HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga) 2 2
Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 8
(date: 2024-09-22 16:58:17)
date: 2024-09-22, from: Locus Magazine
Clarkesworld 6/24
“Twenty-Four Hours” by H.H. Pak starts off the June issue of Clarkesworld on a high note. The story is beautiful and heartbreaking as a mother spends a final twenty-four hours with a programmed version of her recently deceased daughter in an effort to gain closure. The story does a wonderful job of portraying grief in its various stages and capturing the feeling of wanting to spend just a …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/clarkesworld-short-fiction-reviews-by-a-c-wise/
date: 2024-09-21, from: Locus Magazine
Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene 978-1-73856-170-4, £15.00, 448pp, tp) August 2024.
In March, Abigail Nussbaum, on her blog Asking the Wrong Questions, reviewed Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Jazz, one of my favourite novels of 2024. It’s a review that encapsulates everything magnificent about Nussbaum, a well-deserved Hugo winner. First, there’s the sheer artistry, the way the review is crafted like a mystery (fitting for a noirish novel), raising questions …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/track-changes-by-abigail-nussbaum-review-by-ian-mond/
date: 2024-09-20, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
When waiting until you’re ready means waiting forever.
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/218-the-time-is-right-now
date: 2024-09-20, 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 the operatic conflicts and power struggles of organized crime stories, what makes their anti-heroes so compelling, and why as far back as we can remember we always wanted to be a […] The post Featured Friday: Organized Crime first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/featured-friday-organized-crime
date: 2024-09-20, from: Locus Magazine
The Locus Bestsellers for May include top titles: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus by Dan Abnett (Black Library).
HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga) 2 2
Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 8
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/locus-bestsellers-september-4/
date: 2024-09-20, from: Locus Magazine
Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey 978-0-59372-312-8, $28.00, 384pp, hc) June 2024.
After so many great novels – Bird Box, Goblin, Black Mad Wheel, Daphne – perhaps the most impressive thing about Josh Malerman is that he seems to be getting better with each new novel. That’s certainly the case with Incidents Around the House, which is the author’s fastest, sharpest, creepiest novel to …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/gabino-iglesias-reviews-incidents-around-the-house-by-josh-malerman/
date: 2024-09-19, from: Locus Magazine
The Nota Bene Prize has announced its shortlist for 2024, including the following works of genre interest.
The Nota Bene Prize honors “thought-provoking, accessible and relatable reads that engage diverse topics.” The Prize is run by marketing agency Agile Ideas. The winner receives £1,500.
While you are here, please take a moment …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/nota-bene-prize-shortlist-announced/
date: 2024-09-19, from: Locus Magazine
In the newly released Summer 2024 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, publisher Gordon van Gelder explains that “Ongoing production problems have led us to skip the Spring issue and to switch to a quarterly schedule.”
He apologized to “disappointed readers” and assured subscribers that they would not be shorted any issues. “Thank you for bearing with us during this rough stretch.”
The magazine, edited by Sheree …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/fsf-goes-quarterly/
date: 2024-09-19, from: Locus Magazine
We’ve got this week’s top SF, fantasy, and horror new releases over on our YouTube channel! Give us a few minutes and find out the next addition to your TBR pile! Don’t forget to like and subscribe to support what we do!
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/new-books-releases-this-week-video-is-up-for-9-17-24/
date: 2024-09-19, from: Locus Magazine
A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor 978-1-250-24407-9, $27.99, 336pp, hc ) August 2024. Cover by Christina Mrozik.
A Sorceress Comes to Call is the latest novel from the pen of award-winning fantasy and horror writer T. Kingfisher, also known as Ursula Vernon. The humour and compassion of Kingfisher’s early work has borne comparison to Terry Pratchett, and in recent years she’s gone from strength to strength, with …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/liz-bourke-reviews-a-sorceress-comes-to-call-by-t-kingfisher/
date: 2024-09-18, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
What’s so special about special terms?
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/selling-a-script-but-holding-on-to
date: 2024-09-18, from: Locus Magazine
Mattel Creations has added a Barbie doll based on author Isabel Allende to their “Inspiring Women” line.
On the Mattel site, the doll is shown holding a miniature of Allende’s novel La casa de los espíritus [The House of the Spirits] (1982).
The doll is designed by Suim Noh and is available on the site for $35.
While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/isabel-allende-barbie-doll/
date: 2024-09-18, from: Locus Magazine
Children of Anguish and Anarchy, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt 978-1250171016, $22.99, 356pp, tp) June 2024.
As a reader new to Tomi Adeyemi, I hadn’t read the first two books in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, before approaching Children of Anguish and Anarchy. I don’t believe it affected my reading experience, because the novel, while part of a trilogy, clearly allows for new readers.
An eye-catching cover paves the …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/eugen-m-bacon-reviews-children-of-anguish-and-anarchy-by-tomi-adeyemi/
date: 2024-09-17, from: Locus Magazine
“Bridled” by Nadia Davids of South Africa won the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing.
The Prize honors works across Africa; finalist works will be included in this year’s Caine Prize Anthology. The judges for this year include Julianknxx, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Tumi Molekane, and Ayesha Harruna Attah.
For more information, see the Caine Prize website.
While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/davids-wins-2024-caine-prize/
date: 2024-09-17, from: Final Draft blog
There are many pathways in when it comes to making it as a writer. For Gina Yashere (Bob Hearts Abishola), that path was anything but direct. In fact, for the longest time she didn’t even think of being a writer. She was an engineer, but her love of comedy, when given the chance to thrive, won out, leading her to perform stand-up, write sketch comedy in the UK, and even become a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. To get through that door as a working writer in Hollywood, it literally came down to a fortunate Google search by a veteran show creator in need of a Nigerian woman writer that opened the way for her television career.
date: 2024-09-17, from: Locus Magazine
She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW 978-0-75641-895-3, $23.00, 176pp, hc) August 2024.
As with any good fantasy setting, Nnedi Okorafor’s 2010 World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death introduced us to a world that seemed far more expansive than what was contained in the text. Set in a far-future Sudan in which the Okeke people face brutal oppression by the Nuru, it combined hints of a bygone technological age with …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-she-who-knows-by-nnedi-okorafor/
date: 2024-09-17, from: John August blog
John and Craig revisit their legendary conversation with screenwriter-turned-psychotherapist Dennis Palumbo to discuss writer’s block, procrastination, partnerships and more. It’s a can’t-miss episode for aspiring writers and professionals alike. In our bonus segment for premium members, we travel back to episode 425 where John and Craig debate when to practice self care or tough love, […] The post Psychotherapy for Screenwriters (Encore) first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/psychotherapy-for-screenwriters-encore
date: 2024-09-17, from: Final Draft blog
“Sometimes I think [the show Pachinko] is almost too personal. I feel like every show, you look at it and say, ‘How much of myself is in this show?’ I did a show [The Whispers] about children who were communicating with an invisible alien force and somehow, I had to figure out how to make it part of me as well. We try to put ourselves in as much of our work as possible. But with this show, the tipping point almost fell in the other direction, where I felt so personally invested. I felt very much like this is my family’s story, as well. That responsibility sometimes felt burdensome. So many of the cast and crew have said that there’s a responsibility with this show that almost feels too much. But at the end of the day I think it’s a thing that made us work harder. I think the show is as good as it is because people cared,” says Pachinko showrunner and creator Soo Hugh about making the story personal to her.
In this episode, we speak to Hugh about the challenges of writing a show where characters speak in three languages, making the characters relatable to an American audience, and the responsibility of telling the stories of strong women over generations.
“In Korean families, we always have these jokes that everyone knows who’s running the house – your mother! I think it’s the strength of Korean women that have just carried us through,” she says.
We even ask Hugh about her work on one of my favorite shows The Terror, and what she thinks really happened to the real-life British crew on the Terror and Erebus ships that got stuck in the Artic ice. Her answer may surprise you.
To hear more, listen to the podcast.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/write-on-creator-showrunner-soo-hugh-pachinko
date: 2024-09-17, from: Locus Magazine
Brom: Evil in Me (Tor/Nightfire 9781250622013, $31.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/17/2024)
Horror novel. Ruby Tucker’s dreams of making it big in the Atlanta punk scene are gone — until she gets possessed through a cursed ring. The only way to exorcise it is to get hundreds of people to chant a spell, so she gets her band back together for one last song. Illustrated by the author in …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/new-books-17-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-17, from: Author’s Union blog
On September 12, a San Francisco-based law firm filed an antitrust lawsuit on behalf of UCLA professor Lucina Uddin against six prominent academic publishers and the trade association that represents them: Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers […]
date: 2024-09-16, from: Locus Magazine
Longlists for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced. The Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult, and Translated Literature categories include titles and authors of genre interest.
Fiction
Nonfiction
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/2024-national-book-award-longlists/
date: 2024-09-16, from: Locus Magazine
The BBC has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Young Writers’ Award:
Many of the shortlisted stories are speculative in nature,
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/2024-bbc-young-writers-award-shortlist/
date: 2024-09-16, from: Locus Magazine
The Sunburst Award, honoring the best in Canadian fantastic literature, will return after a four-year break to celebrate books published in 2024.
The Sunburst Award Society is delighted to announce the return of the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic after a four-year hiatus. The pause has allowed the volunteer-run Sunburst Award Society to restructure the award and offer increased prize money.
Since its inception in …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/sunburst-award-returns/
date: 2024-09-16, from: Locus Magazine
Five titles published on September 3rd debut on lists this week. Most prominent is Abigail Owen’s The Game Gods Play (Entangled: Red Tower Books), ranking #1 at New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Others include the US edition of Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible (Viking), on four print lists; Harper L. Woods’s The Cursed (Bramble), on three lists; and Tigest Girma’s YA Immortal Dark (Little, Brown), on three
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/weekly-bestsellers-16-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-16, from: Final Draft blog
A film trope is a thematic storytelling device that conveys an idea to
the audience.
If a trope is utilized enough over time, avid
filmgoers and critics will become aware of the device and will be able
to spot it when it appears. For example,
the Hero’s
Journey is a popular story template for movies, and within this
template are several common tropes: the protagonist has lost a parental
figure, they initially refuse a calling, they get initiated into a new
world by a mentor, and eventually they come into their own and become a
hero.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/using-film-tropes-in-screenwriting
date: 2024-09-16, from: Locus Magazine
JUSTIN CARLYLE KEY was born June 18, 1987, in Washington DC, where he grew up. He studied biology at Stanford University, attended medical school, and is now a practicing psychiatrist.
He began publishing genre fiction with “The Roller Coaster” in 2012, and his stories have appeared in F&SF, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Out There Screaming, and other magazines and anthologies. Notable stories include novelette “One Hand in the Coffin” (2020) an …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/justin-c-key-roller-coaster/
date: 2024-09-16, from: Locus Magazine
Daughter of the Merciful Deep, Leslye Penelope (Redhook 978-0-31637-822-2, $25.99, 416pp, hc) June 2024.
When she was 11, Jane Edwards was pulled into a murder investigation. Soon after, her older sister Grace’s sweetheart, Rob, was lynched and the rest of the Black residents of Earnestville were driven out of town by a white mob. As they fled, Jane nearly drowned, and although she was saved, her voice was lost. …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/alex-brown-reviews-daughter-of-the-merciful-deep-by-leslye-penelope/
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/