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Several years ago, right after I earned my Ph.D., a friend rather bluntly told me that the only reason people became literature professors was because they had failed at being creative writers. I remember shooting back with something along the lines of, “Not all academics want to be creative ...
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(Ann, and our friend Tessa in San Fran right after World Fantasy Con. Will I pay for posting this photo? I might…)
Catch me at Powell’s, Cedar Hills, tomorrow at 4pm… (and awesome, awesome guest blogging thus far…)
It’s Jeff, just checking in to say the tour ...
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Will Hindmarch is a freelance writer, graphic designer, and game designer with more than 60 published credits in books and magazines. He’s currently designing a new RPG for Pelgrane Press. He also blogs at the game/story outfit, Gameplaywright , at his home venue, The Gist, and at a ...
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Guest blogger Kameron Hurley does most of her ranting at her blog , Brutal Women . You can find some of her recent fiction in Year’s Best SF 12, Strange Horizons , and EscapePod . She currently makes a living as a marketing and sales copywriter in Ohio, and has sold or nearly sold or sort of ...
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Guest blogger Jason Sanford often rants on his website at www.jasonsanford.com . His fiction has been published in Interzone, Year’s Best SF 14, Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pindeldyboz , and other places, and has won the 2008 Interzone Readers’ Poll and a Minnesota State ...
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A couple of weeks ago, Jeff took Asimov’s
Magazine to task over on the Sofanauts podcast. So
in thinking of writing a blog post as a guest here this month, I thought I’d write something in defence of Asimov’s, just to take a devil’s advocate role. I ...
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To Asimov’s or not to Asimov’s?
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I’ve been thinking about steampunk lately. I haven’t
been able to escape it, really—it was steampunk month
at Tor. Two weekends ago, my hometown hosted its first SteamCon. And now, tonight, I am going to hear VanderMeer* (who, as you ...
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The next big punking
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Mark Charan Newton was born in 1981, and
has worked as an editor for imprints covering film
and media tie-in fiction, and later SF and Fantasy. His first novel is called Nights of Villjamur , published by Pan Macmillan (Tor UK) and in June 2010 from ...
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Thoughts on the Dying Earth genre
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Guest-blogger Will Hindmarch is a freelance writer, graphic
designer, and game designer. He also blogs at the
game/story outfit, Gameplaywright , at his home venue, The Gist and at the tumblelog, the Word Studio Notebook . Halloween has come and ...
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Eldritch Visions of Cthalloween
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Charles Tan blogs at Bibliophile Stalker , The
World SF News Blog , and SF Signal .
Hi! My name is Charles Tan and despite my Chinese name, I’m from the Philippines. I’m mostly known in the field for promoting Philippine speculative ...
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A Pre-Summation of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009
Huzzah! Tomorrow is the official release date for Finch , my latest novel, a mix of fantasy, noir, thriller, spy story, political intrigue, and a dash of science fiction. The book’s been enthusiastically blurbed by the likes of Ken Bruen, Meg Gardiner, Tad Williams, Richard K. Morgan, ...
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John Scalzi
Richard K. Morgan
Joe Abercrombie
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Starting Wednesday, November 4th, a mob of guest
bloggers will take over Ecstatic Days, and I’ll just
be posting a few little things on an irregular basis, until my return from the book tour on December 13th. I think you’ll enjoy the ...
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The Guest Bloggers Gather!
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(Tempest and Jetse, looking toward the future) A
little late since every minute of the World Fantasy
Con has been filled with some commitment, here are the winners of the Last Drink Bird Head Awards and a few photos from the party. More photos ...
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Last Drink Bird Head Award Winners!
(Not exactly the imposing bird head I wanted, but it’ll have to do. In addition to giving out the first annual Last Drink Bird Head Awards at the party at WFC Thursday night, we’ll be giving away a limited edition of Finch *and* five copies of the Shared Worlds student chapbook ...
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I’ve interviewed Murder by Death for Omnivoracious, asking them about their reading habits, touring, and their work on the Finch soundtrack –which you can sample in the sidebar of this blog. My favorite part of the interview might be this bit:
Adam: …The fun part was ...
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Below the cut you’ll find the full list of contributors, including myself and Tessa Kum, who collaborated on the 35k novella “The Mona Lisa” for the anthology. In one mistake that makes me kind of sick to my stomach, the title page for the story in the actual book has our ...
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jeffvandermeer.com - 12 days ago
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Please spread the link to this blog post
with information about a program that’s near and dear
to our hearts, and we think can contribute to a healthy and diverse future for the field of SF/F. Soon we will also have more information about ...
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Shared Worlds Teen Writing Camp: Registration Now Open
jeffvandermeer.com - 12 days ago
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(Victoriana Invention poster by John Coulthart ) I’m
sure I’ve mentioned this project before–it’s going to be
a gorgeous, wonderful book. (If you’ve seen the recent Boilerplate, you know what Abrams Image can do.) ...
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Seeking Steampunks for Fun and…Archiving
Just turning in corrections on the first book Ann and I have written together: The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals .
Ninety-six pages of awesome in beautiful 5 x 7 hardcover form:
—Preface by Joseph Nigg, How to Raise and Keep a Dragon
—Introduction by Ann
—Thirty ...
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jeffvandermeer.com - 13 days ago
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(What’s this all about? Check out Booklifenow Monday
afternoon.) Time’s sped up and is roaring forward. Only
about three days until we leave for the World Fantasy Convention, after which I embark on a five-week book tour you ...
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The Organizational Elements of a Book Tour
