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February 13, 2012
If You Are In ATL, Come Check Us Out…
Filed under: Black Sci-Fi 2012 Tagged: Alan Jone, Alicia McCalla, Balogun Ojetade, Georgia Tech, Milton Davis, science fiction, speculative fiction, Wendy Raven McNair
February 12, 2012
The State of Black Sci Fi…My Favorite Black SF Event is Alien Encounters
My favorite Black SF Event is Alien Encounters, a Black SF conference that is becoming an annual event at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. Alien Encounters kind of wins by default because it is the only black-centric SF conference that I have attended since my book was first released. But let me say, what an [...]
February 5, 2012
State of Black Sci Fi 2012–Winners and Posers
Yay! We have made it to our first big giveaway for the Black Sci-Fi 2012 Blog Hop! So without further ado, the two winners of their very own autographed copy of Interlopers: A Shifters Novel are: Narcel Reedus & Marianne Dyson I will be in touch with you soon, to get your addresses [...]
January 29, 2012
The State of Black Sci-Fi 2012: Why It is Important to Show…
People of color writing fantasy about people of color. Fantasy is huge right now, particularly for young adult readers. I don't have the numbers, but I am sure that every week dozens of new fantasy novels are released. Probably 90 to 95 percent of the novels are written by white authors about white characters. These [...]
January 27, 2012
Get Involved!
We are smack dab in the middle of "The State of Black Sci-Fi 2012″ blog hop. Become a part of the conversation for a chance to win fun prizes. To participate: Step 1: Find the blogs with this icon. To make it easy, I will provide the links to my first two blogs here and [...]
January 25, 2012
Revolt Against Wordless Wednesday
I want to stage a mini revolt against Wordless Wednesday with Word-full Wednesday. I was thinking the other day about words and it is funny how with certain words, I can remember exactly how I learned them. I learned the word excruciating in the 2nd grade. I had read Anne of Green Gables for the [...]
January 23, 2012
State of Black Sci-Fi 2012–Why I love Fantasy…
So I have started writing this blog a couple of different times and ended up putting those entries aside because they became something else that wasn't quite what I wanted for this conversation. Perhaps I will post them at a later date. When I first started keeping this blog, I wrote about why I ♥ [...]
January 19, 2012
Theme Songs
Late last year, I was on a panel with Amanda Havard at the Southern Festival of the Book. We got to talking about music and the role that it is playing in our writing. Amanda is very influenced by music; she talked about how she could tap into the emotion of each of scene in [...]
January 15, 2012
Black Spec Fic 2012: Where in the Universe Are We?
Huge question! Big! Huge! And really hard to answer in the space of just one blog. I guess it's a good thing that I have a bunch of other folks writing about this with me. I have written a couple of other blogs around this topic in the last few months (see here and here) [...]
State of Black Sci-Fi 2012
Beginning tomorrow and going through the end of February, I will be participating in the "State of Black Sci-Fi 2012″ blog dialogue with other writers and creators of black sci-fi/fantasy/spec fic. It promises to be a great party full of lively discussion about the present state and future of the genre by folks who are [...]
