We got a lovely review at Tangent Online for the Winter 2007 issue of Shimmer The Winter 2007 issue of Shimmer, edited by by Beth Wodzinski, is full of magic, love, poetic prose, and again, magic. Not the kind of magic you expect in traditional fantasy stories—spells and bewitchment—but the kind of magic that pulses […]
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My dear friends Chrissy and Spencer Ellsworth* have just delivered their first child. Spencer says she’s eight pounds, very pretty and somewhat purple. Mom and baby are happy and healthy, Spencer is a nervous wreck. Spencer had his laptop in the room while he and Chrissy were waiting through the thirteen hours of labor. Periodically
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I’m heading out to catch a train up to Seattle where I will be greeted by Chrissy “Great-With-Child” Ellsworth, one of Shimmer‘s very talented artists, and whisked off to the convention. I’m looking forward to hanging with her and Spencer and the other fine writerly folks I know. Some of whom I’ve only met online.
Today I got a box containing my copies of the Winter 2007 Shimmer. Or cover story Juana and the Dancing Bear, by n. a. bourke has a beautiful Sandro Castelli original to grace it. Also in this issue: Dario Ciriello – Dwell on Her Graciousness Amal El-Mohtar – Sparrow and Egg Michael Livingston – Catch
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You can read the full update at The Slush God Speaketh: but meanwhile, here’s the short form. Okay, so I’ve waded through most of the submissions now. I’ve still got 27 in my inbox that I haven’t read yet. Everything else has either been rejected or been set aside for further consideration (or possibly inexplicably
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Yeeeaaah, I know it’s March but the Winter issue will be out before the first day of spring. We just finished final proofing and I’m sending it to the printer tomorrow. Why are we behind this time? First there was the moving back from Iceland thing and now there’s the moving to New York thing.
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As if any of you writer-types read my blog and not The Slush God’s, but, just in case, here’s what Captain John Joseph Adams says about the slush pooling in the holds of Shimmer‘s pirate issue. Of course, I do have the exciting pirate filter, so you can read his comments in the piratical style
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If you are filling out your Hugo nomination form at the last minute, here’s a reminder that Shimmer is eligible for a semipro magazine nomination. I am eligible for a Campbell, but I’m in my first year of eligibility, so I’d like to put a plug in for a few folks who are in their
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If you’re working on your pirate story, today is your last day to submit it to Shimmer. Captain John Joseph Adams is all set to turn the canons on any latecomers.
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Need another reason to submit to the Shimmer pirate issue? I’ll give you two. James A. Owen, of Here, There be Dragons, has agreed to illustrate the entire issue. This will look hot. We’re doing a limited edition hard-cover version of the Pirate issue. This will look hotter The submission window closes on February 28th.
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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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Ahoy, me maties! Cap’n Adams decided that it were a good idear to give ye lot o’ scurvy dogs a wee bit more time to get yer stories in ta him. Bein’ the benevolent cap’n he is, he’s givin’ ye till February 28th ta submit to Shimmer. But not a moment longer, or he’ll keel-haul
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Sandro Castelli has created a stunning cover illustration to go with n. a. bourke’s story “Juana and the Dancing Bear.” Here’s the table of contents to give you a taste for the other stories inside Shimmer‘s Winter 2007 issue. Juana and the Dancing Bear by n. a. bourke Duets by Philip J. Lees Tom Cofferwillow
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Don’t forget that you only have two weeks until the end of Shimmer‘s Pirate Issue submission window. Send in your pirate stories by January 31st.