John Brown sells “Dark God” trilogy to Tor
John Brown sold a trilogy about "a world where the days of a man's life can be harvested..." to Tor...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Television writer Richard Baer dies
Richard Baer (1928-2008) wrote for many sitcoms, including The Munsters, Bewitched...
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Four-week residencies in an artists’ colony available in Woodstock
The Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, New York, is offering up to forty spaces for creative artists to spend four weeks in an artists' colony...
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Alex Bledsoe sells vampire novel to Tor
Alex Bledsoe sold Blood Grove to Paul Stevens at Tor. The book is the first in a series about...
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Michael A. Burstein sells collection to Apex
In his 12-year writing career, Michael A. Burstein has been nominated for 10 Hugos and 3 Nebulas. HIs collection will contain all of the award-nominees plus...
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Steampunk Magazine’s fourth issue now available
The fourth issue of Steampunk Magazine, featuring fiction, interviews, how-to essays, and more, is now available as a free...
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Dark Recesses clearing up technical difficulties; asking for resubmissions
Dark Recesses Press has been struggling with technical issues, but seems to have found a work-around, and is asking writers to resubmit missing submissions...
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Electric Velocipede February purchases
Electric Velocipede has concluded this reading period with the purchases of two novelettes and 11 short stories...
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Author Stephen Marlowe Dies
Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008) wrote more than 50 novels, mostly private eye stories, but some science fiction. He was best known...
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Soul Man—a review of Terminator: TSCC’s “Demon Hand”
Machines will be machines; people will recognize beauty; and enemies aren't necessarily forever... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Jonathan Lethem writing relaunched Omega the Unknown
Marvel Comics has hired Jonatham Lethem, who was influenced by the 1970s' comic Omega the Unknown to reimagine it...
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World Horror Con rates increasing
Membership rates for this year's World Horror Convention (which will be at the end of March) increase at the end of the month...
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Laura Anne Gilman sells novella to Harlequin’s Nocturne “Bites” line
Laura Anne Gilman reports that she's "been asked to write an e-book novella for Harlequin's Nocturne 'Bites' line. It won't be...
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Naomi Novik’s Temeraire volume 5 turned in
Naomi Novik reports that the fifth volume in her Temeraire series, Victory of Eagles, has been completed and turned in. It's due to be published in July.
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Razzy Award Winners Named
The Golden Raspberry Awards, which honor the worst in cinema, are the much darker counterpart to the Oscars. This year, I Know Who Killed Me set a Razzy record...
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