Vera Nazarian kickstarting alternate 17th century dark fantasy novel
Vera Nazarian's Kickstarter project, for Cobweb Bride (which may be the first of a series called Death's Cobwebs) is 20% funded with three weeks to go... Read more [...]
Appearances: October-December 2012
Author and artist readings and signings for the fourth quarter of 2012. This list is updated as we get more information, until the end of December 2012.
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Analog and Asimov’s at Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend
Analog and Asimov's sf magazines will have a booth at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival, featuring raffles, author signings, free issues, and more... Read more [...]
Behind the Scenes of the Hollywood FX World: The Monster Make-Up Manual Book 2 Available Via Kickstarter
Hollywood FX artist Mike Spatola is trying to Kickstart his Monstrous Make-Up Manual Book 2... Read more [...]
“Fantastic” Results For Project: Rooftop’s “Fantastic Four: Fashion Forward” Redesign Contest
The winning entries in Project: Rooftop's latest contest, to redesign the uniforms of the Fantastic Four, have been released... Read more [...]
Debut author finds Saxon treasure beneath 21st Century England: Geoffrey Gudgion sells Saxon’s Bane to Solaris
Debut author Geoffrey Gudgion sold historical supernatural thriller Saxon's Bane to Solaris, who plans to publish it in September 2013... Read more [...]
Keith R.A. DeCandido licenses Dragon Precinct novels to Audible.com
Audible.com has purchased unabridged audio rights to all three extant Dragon Precinct novels, plus the as-yet-unwritten fourth book in the series... Read more [...]
Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in September
Not a lot of movement on the charts this week, with genre films still holding onto many of lower spots... Read more [...]
Books Received: first half of September 2012
Books received for review during the first half of September 2012... Read more [...]
Huffington Post’s Maureen Ryan provides 70-minute interview with George R.R. Martin, recorded at WorldCon
Mo Ryan had a seventy-minute interview with Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin and radio personality Peter Sagal at the recently concluded WorldCon. She's excerpted that interview into a print article, and posted the entirety of the audio file... Read more [...]
Rare Science Fiction Lit Missing From Philadelphia Area
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America announcing a list of rare sf books stolen from Temple University... Read more [...]
HarperCollins Launch Nationwide Campaign To Celebrate The Hobbit’s 75th Anniversary
HarperCollins is planning British events honoring the 75th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, including a nationwide Second Breakfast and celebrations featuring television host Tess Daly... Read more [...]
My view of Chicon 7
The excerpt goes here, but seriously, I had enough of a struggle boiling down the five days of WorldCon to the full-length review. Chopping that down to an excerpt is nigh unto impossible. Just click the link and read the article. (Includes some photos.) Read more [...]
Call for Submissions: Harper Voyager Announces Global Digital Publishing Opportunity for Debut Authors
HarperCollins' Harper Voyager digital publishing is opening to unagented, genre submissions for a two-week period in October... Read more [...]
SFWA’s Estates Liaison is again searching for contacts for a list of writers’ estates
SFWA’s Estates Liaison Bud Webster has a new list of estates for which contact information may facilitate publication of the authors’ stories… Read more [...]