone I find totally amazing.  But I need to generalize a bit before I get there. People are astounding.  ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Nov 11, 2009, 9:43 pm
Total and absolute greatness.  I haven't watched Castle, but this clip has single-handedly changed my mind.
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Nov 2, 2009, 11:10 pm
Please check out my story, Found Objects, in the Nov '09 issue of Nossa Morte!  Note also Abby "Merc" Rustad, fellow TWAN and M-Brane SF alumni is featured in this issue as well.  Let me...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 27, 2009, 11:09 pm
Image by Brooklyn Museum via Flickr Please check out Chris Fletcher's post over at M-Brane regarding the Aether Age project to be published through Hadley Rille. I can't express how exc...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 24, 2009, 11:35 pm
But friends are good.  And only a true friend would consider coming to your home to stand in your teen's closet or crawl under their bed while so outfitted.  Ultimately, I declined this ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 19, 2009, 11:04 pm
I'm a few days late on this, but here's some nice news. Light Speed Magazine is a new monthly effort from Prime Books, a sister publication to the existing Fantasy Magazine. A June 2010 ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 19, 2009, 10:06 pm
The magnificent trailer is for the Things We Are Not anthology.  Go get your copy today! -------------------------------------------------- Check out my review of Shadows of the Emerald...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 18, 2009, 10:54 pm
I downloaded the Newsweek app on my Pre.  I don't have an opinion on the magazine or its web presense: I just haven't read it enough.  But I was curious how they might handle the tra...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 17, 2009, 3:14 pm
First Annual Brain Harvest Mega Challenge Winner I haven't had the chance to post about this.  Brian Francis Slattery won the Mega Challenge over at Brain Harvest with his story, The Wor...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 17, 2009, 1:52 pm
Things We Are Not, the anthology of GBLTQ SF from M-Brane SF was officially released on the 15th.  You can buy it directly from the publisher or via Amazon, and in print, PDF, mobipocket, or Kind...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 14, 2009, 11:16 pm
"Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully h...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 12, 2009, 6:04 pm
Image by Burns! via Flickr Did you know right-wing militias are cropping up all over the south?  Teabaggers and their ilk, posting threats to the president and vowing to 'take back the coun...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 11, 2009, 6:06 pm
Image by Christiaan Tonnis via Flickr The Outer Alliance is having a Coming Out day today, and asking members to post about their coming out experience.  When I heard about this my initial r...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 9, 2009, 2:27 pm
This is such a great idea that I've seen others do recently for #FF on twitter.  So, I'm a vandal not an artist: this is me just ripping off someone else's idea.  :) Anyway,...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 8, 2009, 11:06 pm
Image via Wikipedia I have a thing about names.  Character names.  Story names.  Place names. It's not a good thing. There is nothing worse than to waste time --that ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 7, 2009, 10:43 pm
Yes, so I still had elements on the blog that were loading from hotlinkfiles.com (not something I used intentionally, but part of the template I guess.)  That has been corrected and the site is l...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 5, 2009, 2:44 pm
The corpse is still warm: issue 1 --their sole issue-- is still available, but once the run has sold out, the blood will have chilled and that will be that. I subbed to Necrography, but did not b...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 4, 2009, 1:13 pm
From Brain Harvest: "We are very pleased and proud to announce (and publish) the second place winner of the first annual Mega Challenge. Celebrity guest judge Jeff VanderMeer called William T. Va...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Oct 1, 2009, 11:02 pm
So I was going to clean up an old snippet set in the same world as my Things We Are Not story and post it here as a promotional sort of blog entry. Then, thinks I, "What the hell am I doing?" ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 28, 2009, 2:36 pm
Here is it: the chance to preorder the premier anthology from M-Brane SF publisher Chris Fletcher, Things We Are Not, featuring my story of the same name. Any US-based preorders of the print or p...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 27, 2009, 11:21 pm
I've been reading a few horror stories lately and thinking about what I find scary.  Decay and the inevitability of death.  The nature of reality.  Suffering.  Darkness.  ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 24, 2009, 11:24 pm
Things We Are Not is almost here.  Check out the pic there: awesome.  Now, just read the applicable paragraph: To my GLBT friends... you gotta buy this mutha Fletcher! (have you e...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 24, 2009, 2:05 pm
Cover of Zod Wallop I ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 23, 2009, 12:01 am
I hope to soon have a review up of a book you can't get quite yet (my first ARC!)  I don't want to say what it is yet since I don't want to make a promise I don't deliver on. ...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 22, 2009, 2:12 pm
When I should have been writing, I spent a lot of time on the above little graphic regarding the TWAN anthology and my contribution.  It was worthwhile for the Outer Alliance Pride Day, but I got...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 22, 2009, 1:34 pm
Please check out these links to profiles of the TWAN authors, including myself.  I think there will be one more such post to round out all the author introductions.  The anthology is we...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 19, 2009, 1:25 am
Dangerous Visions  -- Kinda obvious for those who have been reading this stuff for awhile.  The Delany story is worth the price of admission, but there are several in here that are great.&nb...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 17, 2009, 2:23 pm
Image by ladybugbkt via Flickr  Flower     Race       Silence   Liberal&n...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 14, 2009, 11:20 am
Will fix the template as time allows...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 14, 2009, 12:04 am
Now for something completely different.  After so much seriousness lately, I thought I'd write about fun stuff. We are total Nintendo fans in our house.  PS2 was the last non-Ninten...
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brandon bell posted an article on Nithska: SpecFic writer Brandon Bell - Sep 11, 2009, 11:10 am
Image via Wikipedia 8 years ago today I stood on the 43rd floor of Renaissance Tower in downtown Dallas watching Southwest Airlines passenger jets tilt past the city center on their way to Love Field...
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