Where’s Launchpad for the fantasy writer? Launchpad is where NASA gives scifi writers a free astronomy workshop. I want the government’s covert agency for the exploration and use of magic (oh come on, like we don’t know you exist) to have free workshops too, dammit.
The April 2011 issue of Realms of Fantasy is now available for PDF purchase and download if you like your magazines digital. It includes my story “A Witch’s Heart.” http://www.rofmag.com/
Image courtesy of http://pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com
Nostalgia! Old school scholastic book order forms. Dune! Michael! Lloyd Alexander! And what ever happened to books with snippets of programming code in them that you could use to build actual computer games or challenges that characters in the book had to overcome? I remember those BASIC books, they were cool. Where’s the javascript books for today’s youth? (Link yoinked from Saladin Ahmed.)
http://ht.ly/4oIxx
Breaking News: GOP criticizes Obama for breathing in before breathing out. House Speaker Boehner said, “We believe in breathing out first, giving our breath to the American people who deserve it, while this President is working first and foremost to take your air away. This is another example of Big Government out of control.”
I made a little superhero movie about writing. More to follow. Enjoy 🙂
View it at the xtranormal website
Or watch after the jump:
Only 3 more days to apply for Clarion West 2011 if you would like to spend 6 weeks doing nothing but focusing on writing (and making 19+ lifelong friends) while learning from Paul Park, Nancy Kress, Margo Lanagan, Minister Faust, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Charles Stross.
www.clarionwest.org
My holiday gift guide for fantasy film fans is up at Fantasy Magazine. It does not include the obvious mass merchandising stuff like LotR action figures or superhero toys, nor Science Fiction gifts (for the most part).
http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/12/holiday-gift-guide-for-the-fantasy-fan/
The anthology 2020 Visions, in which my story “A Shelter for Living Things” appears, is now
Color Proof of Cover by artist Jonathon Fowler
available for pre-order at a special price (in the US).
Plus if you pre-order, you get a year’s subscription to M-Brane SF Magazine.
The Anthology is edited by Rick Novy and features stories by Mary Robinette Kowal, Sheila Finch, Jason Ridler, Ernest Hogan, David Lee Summers, Jeff Spock, Emily Devenport, Cat Rambo, Jack Mangan, David Boop, Spencer German Ellsworth, Gareth L Powell, Alethea Kontis, Alex Wilson, and David Gerrold.
http://www.mbranepress.com/2010/10/2020-visions-us-pre-order-begins.html
I was following a rabbit hole of links in Psychology Today, and thought I’d share three of them that I see as somewhat interrelated, as well as some of my own thoughts on the whole liberal vs conservative culture war.
I always see people posting what they’re eating, so I’ll do the same: Raisin Bran. Huh. That didn’t seem very interesting. So, um, I’m actually eating grilled unicorn strips drizzled in a sweet chipotle raspberry sauce, served on a bed of finely crushed dreams and garnered with lightly toasted fairy wings. I forgot to take a picture, but you can order the unicorn meat here.
And in other news:
Author, relapsed sarcasm addict, Clarion West graduate, milkshake connoisseur, winner of Writers of the Future, and member of Dungeon Scrawlers.
Randy’s humorous contemporary fantasy series from TOR (US) and Titan (UK) includes:
Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free,
now available for purchase, reading, and use in questionable acts.
In this sequel to Randy Henderson's acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Randy Henderson spins another tale full of adventure, magic, and laughs, exploring in more depth the magical world and characters introduced in the first book.
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“… it’s an urban fantasy, one that takes place in and around present-day Seattle. But even though it deals with sinister magic and family tragedy, it counterbalances that darkness with something that’s become increasingly rare in fantasy fiction: laughs, laughs, and more laughs.” -- NPR
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