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Brian is hot shit!
His story, "The Girl with the Killer Eyes," will appear in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2006 as well as Jim Baen's Universe issue 3. Check it out.
Version control, don’t fail me now!
Somehow, the story I sent Ann Crispin was missing a line I thought was in there. No wonder she didn't notice it. 😉 It must be part of the conversion from Open Office format to rich text format. Note to self: Do not maintain too many versions of a story in too many...
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Ann Crispin’s Writing Workshop Rocks
If you get the chance, I highly recommend Ann Crispin's writing workshop. She teaches beginning and advanced workshops every year at Dragoncon, and the beginning workshop rocked. It was worth the price of admission just for the manuscript critique. I plan to come back...
Oh, sweet validation!
Ann Crispin recommended The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman for her writer's workshop. The chapter on subtlety was sweet, sweet validation. Yeah, sure, I've been known to overdo it on occasion. I'd rather understate than write the scene where Character A looks into...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.