The Writing Monkey - Dale Mettam

It's clearly review day. My short, "We Don't Do Quests" got a nice mention in this review on the website Bookasgm for the awesomely speculative BULL SPEC Magazine.

And the other review is for Luci Phurr's Imps, a webcomic I’m involved with and can be see here via the Daily Waffle.

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Check out my latest published work! Bull Spec #6 has one of my short stories, “We Don’t Do Quests” featuring the team of Jandar and Grau. These are the same guys featured in my short story "Heard It" published in the Fantasist Enterprises anthology Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy.

You can get a copy various ways…. including select quality bookstores and digitally through the Bull Spec website.

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• An eyepatch can be the perfect finishing touch to that costume.... but it's just as likely to be needed for medical reasons. Often the medically required eyewear becomes the starting point of the costume.
• If you want to show your work, most editors and staff know this. Like dogs smell fear, we smell samples and pitches. If you lose your nerve, walk away quietly, maybe having thumbed through a book first. If you are gonna pretend to be injured.... and that's why you stopped in front of the Editor-in-Chief, who gave you an encouraging smile and braced himself to hear and see your awesome work (remember, he can smell it) ....keep it simple and move along. The more details you give, based on buzzwords you picked up from episodes of HOUSE (among all the quoted potential maladies, you assured said editor it wasn't Lupus.... that was the give away), the less you fool anyone.
• At SDCC a wheelchair is rarely a sign of a physical disability. It's more often the sign of amazing creativity when they are customized and tricked out to extend a costume.

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