Published!

It's been a good week. For the last year I've been working as a guest editor on a special double anniversary edition of Amphora, the journal of the Alcuin Society, and on Monday it was printed. I'm looking forward to it arriving in the mail in the next week or so, inclusive in my introduction, which you could say is my first published article.

I've also recently submitted a review of John Scalzi's Questions for a Soldier to Escape Pod, and it was accepted, so I've now got to record it and send it in. How exciting! If you haven't listed to Escape od, it's a paying market for short speculative fiction, and they publish short stories, many by recognized authors, with comparable quality to stories you'll find in major sci-fi mags, like Asimov's. Even if you don't think you're interested in sci-fi, I think you should check it out. Hearing some good sci-fi might just change your mind.

Hopefully, these small publications will lead to bigger and better things: I've got two more articles in the planning phase, one on copyright issues for book collectors for Amphora and one for a library publication like CLA's Feliciter or the BCLA Reporter on digital rights management (DRM) and the library open source tradition. I've also got some short-stories in the tubes. If any of these turn out well enough I might look into getting them published. In any case, I'll make everything of interest available on my website proper shortly, as soon as I finish considering the pros and cons of blog anonymity...