Want to help a fledgling author out? shereth is just running a kickstarter to fund publication of his upcoming novel, The Silver Token:

Writing has always been a hobby and an interest of mine. Dozens of short stories, fragments and ideas have found their way from my imagination to my hard drive. But last year I was challenged : write a full length ( Read more... )

A quick heads-up: for those interested in the Past Sins hardcover edition, a new pledge has been created earlier today on PledgeBank! It's running until the 1st of July; otherwise, it's exactly the same deal as the last one.

So now's your chance. :)

As reported on Equestria Daily, efforts are apparently made to create a hardcover edition of Past Sins (one of the best-known MLP:FiM fanfics, and perhaps one of the best, too)! There's a pledge on PledgeBank; it initially closed on the 31st of May, but as the creator points out, it will be opened again soon: "I screwed up with the pledge. ( Read more... )

Remember this list of Chinese names needing cross-transliteration (from Lessing-Othmer to something sane)? A Hong Kong-born friend of mine was able to help me out there, so here's an updated list:

• Sï-ma Tjiän - Sima Qian / 司馬遷. 145 to about 90 BCE (Western Han). (thanks greytail, CP)
• Dschau Yä - Zhau Ya. Around 40 CE (Western Han).
• Ling Hsüan - Ling Xuan ( Read more... )

Does anyone, by any chance, have any experience with Chinese transliterations / romanizations? I've got an older volume of Chinese novellas, printed in German; I'd like to find out more about the authors of the stories it contains, but the transliterations (using the Lessing-Othmer system) are difficult to figure out for someone with no ( Read more... )

As posted in ursamajorawards, the 2010 Ursa Major Award winners were just announced at Morphicon 2011 yesterday! The winners are:

• Best Anthropomorphic Motion Picture: How To Train Your Dragon (Dreamworks)
• Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short Work or Series: Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention (Aardman Animations)
• Best Anthropomorphic Novel: Shadow of the ( Read more... )