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Fantasy Writer David Eddings Donates $10 Million to the National Jewish Health

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National Jewish Health has received the single largest gift in its history, approximately $10 million, from the estate of fantasy author David Eddings. Eddings, the author of more than 25 books, passed away June 2, [...]

4 Other Ways to Get a Literary Agent

In today’s publishing industry the traditional methods of getting a literary agent is as follow: (1) aspiring writer submits manuscript to literary agent (2) agent either accepts manuscript or rejects it. It’s no real secret, that’s how it usually goes, and the publishing industry today is cutthroat for new authors. This is added to the [...]

Aurora Award Banquet Tickets on Sale Now!

The Aurora Awards is building on its success in Winnipeg last year, and promises to be a badge of pride for Canada on the Worldcon stage. The Awards presentation banquet will have Canada’s best and brightest authors presenting the Awards, and also some surprise guests from outside the literary community, who are appearing nowhere else [...]

“Impact” Trailer

You ever wonder why movies, shows, and miniseries hire science fiction authors for a lot of their creative consulting work? It’s because most of the time they know the science behind the fiction. Now I’m not a scientist, in fact the furthest I ever got was 12th grade physics and that was enough, however, watching [...]

Five Ways SF/F Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money and Promote Publicity III

This is the third part of my four part series entitled “Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity”. For those interested in viewing Part I (Click Here) and Part II (Click Here).

Offer More Contest / Giveaways!

It’s true, people like free stuff, especially books, and readers tend to take note of a [...]

2009 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

Now a lot of people are probably going to give me a hard time with this post considering it has nothing to do with science fiction and more to do with fantasy than anything else. Nevertheless, since there are many commonalities between the two genres and both are inclusive to all readers I thought people [...]

Sturgeon Award Finalists Announced

While I don’t keep up to date with the latest in short fiction by science fiction/fantasy authors I realize that a lot of my readers do. I also know the painstakingly arduous task that comes with writing short fiction, so when the annual Sturgeon Award Finalists are announced, you can be sure I’ll write a [...]

High Rise Poster Revealed

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The untimely death of J.G. Ballard left a whole in many people’s hearts. I know it certainly did mine. However, fans of the author will be pleased to learn that his 1975 novel High Rise [...]

Writing and Hope

Ever since I was sixteen I always sensed I was destined for great things. That moment came for me when I finished The Great Gatsby. I don’t know why, I’ve always had a great affinity for that novel, but it’s around that age that I first began writing and really haven’t stopped since that time. [...]

Shatnerquake Hits Shelves!

Now when an author goes out of his way to contact me on a new book coming out I tend to take notice, but this novel was too bizarre not to talk about. We all know the image William Shatner has built around himself over the years, but imagine for a moment you’re caught in [...]