Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 14-20 February 2010

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

Dreams of Decadence is reincarnated and looking for writers

Angela Kessler is once again editing Dreams of Decadence, but what was once a vampire magazine is now a magazine of urban fantasy and paranormal romance... Read more [...]

SoHo Gallery for Digital Art screening The Polymath, about Samuel R. Delany

Following the 9 March screening of Fred Barney Taylor's film The Polymath, or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentelman, Delany himself will speak about his life and experiences, and then a short film he directed... Read more [...]

2009 Nebula Award Final Ballot

The final ballot, from which the members of SFWA will choose this year's Nebula Award winners, has been announced... Read more [...]

Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for this year's Stoker Awards, from which the winners will be chosen. The nominees are... Read more [...]

ChiZine Publications’ Match the Title to the Holiday Contest

In order to win ChiZine Publications' Valentine's Day Contest, you'll have to match the titles of their books to the appropriate holidays... Read more [...]

Jeff Carlson’s Plague Year invades France

Jeff Carlson has sold French rights to his Plague Year, and also announces a contest on his web site... Read more [...]

Clark Ashton Smith’s weird poetry coming back into print

Small publishers in the US, UK, and France have purchased rights to republish Clark Ashton Smith's poetry... Read more [...]

The Knight Agency reports foreign rights sales for Caine, Francis, and Jemisin

The Knight Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Rachel Caine, Diana Pharaoh Francis, and N.K. Jemisin, to Brazil, Germany, Poland, and Spain... Read more [...]

Steven Piziks sells non-fiction ‘how to write’ book

Novelist and teacher Steven Piziks has sold a non-fiction book, Writing the Supernatural Novel, to Kelly Nickell of Writer's Digest Books via Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency. Read more [...]

Jim Lee and Dan DiDio now copublishers of DC Comics

The recently reorganized DC Comics organization once again has comics professionals in the top spots, with the appointments of Jim Lee and Dan DiDio as copublishers, as well as... Read more [...]

Pyr now open to some unagented submissions; hires new editorial assistant

Pyr SF has hired a new editorial assistant, Rene Sears, and she'll be reading unagented submissions in certain subgenres... Read more [...]

Author/nostalgist Jim Harmon dies

Author Jim Harmon (1933-2010) was a prolific short story author in the 1950s and '60s, and a more successful nostalgist, writing about the Golden Age of Radio... Read more [...]

Greatest Uncommon Denominator #5 now available

The fifth issue of eclectic sf magazine Greatest Uncommon Denominator is now available, with 11 stories, seven poems, two mini graphic novels, and more... Read more [...]

JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for Akers, Campbell, Green, Harris, Richardson, and Sanderson

JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Tim Akers, Jack Campbell, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, Kat Richardson, and Brandon Sanderson, in Bulgaria, Czech, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Russia, Spain, and the UK... Read more [...]