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Progress Report for November/December 2025 from Jeff Baker.

Photo by Amy Tharp November/December 2025 A little more progress to report, but not much. I wrote the December QSF column, a rant actually, and then wrote another one so I am ahead about a month on the columns. Wrote … Continue reading

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Progress Report, October/November 2025 from Jeff Baker. November 20, 2025

Wrote the usual flash fictions for the weekly and monthly challenges. Wrote a couple of Queer Sci-Fi columns. Worked a little bit on plotting out some of the longer stories which I will try to get finished by Spring of … Continue reading

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Progress Report September/October 2025 from Jeff Baker. (Actual Progress!)

September/October 2025 Some surprising progress to report! I started working on a longer story (I’ve been slacking off on longer stories!) and then I stumbled across a file with a story I started a few years ago and wrote out … Continue reading

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Progress Report August/September 2025 from Jeff Baker

Photo: “Facing The Blank Page” by Amy Tharp. With apologies to Norman Rockwell. Not too much real progress other than the usual flash fictions. Which got a little unusual as I did a four-part superhero serial over the course of … Continue reading

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Progress Report for June/July 2025 from Jeff Baker (July 20, 2025)

Progress Report June/July 2025 from Jeff Baker Just finished writing a longer story for an anthology call I only found out a couple of days ago! (Not a bad way to celebrate a birthday!) Wrote the usual weekly flash fictions … Continue reading

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April/May 2025 Progress Report (Not Much!) From Jeff Baker. (May 20, 2025)

Progress Report April/May 2025 from Jeff Baker Again for this period not a lot of progress to report writing-wise. Wrote the regular flash fictions, including one for my 9th anniversary of the near-weekly stories and an extra or two. Really … Continue reading

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February/March Progress Report from Jeff Baker. (March 20, 2025)

Progress Report, February March 2025 First off, I finished a longer story (one I started maybe a year or so ago!) Sent it off to the Saturday Evening Post where I’ve received encouraging rejections in the past. It’s one of … Continue reading

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Progress Report for January/February 2025, from Jeff Baker.

Progress Report January/February 2025 My big achievement over the past month is that I wrote (or started) several columns for Queer Sci-fi. I really like having a backlog of those columns so I don’t have to scramble at the last … Continue reading

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Sleator And Selden Revisited For Our Times. By Jeff Baker, February 13, 2025.

Author’s Note: This installment of my “Boogieman In Lavender” column was first posted on April 13, 2017 on Queer Sci Fi. It says some things about writers that fit our uncertain times today, so I’m re-posting it here. —jeff baker, … Continue reading

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Progress Report, for December 2024/January 2025 from Jeff Baker.

(Photo by Amy Tharp) Progress Report; January 20, 2025 Not a whole lot of progress this month. I did write and post a Queer Sci Fi column https://www.queerscifi.com/jeff-baker-boogieman-in-lavender-all-that-we-can-do-january-11-2025/ about (among other things) how I sometimes don’t feel I’m doing a … Continue reading

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