Jan. 19, 2011 -- 3:35 p.m.
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I am an unrepentant escapist—one of those nerdy 28 year olds who still curls up with Frodo and Gandalf at midnight. This blog is a celebration of all SFF, but is especially targeted at people like me, who are up and coming speculative fiction writers.
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Writer's toolbox
Link-tacular!:
• Absolute Write (Community resources)
• Agent Query (Because your dream agent is one click away)
• Analog (Sci-fi mag)
• Asimov's (Ditto)
• Goodreads (Find books, share books, love books)
• Locus (News & more)
• Myrtle the Manuscript (the true, dramatic saga...)
• Predators & Editors (Writers' resources galore)
• Thesaurus (Know it. Use it.)
• "Turkey City" Lexicon (Laugh and admit it: you know what you are)
• Word Count (Ranks 86,800 words by common usage. The least common word? Conquistador!)
• A Word a Day (Keeps the doctor away. Today's is "Pickwickian")
• Writer Beware (Don't get scammed)
• Writer Gazette (Job board)
• Writer's Markets (Calls for submissions for SF/F/H and misc.)
Blogroll:
• The Art Department (Tor's Art Director, Irene Gallo)
• Authorial, Agently and Personal Ramblings (Lucienne Diver)
• Big Fat Epic Blog (Blog of Ryan Curtis, not about greek weddings)
• Brandon Sanderson (A blog for...Brandon Sanderson. Betcha didn't see that one coming!)
• Editorial Anonymous (Anonymous children's book editor)
• Editorial Ass (Once an editorial assistant, now an editor. There's light at the end of the tunnel!)
• Et in Arcaedia, ego (Blog of Jennifer Jackson, Jim Butcher's Agent)
• Evil Editor (He's why you won't EVER get published)
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Children's/Fantasy writers unite)
• Genrewonk (S. Andrew Swann)
• Hatrack River (Orson Scott Card)
• THE INTERN (Anonymous peruser of slush piles)
• Jim's Livejournal (Jim Butcher's livejournal)
• John Crowley Little and Big (John Crowley's blog)
• Lit Soup (Agent Jenny Rappaport's blog -- coincidentally, uses the same template as my other blog...)
• Lyon's Literary LLC (Jonathan Lyons agency)
• Making Light (Haydens...ATTACK!)
• Miss Snark (We miss you!)
• Nathan Bransford (Agent)
• Neil Gaiman's Journal (author of American Gods and Anasi Boys)
• Not a Blog (GRRM's Lj)
• Novembrance (Luisa Perkins)
• POD-dy Mouth (RIP: Gone but never forgotten)
• Pub Rants (Agent Kristin Nelson)
• Query Shark (Just when you thought it might be safe to get back in the water...)
• The Rejector (Lit agency assistant)
• SF Signal (Everything Sci-Fi)
• Slushpile.net (Hee hee, check out the comments under 'About Us' for a few people in need of the clue-gun)
• Suvudu (Random House's Sci-Fi/Fantasy blog)
• The Swivet (Agent Colleen Lindsay)
• Tor.com (Tor's community)
• Writer Beware Blog (Still saving us from ourselves)
Got a link I should have? Post it to me on comments.
• Absolute Write (Community resources)
• Agent Query (Because your dream agent is one click away)
• Analog (Sci-fi mag)
• Asimov's (Ditto)
• Goodreads (Find books, share books, love books)
• Locus (News & more)
• Myrtle the Manuscript (the true, dramatic saga...)
• Predators & Editors (Writers' resources galore)
• Thesaurus (Know it. Use it.)
• "Turkey City" Lexicon (Laugh and admit it: you know what you are)
• Word Count (Ranks 86,800 words by common usage. The least common word? Conquistador!)
• A Word a Day (Keeps the doctor away. Today's is "Pickwickian")
• Writer Beware (Don't get scammed)
• Writer Gazette (Job board)
• Writer's Markets (Calls for submissions for SF/F/H and misc.)
Blogroll:
• The Art Department (Tor's Art Director, Irene Gallo)
• Authorial, Agently and Personal Ramblings (Lucienne Diver)
• Big Fat Epic Blog (Blog of Ryan Curtis, not about greek weddings)
• Brandon Sanderson (A blog for...Brandon Sanderson. Betcha didn't see that one coming!)
• Editorial Anonymous (Anonymous children's book editor)
• Editorial Ass (Once an editorial assistant, now an editor. There's light at the end of the tunnel!)
• Et in Arcaedia, ego (Blog of Jennifer Jackson, Jim Butcher's Agent)
• Evil Editor (He's why you won't EVER get published)
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Children's/Fantasy writers unite)
• Genrewonk (S. Andrew Swann)
• Hatrack River (Orson Scott Card)
• THE INTERN (Anonymous peruser of slush piles)
• Jim's Livejournal (Jim Butcher's livejournal)
• John Crowley Little and Big (John Crowley's blog)
• Lit Soup (Agent Jenny Rappaport's blog -- coincidentally, uses the same template as my other blog...)
• Lyon's Literary LLC (Jonathan Lyons agency)
• Making Light (Haydens...ATTACK!)
• Miss Snark (We miss you!)
• Nathan Bransford (Agent)
• Neil Gaiman's Journal (author of American Gods and Anasi Boys)
• Not a Blog (GRRM's Lj)
• Novembrance (Luisa Perkins)
• POD-dy Mouth (RIP: Gone but never forgotten)
• Pub Rants (Agent Kristin Nelson)
• Query Shark (Just when you thought it might be safe to get back in the water...)
• The Rejector (Lit agency assistant)
• SF Signal (Everything Sci-Fi)
• Slushpile.net (Hee hee, check out the comments under 'About Us' for a few people in need of the clue-gun)
• Suvudu (Random House's Sci-Fi/Fantasy blog)
• The Swivet (Agent Colleen Lindsay)
• Tor.com (Tor's community)
• Writer Beware Blog (Still saving us from ourselves)
Got a link I should have? Post it to me on comments.
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“For he is an unrepetant escapist. His plays spin fancies in a clear air. He just doesn’t like his fellow-men, and cares less for their continuously clumsy though well-meaning attempts to straighten things out.”
-William Kozlenko
-William Kozlenko
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Hm, Alvin's not done, Ender seems to be going on forever, Pathfinder just got started...yup, looks like OSC's going to live well into the century after this.