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date: 2024-09-15, from: Locus Magazine
Hexagon 6/24 Fusion Fragment 6/24 Diabolical Plots 6/24 GigaNotoSaurus 6/24
The latest issue of Hexagon is devoted to stories focused on climate change and climate resilience – people coming together to push back against the forces that have led to ecological and societal disaster and trying to walk humanity back from the brink of ruin. As in Madi Haab’s “Heat Devils”, which features brisk action as two …Read More
date: 2024-09-15, from: Locus Magazine
REBECCA YARROS’s Fourth Wing (Red Tower) won in the International Book of the Year category at the TikTok Book Awards, held July 25, 2024 in London. Winners were voted on by the #BookTok community.
’PEMI AGUDA’s “Breastmilk” (One Story 5/27/21) is a finalist for the £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and announced September 17, 2024.
KATHRYN …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/people-publishing-roundup-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-14, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
Do we know what kind of story we’re in, and will it matter?
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/217-were-not-using-the-z-word
date: 2024-09-14, from: Locus Magazine
Mouth, Puloma Ghosh (Astra House 978-1-66260-247-4, $26.00, 224pp, hc) June 2024.
Reading Puloma Ghosh’s debut collection, Mouth, brought me back to the pandemic and the months spent in lockdown. To be clear, not one of the eleven stories in the book takes place during or refers to COVID, but isolation and loneliness are so central to Ghosh’s work, her protagonist’s aching for intimacy, that my thoughts were cast …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/ian-mond-reviews-mouth-by-puloma-ghosh/
date: 2024-09-14, from: Locus Magazine
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https://locusmag.com/2024/09/the-top-new-sff-books-for-the-week-of-9-10-24/
date: 2024-09-14, from: Locus Magazine
Tim Burton returns to direct Beetlejuice 2 (2024), also known as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, in this wickedly wild sequel that takes on the 1988 classic, starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Jenna Ortega. Since so many remakes and sequels this year have fallen flat, despite media buzz and excitement, it was easy to be skeptical about this film. Could it live up to the original? With Tim Burton, most of …Read More
date: 2024-09-13, from: John August blog
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we look at TV series set long ago and the many ways writers can use period settings to elevate their storytelling. Our collection includes: Bridgerton – “Diamond of the First Water” Chernobyl – “1:23:45” […] The post Featured Friday: Period Television first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/featured-friday-period-television
date: 2024-09-13, from: Final Draft blog
HBO’s Industry has quickly become one of the best streaming shows, filling the void left behind by Succession. Now in its third season, the series continues to evolve from Season 2, with characters talking more business and making morally questionable decisions that create palpable drama, hooking the audience.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/how-to-write-a-business-centered-drama-like-industry
date: 2024-09-13, from: Locus Magazine
We Mostly Come Out at Night, Rob Costello, ed. (Running Press 978-0-76248-319-8, $18.99, 384pp, hc) May 2024.
We Mostly Come Out at Night, a new dark fantasy YA anthology, looks at the scarier side of queerness. The anthology opens with editor Rob Costello’s powerful introductory essay about queerness and its relationship to monstrousness, how we as a society and as individuals create monsters to reflect our fears and …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/alex-brown-reviews-we-mostly-come-out-at-night-edited-by-rob-costello/
date: 2024-09-12, from: Locus Magazine
How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive, Craig DiLouie (Redhook 978-0-31656-931-6, $19.99, 400pp, ppb) June 2024.
Funny horror is hard to do right, but Craig DiLouie delivers plenty of it in How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive. At once a send up of the movie industry, a brutal horror novel where a lot of people die in horrible ways, and an exploration of art and …Read More
date: 2024-09-11, from: Locus Magazine
The six-title shortlist for this year’s Mo Siewcharran Prize has been announced. The award “aims to nurture talent from under-represented backgrounds writing in English.”
This year’s submission call was for YA and adult fantasy novels. Shortlisted entries include:
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/2024-mo-siewcharran-prize-shortlist/
date: 2024-09-11, from: Locus Magazine
C Stuart Hardwick is taking over as contest director for the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. Hardwick replaces William Ledbetter, who served as director for the past 18 years.
Hardwick said, “In this competition, Bill [Ledbetter] and Toni Weisskopf have created something of real and lasting value to the industry, and I’m honored and excited to have a part in carrying on its legacy.”
The contest will open for …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/hardwick-named-new-baen-contest-director/
date: 2024-09-11, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
Clashes, feuds, and constructive criticism.
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/writerdirector-disagreements
date: 2024-09-11, from: Final Draft blog
“I think what Tim [Burton] does is he’s always trying to simplify. That’s the essence of a classic filmmaker. People think he’s wild and crazy and does all these things. His movies are brilliantly composed frames and he’s always looking for simplicity. All of his big movies, they’re really family dramas dressed up in whatever genre he’s in. That’s really what they are. And I think people think he’s always strange and weird and likes dark things, but no! It’s a classic story with good drama. And then he brings his sensibility to it,” says about the biggest lesson Al Gough has learned working with director Tim Burton on both the TV show Wednesday and the new film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/write-on-beetlejuice-beetlejuice-writers-al-gough-and-miles-millar
date: 2024-09-11, from: Locus Magazine
Something Kindred, Ciera Burch (Farrar Straus Giroux 978-0-374-38913-0, $19.99, hc, 284pp) March 2024.
Seventeen-year-old Jericka is 100% not having, at all, the summer she was promised. Stuck in her mother’s hometown of Coldwater, Maryland, Jericka is supposed to be visiting all the beaches in New Jersey with her best friend, figuring out if she and her boyfriend are really as serious as they seem to be and taking pictures …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/colleen-mondor-reviews-something-kindred-by-ciera-burch/
date: 2024-09-10, from: John August blog
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August. Craig Mazin: My name is Craig Mazin. John: This is Episode 651 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, we’ll do a live edit of […] The post Scriptnotes, Episode 651: The Live Edit, Transcript first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-651-the-live-edit-transcript
date: 2024-09-10, 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 650 – wow – of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, how do you rewrite without overwriting. We’ll discuss tips […] The post Scriptnotes, Episode 650: Overwritten, Transcript first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-650-overwritten-transcript
date: 2024-09-10, from: Locus Magazine
Saga Press, the SF/F imprint of Simon & Schuster (S&S), has announced several promotions and other changes.
Tim O’Connell has become vice president and publisher of Saga, moving from his role as vice president and editorial director of fiction at S&S, though he will continue to acquire for the latter. He will report to S&S VP and publisher Sean Manning.
Joe Monti has been promoted to vice president, associate publisher, …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/changes-at-saga/
date: 2024-09-10, from: Final Draft blog
There’s a common piece of advice for writers, and that’s to always be
writing. Showrunner Joe Henderson (Lucifer) got a jump start on
those words of wisdom as he was already writing stories in second grade,
never knowing where those stories, and that creativity, would take him.
Henderson recalls:
“I was reading Dungeons and Dragons books
and would write stories that either took place in that world or extended
it out. I moved on to Star Wars novels and would write my versions of
that. I was just always writing.”
date: 2024-09-10, from: Locus Magazine
Allen, Samantha: Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet (Zando 9781638931539, $18, 288pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 09/10/2024)
Ghost romance novel. An actor’s ghost with just enough energy to communicate via kitchen speaker wants Adam Gallagher to help write his autobiography before his body is found crushed by an avalanche. They have to get it done within one month, and ghost and ghostwriter don’t entirely agree on their visions for the …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/new-books-10-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-10, from: Locus Magazine
Escape Pod 5/16/24 Strange Horizons 5/20/24, 5/27/24, 6/10/24, 6/17/24 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/30/24, 6/13/24
Rocky Cornelius returns to Escape Pod with Andrew Dana Hudson’s May story, “The Concept Shoppe: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy”. Having left uncool hunting behind her, Rocky is a creative consultant for Primal, a new store that’s selling the postapocalypse experience in a future that feels in many ways postapocalyptic, right down to the …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/charles-payseur-reviews-short-fiction-3/
date: 2024-09-10, from: John August blog
John and Craig open the mailbag to answer a swath of listener questions that make Craig’s blood boil. They offer insights and umbrage on when you can turn down projects early in your career, picking the right day job, maintaining visibility when you’re taken off a project, the next steps after a successful short, when […] The post Advice Show first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/advice-show
date: 2024-09-09, from: Locus Magazine
The preliminary ballot for the 2024 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF has been announced.
Best Novel
Best Novella or Novelette
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/2024-ditmar-awards-preliminary-ballot/
date: 2024-09-09, from: Locus Magazine
Sarah Rees Brennan’s Long Live Evil (Orbit), first in the Time of Iron series, debuts at #15 on the USA Today list in its US trade paperback edition. The Orbit UK edition, in hardcover, was published earlier in August.
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 09.15 LAT 09.08 USAT 09.04 PW 09.09 Amz (09.09) UK: Amz UK (09.09) Canada: Amz.ca (09.09)
Items on list -x- number of lists …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/weekly-bestsellers-9-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-09, from: Locus Magazine
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE was born May 5, 1979 in Seattle WA, and grew up moving between her parents in Seattle and Sacramento CA. She attended high school in Davis CA, graduating at age 15 and attending UC San Diego, where she took a degree in Classical Studies. She attended grad school at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but quit to move overseas. She lived near Yokohama, Japan for just over …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/catherynne-m-valente-get-to-the-future/
date: 2024-09-09, from: Locus Magazine
Analog 5-6/24
The May/June 2024 issue of Analog opens with “Uncle Roy’s Computer Repairs and Used Robot Parts” by Martin L. Shoemaker, a charming novella about a man who retires with his wife to her hometown and starts his own computer repair business only to find himself accidentally in a bitter rivalry with the town’s resident “whiz kid.” It’s a fun story that does a good job of capturing …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/a-c-wise-reviews-short-fiction-analog-3/
date: 2024-09-09, from: Final Draft blog
As I’ve written in various articles, rewriting your script is a large part of a screenwriter’s life.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/starred-draft-vs-clean-draft-the-best-way-to-present-a-revised-script
date: 2024-09-08, from: Locus Magazine
Archangels of Funk, Andrea Hairston (Tordotcom 978-1-25080-728-1, $29.99, 384pp, hc) July 2024.
Andrea Hairston’s Archangels of Funk forced me to rewire my brain chemistry. The book contains a stew of dense but rewarding elements as people, dogs, spirits, and bots dot a literary canvas unlike anything I’ve read. It’s a cozy dystopia that demands attention, demands that you think on its wavelength. The book largely contains good but flawed …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/sean-dowie-reviews-archangels-of-funk-by-andrea-hairston/
date: 2024-09-08, from: Locus Magazine
Choice of Games published Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ghost and the Golem, a “450,000-word Jewish historical fantasy interactive fiction,” in August 2024. Rosenbaum calls it “kind of a magnum opus,” and explains, “Unlike a game which is graphics and fight mechanics with some story crammed in here and there, these games are purely a bunch of fictional narrative words: you do make choices, but the output, after having made those choices, …Read More