Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art changing, growing, and planning
New York City's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is rebuilding its gallery, sponsoring a symposium and art festival, and planning exhibits...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Massive personnel changes at Random House’s upper sales levels
Random House's new Senior Vice President of Adult Sales, Jaci Updike, has implemented a major realignment, eliminating some positions, adding others, and promoting several people...
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Bleak House Books now represented by Maria Carvainis Agency
Bleak House Books has announced that the Maria Carvainis Agency will represent all of their domestic and foreign subsidiary rights. Bleak House specializes in crime and dark literary fiction.
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Double Chuckâa review of Chuck’s final two episodes
NBC saved the best two Chucks for last, but may have killed them by sandwiching them around reality TV. Hopefully, he'll be able to survive the writers' strike-induced hiatus... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Penguin Canada hiring sf/f/h commissioning editor
Penguin Canada is looking to hire a new commissioning editor who will work in several genres, including horror, fantasy, and science fiction...
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Jeffrey Thomas’s Deadstock available for free
The first novel following the adventures of chameleon-like private detective Jeremy Stake is offered as a free download, to whet your appetite for the forthcoming Blue War
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Jim C. Hines on The Time Traveler Show
Jim C. Hines talks about and reads from Goblin War on the lastest installment of The Time Traveler Show podcast...
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Oddlands looking for all sorts of speculative fiction
The new webzine expects to debut 1 March 2008, and is offering one cent per word for fiction, $10 per poem...
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It’s SFWA election season again
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's annual election season is once again upon us, as the call for candidates has been issued...
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Steven Gould’s Jumper and Jumper: Griffin’s Story being issued to tie-in with the new motion picture
Steven Gould's debut novel, 1992's Jumper, is being reissued to tie in to the movie being released on 14 February. In addition, Gould's new novel...
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Actor Christian Brando Dies
Christian Brando (1958-2008) was best known as Marlon Brando's son, though he appeared in a handful of films himself...
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American Library Association’s Reading List Council’s 2007 Reading List
The American Library Association is promulgating lists of recommended genre fiction in eight categories, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The titles making the 2007 list are...
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Aurealis Award Winners Announced
The newer Australian speculative fiction award breaks out science fiction, fantasy, and horror into separate categories. The winners are...
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DGA Awards recognize one genre production
The Directors Guild of America handed out their awards 26 January, and recognized one genre production (though very few were even nominated)...
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Updates to Previously Published Articles (20-26 January 2008)
This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 20 and 26 January 2008.
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