Ogre—Yep, I’m a bona fide Peter Bagge fan. I loved every issue of Hate, right to the end, even when those who followed it from the beginning were starting to spit on the man’s work. (I discovered Bagge with Hate No. 4, and I’ll still pick up anything he does.)
I love beer! If you’re ever in the greater New York metropolitan area, look me up.
At work, I write <shudder> user manuals. Does that count? 
In the real world, I’m working on a comic book, to be published by Eldonejo Grand-lagoj* in the new year. I’ve even got my ISBN! (The National Library of Canada gives them out for free.)
Incidentally, I also have to send two copies to the National Library as “legal deposit” to add to the cumulative record of our culture and heritage. Anyone in other countries have to do that?
*Okay, it’s my own publishing imprint, created for the comic. But I have big plans…
I think all of my publishing credits amount to a few vehicle/weapon designs in Autoduel Quarterly, a magazine devoted to the now defunct board/role-playing game of Car Wars. It seems pretty piddly now, but in my early teen years, boy, this was big stuff. I friend of mine invited me to a game of Car Wars with his brother and their friends, and it brought me no end of joy to hear the furtive whispers behind my back (“He’s had designs published in ADQ! How are we ever going to beat him?”).
When I was a journalism student I had an article published in our college magazine. Does that count?
When I worked at a newspaper I wrote a few things for special sections, like the intro for the holiday cookbook. But since I was an editor and not a writer, I spent most of my time editing things that other people got published.
I write when in the mood but only as an indulgence and for my own benefit. Except for once when I chanced across an online ad from a new website asking for vaguely humorous, relationship orientated submissions. And offering money. On a whim I submitted a piece already sitting on my hard drive and (eventually) they replied asking for an address to send the modest cheque! Felt quite odd.
Anyway, that’s it: One submission, one cheque! I’d like to write seriously more often but it takes me an inordinate length of time to tune in to structure, etc. Instead, I just bumble around on the board and knock something up when in the mood. Don’t tell the Vicar.
Legal deposit happens in NZ and Australia. I kinda like the idea that books are somewhere safe for posterity.
IIRC ISBN numbers are free in every country.
I co-wrote a book with my SO which came out this February. YOung adult book. I’ve worked on books with my SO for the last decade. I think we’ve got about 12, 13 (?) books in print. There’s a book with a publisher ATM and we’re really hoping she’ll pick it up but she emailed last week to say she was unsure about a couple of aspects and has asked for a reader’s report. Given the state of her budget, it’s positive she’s paying for a report but damn, I hope she buys it! Could do with the advance in time for Xmas!
yeah, but i don’t really consider that being really published, just a couple words, not like an essay or n e thing. but it was pretty cool, i got the december issue and just was like, wow, that’s really cool!
There’s still room for freelancers to do computer-related writing, though paying markets are another thing. You could probably get game review assignments at some of the online sites.
Oh, yeah – after they found ot culd write , the folks at my last job asked me to write the tech manuals for our products. I’ve written a lot of tech manuals. I’ve also ritten scads od ISO 9000 documentation. There is a special circle in Hell where they are forced to write ISO documentation.
Not exactly published but my words are enshrined in the Net.Plot.Book, the Dungeons and Dragons online resource, under the heading, Save the Dragon from the Evil Princess.
Well, my freinds & I did write & publish our own D&D supplement, way back in the days of the 3 volume set. I have also had my missives printed in many papers. I wrote a game review column for a club monthly. I also wrote reviews when I worked for an adult weekly newspaper- and got paid for them (not to mention getting listed as “associate editor”).
Oh, whooo hoooo, how timely! I did the photos for this soon to be book.
OK, enough horn-tootin’. Back to my cave…
Newspapers can’t count for me. I mean afterall, they are what I do. I have probably been published in 100s of papers, more when you count the stories and pics that have been picked up by the wire services.
Quite a few magazines too. Even two professional journals.
I am probably most proud of my fiction. First piece of fiction was published in IF (science fiction) as was the second and third. They used to have a special deal for urging new writers to write by paying them a little more for their stories. I changed my name, my writing style and address every month to try and convince them I was different people (worked for a while). And Analog and Fantasy and Science Fiction a couple of times. I even was in the incredibly short lived British science fiction magazine (and I could be wrong on the name here but I think I am close) Science Fiction Magazine.
For some reason I quit writing SF (it got different or I did - I was never sure which) and began writing mystery fiction and I have published a handful of stories in Alfred Hitchock and Mystery Monthly Magazine two of my stories are supposed to becoming out in anthologies in the not too distant future. I will shout and jump up and down on MPSIMS when they are: you may rest assured.
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My bibliography includes one science fiction novel (Staroamer’s Fate published by Warner/Questar) and around 30 short stories in places like Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Aboriginal SF (who just folded, alas – five stories), Galaxy (four stories in the first five issues of the 90s reincarnation), tomorrow, plus stories in the anthologies Vampires, Blood Muse, Tomorrow’s Voices, and Swashbuckling Editor Stories. My story in Strange Horizons was given an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best SF this year. I had a game review in Science Fiction Age and poetry in StarLine*.
I’m currently working on another novel.
If there were no egoists, there would be no ghost writers. The people I have written most for are famous, busy, less-than-literate, vain and RICH.
As I said above, no-one would publish Hemlock’s thoughts on the state of the world if they appeared under the by-line “Hemlock”. Even if they did (and I have had tons of letters published in newspapers and mags, like the Economist) they wouldn’t pay for those thoughts (even though they are, imvho, exceptionally profound and stimulating).
However, editors will publish my thoughts under the by-line of “Mr household-name moneybags”, because people will read it. And they will say “isn’t Mr H-n-m profound and stimulating?”, giving Mr H-n-m a big kick (and possibly votes, attention, depending on the circumstances). And he will make it worth my while.
To put it bluntly: can you eat a by-line?
But… OK, OK… Yes, I would love a bit more fame. Will work on it when I can live off the interest on the interest.
I’m currently writing a book on DirectX game programming. It’ll be out shortly after DX9 is released publicly.