Rob is in the other room writing a synopsis of Shades of Milk and Honey. I hate writing them but gotta have one and he is excellent. He just called out, “Hey! There’s light careening in your novel.” I wandered in to kiss him on top of his head. “That’s there for you.” See, when […]
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Rich Horton has commented on the preliminary Nebula ballot. Including this, about the short story selection. Given the stories listed, my choices come down to “Always” and “For Solo Cello, Op. 12”, both of which are in my SF Best of the Year. I think those two stories are outstanding (and I’m delighted to see
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Here it is folks, the official preliminary Nebula Ballot. Next step. The members of SFWA will pick their top five favorites in each category. Short Stories — 7 Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse – Duncan, Andy (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07) Titanium Mike Saves the Day
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I have decided not to be embarrassed about admitting, straight out, that I want to be nominated for the Campbell Award. I mean, really, who wouldn’t? Do I think I stand any chance of winning? Ah ha! It is to laugh. I think it is far more likely that it will go to Scott Lynch
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I slept through the night last night! Remember that cold I mentioned getting, over a week ago? Yeah. My niece gave me the gift that kept on giving. I tend not to blog about illness and injury unless it’s amusing or interesting. A week of hearing me complain about getting up every night to clear
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I think I’ve just had an epiphany about the writers who are clearly writing SF but say, “I don’t write SF.” Allow me to explain. My last couple of sales have been stories which can be called horror to varying degrees. Now if you ask me what I’ve written, I’ll tell you that I write
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Horror World Reviews covered Gratia Placenti, from Apex Digest, with what has to be the best review of any project of which I’ve had the pleasure to be a part. The final story in the book, Mary Robinette Kowal’s Tomorrow And Tomorrow is yet another strong tale, concerning both a mother’s love and a husband’s
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A draft of the preliminary Nebula ballot is up for review in the SFWA members area. For Solo Cello, op. 12 is on there with six other stories. I literally squealed. Not just a squee, a full-out squeal of delight. Once they post the official preliminary ballot, I’ll share it here, because a couple of
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Okay… maybe there are better ways than Chaucer’d Dr. Seuss to start out the New Year, but not by much. HorrorScope did a review of Horror in 2007 To see out the death of 2007, HorrorScope assembled a team of experts within the field of horror and dark fantasy to compile an experts’ choice recommended
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All the good SFWA boys and girls seem to have dutifully posted about the pending close of the Nebula preliminary ballot on December 31. On the off-chance that you are a SFWA active member and haven’t recommended any fiction yet, I would like to recommend a simple strategy. My opinion on the Nebulas is that
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Click through, and if you don’t just faint from sheer longing to be in one of these libraries then you clearly aren’t a reader. Or you are already in one and jealous-making.
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I suppose that I should be reporting that we made it safely to Chattanooga, which we did. However. This email was much more exciting. I’m contacting you to inform you that Rich Horton has selected one of your stories, “For Solo Cello, Op. 12,” for Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, scheduled for February
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Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth is doing year end summaries. Of Apex, he says: The strongest stories this year were probably Geoffrey Girard’s multi-part Cain xp11 (not for the squeamish) and Mary Robinette Kowal’s Horizontal Rain. I’m stunned. It’s not even a story that was in the magazine; it was
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A friend of mine just started a new business, AnthologyBuilder, which is the type of brilliant idea that makes you wonder why no one else had done it yet. It’s like iTunes for short fiction. You get to pick the stories you want for a custom print anthology. As a reader, I love the idea
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