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May 26, 2014
WriteTip: Advice On Why No Is Rarely Personal – Handling Rejection For New Writers
Yesterday at ConQuest, a panel discussion led to talks about editors and writers and how much editors love discovering new writers and great new stories. And in the midst of it, I got reminded how intimidated writers often are by editors, especially writers who don’t know any personally. I’ve experienced this myself as a writer [ Read More ]
May 25, 2014
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: WORLD ENCOUNTERS
What if aliens landed on Earth right next door? How would your neighbors react? What about you? What if they landed all over the world? How would people of different cultures respond? What about Earth explorers encountering aliens on their own planets far from home? World Encounters Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt In early 2015 [ Read More ]
April 30, 2014
Conquest 45 Noir Schedule and Details Updated
Well, for the third year in a row I am a panelist and moderator at CONQUEST 45, the local Kansas City Con on Friday May 23rd through Sunday May 25th. Well attended, with, as usual, a great lineup of guests and panelists, CONQUEST is the largest local Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror convention. And it’s [ Read More ]
Conquest 45 Noir Schedule and Details
Well, for the third year in a row I am a panelist and moderator at CONQUEST 45, the local Kansas City Con on Friday May 23rd through Sunday May 25th. Well attended, with, as usual, a great lineup of guests and panelists, CONQUEST is the largest local Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror convention. And it’s [ Read More ]
March 31, 2014
Mission: Tomorrow Coming To Baen in 2015 — My Latest SF Anthology Sale
Well, it’s been a really busy month, and so I have not managed to blog as intended. But it’s for good reasons. I’ve been booking SFFWRTCHT’s final six months, as it’s regular weekly Twitter incarnation will be ending this Fall. I have been working on lots of editing and packaging anthologies, and I sold two [ Read More ]
March 13, 2014
For Immediate Release – SFFWRTCHT on Twitter Will End in 2014
160 shows, 165 guests, hundreds of thousands of hits–when I started SFFWRTCHT (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chat), I did it for two reasons: 1) I wanted to network and learn from so many awesome writers and editors who were using twitter, and 2) I wanted to contribute to my new SFF community and family [ Read More ]
February 26, 2014
Write Tip: 8 Tips For Getting Blurbs From Name Authors
This week’s Write Tip addresses a question I get a lot. I have been fortunate enough to get blurbs on my books from many well known authors, and people want to know how I manage it. So here are some tips for getting blurbs from name authors. 1) Ask. – It sounds really obvious but
February 18, 2014
WriteTip: 6 Things Any Writer Can Do To Make Science Fiction and Fantasy Better
You may have noticed there’s a lot of yelling going on in Science Fiction and Fantasy these days. Some yell because they’re angry. Some yell because they’re sick of the yelling. Others yell to be trolls. And the cycle never seems to end. I’m not much for yelling myself. It may serve as a great [ Read More ]
January 31, 2014
WriteTip: The Importance Of Writing Rules As Boundaries For Learning Craft
Since December of 2010, I’ve been interviewing authors, editors and others almost weekly on craft every Wednesday for SFFWRTCHT, and one of our regular and favorite question is about Best and Worst Writing Advice. It’s always interesting the answers we get. And after hundreds of guests, only a few repeats, it always amazes me how [ Read More ]
January 23, 2014
WriteTip: On Writing What You Know As A Search For Truth
First things first, it’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts. Apologies to anyone who follows the blog. I honestly ran dry in my well, because I was working on so many creative projects from writing to editing that finding energy, let alone time, for blogging was not happening. I think [ Read More ]
