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date: 2024-10-17, from: Final Draft blog
Happy Halloween! ‘Tis the season for falling leaves and pumpkin-flavored lattes. It’s also the season for screenwriters to ponder such issues as ‘are machetes passé?’ and the relative merits of fast versus slow zombie pacing.
In short, it’s horror movie writing season!
https://blog.finaldraft.com/killer-lines-dialogue-can-take-horror-scripts-good-great
date: 2024-10-17, from: Locus Magazine
We’re back with another week of the top new SF, Fantasy, and Horror releases of 10/15/2024, come check it out on the Locus YouTube channel! If you want to stay up-to-date, and show your support for what we do, why not subscribe? And if you’d like to find the titles, we have them all up at our Bookshop.org page: Bookshop.org/shop/locusmag!
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/weekly-youtube-book-video-for-10-15-2024-is-up/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Final Draft blog
It’s likely that when Saturday Night Live premiered on October 11, 1975, even the show’s creator didn’t see it lasting 50 years. The chaotic start of the ‘not ready for prime time’ players was filled with uncertainty, confusion, hostility and a revolutionary spirit. In the new film Saturday Night written by Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman, the audience gets a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 90 minutes leading up to the show’s premiere.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/saturday-night-and-how-to-write-a-historical-drama
date: 2024-10-17, from: Locus Magazine
Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD 978-0-374-60713-5, $28.00, 304pp, hc) October 2024.
“Everyone believes in haunted houses,” says Ezri, the narrator of Rivers Solomon’s Model Home, and who’s to argue? Based on the resurgence of the theme in the past couple of years alone, it’s proved to be not only a durable framework for supernatural shenanigans, but a kind of magical mirror for all sorts of issues ranging from …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/model-home-by-rivers-solomon-review-by-gary-k-wolfe/
date: 2024-10-16, from: Locus Magazine
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) sent a message to members on October 15, 2024, announcing that Russell Davis is being brought in for “a transitional leadership position.” Interim President Anthony W. Eichenlaub said
Recent resignations prove to us how much we’ve come to depend on our staff while also highlighting flaws in the structure of our organization. SFWA must change as it rebuilds… [Davis] knows SFWA well, …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/russell-davis-joins-sfwa-leadership/
date: 2024-10-16, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
Keep telling yourself it’s just the house settling.
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/house-sitting-for-ghosts
date: 2024-10-16, from: Final Draft blog
The Horror/Thriller genre always thrives in the screenplay marketplace. This is largely because people enjoy being scared. It’s not unlike people enjoying a roller-coaster or haunted hayride. There’s a primal instinct — both exciting and cathartic in nature — that’s triggered when we’re scared, and that’s one of the reasons why people love thrillers and horror movies.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/how-to-scare-your-reader
date: 2024-10-16, from: Locus Magazine
Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom 978-1-250-62543-4, $29.99, 432pp, hc) August 2024. Cover art by Greg Ruth.
Kerstin Hall writes sharp, fierce stories with precise and visceral prose, and with worldbuilding that possesses a keen sense for the weird, the haunting, the marvellous, and the twistedly strange. Asunder is only her fourth long-form work, her second novel (after 2021’s Star Eater and the novella duo The Border Keeper and Second Spear …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/asunder-by-kerstin-hall-review-by-liz-bourke/
date: 2024-10-16, from: Margaret Atwoods Substack
Multiple-Choice Uproars: more blather about the U.S. Election.
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/the-oracle-mouths-off-part-2
date: 2024-10-16, from: Author’s Union blog
Sara Silverman is the author of The Bedwetter, a comedy memoir. Richard Kadrey wrote Sandman Slim, a fantasy novel series. Christopher Golden, a supernatural thriller titled Ararat. These authors might not seem to have much in common with an academic author who writes in history, physics, or chemistry. Or a journalist. Or a poet. Or, […]
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/10/16/who-represents-you-in-the-ai-copyright-lawsuits/
date: 2024-10-16, from: Literature & a Latte blog
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/how-to-describe-settings-in-fiction
date: 2024-10-15, from: Locus Magazine
Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced a short story writing contest with separate categories for adult and young adult writers.
The winners in each category will be recognized at the convention, receive free memberships to the convention, and have their stories published in an upcoming anthology by Grim Oak Press. Stories must draw inspiration from our Worldcon theme: Building Yesterday’s Future – For Everyone.
The theme “was selected to invoke nostalgia
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/seattle-worldcon-story-contest/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Final Draft blog
For over two decades, Lee Jessup has been coaching the careers of both emerging and professional screenwriters with the goal of helping them take their career to the next level. You may also know that Jessup has been mentoring winners of the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition for over a decade, so she knows a thing or two about emerging writers. Given all her savvy and experience in the industry, we thought we’d check in with her to pinpoint the latest trends in the ever-evolving business of screenwriting.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/5-trends-in-the-screenwriting-marketplace-every-screenwriter-should-know
date: 2024-10-15, from: John August blog
Why is screenwriting so difficult, even for the smartest people? John and Craig look at the relationship between intelligence and wisdom, the kinds of problems writers attempt to solve, and the unmeasurable skills that screenwriters need to succeed. Then it’s another round of the Three Page Challenge, where they give their honest feedback on three […] The post Screenwriting is a Poorly Defined Problem first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/screenwriting-is-a-poorly-defined-problem
date: 2024-10-15, from: Locus Magazine
Baxter, Stephen: Fortress Sol (Orion UK/Gollancz 9781399614610, $14.99, 480pp, formats: ebook, audio, 10/17/2024)
SF novel. Rab’s mother, in order to save him from a life in the hellish mines of Mercury, cut off his hand when he was a baby. Decades later, Rab works on the Mask, the structure that hides the Solar System from aliens, when a spaceship from a long-forgotten colony approaches, threatening that security.
Blake, Olivie: …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/new-books-15-october-2024/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Locus Magazine
VIDA CRUZ-BORJA is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
SCOTT WESTERFELD & JUSTINE LARBALESTIER sold adult novel The Mortons – “The Secret History meets The Sopranos meets Saltburn,” – and a second book to Jeramie Orton at Pamela Dorman Books at auction via Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management. UK rights sold to Rosa Schierenberg at Viking UK in a …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/people-publishing-roundup-october-2024/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Locus Magazine
The Jaguar Mask, Michael J. DeLuca (Stelliform 978-1-77809-260-2, 348pp, $19.00, tp) August 2024. Cover by Julia Louise Pereira.
The story of The Jaguar Mask does not start on the first page, in which the artist Cristina Ramos relives the murder of her mother in a garish vision – four tattooed mareros with machine pistols, haloed by angels of death, gunning down two government employees, a foreign lobbyist, and Eufemia …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/the-jaguar-mask-by-michael-j-deluca-review-by-niall-harrison/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Locus Magazine
The winners of the 2024 Prix Utopiales and the 2024 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse have been announced. The prizes recognize work in the fantastic genres published or translated into French.
Prix Utopiales (Adult Literature)
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-prix-utopiales-awards/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Locus Magazine
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association has announced the winners of its annual prize for poetry. Poems were judged in three categories, listed below.
Dwarf Category (10 or fewer lines):
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-sfpa-poetry-contest-winners/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Locus Magazine
Strange Horizons has announced the launch of a year-long podcast series, SH@25, in celebration of their 25th anniversary.
SH@25 will feature “interviews with authors, artists, poets, and former staff of Strange Horizons, charting the magazine’s 25 year trajectory from being founded in September 2000 to winning a Hugo in August 2024, as well as looking ahead at its future.” The project will be led by podcast editor Kat Kourbeti and …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/strange-horizons-launches-podcast-series/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Locus Magazine
Sarah A. Parker’s When the Moon Hatched, published as a trade paperback earlier this year, is now in a hardcover edition from HarperCollins/Avon, and ranks on three lists, at #2 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Two other older titles in new editions also rank this week: Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Stenciled Edges).
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/weekly-bestsellers-14-october-2024/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Locus Magazine
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards.
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-british-fantasy-awards-winners/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Locus Magazine
ANANDA FERNANDES LIMA was born in Brasília, Brazil, and grew up there. She attended high school in Australia for a year through an exchange program and returned there for her undergraduate degree. While in college, she did a year abroad in Los Angeles and later moved back to attend grad school at UCLA, where she earned her MA in linguistics. She met her husband there, and they later lived in …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/ananda-lima-different-certainties/