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April 2010 Recommended Reading List
I spent most of April writing what I call a jealous novel. When I write some novels, they don’t want me to imagine much of anything else—particularly in the novel form. So I can’t read incredibly good books, those books that make you disappear into the world. I was left with mediocre to bad books or excellent short stories. For some reason, short story quality can be excellent without getting in the way of the novel. Finished the book a little after the middle of the month, so I could finally get to reading novels again. I also had a bunch of research I have to do, so the novel-reading started up slowly. So…all I have for recommendations this month are a few short stories, a few articles, and one … Read entire article »
Filed under: On Writing, Recommended Reading
Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Schedules And How To Keep Them
Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Schedules and How to Keep Them Kristine Kathryn Rusch I often work with start-up publishers. I like their enthusiasm and their vision. After all, I once co-owned a start-up publishing company as well. However, because I co-owned such a company, I keep a careful eye on the start-ups. I make sure that I can get out of my contracts easily if need be. When I see potential trouble in a start-up, I let the owner know. If the trouble doesn’t get fixed, I do an assessment: can I live with that trouble? Will that trouble affect my work? If the answer to both of those questions is no, then I stay. If it’s yes, I try once more to solve the problems, and if that … Read entire article »
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Dark Man
My story, “The Dark Man,” has just appeared in the anthology Is Anybody Out There, edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern. As a reader, I’ve been looking forward to this anthology for some time. It has some great writers, and deals with the Fermi Paradox (if there are aliens, why haven’t we met them?). Besides mine, the stories in the anthology include ones by Pat Cadigan, Alex Irvine, James Morrow, Ray Vukcevich, and Ian Watson. Marty Halpern is posting some of the stories for free on his blog. You can check that out here: http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/ and you can buy a copy at your favorite retailer or find one here. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current News
The Observer Podcast
The wonderful folks at The Drabblecast have done a spectacular production of my (somewhat creepy) sf story, “The Observer.” Sarah Tolbert did a fantastic reading of the story. Take a listen. You can find it–for free–here, along with some other wonderful stories. … Read entire article »
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Amelia Pillar’s Etiquette For The Space Traveler
I have a new story in the July Asimov’s–“Amelia Pillar’s Etiquette For The Space Traveler.” So if you’re planning your next trip beyond the stars, you might want to read this. It’s short but valuable information. And it’s just as dang goofy as a Kristine Grayson novel. I’ve been reading too much Emily Post, I think. You can order a copy on the Asimov’s site. You can also find information on the site about downloading the issue. (Fictionwise and Kindle and other places.) You can subscribe via Kindle and get an individual issue as well. Enjoy! … Read entire article »
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Awards News
“Broken Windchimes” won the Asimov’s Readers Choice award for best novella. SF Signal has the list of the other winners as well. Go to sfsignal.com. The Asimov’s site will have their lists up shortly. Some great stories on this list. You can’t go wrong looking them up. What the SF Signal list doesn’t tell you is that my story, “Spires of Denon,” came in third in the Asimov’s Readers Choice Awards and my story, “The Recovery Man’s Bargain,” came in fourth in the AnLab awards, which is Analog‘s version of the Reader’s Choice awards. So let me say a big hearty and loud THANK YOU to all of you Dell Magazine readers. I appreciate all the good support on my short fiction. I am so happy you all liked the stories and voted for … Read entire article »
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Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Expectations
Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Expectations Kristine Kathryn Rusch A short time ago, a young writer who did not know my history in the science fiction field mentioned in e-mail how much he hated certain editors. He felt those editors had mislead him, and were, therefore, unethical people. Since those editors happened to be friends of mine of longstanding—I’d known both for more than twenty years—I knew they weren’t unethical people. Nor did they deliberately mislead writers. After a few back-and-forths, I found out what happened: those editors had met this young writer in a networking situation (one a convention, the other a guest lecture at a writer’s workshop) and invited him to submit stories to their various projects. The writer had submitted stories which were then kindly, but soundly, rejected. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing
