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“Lovely Young Losers” out in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

AHMSEPT2014Hello, all you lovely young. . . things.  The September 2014 issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is out in the world.  This one contains my short story “Lovely Young Losers,” set against the backdrop of beautifully dreary winter (or autumn or spring — anytime but summer) in Vancouver, BC.  Canadian friends and readers will spot a very American sort of error (wholly my own) in the print version of my story (rectified in the e-version) for which I can only say . . . sorry, y’all.  I spent part of that year in Vancouver, part in Montreal, part in Grenada, part in Austin, and part in Portland.  Chaos reigned. . . or more aptly rained, as in dribbled all over my life in itty bitty droplets fine as Vancouver mist.

 

 

 

Cascade Writers Workshop

 

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Come join us in adorable Kent, Washington this July 17-20th for the 2014 Cascade Writers Workshop series. I’ll be giving several talks on putting together short story collections, choosing stories for themed anthologies (as editor and writer), in travails of using pen names (le sigh…), the unsung secret delights of indulging in speculative poetry, and about a zillion other things, including but not limited to WHATEVER YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT.

That’s right y’all, it’s open season on Alex C. Renwick / Camille Alexa this year at Cascade Writers. Want to hear about promiscuous genre-hopping? What about the devastating truth behind Standard Manuscript Format? Want to know what it’s like to stay in love with your agent, through thick and thin?  What about falling out of love with your editor, your publisher, the boy next door Open season, for realz.

Noir at the Bar in PDX

 

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This Tuesday @7pm, drop by Beulahland & hear me read my latest Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine story, “Lovely Young Losers.”

Noir… at a bar… in Portland. It’s all you need, baby.

July 1, 2014 @ 7pm

Beulahland: 118 NE 28th Avenue in Portland, Oregon

Interview of Kat Richardson

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She was dazzling! She was relaxed and funny, and knew a little bit about everything in the universe. She was definitely *not* a dude. And what a relief! I’d been hanging out with all my shortfic writing friends, most of us nascent in our authorial efforts. I hadn’t realized before, but they — we — were all in this sort of special career-embarkation pressure cooker. Most of my writer pals were striving to make “pro” sales, striving to get into prestigious writing workshops, striving to hook agents. . . striving, striving, striving. That was not my path at the time, nor (it turns out) would it ever be, but it was already exhausting me. And here was a dinnerful of novelists, all of whom had agents and publishers, all of whom were several if not many books in to their careers, and they were just so calm, so nice. And Kat Richardson was the calmest and nicest of them all.

My mini-interview of Kat Richardson is live over at Sleeping Hedgehog.