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Quick Updates for 2012-08-07

SFWA member Carrie Cuinn's “Mrs. Henderson’s Cemetery Dance” now free to read online at http://t.co/qJ4auH9A… CarrieCuinn # SFWA Member Mike Allen's CLOCKWORK PHOENIX Kickstarter has 3 days left http://t.co/93yQnx4y Offering book pre-orders & chasing 1 last goal. # A better link for Carrie Cuin's “Mrs. Henderson’s Cemetery Dance” http://t.co/K8pHdefx #

Quick Updates for 2012-08-06

@RickNovy I generally don't monitor the feed or my inbox on Sundays. in reply to RickNovy # @RickNovy notification of your tweet hit my inbox about two hours ago. # @RickNovy It looks like you tweeted about two days ago, looking at my stream. Again–I don't monitor stream or box on the weekend # @RickNovy […]

Quick Updates for 2012-08-03

And SFWA member @LAGilman also will be at @BmoreBookFest ! # New stories by SFWA member Jamie Lackey from Kazka Press http://t.co/bsbGrcLa & in Triangulation: Morning After. http://t.co/6woeyAB8 … # Active member Rosemary Jones will be speaking at SpoCon http://t.co/O8ryvAaS #

Guest Post: Writers and Families

My family has a strange attitude toward my writing, which I think is almost always the case unless the writer comes from a family of professional creators. (By professional, I mean people who actually make a portion of their incomes from a creative endeavor — writing, art, dance, etc.) When I met my cousins in Debrecen, they told me they’d heard I’d become a famous writer, of fantasy like J.R.R. Tolkien. Of course, I’m not at all a famous writer, and what I write is nothing like Tolkien.

Confession of a Museum Bunny

by Deborah Walker Ideas for my stories come to me in museums, in galleries, in libraries. Find me upstairs (and it’s always quieter upstairs) in the British Museum trawling the past looking for future inspiration. Old books, paintings, objects are part of our material heritage. Survivors of the ravages of times, sometimes cherished throughout the […]