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A Literary Thanksgiving

Published 3 days ago by Stephanie Burgis at SF Novelists

Today it’s Thanksgiving in America, one of my favorite holidays. I’ve talked on my own blog about some of the things I’m grateful for in my personal life, but for this entry, I wanted to talk about something a little different: the writers I’m thankful for, as a writer . ...
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sfnovelists.com - 5 days ago
SF/F Humor Roundup
— sfnovelists.com — My first professional sale was a sword and sorcery piece about a magic dagger with a hilt... carved in the shape of a rabbit. And like rabbits, if you left this weapon alone with another dagger, you’d soon find yourself overflowing with cutlery.  ... (more) SF/F Humor Roundup
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Fathers and Masculinity

Published 6 days ago by David B. Coe at SF Novelists

All right, I’m going to go out on a bit of a limb here, and pick up on Marie Brennan’s post and Kate Elliott’s post , to write about fathers and how we are portrayed in books and media. Maybe there’s something to be gleaned here as well, as we at SFNovelists explore ...
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Fighting for Spawn

Published 11 days ago by Kate Elliott at SF Novelists

Aliens is one of my favorite films. I like it partly because it is a superior science fiction adventure thriller (as opposed to Alien which I have never seen and will likely never see because it is a horror film and I get scared very very easily), but mostly because it is a film about two ...
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sfnovelists.com - 12 days ago
A woman’s place is not in the refrigerator
— sfnovelists.com — Several of my recent posts have addressed the issue of writing female characters, with me defending the... position (which I do generally believe in) that it isn’t quite the minefield some people fear. Having said that, it occurs to me that ... (more) A woman’s place is not in the refrigerator
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sfnovelists.com - 13 days ago
The Future of Bookstores?
— sfnovelists.com — In December, a few authors (we call ourselves the Magnificent Genre Seven) will be doing a signing... at a Waldenbooks in western New York. We’ve signed there before – it’s a great bookstore with a great manager who’s a friend of several of us.  ... (more) The Future of Bookstores?

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sfnovelists.com - 23 days ago
What do we know and when do we want to know it?
— sfnovelists.com — Spoilers. The rude, the uncouth, the unwary who let slip the fundamentally important pivotal core detail while... talking about some recent book or movie to someone else who has not yet read or seen it. The reviewers who, in absence of an opinion on a ... (more) What do we know and when do we want to know it?
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Writing the Sequel

Published 26 days ago by Diana Pharaoh Francis at SF Novelists

So my new book Bitter Night came out last week. I’ll indulge in a little bit of Shameless Self Promotion below, but before that, an actual post. I’ve been working on the sequel to this book, and it’s one of the hardest books I’ve written. I know where I’m going, ...
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sfnovelists.com - 27 days ago
Writers Behaving Badly
— sfnovelists.com — I am getting ready to launch a feature on my website - writing advice for new and... continuing writers. Of course, there are tons and tons of sources for writing advice out there, so I figured I’d try a slightly different approach. I’d ... (more) Writers Behaving Badly
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