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Timothy G.M. Reynolds
WRITERS' WORKSHOP with
WALTER JON WILLIAMS On August 10 & 11 twelve writers from IFWA (Imaginative Fiction Writers Assoc.) were led by internationally published author Walter Jon Williams in a Clarion-style critique & workshop experience in Calgary, leading up to the first annual When Words Collide Readers/Writers Festival.
Here is the class photo:
Steamed Punks?
In the last year or so we've been getting (gradually) more and more into Steampunk, though more on the visual level than the literary one.
Here are a couple of our Steampunk portraits.
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually the Victorian eraBritain—that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy.
(or send me an email to order it and even more money will get donated to cancer research!)
"...hip... bop and
full of barbed wire" ~Mark Breslin:
CEO & Founder of
Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clubs
Tim Reynolds' The Cynglish Beat: the cynical poems his beat poet comedy
act was based on.
To see what went into the making of the cover, check out the blog: www.TheTaoOfTim.com
I have finally got back behind the camera and gone out and about to snap nature at its best. Here are a few of the great sights I've been able to capture.
All images Copyright 2011 Timothy Reynolds.
P.S. Once you're done reading and Podthology: The Pod Complex and the Cynglish Beat, try Jennifer Rahn's delightfully dark The Longevity Thesis, its prequel, Wicked Initiations or Nina Munteanu's futuristic thriller Darwin's Paradox (which I proudly edited).
SOLD! My short story, "Blue-Black Night" will appear in the upcoming EDGE BOOKS anthology, Danse Macabre. "Blue-Black Night" tells of when Death shows up on the stoop of a folk singer and and wants to learn a love song.
NOW AVAILABLE: My story, "Hawkwood's Folly" in 20001: A Steampunk Odysseyfrom Kindling Press (kindlingpress.com) "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.
Hawkwood's Folly blends together equal portions
of science, philosophy, and adventure in a Jules Verne homage that asks
'how far is too far?'."
Also SOLD: My short story, Shut Up & Drive, to the Horror-Disaster anthology The Day the Earth Shook, due out early 2012 from Emerian Rich and HorrorAddicts.net.
Shut Up & Drive is the story of Juan, who, in the aftermath of the 2010 Chilean earthquake discovers that it's easy to put aside personal demons when you're driving a bus full of actual demons.
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A new Writers/Readers' Conference/Festival has come to town and it's When Words Collide. The first one was August 2011 in Calgary and guests included authors Robert J. Sawyer, Walter Jon Williams, Rachel Caine, Jack Whyte & Publisher Brian Hades of Edge Books.
For more information about the 2012 event, check out www.WhenWordsCollide.org.
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Podthology: The Pod Complex (containing my two stories, "Uncle Julius" and "From Anna to Yousef" is now available as an eBook for Kindle!
A few years back I when I thought I could take Hollywood by storm I wrote a screenplay specifically for Saturday Night Live alumnus Rob Schneider.
Recently I had the opportunity to meet Rob and discuss the screenplay. Nothing came of the meeting besides a chance to say 'hi'. Here's the snap we had taken at The Laugh Shop in Calgary.
Tim Reynolds, Rob Schneider & Sue Campbell in Calgary, Alberta, January 27, 2011.
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Tim Reynolds on CBC Radio 1's Daybreak Alberta with host Russell Bowers, discussing Stand Up & Succeed and comedy in general.
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A NEW WORD?!
Add this to the lexicon...
Cynglish
Pronunciation:\'si?glish\
Origin: Canadian: created by Timothy G.M. Reynolds:
Function:noun
Date:2009, July 24.
1: contraction of "cynical English", a particular
variety of English distinguished by use in highly cynical compositions and
conversations.