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Quick Updates for 2010-03-02

The Nebula final ballot is now open to Active SFWAns. http://www.sfwa.org/member-links/discussion-forums/2009-nebula-final-ballot # New issue of Apex Magazine is a single author issue with fiction by SFWA member @maryrobinette http://is.gd/9spY3c # Norton nominee @malindalo talks about "On Asianness (or the lack thereof) in ASH" Very worth reading. http://bit.ly/bOHTvq # SFWA member @LAGilman has a contest to […]

Reading Aloud: Cross-gender Voices

Cross-gender voices are a tricky business. Even if you can really do a convincing cross-gender voice–and I know folks who can–the fact is that in a live reading, the audience knows that there’s only one person doing all the voices. There are two ways cross-gender voices can throw people out of listening. It’s really bad, and embarrassing, or it’s really good and shocking that a female voice is coming out of a man’s mouth. Either way, the listener drops the story for a moment.

One Week Only Sale on Slipstream Title

In celebration of Sue Lange’s upcoming appearance at the Author and a Movie event in Lansdowne, PA (Philly area), her ebook collection of previously published slipstream stories, Uncategorized, is on sale for $.99 at Smashwords. Sale ends Sunday midnight. Formats available include: pdf, mobi, epub, javascript, html, etc. Purchase the book here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7776 (Use coupon […]

Carlson’s Plague Year takes France

The international bestselling novel Plague Year invaded France this week with the first title in Jeff Carlson’s trilogy of sci fi thrillers selling for a “solid” advance to Bibliotheque Interdite, described by literary agent Cameron McClure as “a young but dynamic publishing house that works with Games Workshop.  They are growing and becoming more and more important in […]