Elf on Writing:

You don't frighten me, Muse.

Hey, Elf," Muse said. "Yah?" "How would the military treat Bastet? Does the knowledge that, so far, medicine has failed to find a way to extend their lifespans beyond 45 while everyone else is living to 70 affect the way people treat them? What's their relationship in the US with the gay community? How about with the black community, since they were both emancipated by...

2008-05-14 16:24:11 | 0 comments | Posted by Elf Sternberg

I'm gonna send her a memo, I really am...

"Muse, no." "But I've got it. Really, I do! See, Gabriel's supposed to be the next Adam, a kind of posthuman Adam. It would work, wouldn't it? Remember Lucifer's promise at the end of Repentance? It would work. See, Gabriel's supposed to progenitate-- is that a word? It is now!-- " "Muse, please!" I'm wailing at her. "You said you wanted an ending, didn't you? Anywa...

2008-04-04 21:55:37 | 2 comments | Posted by Elf Sternberg

The Medium Shapes The Messenger: Authorial Voice And The Mode Of Writing

Last night I sat down to write one of the closing chapters of Jera's Quest, a sort-of prequel to the next Aimee novel, and as I was working my way through a critical scene, the first face-to-face meeting of Princess Jera with the long-lost Prince Niav, whom she has just rescued and about whom there is much contention among the Imperial factions, both within her cour...

2008-02-27 12:24:02 | 1 comments | Posted by Elf Sternberg

The Mystic Treefort series has been posted to "Short Stories and Ephemera"

I promised many months ago that I would finish these and put them up, and so, after much consideration, tweaking, tuning, and adjusting of continuity, I have:

New Stories, and an Important Announcement

I have been a naughty Elf. I have missed the last two publication events in the Journal Entries. For that, I'm dreadfully sorry, and so as penance I offer the following three new stories: