As part of being a finalist in Hugh Howey’s SPSF Contest, I was asked to guest post on Shaggy Shepherd’s blog — she is one of the reviewers for the contest. You can find the post here: https://theshaggyshepherd.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/spsfc-finalist-guest-post-cameron-cooper/ Cam
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I remember the first time I noticed the Megapacks popping up on the bookstore pages among the science fiction and fantasy, because the Megapack covers are…cute, at best. At first I thought it was some fly-by-night shonky operator trying for a quick buck or two, using stories that were now in the public domain, or
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This just in… 🙂 Literally, the graphic just popped up on the SPSFC site a few minutes ago. Hammer and Crucible is one of seven books out of the original 300 to make it through the finals of the contest. The grand winner of the contest, one of the 7 finalists, will be announced on July 15th.
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It’s not the most reassuring news out there, lately. The Doomsday Clock was reset this year to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the world has ever been to global disaster. Most of the reset was prompted by the Russia/Ukraine war, but the growing environmental emergency has also weighed in. For a history of the
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For many years now, indie publishing fantasy authors have had an amazing annual contest; the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off., run by Mark Lawrence. It’s hugely popular — the latest contest reached it’s maximum number of entries (300) in only 9 hours! But straight SF isn’t allowed in the contest, so Hugh Howey, a couple of years
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Bring on the Novel! I’ve had a back-and-forth tussle with myself and with readers for over a year now, about short versus long stories. It’s not at all cut-and-dried, these days. When traditional publishing was the only game in town, everyone wrote novels. Period. More, they were very long novels–especially in this century, when paper costs
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If you’re already through the last book in the Iron Hammer series (I know some of you are very fast readers), then here’s a new one to check out from Sean Willson. Isolation is the first book in his Dark Nebula series. Check out the description and links here.
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I’ve always made the assumption (presumption, probably) that any publishing company in the business of publishing science fiction is likely ahead of the curve when it comes to technology. Afterall, Baen Books (and I believe Tor, too) have taken the stance that DRM protection on ebooks is harmful to the industry overall, and don’t put
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