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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Margaret Atwood, "of Canadian Sci-Fi author fame"
Margaret Atwood will unveil her invention, the LongPen, which will purportedly allow authors to sign books for fans long-distance via a robotic hand that emulates the movement of the author’s real hand, at the London Book Fair in a couple of weeks. I seriously doubt it will catch on, but whether it does or not, I got a kick out of the way she’s identified by gadget blog Gizmodo:
Margaret Atwood of Canadian Sci-Fi author fame…
Since Margaret Atwood has famously distanced herself on more than one occasion from claims that she writes science fiction (a.k.a. “talking squids in outer space”), this amuses me.
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