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Best Graphic Story Category Added to Hugo Awards Ballot

It seems the motion to remove the Best Semiprozine category from the Hugo Awards Ballot (which was not ratified and therefore still remains a viable category) wasn’t the only matter discussed at this year’s annual Business Meeting at Worldcon. It has also been brought to my attention that the Best Graphic Story will also be [...]

John W. Campbell Memorial Award and Theodore Sturgeon Winners Announced

It seems there’s no stopping Cory Doctorow and Ian R. MacLeod as both tie in winning the 2008 John W. Campbell Memorial Award with their novels Little Brother (Tor) and Song of Time (PS Publishing) respectively. Locus Magazine noted that this is the third tie in the award’s history. It should also be noted that [...]

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 [...]

5 Ways SF/F Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity I

In these troubled times publishers can use every advantage to make them one step ahead of their competition. However, with a stressful ever-increasing workload sometimes it’s easy to become jaded into what your readers think about your imprint when you work from the inside of the publishing industry. Fortunately, I’m in the unique position of [...]

Anticipation Progress Report 4 Released

This week the latest progress report for Anticipation (the 67th Worldcon Science Fiction Convention) was released. This makes it the final report of the convention up until the first week of August, so if you’re planning to attend the event it would be a good idea to view its contents at www.anticipationsf.ca or downloading it [...]

Save the Semiprozine Hugo

Now this news what brought to my attention by the popular website/blog, SF Signal. The website “Save the Semiprozine Hugo” (http://savesemiprozine.org/) is in response to the near certainty that this year will most likely be the last year to vote for the ‘Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine’ in Montreal at the 67th Worldcon (also known [...]

New Year’s Resolution #4 Completed: Complete the first 100 pages of ‘The Seducer’s Handbook’

Whenever I’m currently working on a novel I like to set certain benchmarks for myself. So instead of making one resolution to finish a first draft of a manuscript I usually set another resolution or two for every one hundred pages completed. And I’m happy to say that last night I surpassed page 100 in [...]

Review of ‘Spin’ by Robert Charles Wilson

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I had first met Robert Charles Wilson in my freshman year at York University, and this wasn’t the first Robert Charles Wilson book I’d read (the other two being ‘Bios‘ and [...]

Five Books I Would Like to Be Made into SF Films

After stumbling across John Scalzi’s Whatever blog I noticed that one of his most recent articles entitled “Five SF/F books I think would make good movies”. Scalzi uses ‘Children of Men’ as the primary example as a science fiction book done right and I couldn’t agree with him more. So since I consider myself a [...]

My Nominations for the Hugo Ballot

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With my invitation to the Worldcon this year better known as ‘Anticipation 2009′ in Montreal comes the invitation to select this year’s ballot for the Hugo, Aurora, and the John W. Campbell Award. I don’t know that much about the science fiction community [...]