Gaylaxicon 2009 - I spoke with the programming chair yesterday (and yes, I know this is early) and he expressed interest in having an RFR. If you're going or thinking of going and you're interested, please contact me (clundoff at visi.com) and I'll pull something together.
Con information - http://www.gaylaxicon2009.org/
Con information - http://www.gaylaxicon2009.org/
Despite being scheduled from 10:30-nearly midnight (::yawns::), the BU RFR at Wiscon was well-attended and well-received. With a dozen readers there, we had a wide variety of writing styles, poetry and prose, humorous and serious.
Our readers included:
Very Back Row: Kimberly Long-Ewing
Back Row: Heather Lindsley, Nancy Jane Moore, Larissa Neic, Katherine Mankiller, and Morven Westfield
Front Row: Kathryn Sullivan, Gwynne Garfinkle, Moondancer Drake, Phoebe Wray, and Tina Connolly
Not Pictured: J. Kathleen Cheney
Remember to support your BU RFR at your next con, and thanks to everyone who showed up and stayed late for this one!
Our readers included:
Very Back Row: Kimberly Long-Ewing
Back Row: Heather Lindsley, Nancy Jane Moore, Larissa Neic, Katherine Mankiller, and Morven Westfield
Front Row: Kathryn Sullivan, Gwynne Garfinkle, Moondancer Drake, Phoebe Wray, and Tina Connolly
Not Pictured: J. Kathleen Cheney
Remember to support your BU RFR at your next con, and thanks to everyone who showed up and stayed late for this one!
The Wiscon Opening ceremonies came off without a hitch, with the Broads of BU providing the entertainment.
Although the name of the skit escaped this author, it was a short biographical piece dedicated to the GOH, Ellen Klages, deftly portrayed by our own![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
mkhobson! (Also in this shot: Lettie Prell (in the lime gogo boots), (name unrecorded, d'oh!), cathschaffstump, and Kathryn Sullivan ;o)
( Read more... )
Although the name of the skit escaped this author, it was a short biographical piece dedicated to the GOH, Ellen Klages, deftly portrayed by our own
mkhobson! (Also in this shot: Lettie Prell (in the lime gogo boots), (name unrecorded, d'oh!), cathschaffstump, and Kathryn Sullivan ;o)( Read more... )
Starting next Friday May 8th we will begin a new feature called Fiction Fridays where we will showcase erotic microfiction. We are looking for short pieces (250-1000 words) that fit in with the Circlet Press guidelines which can be found here:
http://www.circlet.com/?page_id=5
Payment is $5 via Paypal and your choice of print Circlet publications that will fit into one priority mail package (roughly 3-5 books) or choice of 5 Circlet e-books. There is no submission deadline as this will be an ongoing feature.
Please send submissions to circletintern@gmail.com with Fiction Fridays in the subject line. If you send your submission as an attachment please include your name and contact information in the attachment.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
Jennifer Williams
Assistant Editor
Circlet Press
http://www.circlet.com/?page_id=5
Payment is $5 via Paypal and your choice of print Circlet publications that will fit into one priority mail package (roughly 3-5 books) or choice of 5 Circlet e-books. There is no submission deadline as this will be an ongoing feature.
Please send submissions to circletintern@gmail.com with Fiction Fridays in the subject line. If you send your submission as an attachment please include your name and contact information in the attachment.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
Jennifer Williams
Assistant Editor
Circlet Press
NewFoundSpecFic (New Found Speculative Fiction) is a bi-annual speculative fiction anthology. Founded in 2008 by Devin Drover and Jennifer Graham, NewFoundSpecFic aims to showcase the creative speculative fiction stories of horror, fantasy and science fiction written by many of the undiscovered talents of Canada for others to enjoy.
We've officially started accepting submissions for the second issue. For more infomation on what/how to submit, visit our submission guidelines.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
- Devin Drover
Co-Founder/Editor
NewFoundSpecFic
We've officially started accepting submissions for the second issue. For more infomation on what/how to submit, visit our submission guidelines.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
- Devin Drover
Co-Founder/Editor
NewFoundSpecFic
My husband and I have opened a new ebook company called Damnation Books. We launch in September 2009 with twenty-five titles and are open for submissions now. You can see the guidelines at www.damnationbooks.com
Damnation books wants dark fiction. Horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, paranormals, science fiction and erotica (in horror, dark fantasy, paranormal and science fiction settings). We want stort stories, novellas and novel length works.
Please check us out. If you're at KillerCon in September, we plan to host a launch party at the convention.
- Mood:
excited
It has been brought to my attention that I am organizing the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at Norwescon 32 this year. This totally slipped my mind until now. But there's still time to sign up if you want to read! We've got 3 (perhaps 4) lovely women scheduled to read, and we have room for 5-6 more (we have a whole hour, you see.) The reading is scheduled for Saturday night from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., so you're free to bring your spiciest snippets.
If you're interested in being a part of this reading, please drop me an email at mkhobson aht demimonde dawt com. I need to have the whole lineup solid by Monday, April 6 so I can make a poster and get it printed. The normal rules apply ... you have to be a full BU member in good standing, etc.
*Whew*. Memory loss. It's no joke, people.
If you're interested in being a part of this reading, please drop me an email at mkhobson aht demimonde dawt com. I need to have the whole lineup solid by Monday, April 6 so I can make a poster and get it printed. The normal rules apply ... you have to be a full BU member in good standing, etc.
*Whew*. Memory loss. It's no joke, people.
Destination: Future will be published by Hadley Rille Books, edited by Eric T. Reynolds ericreynolds and Z.S.Adani alaneer
Submission details can be found here
We look forward to reading your submissions.
ericreynolds and Z.S.Adani alaneer Submission details can be found here
We look forward to reading your submissions.
Thought watchers & members might like to know Circlet Press has opened two new calls for submissions. We're still the premiere publisher of sex-positive, woman-positive erotic sf/fantasy (since 1992! wow!) and these two calls are for ebook publications:
Like a Sacred Desire
We are seeking stories that think outside the box of physical gratification as a means of manifestation. Think words of power, abstinence as a means of building up energy, invoking Gods and Goddesses often thought of as dark such as Baphomet, Kali or Lilith.
Themes can include destruction and rebirth, healing the self, binding of a slave to a Master, pasts remembered and futures conceived. Surprise us. Turn us on and intoxicate us.
Electronic submissions only. Please send to jwsubs13 at gmail dot com.
Like Clockwork
We’re making a sequel to Like a Wisp of Steam, Circlet’s landmark steampunk erotica anthology. We liked what we received for that collection so much, we want to see more! Here’s your chance to explore the world of corsets and goggles, airships and weird science, all with a sexy twist.
(If you’d like to see what sorts of things we have in mind, you can purchase and download Like a Wisp of Steam from circlet.com.)
Electronic submissions only, via email to msjblackmore at Gmail.com.
General guidelines:
There's lots of specifics to be read on both these, so check out the general Circlet guidelines here: http://www.circlet.com/?page_id=5
Deadline for both is April 1st.
No reprints, no non-consensual sex, no horror. Typically we prefer 4000 - 7000 words, but it's flexible.
Pay is $25 for the non-exclusive ebook rights, and an additional $25 if the book gets a print edition.
Feel free to pass this call on to folks you think might be interested! If we end up extending the deadline, you'll see a note go up in our LJ comm:![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
circletpress
Like a Sacred Desire
We are seeking stories that think outside the box of physical gratification as a means of manifestation. Think words of power, abstinence as a means of building up energy, invoking Gods and Goddesses often thought of as dark such as Baphomet, Kali or Lilith.
Themes can include destruction and rebirth, healing the self, binding of a slave to a Master, pasts remembered and futures conceived. Surprise us. Turn us on and intoxicate us.
Electronic submissions only. Please send to jwsubs13 at gmail dot com.
Like Clockwork
We’re making a sequel to Like a Wisp of Steam, Circlet’s landmark steampunk erotica anthology. We liked what we received for that collection so much, we want to see more! Here’s your chance to explore the world of corsets and goggles, airships and weird science, all with a sexy twist.
(If you’d like to see what sorts of things we have in mind, you can purchase and download Like a Wisp of Steam from circlet.com.)
Electronic submissions only, via email to msjblackmore at Gmail.com.
General guidelines:
There's lots of specifics to be read on both these, so check out the general Circlet guidelines here: http://www.circlet.com/?page_id=5
Deadline for both is April 1st.
No reprints, no non-consensual sex, no horror. Typically we prefer 4000 - 7000 words, but it's flexible.
Pay is $25 for the non-exclusive ebook rights, and an additional $25 if the book gets a print edition.
Feel free to pass this call on to folks you think might be interested! If we end up extending the deadline, you'll see a note go up in our LJ comm:
circletpressThe Spanish novel Amadís de Gaula ought to be famous. Instead, especially outside of Spain, few people besides scholars have even heard of it. I wondered why.
Based medieval tales of chivalry, the book became Europe's first best-seller in the early 1500s, and it inspired a century of popular sequels and spinoffs in seven languages. Miguel de Cervantes satirized these novels a century later in Don Quixote, and that's how I first heard of it. In fact, if it weren't for Quixote, Amadís would be even more obscure.
And yet at one time even illiterate people knew all about Amadís. How did something so popular become so forgotten?
Most literary histories say that due to Quixote's devastating attacks, and due to a decline in the quality of the stories, chivalric novels simply because unfashionable. But after a little research, I don't think so.
First, not all critics agree that the quality fell, although the writing did change. Some authors began to treat the theme of knights and love with realism, others with increasing fantasy. But critics and defenders alike agreed that they were entertaining — and for some moralists, entertaining meant "worthless time-waster." Worst of all, these books were fantasy.
Despite fewer editions of new books and fewer reprints of existing books as the 1500s drew to a close, the books gained more and more critics in the 1600s. No one complains about something unless it is actually happening. People kept reading and even writing the books all across Europe.
But now the readers weren't kings and other very important people: they were increasingly women, especially young women and girls. A few women even wrote chivalric novels. All the books began to include more female protagonists.
That was just too much for moralists: "They are golden pills that, with a layer of delicious entertainment . . . fill hearts with such ideas about love that, serving as example, decay in young women and ruin their honest estate of modesty and sense of shame," wrote Benito Remigio Noydens in 1666.
The Spanish Inquisition targeted the novels. Royal decrees limited and finally outlawed their reprinting. The libraries of noble families quietly disposed of them. In other countries, the books received equal condemnation.
Amadís was banned. It wasn't forgotten; it was expurgated from respectable literary memory.
Stephen King says this about banned books: "Run, don't walk, to the first library or bookstore you can find and read what they are trying to keep out of your eyes because that is exactly what you need to know."
So I am translating Amadis de Gaula into English. Read a new chapter a week at http://www.amadisofgaul.blogspot.com You can also follow as a LiveJournal syndicated feed at http://syndicated.livejournal.com/amadis
Violence, sex, adventure, sorcery, intrigue, and danger — medieval style. What will it do to you?
- Location:Madrid, Spain
The Rapid-Fire-Reading on Friday night at Arisia in Cambridge was terrific. Nice to have a full room of people laughing, smiling, creeping out.
OK, as most everyone knows by now, the official Preliminary Nebula Ballot has been released, and it contains several Broad Universe members, including yours truly!
* Ursula K. Le Guin is up for her novel "Powers," the third book in her YA series, "Annals of the Western Shores."
* Samantha Henderson (samhenderson) is up for her truly beautiful short story "Bottles," which is available for download at Anthology Builder.
* My story, "The Hotel Astarte," will also be available at Anthology Builder as part of a special 2009 Nebula Awards Anthology that Nancy Fulda (nancyfulda) is putting together. She's trying to collect all the short works together in one reasonably-priced antho so folks don't have to chase every story down individually. I think it's a great idea!
Meanwhile, anyone who's so inclined can read "The Hotel Astarte" online or download the PDF.
Congratulations, Broads!
* Ursula K. Le Guin is up for her novel "Powers," the third book in her YA series, "Annals of the Western Shores."
* Samantha Henderson (
samhenderson) is up for her truly beautiful short story "Bottles," which is available for download at Anthology Builder. * My story, "The Hotel Astarte," will also be available at Anthology Builder as part of a special 2009 Nebula Awards Anthology that Nancy Fulda (
nancyfulda) is putting together. She's trying to collect all the short works together in one reasonably-priced antho so folks don't have to chase every story down individually. I think it's a great idea!Meanwhile, anyone who's so inclined can read "The Hotel Astarte" online or download the PDF.
Congratulations, Broads!
The Broad Universe blog is stop #4 on my Virtual Book Tour for The Textile Planet. I decided to include Broad Universe for the simple reason that I can. I’m a member of the group: I’ve got the ebb, the flow, the wax, the wane. No one (except maybe M.K.) is going to stop me. So there you go and here I am.
So far I’ve been to Ambling along the Aqueduct (Aqueduct Press blog), Medieval Bookworm (not yet posted), and Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews, spreading the word about BookViewCafe.com and The Textile Planet.
The Textile Planet, as well as all of the content at BookViewCafe.com, is totally free. New episodes go up every other week. This particular work of speculative fiction involves one Marla Gershe who coordinates fashion shows on the Textile Planet. She has the day job from hell and pretty much loses all sense of proportion one work day, landing herself in an insane asylum. I don’t know what happens after that because I haven’t gotten to it yet. Suffice it to say, she’s messed up.
My work is heavily influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut. I love the way he inserted graphics into the text in Breakfast of Champions so I’ve done a bit of that in The Textile Planet. Instead of graphics, though, I’ve included sound files and links and even a slide show in episode 4. I love quirky, sardonic, surrealistic writing so that’s what I write. I invite the BU folks go take a look and tell me what they think. And suggest more content. I’m slowing down with that and need more ideas.
Regarding bookviewcafe.com: this is a relatively new site and I’m very glad to be involved with it. It’s a place for established authors to take advantage of new Internet publishing paradigms. In other words we’re serving free fiction in the hopes of increasing our readership. We’ve got some pretty impressive writers in our group some of whom are Broads: Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne Harris, Nancy Jane Moore, Jennifer Stevenson, Amy Sterling Casil, Sylvia Kelso, and me. In all there are 20 print published writers in the group, with expansion scheduled for sometime in 2009. It’s been an exciting but exhausting launch and I’m proud to be able to participate in the project.
Do take a look and let us know what you think: BookViewCafe.com
and of course, The Textile Planet.
So far I’ve been to Ambling along the Aqueduct (Aqueduct Press blog), Medieval Bookworm (not yet posted), and Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews, spreading the word about BookViewCafe.com and The Textile Planet.
The Textile Planet, as well as all of the content at BookViewCafe.com, is totally free. New episodes go up every other week. This particular work of speculative fiction involves one Marla Gershe who coordinates fashion shows on the Textile Planet. She has the day job from hell and pretty much loses all sense of proportion one work day, landing herself in an insane asylum. I don’t know what happens after that because I haven’t gotten to it yet. Suffice it to say, she’s messed up.
My work is heavily influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut. I love the way he inserted graphics into the text in Breakfast of Champions so I’ve done a bit of that in The Textile Planet. Instead of graphics, though, I’ve included sound files and links and even a slide show in episode 4. I love quirky, sardonic, surrealistic writing so that’s what I write. I invite the BU folks go take a look and tell me what they think. And suggest more content. I’m slowing down with that and need more ideas.
Regarding bookviewcafe.com: this is a relatively new site and I’m very glad to be involved with it. It’s a place for established authors to take advantage of new Internet publishing paradigms. In other words we’re serving free fiction in the hopes of increasing our readership. We’ve got some pretty impressive writers in our group some of whom are Broads: Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne Harris, Nancy Jane Moore, Jennifer Stevenson, Amy Sterling Casil, Sylvia Kelso, and me. In all there are 20 print published writers in the group, with expansion scheduled for sometime in 2009. It’s been an exciting but exhausting launch and I’m proud to be able to participate in the project.
Do take a look and let us know what you think: BookViewCafe.com
and of course, The Textile Planet.
- Karen A. Romanko's poem up at Strange Horizons. New BU member Karen A. Romanko's (ravenelectrick) poem "The Invisible Woman Runs for President" has just gone live at Strange Horizons. More information on the poem's genesis during the heat of the presidential primaries can be found on Karen's Journal.
- Catherine Lundoff nominated for Lambda Award. Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories is a 2008 Lambda Literary Award nominee for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. The anthology, released from Lethe Press in 2008 and edited by Catherine Lundhoff, features stories written by mostly female authors and all feature female protagonists. In addition, two stories from the book are nominated for the Sir Julius Vogel Award, given for sf/f/h by New Zealand residents.
Do you have a book that needs to be reviewed? Would you like it reviewed in the Broadsheet? Contact deepforestowl!
Also, we are looking for reviewers! If you would like to review books, also contactdeepforestowl. We pay $25 a review! Could be a little extra in the grocery bag! Next deadline is 1/29/09.
deepforestowl! Also, we are looking for reviewers! If you would like to review books, also contact
deepforestowl. We pay $25 a review! Could be a little extra in the grocery bag! Next deadline is 1/29/09.- Location:my room where else
- Mood:
busy
In the interest of shameless self-promotion, I present the following news tidbit. (If you've got news of a publication or sale, this might be a good place to promote it. ;o)
My story "The Dragon's Child" is now up at Beneath Ceaseless Skies!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a fantastic new online magazine specializing in literary adventure fantasy. BCS pays pro rates, and if we want those sort of venues to make it, we have to support them however we can. Please go have a read, and subscribe while you're there (it's free, BTW).
My story "The Dragon's Child" is now up at Beneath Ceaseless Skies!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a fantastic new online magazine specializing in literary adventure fantasy. BCS pays pro rates, and if we want those sort of venues to make it, we have to support them however we can. Please go have a read, and subscribe while you're there (it's free, BTW).
- Call For Submissions: Olympic Themes. Eternal Press is looking for sports, athlete, hero, inspirational, olympic, para-olympic type stories 10,000 to 50,000 words in length. The deadline to submit is August 31, 2009. These books are scheduled to be released to coincide with the 2010 Winter Olympics. Guidelines here.
- Marcia Colette's 'Stripped' to be published by Samhain. Samhain Press has offered BU member Marcia Colette a contract for her urban fantasy Stripped. Suffering from amnesia, half-werewolf and sniper Alexa Wells is trying to put her unusual life back together while being stalked by a lunatic who's a master at mind control.
- More Broad EPPIE Finalists. Two more Broads have been nominated for EPPIE Awards! Willing Sacrifice, by BU's Gloria Oliver, has been nominated for Best Fantasy. "Summersong", by Sheri L. McGathy, is a finalist in the novella/short story category.
- Ann Wilkes in Best of Every Day Fiction 2008. Every Day Fiction's Best of Every Day Fiction 2008 is now available, and in it you can find Ann Wilkes' SF story, "The Heist." The Best of Every Day Fiction 2008 brings together one hundred flash fiction pieces in a variety of genres from writers around the world. The paperback is $15.95, and if you want a copy signed by Ann, email her and she'll get it to you for the same price and free shipping.
- Call for Submissions: Okal Rel Universe Anthology. Shelia Flesher, of the Prince George Public Library, will edit the fourth anthology of stories set in the Okal Rel Universe. As the companion anthology to Part 4: Throne Price in the main series, the anthology will feature stories with a resonating theme of Shelia's choice. Guidelines here.
Oh dear oh dear, only a few weeks into the BU LJ revitalization effort, and I've already fallen behind. I blame the Bush administration, but fortunately that excuse isn't going to fly much longer.
Without further ado, this week's news ...
Without further ado, this week's news ...
- Convent of the Pure gets release date! Sara M. Harvey's novel Convent of the Pure has been assigned a publication date -- April 1st 2009!
- Sue Burke's "Werewolves of Chernobyl" available. Sue Burke's latest story "Werewolves of Chernobyl" is available in the WolfSinger Press anthology WolfSongs: Volume I available from Lulu and from Amazon. Another of her stories,"Normalized Death", is available at the online magazine Flash Fiction Online.
- Erotic Sci-Fi "Advent Calendar." 'Tis the season for gift-giving and independent publisher Circlet Press is in the spirit. Each day of December up to the 23rd, a free story will appear at circlet.com in what the publisher calls their "Erotic Sci-Fi Advent Calendar." Just like the advent calendars which deliver a chocolate treat each day, circlet.com will have one delicious short story of erotic fantasy or erotic science fiction. Stories will only be up for 24 hours, though, so visitors must return each day to collect their next gift. Enjoy!
- Lynda Hillburn's Blood Song. New BU member Lynda Hilburn's latest publications include Dark Harvest, the second book in the "Kismet Knight, Vampire Psychologist" series, which was just was released in October of 2008. (The first book was The Vampire Shrink, released October, 2007. Her short story "Blood Song" will appear in the upcoming anthology, Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance available Feb. '09 in the UK and April '09 in the USA.
- Anne Wilkes gets published! Anne Wilkes' first sale to a print mag as well as first sale to the 9-18 age group is the story "For Chance to Dream". It will be in the July issue of Beyond Centauri.
- EPPIE Finalists! Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad, edited by BU member Danielle Ackley-McPhail and with stories by Trisha Wooldridge, Christy Tohara, C.S. Haviland , L. Jagi Lamplighter, Elaine Corvidae, and Skyla Dawn Cameron, from Marietta Publishing, is nominated for best Anthology EPPIE Award! In the horror category, BU author Kim Richards represents the women with her story "Death Masks." In non-fiction, The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing, co-authored by Mayra Calvani, was nominated. The Electronically Published Internet Connection (EPIC) presents the 9th annual EPPIE Awards, which honor the finest electronically published books of the year. Winners will be presented at the EPPIE Banquet during EPICon 2009.
Broad Universe member Brenda Cooper has won the 2008 Endeavour Award for her book The Silver Ship and the Sea. The award honors a distinguished Science Fiction or Fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year, and was presented this evening before the opening ceremonies of Orycon 30.
The nominees for the 2008 Endeavour Award were:
*The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari
*Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
*Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest (cmpriest)
*Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
*The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper (bjcooper)
Congratulations, Brenda -- and congratulations to all the nominees!
The nominees for the 2008 Endeavour Award were:
*The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari
*Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
*Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest (
cmpriest)*Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
*The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper (
bjcooper)Congratulations, Brenda -- and congratulations to all the nominees!
Syndicate
Page Summary
- catherineldf : RFR looking for writers [+0]
- j_cheney : Broad Universe RFR at Wiscon [+3]
- j_cheney : Wiscon, Opening Ceremonies [+6]
- las : World Fantasy Convention in 2010 [+2]
- octoberland : Circlet Press Call for Submissions [+0]
- newfoundspecfic : NewFoundSpecFic - Submissions Opened for Volume 2 [+0]
- kim_richards : Call for submissions [+0]
- mkhobson : Broad Universe RFR at Norwescon 32! [+0]
- alaneer : Call for Submissions [+0]
- ceciliatan : New calls for submissions [+0]
- mount_oregano : Why "Amadis of Gaul" was banned: women liked it [+0]
- phoebewray : (no subject) [+0]
- mkhobson : Le Guin, Henderson & Hobson make Preliminary Nebula Ballot [+2]
- scusteister : Sue Lange’s Virtual Book Tour [+2]
- mkhobson : Happy Holidays from Broad Universe! [+0]
- deepforestowl : Book Review? [+9]
- j_cheney : Publication [+5]
- mkhobson : Mostly-Fresh News from Broad Universe [+3]
- mkhobson : It's news time! [+0]
- mkhobson : Brenda Cooper wins Endeavour Award! [+0]