Monthly Archives: March 2009
SOS for Clarion South (snurched from Karen Miller)
The Clarion workshops, held in the US and Australia, are intensive 6-week spec fic writing bootcamps. Below is a message from Kate Eltham, one of the organisers of the workshop. If you think you might want to write for publication some day, and maybe even dream of attending Clarion yourself … please help if you can.
Due to a run of really
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A Note on Submission Guidelines
Two of my very dear friends run a small but respectable publishing company. We catch up for dinner and they regale me with tales of writers who, instead of writing a one page cover letter, will write a five page letter about why the submission guidelines don’t apply to her/him. I always think this is an interesting choice.
Perhaps people get confused by the
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Rumours of Death Greatly Exaggerated
Realms of Fantasy = not dead = YAY. This courtesy of Jasoni:
“Tir Na Nog Press just purchased Realms of Fantasy from Sovereign Media, and already has a brief web site available at realmsoffantasymag.com (they’re planning to have a much more elaborate web site soon). Publisher Warren Lapine feels it’s much more important to get things running quickly—since the deal just
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Words of Wisdom
From the superb Beth Wodzinski, ed-in-chief of Shimmer http://www.apexbookcompany.com/blog/2009/03/beth-wodzinski-stfu-and-do-it/.
I will re-read this every time I start to think negatively about the size of a project. It is all about how you eat an elephant – one bite at a time.
Watchmen … or The Philosopher-Slaughterers … or Why I Always Fight Crime Wearing Suspenders
Have just returned from the almost three hour (i.e. bladder busting) movie Watchmen. I admit my ignorance straight up – I do know Alan Moore’s work on 2000AD and ‘The Ballad of Halo Jones’ is one of my all-time favourites – but I did not know Watchmen. Having seen the movie, I’m still not sure I know Watchmen.
The aesthetics were
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Brisneyland by Night – Part Two
Appears here http://www.dailycabal.com/ – for when you’re bored. 🙂
Post-Clarion Post – Part Deux
The following is cobbled together from several of my Clarion-embedded posts on LJ. It’s funny to look back on them three weeks out – and it’s always nice to be able to strip away the weeping/wailing component that inevitably went with the intensity of being ‘in-country’.
On learning to crit: In week 2, one of my fellow Clarionites asked how I
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In which a sale leads to Snoopy Dancing
Made a sale this very morning! Huzzah!
Cat Rambo over at the fabulous Fantasy Magazine (click here for fabulousness http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?page_id=2) has taken The Chrysanthemum Bride for their stable of stories.
And this news has led to Snoopy Dancing in the study – as seen here http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=hUQX2B67KL4
2012 Special Deal
Leading up the release of New Ceres Nights Twelfth Planet Press are offering the anthology 2012 at the special price of A$16 to anywhere in Australia including postage or A$20 to anywhere outside of Australia including postage for all of March! We want to get the word out so we’re also offering a free electronic copy of the Aurealis Award
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