Creative Genius?

Hey, crew. Normally I post about the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper here, but I need to put on my writer hat for a post and acknowledge some writerly activity that’s going on.

P.J. Kaiser tagged me last week with this very cool honor.

P.J. is a flash and serial fiction writer whom I am trying to convince to start podcasting her work. She’s made a start by reading one of her flash pieces and posting it on her blog. It’s not often I post about stuff here that’s not genre related, but I do want to acknowledge the award.

The Creative Genius Blog Award was started by Deanna Schrayer at The Other Side of Deanna in January and, like other pay-it-forward efforts, it comes with the burden of finding suitable candidates for me to pass the award on to. There are a lot of people I’d like to acknowledge, but the challenge is to winnow it down to two or three. I want to use this opportunity to introduce you to some other voices out there that I’ve discovered in the last few weeks — people you may not have heard of but folks I think you’ll be hearing a lot from in the next few years.

First up is:

Lisa Kilian at What Not To Do As A Writer. Lisa writes a daily post — largely irreverent, highly charged with language you won’t want your kids to use, but stuff that resonates with me. She’s in my feed reader and I read her stuff every day. Usually I laugh.

Since I get to tag more than one:

Meet Shane Jiraiya Cummings from Perth, Australia. Shane is a horror writer/editor who’s spending February in a Grand Conversation About E-Books. I stumbled on him at the Writer’s Cafe on Kindleboards and I’ve been following (and participating) in his Grand Conversation. He’s also not a podcaster, but his books are available in ebook and if you’re a fan of horror, you might find something to scare you there.

And because I’m allowed to hit up to three:

A tip of the cap and a Creative Genius Blog Award to New Zealander Michael J. Parry and his Worlds of Michael J. Parry blog. Michael is a mild, mannered Digital Initiatives Librarian by day and an aspiring fantasy writer by night. His work, The Spiral Tattoo, has been filling my earbuds since I finished Owner’s Share and I think it’s an excellent first offering. I’m looking forward to hearing more from him.

That’s it.

A final thank you to Deanna Schrayer for starting this cool award, and to P.J. Kaiser for passing it to me.

Safe voyage.