The great folks at Crossed Genres have just anounnced a new contest. The Science in My ( Read more... )

The Nth Degree is Back!

http://www.nthzine.com/

I'm not sure I'll ever figure out the publishing industry. Leaving aside some of the arcane intricacies of how things are paid for, and the interesting paths a book may take from writer to publisher to book stores, there are all sorts of weird things going on. The latest and at least to me most perplexing are the recent decisions by two name game ( Read more... )

So, what are people reading in YA right now? What have you liked in the last year?

Sometimes the human capacity for ignoring things amazes me. Usually it just disgusts me. Statistics have shown the number of men who never get married has steadily risen over the last half century. This means there are more and more men every year with no wife, mother, girlfriend or whoever to do their shopping for them. Studies have also shown the ( Read more... )

After a solid working up period in which proprietor Darwin Garrison kicked around numerous models and ideas for an ezine, we're finally free to explore Darwin's Evolutions. Inside is an article by Kate Paulk on writing and how not turn your novel into a transcript of your last RPG campaign. There are several non fiction articles, three pieces of ( Read more... )