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The Author as Answerer of Questions
The delightful Marshall Payne interviews me over at his Super-Sekrit Clubhouse. There are also some awesome interviews with Amal El-Mohtar, Mike Allen, Vylar Kaftan and more.
Angela Slatter has recently been singled out by Jeff VanderMeer as an emerging writer of note in his Mammals Underfoot! group interview at Clarkesworld. She has sold
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Mammals Underfoot! An Interview by Jeff VanderMeer! Excessive Use of "!" by Me!
Let’s try this again (after yesterday’s premature effort!) …
Jeff VanderMeer interviews some emerging authors, of whom I am apparently one, at the wonderful Clarkesworld. There’s also the gravy boat of awesome in the many and varied forms of Jesse Bullington, N.K. Jemisin, Tessa Kum, Meghan McCarron, Shweta Narayan, Jeremy C. Shipp and Genevieve Valentine. Huzzah!
“Every once in awhile, it’s good for a fool
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The Redoutable VanderMeer Strikes Again
Some wise words for young and old players about existing as a writerly soul … and again with the sacrifice stuff!
“… although some people think writing full-time is a right, I humbly disagree. Possibly those who think this have never really had to work a full-time job–and sometimes crappy ones, in the best tradition of writers throughout history. But in
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On the (ig)Noble Art of Sacrifice
My clever friend, Kim Wilkins (beautiful talented successful writer, academic, award-winner, mother of two – hate her yet? http://fantasticthoughts.wordpress.com/) made a comment today that got me thinking (sometimes it happens, me thinking). On FB last night, I said I was going to bed with the editing, and she commented that she sometimes read my status updates and imagined me
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Review of 'Horn'
Peter Ball’s novella Horn, from punching-above-its-weight indie Twelfth Planet Press, got reviewed by the uber-redoutable (yes, ‘redoubtable’ is my word’o’th’month) Jeff VanderMeer over at Ecstatic Days http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/06/24/first-and-short-horn-by-peter-m-ball/#more-5059.
Twelfth Planet Press http://twelfthplanetpress.wordpress.com/
More Bloggy Goodness
From Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days:
Last year, I interviewed China Miéville for Weird Tales’ 85th anniversary issue. Yesterday, I posted a short excerpt of the interview on Omnivoracious as part of an announcement about China blogging there. (For those of you living under rocks and on distant planets, his The City & The City was released recently.)
I’m posting the full interview
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Super Useful
Jeff VanderMeer has re-opened his critique service – hard to get better quality crits than from this guy, seriously. See http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/06/16/critique-service-open-again/
From the Mind of the Redoubtable VanderMeer
On why writers need to be readers:
Networking – not a dirty word (it just feels that way sometimes)
I once had to present a faux writers festival presentation as part of an assessment piece. As someone who doesn’t like speaking in public, interacting with strangers, or even being seen, I was quite happy pitching the idea that writers should be read and not seen. That the golden days were when we didn’t have to be performing monkeys.
I was
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Jeff VanderMeer on Gaiman on George RR Martin and the Reader-Writer Contract
“I love this post by Neil Gaiman about entitlement, especially as concerns readers upset that George R.R. Martin hasn’t finished his latest novel in the bestselling series. It ain’t a science, the rate of burn-out is high, and anyone who thinks that just churning out novels is a good idea–either for readers or writers–is full of crap.”
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