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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-02, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
It definitely let us breathe more easily in the TV version, knowing that the audio drama would be absolutely faithful.
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Final Draft blog
The volume and frequency of screenplay work we are expected to complete before we’re considered “serious” writers is almost unfair. After all, the conventions often expected of a professional screenplay can leave us feeling like we’re dodging a minefield of unoriginality. But maybe the answer to writing an inventive script lies in seeking innovative sources of inspiration.
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Locus Magazine
The longlist for the 2024 Branford Boase Award has been announced, and includes several titles of genre interest:
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-02, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
That’s nice.
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Locus Magazine
Simon & Schuster has compiled a list of the 100 most influential titles published during the company’s history, as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations. Several works of genre interest were listed, including:
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Locus Magazine
Clarion West has announced two new scholarships for 2024 students.
The Salam Award Scholarship, sponsored by The Salam Award, provides up to $1,000 for “a student of Pakistani origin, whether a Pakistani resident of any ethnicity, or a Pakistani-origin student anywhere in the world.”
The Malik Sharif-Fehmida Anwar Scholarship, sponsored by Clarion West instructor Usman T. Malik and his parents, is an annual scholarship providing up to $2,500 to fund …Read More
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Locus Magazine
When Howard taught at Clarion West, he’d tell students that they would only learn to write by writing, a lesson he also applied to fishing. We ended his first stint with two days of fly fishing on the nearby Cedar and Snoqualmie Rivers. Howard later wrote he had found Oz, prompting him in 1995 to move to the Oso General Store on the North Fork of the Stillaguamish, about an …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-02, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Simpsons Neil. He’s murderous.
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Locus Magazine
One of my favorite openings of any novel is that of Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, in which he describes navigating a bookstore filled with Books You Haven’t Read, including “Books You Needn’t Read”, “Books Read Even Before You Open Them Because They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written”, “Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read …Read More
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Locus Magazine
Bloom, Delilah S. Dawson (Titan Books 978-1-80336-575-6, $22.99, 208pp, hc) October 2023. Cover by Julia Lloyd.
I’ll admit, it’s been a while since I read anything by Delilah S. Dawson. I enjoyed her young adult speculative novels Hit and Servants of the Storm, comic book Ladycastle, her speculative romance stories, and her Weird West series The Shadow written under the pseudonym Lila Bowen. But for no reason …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-02, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I was quoting the fictional Staged universe me. (starts 18:03)
https://youtu.be/BzjwYbDN70A?si=KLrPXxP4XCx38SAI
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-02, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Has there?
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-02, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
For really good fanfic, the Apocryphal gospels are the tits. I cannot recommend the Gospel of the infancy of Christ highly enough. Everyone who offends baby Jesus dies….
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date: 2024-02-02, from: Locus Magazine
Cocktails & Chloroform, Kelley Armstrong (Subterranean Press 978-1-64524-161-4, $45.00, 136pp, hc) December 2023. Cover by Maurizio Manzieri.
Fans of Kelley Armstrong’s Rip Through Time series with protagonist Mallory Atkinson will be happy with her heroine’s latest exploits in the novella Cocktails & Chloroform. Trapped in the Victorian era after a mysterious circumstance found the homicide detective stuck in the body of Catriona Mitchell, a housemaid who was strangled …Read More
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date: 2024-02-01, from: Locus Magazine
The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Fourth Annual Collection, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox 978-1-88461-261-9, $18.99, 286pp, tp) October 2023. Cover by Maurizio Manzieri.
Discussions around the place of robots and artificial intelligence have grown in relevance and urgency over the last couple of years; AI is gaining ever more presence in our “real” lives rather than just in fiction. Allan Kaster’s fourth collection of stories about robots and …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-01, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Raise high the roof beams! Jack Womack is back!
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date: 2024-02-01, from: IF Database News
The 2023 IFDB Awards are open from Feb 1 to Feb 17! The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here.
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date: 2024-02-01, from: IF Database News
Overall CategoriesOutstanding Game of the Year 2023
Authors Choice for Best Game of 2023
Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2023
Outstanding Short Game of 2023
Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2023
Most Sequel-worthy game of 2023
Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2023
Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2023
Outstanding Retro Game of 2023
Language CategoriesOutstanding German Game of 2023
Outstanding Spanish Game of 2023
Outstanding French Game of 2023
Genre CategoriesOutstanding Childrens Game of 2023
Outstanding Fantasy Game of 2023
Outstanding Educational Game of 2023
Outstanding Historical Game of 2023
Outstanding Horror Game of 2023
Outstanding Humor Game of 2023
Outstanding Mystery Game of 2023
Outstanding Romance Game of 2023
Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2023
Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2023
Outstanding Surreal Game of 2023
System CategoriesOutstanding Inform 7 Game of 2023
Outstanding Twine Game of 2023
Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2023
Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2023
Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2023
Outstanding Game in a Custom System of 2023
Outstanding Moiki Game of 2023
Outstanding Renpy Game of 2023
Outstanding Adventuron Game of 2023
Outstanding Unity Game of 2023
Outstanding Bitsy Game of 2023
Outstanding Texture Game of 2023
Outstanding Gruescript Game of 2023
Outstanding ADRIFT Game of 2023
Outstanding Decker Game of 2023
Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System of 2023
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date: 2024-02-01, from: IF Database News
The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction.It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive Fiction Database, and take the form of polls. Votes are public but anonymized. Every IFDB member is eligible to vote, except for one special poll, the Authors Choice Poll. Eligibility to vote in the Authors Choice competition is determined by having a game linked to your IFDB profile (this can be found by editing a game page and use the ‘Link to Authors Profile’ feature. Authors added incorrectly to a game will not be permitted to vote (for instance, if someone associates a random game they didnt make to their account).Rules for discussion and voting
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above rule.
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poll for different games. A player voting for so many games that it
makes voting difficult for others (such as voting for every game from
the whole year) may have their votes removed, but only after
warning.
Eligibility
-For most polls, games are eligible if they are
listed on IFDB and have a publication date during 2023.
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appropriate system or genre listed on their IFDB page under the
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games. Outside of system-based polls, users can vote for any game they
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Results
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However, there will be a grace period of up to 3 days at the end to
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The community can propose new changes to awards or new organizers via public discussion. A public yes/no poll on intfiction with more than 50% voting yes can be used to add new organizers. Current organizers can also add in other organizers or successors, subject to a public veto.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-01, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
2 hours left on the Terry Pratchett humble bundle. All the ebooks for the cost of one hardback. You may want this…
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date: 2024-02-01, from: Author’s Union blog
We’ve been tracking for a few years the new copyright small claims court known as the Copyright Claims Board. My last update was in September when I posted a summary of a paper I wrote with Katie Fortney summarizing data about the first year of operations of the court (thanks entirely to Katie for doing […]
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date: 2024-02-01, from: Locus Magazine
Here’s a highlight from our 2023 Recommended Reading List: The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, out from Candlewick.
In this second vibrant fantasy from Maggie Tokuda-Hall, companion to her bestselling debut, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, a diverse resistance force fights to topple an empire in a story about freedom, identity, and decolonization.
By sinking a fleet of Imperial Warships, the Pirate Supreme …Read More
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date: 2024-02-01, from: Locus Magazine
Lightspeed 11/23 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/2/23, 11/16/23 GigaNotoSaurus 11/23 Flash Fiction Online 11/23 F&SF 11-12/23
The November Lightspeed shows a keen interest in storytelling forms, with stories framed as recipes, as reviews, as confessions, and with Regina Kanyu Wang’s “A Record of Lost Time” (translated by Rebecca F. Kuang) as a series of personal narratives surrounding a new technology called FastForward, which allows users to experience “sped …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-01, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I’m listening to this, knowing what I wrote but still feeling like I’m grasping at something half-understood but still beautiful.
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date: 2024-02-01, from: Locus Magazine
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List!
Another spin around the ole ball of fire and we’re back to our annual Recommended Reading List for 2023! Published in Locus magazine’s February 2024 issue, the list is put together by Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. We looked at 1,012 titles from 2023 in short fiction and long fiction. The …Read More
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date: 2024-02-01, from: Locus Magazine
The February 2024 issue of Locus is the annual Year in Review overview with essays, the Locus 2023 Recommended Reading List, and magazine and book summaries tracking the progress of the industry. The issue also features an interview with Martha Wells. News includes the complete 2023 Hugo voting, Tor.com rebranding as Reactor, the empanelment of the World Fantasy Awards judges, the Philip K. Dick Award nominees, Chesley Awards finalists, and …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-01, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Hugo Award news. https://locusmag.com/2024/01/mccarty-standlee-and-others-censured/
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-31, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Mike Ford – John M Ford – absolutely, would be on my list…
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-31, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Jack Vance at his best. Absolutely.
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date: 2024-01-31, from: Locus Magazine
Update: Nominations are currently offline. The site says:
We are aware of an issue with nominations. We are investigating and have taken the nominations system offline as a precaution. We are engaging with our UK software provider to deliver us with a solution and a full report. We share your concerns and will provide an update on our usual channels. We are grateful for your patience.
We will update this …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-31, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
A really interesting list, and not the usual click bait. I think.
https://www.standard.co.uk/shopping/esbest/books-dvds/best-fantasy-novels-of-all-time-b1135518.html
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date: 2024-01-31, from: Locus Magazine
Worldcon Intellectual Property (W.I.P.), the California non-profit that holds the service marks of the World Science Fiction Society including “Hugo Award,” issued this statement in a press release on January 31, 2024:
W.I.P. takes very seriously the recent complaints about the 2023 Hugo Award process and complaints about comments made by persons holding official positions in W.I.P. In connection with these concerns, W.I.P. announces the actions listed below. There may …Read More
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date: 2024-01-31, from: Locus Magazine
Skin Thief: Stories, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock Press 978-1-95208-672-4, $18.99, 186pp, tp) September 2023. Cover by Mia Minnis.
Anytime a book published by Neon Hemlock lands at my doorstep, I drop everything to read it. Every story is unique in content and powerful in its queerness. I never know what I’m going to get, except that it’s going to be good. When Brent Lambert’s A Necessary Chaos and Suzan …Read More
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date: 2024-01-31, from: Literature & a Latte blog
<p>The Scrivener Inspector shows you information about the files and folders in your Scrivener projects and lets you add information about them as well. The Inspector has five sections: Synopsis & Notes, Bookmarks, Metadata, Snapshots, and Comments & Footnotes. See <a href="https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/get-to-know-the-scrivener-inspector" target="_blank">Get to Know the Scrivener Inspector</a> to learn more about these.</p>The Metadata pane of the Scrivener Inspector is especially useful: it includes information such as the date a file was created and modified, whether it's included in Compile, and its section type for compiling. But you can also add custom metadata to this section of the Inspector, which can be helpful as you write and edit your projects. Here's how.
What is custom metadata?
Custom metadata is additional fields of information that you can add to items in your Scrivener project. Custom metadata applies to the project where you set it up, not to all your projects.
To see the custom metadata that you can use, display the Inspector if it's not visible (View > Show Inspector, or click the blue Inspector icon in the toolbar), then click the tag icon above the Inspector.
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<p>Click the disclosure triangle to the left of Custom Metadata to see any metadata that has already been created, or to create new metadata.</p>Click the … icon to edit custom metadata. Click + at the top right of the dialogue to create a new metadata item. Type a title for your metadata, then click the Type menu. There are four options: Text, Checkbox, List, and Date.
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The four types of custom metadata in ScrivenerThere are four types of custom metadata that you can use in Scrivener. Here are your options.
Text
Text metadata could contain anything you want. If you set up text metadata, then double-click below that section in the Inspector, you can enter any text you want. For example, if you want to enter the name of a reviewer, you can do so by double-clicking the text field in its section of the Inspector.
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<p><strong>Checkbox</strong></p>Checkboxes are what you expect. You can use checkboxes to mark when you've finished writing or revising individual chapters, or for any other time you wish to mark something as completed.
List
You can create a list, and then choose an item from that list in the Inspector. For example, you could choose point of view characters, locations, or any other repeating element that you wish to mark as you progress in your project. You could use a list for revision status, such as Draft 1, Draft 2, etc., for edit status, or to mark files in your project as reviewed by an external reviewer. You can also use labels for these purposes, but some people prefer using custom metadata because you can display it in different ways, such as in the Outliner (see below).
To set up list metadata options, use the bottom section of the Custom Metadata dialogue. Click + to add items to the list. You can also enter an item name when to use when nothing is chosen in the list if you want.
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<p>When you want to apply an item from this list to one or more items selected in the Binder, just click the list and select it.</p>Date
You can use custom metadata to indicate dates, which could be the date that you begin a file or complete it or when you send it to someone for review. You can also use this metadata to indicate dates in the timeline of your project; see Two Ways of Creating a Timeline for Your Scrivener Project to learn how to create a timeline with custom metadata. Note that the Date custom metadata gives you many formatting options for dates, including with times, and you can customize date and time formats that comply with Unicode standards.
To apply date metadata, click the calendar icon in the metadata section and choose a date, a time, or a date and time, depending on what you chose when setting up the metadata.
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<p>Here's how the Inspector looks with all four types of custom metadata:</p>
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<p>Custom metadata displays in the order you create it, but you can change this order by dragging items in the custom metadata dialogue. If you want to re-order or edit your custom metadata, click the ... icon at the right of the Custom Metadata header to return to that dialogue.</p>How to use custom metadata in the Outliner
While custom metadata always displays in the Inspector, you can also choose to display it in the Outliner. If you select the top-level folder in the Binder or any folder containing files, then choose View > Outline, you'll see these files in Outliner view. (See Plan Your Project with Scrivener’s Outliner for more on using the Outliner.) If you right-click in the Outliner header, a menu lets you choose which items get displayed in this view. Along with the standard items, such as Title, Label, Status, Keywords, etc., all your custom metadata displays at the bottom of this menu. For example, if you set up a list with your POV characters, and want to see that metadata in the Outliner, choose it when you right-click.
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<p>Custom metadata is a great way to get additional information about the elements of your Scrivener project, and tag items so you can see the metadata in the Outliner. Check this feature out; you may find that it's especially useful as you progress in a project and start looking at the bigger picture.</p>
<p>Kirk McElhearn is a <a href="https://kirkville.com" target="_blank">writer</a>, <a href="https://kirkville.com/podcasts/" target="_blank">podcaster</a>, and <a href="https://kirkville.com/kirks-photos-2/" target="_blank">photographer</a>. He is the author of <a href="https://www.literatureandlatte.com/store" target="_blank">Take Control of Scrivener</a>, and host of the podcast <a href="https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com" target="_blank">Write Now with Scrivener</a>.</p>
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-30, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Does anyone know Dominique Lichte?
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-30, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I just listened to this driving and it’s an absolute delight. Also I learned so much.
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date: 2024-01-30, from: Locus Magazine
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, Molly McGhee (Astra House 978-1662602115, $24.95, hc, 304pp) October 2023.
On the fourth page of Molly McGhee’s debut novel, the titular character Jonathan Abernathy is described as a young man drowning in financial debts. They primarily include ‘‘(1) a series of unpaid credit cards inherited after the death of his parents’’ and ’’(2) the legal culminations of the decisions he made as a 17-year-old …Read More
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date: 2024-01-30, from: Locus Magazine
Chen, Mike: A Quantum Love Story (Harlequin/Mira 9780778369509, $18.99, 384pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 01/30/2024)
SF time-loop romance novel. Neuroscientist Mariana Pineda, working at a top secret particle accelerator, starts looping in time, the same four days over and over, with a man who also remembers the loop — for a while.
Gibson, Lena: Switching Tracks: Out of the Trash (Black Rose Writing 9781685133641, $24.95, 359pp, formats: trade …Read More
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date: 2024-01-30, from: Final Draft blog
“Personally, I think writing is bleeding. It’s blood magic. It’s very hard to do,” says writer/director Jade Halley Bartlett of the new Southern gothic romance, Miller’s Girl.
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date: 2024-01-30, from: Final Draft blog
You need to have a multi-dimensional view of your script when screenwriting. You should know how everything is connected: scenes, characters, locations, etc. I refer to this as “seeing the big picture in screenwriting.”
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-30, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Newish. 2023.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-30, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
This is so cool. The first time Duncan and I met (in 2002) he told me he wanted to make a Rogue Trooper movie. Well done!!
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-30, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
She’s amazing.
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date: 2024-01-30, from: Locus Magazine
The longlist for the 2024 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, and includes The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova (Atlantic Books).
The annual Dylan Thomas prize, in partnership with Swansea University, awards £20,000 “to the best published or produced literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under.” This year’s judges are Namita Gokhale, Jon Gower, Seán Hewitt, Julia Wheeler, and Tice Cin.
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date: 2024-01-30, from: Locus Magazine
Fix, Grist‘s “solutions lab,” has announced three winners for their Imagine 2200 Short Story Contest. The contest asks authors “to envision a clean, just future… [and] create stories of life in that future.” The theme was “Climate fiction for future ancestors.”
The winners are:
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date: 2024-01-30, from: Locus Magazine
Fix, Grist‘s “solutions lab,” has announced three winners for their Imagine 2200 Short Story Contest. The contest asks authors “to envision a clean, just future… [and] create stories of life in that future.” The theme was “Climate fiction for future ancestors.”
The winners are:
The other …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-29, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
There is. And a fifth after that…
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date: 2024-01-29, from: Locus Magazine
Writer Sohini Basak has won the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant, given by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) “to assist writers of speculative literature (in fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction) in their research.” The $1,000 grant is intended to cover airfare, lodging, or other travel expenses.
For more information, see the SLF website.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-29, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
A terrific piece on what @dirkmaggs.bsky.social and I have been trying to do on the Sandman Audio project. https://blog.simplecast.com/sandmen-audio-in-the-age-of-netflix-exploring-the-sandman?fbclid=IwAR35nlTfeNkyxL2uB4gyKOdEJ6k9G_NhYcJGIYNuhiCpvRzNOL0umQfGvoY
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date: 2024-01-29, from: Author’s Union blog
Last month, Authors Alliance submitted detailed comments in response to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in support of our petition to expand the existing Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exemptions that enable text and data mining (TDM) as part of this year’s §1201 rulemaking cycle. To recap: our expansion petitions ask the Copyright […]
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date: 2024-01-29, from: Locus Magazine
Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Del Rey), second in her Emily Wilde series, debuts strongly on all four print lists compiled here.
Meanwhile, Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow, third in her Crescent City series, which has ranked on this page for nearly four months with Amazon pre-publication orders, is due for actual publication tomorrow.
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date: 2024-01-29, from: Locus Magazine
Horror writer Brian Lumley, 86, died January 2, 2024. Lumley was best known for his Mythos fiction, and for the bestselling Necroscope series.
Lumley was born December 2, 1937 in County Durham in England, and served in the military police in the British Army for 22 years before retiring in 1980 to write full time.
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date: 2024-01-29, from: Locus Magazine
Artist/writer Winona Nelson was born in 1983 and grew up in Duluth MN. She has drawn all her life and began painting digitally as a teenager. She studied classical realism and art for the entertainment industry at the Safehouse Atelier in San Francisco.
Winona is a queer, Two Spirit Indigenous person, and her fine art often focuses on the stories and history of her tribe, the Ojibwe of Minnesota, and …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-29, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
She’s brilliant.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-29, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I had not heard and I’m sad. Brian was a character, and he was immensely kind to me when I was a 22 year old baby journalist, trying to interview fantasy and horror writers.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-28, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I get fascinated by the videos that purport to reveal the secret story behind something that isn’t hard to follow. (Coraline’s plot is not tortuous or complex. It doesn’t make it a better story to claim all the adults in it are dead or whatever.)
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Really interesting and worth reading all the way through.
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date: 2024-01-28, from: Locus Magazine
Deirra Clyburn is the recipient of this year’s Working Class Writers Grant, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF). The $1,000 grant is given annually to assist working class, blue-collar, poor, and homeless writers who “have been historically underrepresented in speculative fiction, due to financial barriers which have made it much harder for them to have access to the writing world.”
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date: 2024-01-28, from: Locus Magazine
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede (Nightfire) has won CALIBA’s Octavia E. Butler award for best “Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror”.
California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA) honors “the most distinguished books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.”
The award was presented during a virtual awards ceremony on January 25, 2024. For more information, including the full list of awards, see their website.
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date: 2024-01-28, from: Locus Magazine
Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead, K.J. Parker (Orbit 978-0316668903, $18.99, 359pp, tp) October 2023.
Saevus Corax Captures the Castle, K.J. Parker (Orbit 978-0316668910, $18.99, 352pp, tp) November 2023.
Readers of K.J. Parker are by now familiar with his affable scoundrels – by turns digressive, philosophical, deeply cynical, petulant, and somehow both self-loathing and self-justifying in the same breath. Saevus Corax, the playwright-turned-battlefield-scavenger who is the protagonist of …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-01-28, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Since August I’ve been watching Doctor Who with an obsessed 8 year old. So far we have dived deeply into Doctors 9, 10 and 11, but he’s skipped 12 (don’t know why) and we are deep in 13 (which I had skipped much of).
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