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(1) CONTEST KERFUFFLE. The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition has announced that one of its judging teams – unnamed in their statement, but it’s Team EPIC – will no longer be participating. Kris, who reviews on YouTube as A Fictional Escapist, and formerly at EPIC Indie, said they found something on EPIC’s “About” page that led

(1) APPRECIATING A FINE ANTIQUE. James Davis Nicoll has a new assignment for the Young People Read Old SF panel. This month’s Young People Read Old Hugo Finalists features Bruce Sterling’s 1988 ​“Our Neural Chernobyl”. Sterling was, of course, a grand figure in science fiction at the time, being nominated and winning too many awards to list

(1) PUBLISHER STRUGGLES TO GET AMAZON TO LIST “JEWISH FUTURES” ANTHOLOGY. [Item by Michael A. Burstein.] Fantastic Books and I are having trouble getting Amazon to list the Jewish Futures: Science Fiction from the World's Oldest Diaspora edited by Michael A. Burstein ebook on Amazon. Fantastic Books publisher Ian Randal Strock told Facebook readers: Amazon.com has

THE VALUE IN EXPERIMENTING. Nino Cipri offers some sff writing pointers. Thread starts here. Included this slide in my final lecture for my creative writing class and am inordinately proud of it. pic.twitter.com/z5MDTSmXlm— Nino Cipri, cthonic himbo boyfriend (@ninocipri) December 9, 2020 So yeah. Carve out time for weird shit that might not work, half-baked ideas, and absolute garbage dug out from the gutters of your brain. Assert your right to write for pleasure or exploration or the sheer ...

THE VALUE IN EXPERIMENTING. Nino Cipri offers some sff writing pointers. Thread starts here. Included this slide in my final lecture for my creative writing class and am inordinately proud of it. pic.twitter.com/z5MDTSmXlm— Nino Cipri, cthonic himbo boyfriend (@ninocipri) December 9, 2020 So yeah. Carve out time for weird shit that might not work, half-baked ideas, and absolute garbage dug out from the gutters of your brain. Assert your right to write for pleasure or exploration or the sheer ...

(1) TAG TEAM. YouTuber Morganeua, a fourth year PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, uses Stephen King and Toni Morrison to beat Isaac Asimov into the ground in “Asimov’s Adverbs.” (Think of it as a homage to “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.”) I just finished reading “Foundation and Empire” by Isaac Asimov and it was GREAT but I noticed THIS about his writing. What do you think about excessive -ly adverb use in novels? (2) YouTube channel. Some people outline t...