Quick Updates for 2011-01-13
"Sympathy for Salieri" – SFWA member Lou Antonelli interviewed by author Tracy Morris: http://is.gd/kBvbc # SFWA member @vondanmcintyre's novelette "Little Faces" is a Book View Cafe ebook – http://is.gd/Gu2pP0 #
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Nebula Awards Interview: Eugie Foster by Charles Tan
I’ve never been inclined to play the “what genre is it?” game or to take part in the oftentimes bloodier “that’s not such-and-such genre!” debates. Genre lines are so arbitrary and, in many regards, subjective. Like, to me, horror is more contemporary in setting, mood, and character than dark fantasy, but at the same time, urban fantasies are essentially defined by their modern settings, and they tend to be quite dark, yet I don’t consider them horror.
The Mail I Get
Received in email this morning via Google Alerts: this press release from an outfit called 3L Publishing, announcing publication of a book called Vanity Circus: A Smart Girl’s Guide to Avoid Publishing Crap.
Quick Updates for 2011-01-11
Congratulations to SFWA member @paolobacigalupi whose YA novel SHIP BREAKER just won the Printz Award. http://is.gd/kvfd6 # Welcome to SFWA's newest Affiliate member, Laurie Mann, Worldcon Program Liaison for Renovation – World Science Fiction Convention 2011. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member @pattyjansen. Read one of her qualifying stories at Grantville Gazette. http://is.gd/kvvgl # […]
Angry Robot is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
The board of directors of SFWA unanimously voted to add Angry Robot to the list of SFWA qualifying markets.
Nebula Awards Interview: Christopher Barzak by Charles Tan
A teenager is inherently an outsider, because they’re in transition, unformed, changing quickly from childhood to adulthood. They’ve been given a lot of cultural freedom as a child, because they are children. You often hear people say, “They don’t understand, they’re just children,” and this is often an excuse for breaking some minor cultural prohibition.
Quick Updates for 2011-01-09
Member News for David Levine and Laura Anne Gilman.
Key Conditions for Reader Suspense:
Part 4 – Uncertainty
Surprise is one of the vital elements in story making precisely because it makes things unpredictable. It makes hope, fear, worry, and curiosity possible.
Quick Updates for 2011-01-08
SFWA member @LAGilman offers Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 1 http://j.mp/dSIMAD #
The Importance of Context (Part 1)
I’m not saying you shouldn’t self-publish if you want to (though I would urge you to do so on the basis of knowledge rather than hype), or that self-publishers can’t become successful (clearly, they can–something that has always been true, for every possible value of success). I’m just saying that it’s risky to assume that others’ success stories will apply to you.
