WFC. Delia Sherman said that she finds it's like a great family reunion. It's so true, at least the reunion part. (I'm too much of a newbie to be "family" yet, I think. One of these years...)

A list of everyone I met would read like a particularly marvelous phone-book: People from Clarion (2007, and 2008), two writing groups, two online communities ( Read more... )

My writer friend Dario Ciriello thinks there aren't enough markets for spec-fic novellas, even though it's a very appropriate length for speculative fiction. So he started one.

Panverse Publishing just brought out its first anthology of novellas, Panverse One. Janice Hardy, herself a brilliant new author, designed the logo and the book.


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My friend Dario Ciriello is launching Panverse Publishing with a couple of anthologies: Panverse One, a collection of novellas; and a short-story collection, Eight Against Reality. (Incidentally, subs are open to novellas for Panverse Two, planned for next spring.)


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I think perhaps the next best thing to getting published one's self is to watch a writer-buddy go from manuscript to publication... especially when, like me, you get to be one of the lucky beta-readers. Janice Hardy's marvellous YA Fantasy, The Shifter (originally, and in the UK, The Pain Merchants) is coming in October from Balzer & Bray, an ( Read more... )