Authors… what the hell is going on? I would say that Twitter has made you insane, but I know some of you have been bringing the foolishness for a while, so obviously it’s not new media that is causing you to act out like a 10-year-old on too much sugar.
Alice Hoffman, get your butt off [...]
Since I’m obviously going to have to come up with a bio on my own (hinthint), here’s something else the masses may be able to help me with: what to write (besides my signature) when autographing my stories in anthos or zines? I feel like writing “To Danny, keep on reading!” or something similar is [...]
But more and more lately I need a bio, either short or long, to give to someone. The one on my bio page is boring and stilted. This will not do. Help me out here — point to some awesome author bios that you really like. Or, rewrite my bio to make it more exciting! [...]
The storySouth 2009 Million Writers Award for Fiction is now accepting nominations!
The purpose of the storySouth Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2008. …this year there will be three cash prizes: $500 for the overall winner, $200 for the runner-up, and $100 [...]
I am hanging out in a cute cafe around the corner from my apartment. I really like it — they have good food at decent prices, know what a real smoothie is, and they play awesome music. But oh my god, the chairs are AWFUL. They are all leany back and provide no sitting up [...]
Which has nothing to do with this entry.
Since I got my day job I’ve been struggling to figure out when I can write. I don’t want to relegate all of my writing to the weekends because I have plenty to od then (Fantasy Magazine, mostly) and sometimes it would nice to just sit around and [...]
A truth that I’ve come across many times over the years and passed on to me by writers much more experienced and intelligent than I and that I feel is apropos in these times:
Just because you wrote a piece of fiction doesn’t mean you own the only true way of reading/interpreting/understanding that piece of fiction. [...]
I suck because I forgot to mention that I’m guest blogging for the talented Mr. Vandermeer this week. Yesterday’s post was inspired by this.
I have an editorial up on Fantasy today that I think you’re all qualified to discuss :) It’s about the lack of comments on fiction in this here Internet age:
I’m really happy we have such a high level of participation from our readers, but we can’t help but notice that the comments section of [...]
My story is coming out over at Strange Horizons next week. Up until a week ago I was being very mellow about it. But now that it’s so close, I want it to be up NOW OMG! I’m impatient.
You would think I’d be used to this by now, as I have stories coming out in [...]
All you authors out there, we need to have a talk. Sit down.
Tell me, if someone were to Google your name, or the name you write under, right now, would they be able to find you? Would your website come up on the first page of hits? Do you even have a website? No, I [...]
Seriously, my need for Scrivener is growing every day. But as there is no hope on the horizon for those of us with PC or Linux, I am seeking other alternatives. There isn’t much out there for Linux, which is the OS I really need it for. I do most of my writing on the [...]
The related post I promised. (Also part of IBARW) To recap, Ashok Banker posted about problems of bigotry is SF/F field. Said some very interesting and insightful things. He also quoted me, Tobias Buckell, N K Jemisin, and Micole talking about the Sanders thing and bigotry in general. He agrees with us, but has a [...]
In response to some of the discussion in the magazines that want more diversity post and the whole William Sanders thing, author Ashok Banker wrote a post about racism, sexism, and cultural insesnitivity in SF/F. The post makes several good points:
Today’s Science Fiction and Fantasy field, while possibly bearing some strands of DNA from other [...]
I often talk about the need for markets and their editors/publishers to do more to up the diversity in their slush pile and, consequently, in the publication itself. And one of the steps toward doing so is making sure that people know about your intentions in that direction. It does help to make [...]
You can call me Tempest.
I'm a writer, most often committing acts of Fantasy and Science Fiction, though I have been known to slip in and out of genres. I'm famous on the internet, an editor of some repute, and hopeless convention addict.
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