Secret Project Revealed!

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Good morning, gentle viewers!

Oh, I'm so excited.

If you've been around these parts for a while, you'll remember a series of posts about SuperWomen. Ever since I was a kid, I longed to see female superheroes, but as we all know, they're rather thin on the ground. After my recent post about superhero clothing and the sexist attitudes toward women displayed by the creators, I got to thinking.

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Building on the media buzz of women in geek culture, friend and fellow writer Emmie Mears has banded together with fellow SuperWomen editors to celebrate the role of women in geekdom... Geeks, Writers, Countrypeople, go check it out!

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2013

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$2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition

Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2013 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-one year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard. Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway, is the author of three critically acclaimed books: Walking into the River, Walk on Water, and A World Turned Over.

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A great contest for those of you practiced in the shorter form of fiction, with a lovely prize for its winners. Go forth, fellow writers!

Why I Love Fantasy

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This week I had a conversation in which I defended a book I have never read because the primary criticism I heard leveled against it was simply that "it has magic." My response was, equally simply, "what's wrong with magic?" The magical and the fantastic has long been seen unfairly, in the minds of some "serious" readers, as fundamentally lesser works or as lacking in basic literary merit.

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Good morning, happy people. Today I draw your attention to this essay on Fantasy, from the Self Aware Nerd. Quality stuff--and includes classy Tolkien being classy. Read on!

Hitting the Road

So long, Colorado! It’s been…something.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone!

May your costume be better than this…

And your candy be plentiful.

If in London, please watch out for Werewolves.

Form for All: Collage and the Art of the Cento

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Samuel Peralta here...

A collage is an artistic technique, whereby a piece of artwork is assembled from fragments of art from numerous sources, creating a new whole.

While its origins may be traced back hundreds of years, modern collage is said to have begun with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, who led the Cubist school of painting. Braque is said to have applied the technique first to his charcoal drawings, applying cut swatches of textured wallpaper to his drawings; almost simultaneously, Picasso began pasting materials to his oil paintings.

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Poet among Poets, Semaphore, is talking the art of the beautiful Cento on FormForAll--showing that even the patchwork can be beautiful.

How Dead Are Vampires?

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I love vampires.

I think I've mentioned it before, but it was Christopher Pike's Last Vampire series that did it for me first. I was about eight years old (I know, precocious) when I read them, and I loved all of them. I was entranced by the idea of someone old enough to have been around when Krishna walked the earth, and at the time I didn't even know who Krishna was.

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Join the wonderful Emmie and a host of toothy smileys on the path to poking that Vampiric genre...

Writing Wednesday: Guerrilla Editing

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I've had my nose in a bunch of books lately in regards to novel structure and the nit-grit oft-ignored parts of creating a polished story. All of that used to seem about as romantic and creative as scraping the walls of a septic tank, so back when I finished my first novel, I just ignored it. Much like I would ignore anyone who told me to scrape the walls of a septic tank.

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Marvelous battle plan from writer Emmie Mears. Get the grenades. You'll need them for this editing session. (If you've not yet basked in her equal parts wit, humor, and style, you're not trying hard enough.)

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2012: Extended Deadline: May 31

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**IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to a web hosting problem that has now been resolved, we have extended our 2012 deadline to May 31, 2012. This applies to our 2012 competition only.

$2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition

Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2012 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a 32-year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard.

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Indie Film Distributor Calling for Independent SciFi Films

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If you make independent science fiction films and are looking for a distributor, check out Fuzion Filmz' call for movies at the SF-Fandom forums.

Fuzion Filmz say they have 25 years' experience at distributing independent films and they want to help science fiction film-makers find a market.

If you want to respond in the SF-Fandom forums and have trouble registering, feel free to…

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Always a good thing to see!