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Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid when making up fantasy names

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Emmet’s reading Acacia by this year’s John W. Campbell Award winner David Anthony Durham. It is labeled book one of “War with the Mein.” This led me to pondering that common pitfall of making up fantasy names: hitting on something that already means something else, and is thus inadvertently ...

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Bibliophile Stalker:  November 20, 2009 Links and Plugs

SF Signal:  SF Tidbits for 11/20/09

Bluejo's Journal:  Recent Tor.com posts

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Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: Jo Walton talks about things to avoid when making up fantasy names http://short.to/xkpa 11/19/2009

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November 20, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — Apparently, I have an impromptu book launch in a few weeks for creative nonfiction I wrote back in 2003 (eeep, I've forgotten what I've actually written!). Here's the surprise email: In Their Own Voice, the published collection of works written in your creative writing class with Dr. Emy Liwag and myself, will be launched on Wednesday, 9 December, 3:30 pm, at the Concourse of the New Rizal Library of the Ateneo at Loyola Heights. Emy and I hope that you can come. See you there! -RofelDrop by if you can. We need to sell books. =) P.S. All hail Chooklit. Interviews Fantasy ...

SF Tidbits for 11/20/09
SF Signal — Interviews/Profiles Grasping for the Wind interviews J.C. Hutchins (7th Son: Descent). Fantasy Magazine interviews K.D. Wentworth and Christie Skipper Richotte. The Sword and Laser interviews Brandon Sanderson (podcast). Jonathan Moeller interviews Michael Spence & Elisabeth Waters. Omnivoracious interviews Jeff VanderMeer. Tor.com interviews Ray Bradbury (video).News Crossed Genres is in trouble. Disney's Rich Ross halts production of 'Captain Nemo: 20,000 ...

Recent Tor.com posts
Bluejo's Journal — Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid in making up fantasy names, Jhereg, Re-reading Dragaera, What is it with coffee?, Fred Pohl's The Way the Future Was. More Dragaera posts will be going up soon. In other interesting reading this week, Anne de Courcy's biography Snowdon about Tony Armstrong Jones is brilliant, as I'd expected. She is definitely my favourite biographer, she always gets the balance just right.