Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest has relaunched their online extension. In this issue, we place the spotlight on Mary Robinette Kowal with an interview and her story “Horizontal Rain.” Apex Publications executive editor Jason B. Sizemore steps up to provide relaunch content with his pagan-based dark fantasy piece “Blue Lights.” I’m delighted to be […]
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Rob and I recorded Chapter 7 today. We started into Chapter 8, but I realized that because of travel I hadn’t spent enough time with the text and was stripping the meaning from the narrative. Nice. So, Rob trotted off to get us some lunch and I read the chapter aloud to get it more
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The apple does not fall far from the tree in my family. We tend to have such strongly recognizable stamps from generation to generation that one could accuse us of cloning. The point here? I went to watch my brother teach World Civ at the local college. He’s good at it, but he’s the kind
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Apex has released their next issue, which has my story “Locked In.” It looks like a good line up, huh? “The Sum of His Parts†– Kevin J. Anderson “The End of Crazy†– Katherine Sparrow “The Gunslinger of Chelem†– Lavie Tidhar “Locked In†– Mary Robinette Kowal “Projector†– Daniel LeMoal “At the
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While I’m posting free fiction, I’d also like to say why I generally don’t. I’ve been a puppeteer, professionally, since 1989. When I first started out, I did some freebies for exposure and you know what? I didn’t get a single gig from any of those. I have yet to see a venue that offered
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John Scalzi has posted the first chapter of The Android’s Dream on his website, with the following notice. Happy March 12! As you all undoubtedly know, March 12 is the day that Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles, which means, for a Coca-Cola fiend such as myself, it’s pretty much a national holiday. As you
Mental note: Do not have a voice lesson on the same day as booked to record a chapter of audio fiction. On the other hand, the vocal fatigue probably helped my male characters sound a little deeper. Actually, the voice lesson was interesting today. We were working on “Summertime” and at the end of it
Ready? Guess which upcoming item at Subterranean Online is the secret project I’ve been referring to. For two years, Subterranean magazine has brought you the absolute finest in science fiction, fantasy and horror, from names like Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Hill and Cherie Priest. Now Subterranean magazine is moving online —
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I got my contributor copy of Cosmos in the mail and it’s lovely. This marks two firsts for me; first full-size magazine and the first time my name appears on the cover. (It’s in the lower right corner) As promised in their guidelines, there’s a two page spread of art to go with my story,
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Early on, I talked about the importance of selecting the right piece for a reading. Some pieces of fiction naturally lend themselves to being read aloud, while others are meant to stay on the page. In John Scalzi’s The Sagan Diary, I ran smack into that difference. Scalzi asked me to read the preface, which
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Remember that audio gig that I was saying I was really enjoying recording? Now I can tell you about it. I was one of the six women that John Scalzi asked to record an audio version of The Sagan Diary. He has the recordings of each chapter of the The Sagan Diary up on Whatever,
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Hugo/Campbell Nomination Deadlines (DeepGenre) The deadline to submit nominations for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Best New Science Fiction Writer Award is not until March 3, 2007. Plenty of time. However… in order to nominate someone, you must have either been an attending or supporting member of last year’s WorldCon in
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Ooo! Ooo! Who wants to go with me to the Morgan Library & Museum to see the exhibit on Victorian Bestsellers? Although today’s public may think of the bestseller as a relatively recent development generated by modern mass marketing, many of the literary formulas and publishing techniques of the bestseller actually date to the nineteenth
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While we’re on the wayback machine, I thought I’d share something I just found in the process of packing the house. A fable I wrote when I was 14 or 15. There are some other short stories in this folder, but this one makes me laugh. I have no memory of writing it. Once upon
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Internet Review of Science Fiction reviewed our autumn issue of Shimmer. Many thanks to all of our authors and artists and hearty congratulations to Silvia Moreno-Garcia, whose story “King of Sand and Stormy Seas” got a recommendation from Lois Tilton. A man’s life comes full circle as he returns to his origins. When he was
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