Archive for March, 2007
SFWA Livejournal
March 31st 2007 at 10:44 am
The SFWA Livejournal community has started up. It’s open to people interested in SFWA, with questions, who want to participate, and to existing SFWAns.
Self confidence and the working writer
March 31st 2007 at 2:27 am
I am relatively new to the non-fiction freelancing side of things. I’ve been catching up on my reading about how to be a good freelancer and trying to broaden my clips and figure this facet of my living down.
Recently I hit an article that took a bunch of research to wrangle and that just took […]
Why zombies?
March 29th 2007 at 4:26 pm
Mfitz in the comments says:
I don’t get the appeal of zombies.
It’s a weird twist for me, I didn’t use to like them, but I started researching and watching them all for a story I was doing and ended up getting hooked on them.
Why zombies work:
1) guilt free action/adventure mass killing and gore (cuz they’re not […]
Anne Harris serializing her first novel
March 29th 2007 at 4:09 pm
Anne Harris is serializing her first novel over at her typepad account, chapter one starts here.
Pubrants on what editors want
March 28th 2007 at 12:26 pm
Pubrants gives readers a low down on what the Penguin Children’s Group is looking for these days.
28 Weeks later
March 28th 2007 at 12:19 pm
I just spotted the trailer for 28 Weeks Later up at the Apple site. I can’t wait for that, if it is anything as good as 28 Days Later it should be a fun ride.
And then there’s Grindhouse. Two zombie movies to look forward to.
Will Shetterly needs feedback about SFWA & website
March 27th 2007 at 12:46 pm
Will Shetterly is looking for feedback about SFWA and it’s web presence over at his blog:
I’m trying to gather information from potential, present, and former SFWAns about two things:
1. SFWA has an Electronic Piracy Awareness Campaign that’s displayed prominently on SFWA’s front page. If SFWA chose to end that campaign and take no position on […]
On responding to editorial requests
March 27th 2007 at 11:59 am
A business related email question today, with identifying bits removed, as I thought maybe this would be interesting to reply to publicly on the website as well.
Have you ever received feedback on a story from an editor interested
in it that you weren’t quite in agreement with?
I guess this touches on your professionalism articles from way […]
Intro to The Silk Code
March 26th 2007 at 5:52 pm
Shaun Farrell has been recruiting various authors to do voice intros to different chapters of the podcast version of Paul Levinson’s The Silk Code. There are introductions by R.A Salvatore and me this week for episodes 14 and 15.
