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date: 2024-09-03, from: John August blog
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hey, this is John. Heads up that today’s episode has just a little bit of swearing in it. Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and you’re listening to Episode 648 of Scriptnotes. It’s a podcast about screenwriting and things that are […] The post Scriptnotes, Episode 648: Farewell Scenes, Transcript first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-648-farewell-scenes-transcript
date: 2024-09-03, from: John August blog
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August and you’re listening to Episode 647 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today I am so lucky to have two Scriptnotes producers in the studio with me. Megana […] The post Scriptnotes, Episode 647: Crafting Your Ending, Transcript first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-647-crafting-your-ending-transcript
date: 2024-09-03, from: Locus Magazine
Aiello, K.J.: The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell (ECW Press 9781770417083, $18.95, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 09/03/2024)
Non-fiction, a memoir mixed with research and cultural criticism showing ways popular fantasy can serve as a framework for understanding mental illness and notions of what is good or evil, sane or mad.
Buffini, Moira: Songlight (HarperCollins 9780063358218, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/new-books-3-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-03, from: Locus Magazine
Two debuts this week. Frances White’s Voyage of the Damned (Mira) is #22 on Publishers Weekly‘s fiction hardcover list. And Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth (Tor), fifth book in his Stormlight Archive series, appears on two Amazon lists with pre-publication orders; the book is due December 6th.
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 09.08 LAT 09.01 USAT 08.25 PW 09.02 Amz (09.02) UK: Amz UK (09.02) Canada: Amz.ca …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/weekly-bestsellers-2-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-03, from: Locus Magazine
khōréō 3.4
Due to an error in my logging stories for review, I accidentally left three stories out of my initial review of khōréō 3.4. The stories are reviewed here with apologies to the authors, editors, and publisher of the magazine.
“The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle” by L.M. Guay is a diamond of a story, with beautiful glittering surfaces and a sharp, cutting point. The Piranha Belle of …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/a-c-wise-reviews-short-fiction-khoreo-2/
date: 2024-09-03, from: John August blog
John and Craig welcome back Ryan Reynolds for an in-depth look at his creative process bringing the character of Deadpool to the screen. As co-writer, producer and star of the Deadpool franchise, Ryan leads us through his first introduction to the character, the rough journey getting to greenlight, and the challenges presented by an often-faceless […] The post Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/deadpool-with-ryan-reynolds
date: 2024-09-03, from: Author’s Union blog
Over the past year, two dozen AI-related lawsuits and their myriad infringement claims have been winding their way through the court system. None have yet reached a jury trial. While we all anxiously await court rulings that can inform our future interaction with generative AI models, in the past few weeks, we are suddenly flooded […]
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/09/03/the-ai-copyright-hype-legal-claims-that-didnt-hold-up/
date: 2024-09-02, from: Locus Magazine
There are many ways to cleave the views of the political right from the political left, but none is so science fictional as the right’s confidence in the role of individual self-discipline on one’s life chances. Dip into any political fight about crime and poverty and you’re sure to turn up someone confidently asserting that these social ills are rooted in impatience. Poverty, we’re told, is rooted in an unwillingness …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/cory-doctorow-marshmallow-longtermism/
date: 2024-09-02, from: Locus Magazine
Gogmagog, Jeff Noon & Steve Beard (Angry Robot 978-1-91520-282-6, $18.99, 353pp, tp) February 2024.
Gogmagog is the first novel I’ve read by Jeff Noon since the publication of Nyphomation in 1997. The books he wrote immediately after his Vurt phase – Needle in the Groove and Falling Out of Cars – didn’t appeal to twenty-something Ian (though Falling Out of Cars looks right up the alley of fifty-something Ian). …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/ian-mond-reviews-gogmagog-by-jeff-noon-steve-beard/
date: 2024-09-01, from: Locus Magazine
A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar Straus Giroux 978-0-374-38940-6, hc, 336 pp) February 2024. Cover by Valentina Remenar.
Hafsah Faizal has written a banger of a caper novel with A Tempest of Tea. Her tale of thieves, forgery, and political malfeasance set in the town of White Roaring takes readers on a ride with twists and turns they can never expect. Reminiscent of 19th-century London, White Roaring …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/colleen-mondor-reviews-a-tempest-of-tea-by-hafsah-faizal/
date: 2024-09-01, from: IF Competition Blog
2024 IFComp Logo, by Lauren Davies
We’re glad you’re here. If this is your first time joining us, welcome! If you’re already familiar with us, welcome back! Either way, we hope you have a great time and enjoy exploring some of the over seventy new games we have for you this year.
What’s next?
We would love to expand the number of judges! You can help!
Talk about the competition on social media, and encourage others to check out all these new games. Consider playing with a friend or family member who is new to interactive fiction, talk about the games together, and encourage them to vote as well. Thanks!
We will do a post-competition survey to capture your ideas for improving the competition in the future, so if you have thoughts about improvements, please watch for the survey in October.
Email us at ifcomp@ifcomp.org if you have any questions.
Thank you in advance for judging!
—Jacqueline Ashwell, September 2024
https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/760428725197242368
date: 2024-09-01, from: Locus Magazine
The September 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Justin C. Key and a spotlight on artist Micaela Alcaino. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2025. News covers 2024 Hugo Awards winners, the World Fantasy Awards ballot, Dragon Awards finalists, SFWA resignations, SF&F Hall of Fame inductees Okorafor and Griffith, MacInnes’s Clarke win, additional Gaiman allegations, the Galaxy magazine revival, and …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/issue-764-table-of-contents-september-2024/