Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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John Scalzi posts my Big Idea essay about Terra Insegura
John Scalzi is one of the most popular SF bloggers on the Web, as well, of course, one of the most popular SF writers around. He’s also a tireless promoter of science fiction: not just his own, but everyone else’s. For several years he’s been running The Big Idea, a series of essays in which authors talk about the ideas behind their books. It’s proved so popular it will soon be its own spin-off website, but for now it’s still part of his blog, Whatever…and today he’s posted my 1,000 Big Idea essay about Terra Insegura.
Go check it out! And if you haven’t read Scalzi’s own books, you most definitely should.
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