What did you blog about today?

[Stephen Palmer]

Not necessarily - ethical leadership is very in at the moment

Yes - forgot about that.
Perhaps my comment was a bit harsh.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Why being a sf author is nothing to be ashamed of

On Writing Science Fiction - Jo Zebedee

 

[thaddeus6th]

I actually blogged a thing. Been a while. Anyway, a ramble about some forthcoming SFF games (Fallout 76, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Banner Saga Trilogy): Thaddeus the Sixth: Some videogame rambling

 

[Juliana]

Blog post inspired by the post on aspirations by @Jo Zebedee and a comment by @Stephen Palmer on writers and envy...

The View From The Road

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Interesting...
I think one thing most authors find particularly difficult is separating personal character traits from "author traits" if I could put it like that. Even these days I have an occasional twinge of annoyance at what some other lucky author has done. Healthy envy is a nice thing to aspire to, but I wonder how often the other sort takes over!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

My pieces for James Everington's Music For Writers blog.

 

[AlexH]

My pieces for James Everington's Music For Writers blog.

I wrote a story about a kora player and didn't find anything as good as that Toumani Diabaté album. Now I can properly hear the kora over a full album of songs. Thanks!

 

[CTRandall]

What sci-fi/fantasy novel would you make required reading?

This is a distillation of the discussion going on in forums here.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I wrote a story about a kora player and didn't find anything as good as that Toumani Diabaté album. Now I can properly hear the kora over a full album of songs. Thanks!

Do you know Seckou Keita's work? Marvellous!

 

[AlexH]

Seckou Keita

I didn't, but I'm listening now and this is how I wanted my kora player to sound!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I bought a kora a couple of years ago. I wasn't expecting it to be easy to play, but what got me was how, like a piano, you have to be able to do that thing where the left hand plays something different to the right hand. Even as a guitarist, I found that difficult. Also, I didn't realise that koras are "handed" i.e. right handed. I'm left handed, and that has made a difference, unfortunately.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Using expert drawcraft and unrivalled pencilship, I drew some things: Thaddeus the Sixth: Three drawings: two gingers and a dragon

 

[Juliana]

Some of my recent reads...
Have Book, Will Read #19

 

[J-Sun]

Some of my recent reads...
Have Book, Will Read #19

That Robson story did have quite the memorable finale, didn't it?

My blog post today:

Twenty-Eight Offbeat Science Fiction Books | Featured Futures.

As it says in the post, I was inspired to add 18 titles to Catherynne M. Valente’s “10 Essential Offbeat Science Fiction Novels." And, actually, the topic seems thread-worthy for the Chrons...

 

[thaddeus6th]

I expertly reviewed Red Sister, by Mark Lawrence: Thaddeus the Sixth: Review: Red Sister, by Mark Lawrence

 

[Juliana]

That Robson story did have quite the memorable finale, didn't it?

I certainly didn't see it coming!

 

[AlexH]

That Robson story did have quite the memorable finale, didn't it?

My blog post today:

Twenty-Eight Offbeat Science Fiction Books | Featured Futures.

As it says in the post, I was inspired to add 18 titles to Catherynne M. Valente’s “10 Essential Offbeat Science Fiction Novels." And, actually, the topic seems thread-worthy for the Chrons...

I'd love to see a fantasy one of those.

 

[Serendipity]

Me? I made the mistake of letting a novelette extend itself to a novella - oh groan - why can't I be organised... so I had to go hunting... one result is I put up a list of paying magazines to which science fiction novellas can be submitted for publication.... see

SF Novellas – Paying Submission Markets

 

[J-Sun]

I'd love to see a fantasy one of those.

It's definitely broad-church and includes a little fantasy but I'd be interested in a full fantasy one, myself - I just don't know enough fantasy books to make a dedicated list of offbeat ones.

SF Novellas – Paying Submission Markets

Good stuff. Novellas (when not in book form like Tor.com Publishing which is still a pretty exclusive thing) are hard to publish for writers and harder to find for readers. Just to add some stuff, you've got the major markets but, regardless of guidelines, Clarkesworld has published three novellas in the past couple of years while BCS has published two and Lightspeed and Uncanny one each. Not sure if these are people bucking the guidelines and getting through, if the eds made special calls for novellas somewhere along the line, or if these were even solicited from specific authors but the zines did publish novellas. There are also markets that do pay more than nothing but less than pro rates (I recently read novellas from at least Cirsova and Grimdark for Tangent reviews, for instance) but I don't know about those generally.)

 

[Steve Harrison]

A bit of fun about online writing groups and message boards: Blog: GroupThink for Writers