Back in 2011 I wrote a short Story titled "The Death of God". I certainly don't want it to be prescient. I offer it up it here (only 480 words) because some ideas have been around for a while and I'm certainly not the first to play with this particular one. Let's all #StaySafe.... Continue Reading →
“Why Pete?”: The Making of a Story
Story rejections happen for a number of reasons. Here are a few, in no particular order. ~The story really does suck. (This was not a problem with "Why Pete?" because the judges at WOTF are very picky.) ~The story is of a type which doesn't appeal to the editor. (He/she hates space operas, or whatever.) ~The story is not a good fit for the publication. (The story is science fiction, the publication is Homes & Gardens.) ~The publisher has recently purchased and/or published a similar story. (Just bad timing.)
Way Down the Bucket List
As a Canadian writer of stories of a speculative nature, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror, it has been one of my goals/dreams to have a story appear in Tesseracts, the annual Canadian Spec Fic collection.
A 100-Word Short Story?
Leon slammed the spade’s blade into the dirt cellar floor. “Hack my Facebook account will she? Bitch! No wonder Dad ran off with the babysitter-slash-cheerleader when I was ten.”
A Short Summary of Tim Reynolds’ Published Short Fiction Since 9-2011
t has been a busy 12 months for my suddenly-alive short story writing and I thought I'd quickly toss up the covers of the projects done and the ones scheduled before the end of 2012. Let's start with the Photoshopped writer's shelf.
Shanghai Steam (a Wuxia Steam Punk anthology)
By blending actual martial arts with the mythical and science-fictional, and then setting it all in a real place in a specific time, I tried to make ‘The Ability of Lightness’ feel like a true story that no one had told before.
Best of Canadian Speculative Writing of 2011? Cool!
"From gunshots in the streets of Paris to brass-and-glass automatons on the sea floor off the coast of North Africa, Hawkwood's Folly draws an English lord, a French doctor and a young Russian bo's'n's mate into the deadly ocean depths on their quest to build a Utopia where no man has ventured before.
PornStar Cleaning?! Where this writer gets his ideas…
"Where do you get your ideas?" "What's going on inside that head of yours?" "Have you considered getting therapy?"
New Author Photo for Tim Reynolds
New author photo for Tim Reynolds.
A New Steampunk Anthology!
"Hawkwood's Folly" blends together equal portions of science, philosophy, and adventure in a Jules Verne homage that asks 'how far is too far?'."
The Tao of Tim 