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SFWA’s Nebula Awards ballot had something interesting happen this year. After the final ballot was announced, one of the novelettes was determined to be only 7,070 words long, and was removed from the ballot because novelettes are works that are at least 7,500 words but less ( Read more... )

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SFWA announced today that the previously internal Nebula Suggested Reading List is now available to the public. ( Read the rest of this entry » )

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This is why I can’t be trusted with self-promotion. I go and do silly things like make a book trailer:

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Today is release day for Little Dystopias, which means this should be a gleeful post about how you can now get the book in whatever your preferred reading format is. And if you’re not a Nook user, that’s what this post is. However, please do not download or purchase the Nook ( Read more... )

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Logically, if you think about it, you realize that authors need to read their own work many times. We re-read it as we’re writing. Personally, I re-read before submitting. We re-read while it’s going through the editing process. What hadn’t ever really sunk into me, though, was ( Read more... )

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Over the years, I’ve read many a blog post from an emerging writer talking about how freaky it is to get blurbs for their book covers from really great authors whom they admire a lot. And I’m always like, “Yeah, I can spot a humblebrag. Nice try.”

But you know what I’ve learned ( Read more... )

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So, the final proof of the ARC (that’s the uncorrected copy of the book that is produced for people - like reviewers and proofreaders - who need to read it before it comes out) arrived today. I was initially ecstatic.

But, then, I looked closely.( Read the rest of this entry » )

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Recently, folks inside of a writers’ organization I’m part of have been discussing whether or not we should have a diversity initiative. Now, I need to be clear that the organization in question has never discriminated on the basis of race, gender, national origin, sexual ( Read more... )

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There’s been a lot of talk in the blogosphere the past couple of days about GISHWHES. To be clear, I had never heard of this for-charity international scavenger hunt before the other day, and I have not  done due diligence on it, so I cannot speak to whether or not the ( Read more... )

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Let’s talk money.

I don’t know if it’s beginning to happen more often or if I’m just noticing it more acutely recently, but the phrase, “We don’t pay our writers…” (and the usual variations on it) is showing up in submission guidelines all over the place. The closely related, “ ( Read more... )