Binti by Nnedi Okorafor My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 12 in 12 Challenge, the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge, and the Space Opera Challenge. Winner of the 2016 Hugo and Nebula awards, nominee for the BSFA, BFA and Locus awards. I always […]
Read More Book Review: Binti by Nnedt OkoraforYou’re a hobbit and you don’t like adventure. You think originality is dangerous! You should NEVER bring a unique setting to fantasy or science fiction! And God help you if you MIX the two! You believe that stories about people and their very human motivations are boring, even if you punctuate them with lots of […]
Read More 10 Reasons Why You *Shouldn’t* Support Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West!To celebrate my Kickstarter for the Wyrd West Chronicles, I’m doing a series of livestreamed interviews with people who are doing similar stuff to what I’m doing in Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West! These interviews will appear on Kickstarter Live and will be simultaneously streamed to my Facebook Author Page, then uploaded […]
Read More Interviews for the Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West “Telethon!”Today I launch my first ever Kickstarter! Tell all your friends! And make sure to get your copy of the book, or collect some of the other great rewards I’m offering! Here’s the blurb from the Kickstarter page: Hi! My name is Diane Morrison, and I’m a hybrid author (which means I’ve been both […]
Read More Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West Kickstarter!By Kathryn Craft Today’s mad skill comes to us via Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the music and lyrics for one of my favorite musicals, Wicked, based on Gregory Maguire’s bestselling novel of the same name. The show tracks the early life of Elphaba, the girl who is destined to become the Wicked Witch of the West. On […]
Read More Your Protagonist’s “I Want” SongA hybrid writer is calling for submissions for Gunsmoke & Dragonfire: A Fantasy Western Anthology. Submissions open immediately. This is a collaborative project in which each contributor (writer, editor, etc.) will receive one share of profits, if any. Contributors are encouraged to make best use of their collective resources for marketing (social media, blog, YouTube […]
Read More Call for Submissions: Gunsmoke & DragonfireThe Penti-Con is a comic-con style event that happens annually in Penticton. This year was the second year of the con but it’s already grown exponentially. They expanded from one day to two, and even had to change venues this year to accommodate. I was pleased to be part of last year, when I was […]
Read More The Penti-Con @ThePenti_ConThis was a livestream of how sorting through Baen’s slush pile works. I think it’s excellent insight on how publishing companies select the work they want to publish. On the other hand, it pisses me off. Publishers say they want the whole manuscript done and run through an editor before you query. So chances are […]
Read More Inside Baen’s Slush Pile
