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Boing Boing has an interesting post today about a book called “I, Libertine.”  As the story goes, Jean  Shepherd, a late night radio host in the 50’s, didn’t like how the bestseller lists of the time were compiled.  So, he did what any normal radio host from the 50’s would do: He made up a [...]

The John W. Campbell Award for best new writer award is presented to the a sci-fi writer whose first professionally published work was within the last two years.  The same folks who judge the Hugo awards judge this award, and the nominees are all amazing writers and a practical who’s-who of the genre.
If You’re Just [...]

I’ve found myself scanning through lots of writing blog posts lately.  Every now and then I’ll trawl through a bunch of blogs at once, following links here and there, and thinking to myself, “Self, there’s a lot of great information out here.  It’s a shame that sometimes it’s so hard to find!”  So, in the [...]

We’re excited to release a front page redesign that we’ve been working on for a while now.  Now you’ll be able to get to what matters to you faster–latest site activity is at the top right instead of being below the blog entries.  The blog entries themselves are condensed to take up less room and [...]

I never studied the craft of fiction when I was younger. I just wrote what I felt like writing.
My teachers were simply happy that I wrote, which for many kids was like pulling teeth. Usually this resulted in preposterous thrillers involving government assassins or street thugs. In college, I studied screenwriting, because while writing a [...]