The irony here is that I wasn’t going to post about the Sanders rejection letter ((For those of you who haven’t been following this, the content of the letter contains offensive, bigoted language. )) at all because everything that I would have said had already been covered, but a conversation at lunch today has changed […]
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Jon Armstrong continues his series of interviews with Campbell nominees on If You’re Just Joining Us David Louis Edelman is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and web programmer. His first book, Infoquake, was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel and named Barnes & Noble’s Top SF Novel of 2006. His latest
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In a moment of personal triumph, I’ve just managed to get my 14 year old nephew to give me a story critique ala OSC’s wise reader model. He went through my revision of “American Changeling” and let me know what he found dull, unbelievable, or didn’t get. And which bits he thought were cool. Score!
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Jon Armstrong has an interview with Joe Abercrombie. It’s a great chance to listen to two of my fellow Campbell Nominees. Joe Abercrombie is the author of an trilogy of epic fantasy novels based around the misadventures of the thinking man’s barbarian, Logen Ninefingers. Just a reminder, votes for the Hugos and the Campbell award
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I finished this story tonight. It’s 1800 words of Icelandic ghost story. It’s in a password protected post, but it’s the usual password. Don’t know what that is? Drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. And here’s the teaser. In the lee of the Bægisa farm house, Guðrun watched the wind blowing through the
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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My friend, Maggie, is at Clarion West this year. She just emailed me to ask me to pass this post on. This morning someone came into the Clarion West house where we’re staying and stole four laptops, some bags, clothing, and possibly other items. Of course, these are our lives, especially right now. We are
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I have to say, hitting the word “END” on a manuscript is especially satisfying. Particularly when it’s a full three days before I thought I would. I just sent it off to my uber-agent and we’ll see what she says. ((AFTER the weekend, ’cause it’s a holiday, people.)) One of the things we talked about
Ekaterina Sedia has a new book coming out at the end of July. All the advance buzz makes Alchemy of Stone sound as if it will be as exciting, but totally different from The Secret History of Moscow. To spread the word, Matt Staggs has started this interview meme. The rules are simple. If you
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Oh, God. Why? Dressed in a simple white chemise, stitched with a hint of gold at the bosom, the Faerie Queen made a symphony of white and gold. White and gold, huh? You don’t say. The Faerie Queen, on a dais across the room, rose from the simple wood chair in which she sat talking
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Lois Tilton at IRoSF reviewed Clarkesworld, which includes “Clockwork Chickadee.” The chickadee hatches a plot with the live mouse, but it’s hard to believe that the sparrow would have been so foolish as to fall for their trick. I don’t think the chickadee is very nice. Hee hee. I don’t think the chickadee is very
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Scott M. Sandridge at The Fix reviewed Clarkesworld Magazine, #21, which included my story “Clockwork Chickadee.” …don’t let the surface innocence of the story fool you. Kowal delves into shades of gray and exposes the grayness in a fairy-tale style trapping often used (at least in modern times) to compare the usual black-and-white view of
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I read all my manuscripts out loud. It’s not just spelling errors or missing words that I’m looking for. It’s things like this. Cassie looked ahead, expecting to see the Queen’s Court, but the road through the forest still wove through the trees. No kidding. Really? The forest had trees in it? Wow. Maybe I
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The Nebula Awards Website is launching soon. (And it is gorgeous.) The website will function as a repository for information about the Nebulas and a showcase for the Weekends. Our target audiences are writers of both SFWA and non-SFWA memberships, readers, and of course, bookstores and librarians. Among the regular features are interviews with Nebula
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The workshop officially starts tomorrow. Today, a friend of mine came in and helped me set up — wait. Let me back up. When I got in last night, I discovered that my parents had already done everything. Beds were made, conference tables were set up in the workshop room. I mean… really. So my
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