Originally posted by nisi_la at Bloodchildren anthology for Octavia E. Butler Scholarship Fund
I've been editing and publishing and making happen this anthology called Bloodchildren, and it's coming out in about a week. So time to release the TOC, and a thumbnail of the cover, and tell you two more things ( Read more... )

I've been asked about how I survived Clarion while ill, and figured it might be of interest to more than just one or two people, so figured a post might be better than email. Also, that maybe other people with CIs could chime in? About Clarion or, even better, about other workshops? Given my limited experience this is going to be a very Clarion- ( Read more... )

The wonderful rcloenen_ruiz has a highly thought-provoking post up on The Future Fire editors' blog, and also as a guest post on kateelliott's lj, so read and post to whichever you like :)

Also, in the post Rochita mentions the We see a different frontier project, which I have been meaning to signal-boost in general, so! here :)

Otherwise, major splat here.

cause I have a babbly splat. I made it! to the Clarion instructor reading today. And met some of the Clarionites. And gave them cookies. And Nina Kiriki Hoffman read an awesome funny short story.

Also! Nina has MG book(s)! How did I not know this?? And me mostly only able to really read MG or very simple YA atm ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to signal boost about Clarion 2011 and just haven't had spoons.

So rather than leave it till far too late, just a heads-up this year.  I have posted plenty about why clarion was important for me, and so it's not a tragedy if I cannot manage it again just now.

Here goes: Reading period: open.  Clarion: awesome for the people it's ( Read more... )

Thing 1: I sold a story! Falling Into the Earth, the single Clarion story I wrote that was a mess-worth-saving, to The Speculative Ramayana Anthology!I utterly rewrote it; doubt a comparison would find a single shared sentence between latest-Clarion-draft and this one. And I learned a lot in the process -- including having it brought home how ( Read more... )

Final Clarion-crowdfunding-poem post! (er, barring a possible followup asking for overall feedback...)  Clarion's nearly done; how weird.  And you guys funded SIX tarot sonnets, of which I had written three.  So!  I wrote three more for you :)
Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the poems!

The six I'm posting are more traditionally: 0: The Fool, I: The Magician, ( Read more... )

I wrote this one the same day as Courted:a dirge, with which I started this crowdfunding thingie, and in fact I wrote it first, as a birthday poem for seajules , and it's posted here with her permission.  I wrote it at the last minute, and thought till I did that I couldn't.  Sort of like the tarot sonnets you guys have funded -- I just finished a draft of ( Read more... )

Just posted the second-last poem before the sonnet-off, and realized I haven't said -- I have awesome Clarion classmates and friends from other years, you guys, and some of them are write-a-thonning.  Sponsors can win cool prizes.  So if you've been holding out & intend to fund Clarion stuff, let me point you a couple places :)

I know I should have ( Read more... )

We are now funded for over $500 including matching, and for 6 tarot sonnets at the end of next week.

And I've been putting off signal-boosting classmates etc cause I haven't had the spoons to look up everyone.  Incomplete signal boost post to follow, though, cause it's week five already!

Not much else here.  Still sick,  Poem!  Long poem.  31 lines.
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