A Valentine’s Day Guest Post: Tentacle Sex
Doesn’t everyone just love cephalopods? I find them to be a fascinating example of a body plan radically different from our own, the closest thing to a truly alien large metazoan on our planet.
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Deadline for Claiming Cash Payment Under Google Book Search Settlement May Be Extended
Authors, publishers and Google have filed a stipulation asking the Court to extend the deadline for filing claims to receive an upfront payment — a “Cash Payment” — in the Google Book Search settlement.
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Quick Updates for 2011-02-13
Member News for Eugene Myers, Brit Mandelo, Karen Azinger, Steve Feldberg, Tony Pi, Yasmine Galenorn, Jennifer Jackson, Nancy Kress, and Jack Skillingstead.
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Part 9 – character draws 9-10
In my last two posts, I identified a number of things that make people and, therefore, characters interesting to us. In this post, I’ll present the last two draws and introduce the next condition for reader suspense.
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Guest Blog Post: Book Review — "The Street-Smart Writer"
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Today, author Marian Perera reviews a book I often recommend for writers who are interested in learning the basics of self-protection in the shark-infested waters of writing and publishing: The Street-Smart…
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Ten Terrific Resources for
Writing Space-Based Hard Science Fiction
I would like to share ten resources, more or less, that I think are really terrific when it comes to getting the science right. These will be biased toward my areas of expertise, and will span books, websites, and software. Old-fashioned books first.
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WSFA Award Announced
The Washington Science Fiction Association has established a literary award to honor the work done by small presses in promoting and preserving science fiction.
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Book Giveaway–The Arm of the Stone
One of the important negotiation points for life-of-copyright publishing contracts is including provisions in the termination clause that oblige the publisher to take the work out of print when sales or royalties drop below a minimum level.
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In Memoriam: Brian Jacques
British author Brian Jacques (b.June 15, 1939) died on February 5, 2011 following emergency surgery for an aortic aneurysm. Jacques published his juvenile novel Redwall, about a collection of anthropomorphic mice, badgers, voles, and other creatures, in 1986.
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Guest Post: Freeing the Statue from the Stone
All life is nurtured by death, and a story is defined not so much by what it is, but by what it is not. Our fiction cannot take on life unless we are willing destroy all of the beautiful possibilities but one: the best one.
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Part 8 – character draws 5-8
We cannot help but be interested in characters who are, do, or have things we want. In fact, this is one of the main draws of fiction–experiencing something wonderful or cool, even if it’s vicariously.
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BBC Announces International Playwriting Competition
BBC World Service, in partnership with the British Council, launches the 12th Annual Radio Playwriting Competition, which invites writers from around the world to submit a one-hour radio play on any subject.