I make things with words
So, the easy part: I have a schedule for all the Gen Con stuff! The full schedule can be found over at the Symposium site. (Oh, right, I forgot that I was moderating that panel. And that one. Erm.) SCHEDULE! Not a Minority Anymore Kameron …
Slush piles are awesome. You go in with no idea what you’ll find, and at the end of the reading period, you come out with at least a few pieces of gold. This one, there was a lot of gold. Which is when a slush …
Unless I’ve made special arrangements with you, the submissions for Genius Loci are now closed! We’ll be taking the next few weeks to go through them, and hope to have everything at least tentatively answered by mid-July, which is a little later than the first announced deadline, but such things happen.
And! We’re working on the contracts, but the fabulous folks at Ragnarok Publications will be publishing Genius Loci! The plan is to start the Kickstarter mid-August. I also have interior artists–the talented and wonderful Lisa Grabenstetter and Evan Jensen–and a cover artist in mind.
Total submissions: 160, with another 10 or so on the way. Not as many as War Stories, but the invitation list was smaller, I haven’t done any actual press on it yet, and the submission window was open for a VERY short length of time.
I’m incredibly humbled by the response and encouragement this project has received. It’s barely two months old, and already impressively complex. More humbling still are the people who sent notes with their submissions, explaining that the theme gave them catharsis for old tragedies, or brought back fond memories. That’s the best thing about being an editor: when you find a theme that genuinely touches not just readers, but the writers.
I can’t wait to see what is in that slush folder, and thank you all for a fantastic reading pile.
It’s the last round of the Flash Fiction Challenge, and it’s down to Natania Barron vs. Minerva Zimmerman. We did something a little different this time: I took one idea and split it into its component parts. Minerva will be writing about “All that glitters…” …
The final tallies are in, and Minerva Zimmerman and Natania Barron will be facing off for the ultimate championship! This is sure to be a hotly-contested round, so be sure to vote on Monday!
We have results! Bracket 1: Libby Cudmore moves forward. Bracket 2: E. Catherine Tobler moves forward. Bracket 3: Natania Barron moves forward. Bracket 4: Minerva Zimmerman moves forward. Joe McDermott will send out new prompts tomorrow, and we’ll have a …
There’s been a lot of discussion in SF about strong female characters, clothing, and armor, and I agree with a lot of the points being made, BUT. There’s a big thing being missed. Armor seems to have become the cheap tack to portray a strong, …
I’ll be doing a pair of podcasts for SFSignal in March, on the subject of Military Science Fiction. Keep an eye on my Twitter account for posting dates. So far, we have a great list of participants: Jay Posey, Karin Lowachee, Richard Dansky, Kameron Hurley, Jack Campbell, Myke Cole, Karen Lord, and Chuck Gannon, who was just nominated for a Nebula for best novel.
War Stories is progressing beautifully. All but one story and contract are ready to go, Galen will be turning in the final art soon, and then it’s just the bits and pieces of constructing the actual manuscript after that. We’re really looking forward to showing people.
And I never announced it here, for various reasons, but I was the Production Editor for the revamped SFWA Bulletin. That just went to the printer, and there will be a big announcement on the SFWA blog about it tomorrow. Really excited for that to hit peoples’ mailboxes…and inboxes. First time in digital edition, man!
