Freebie contest

At Clarkesworld. Go post and win the anthology/ARC or Paul's novel. I'm surprised this hasn't made it over to Tor.com actually, but maybe I'm premature.

Link project

Not every day, but say once a week or so, I'd like to share some of the writing tips I find. Many of them are links.

I needed some laughter a bit ago, so I went over to Scalzi (and because his post about wanting his Hugo is a riot). That took me to Justine, who pointed out Asking the Wrong Questions. Justine also covers them. I suggest reading both links.

Moonrat [editorialass] has news smatterings.

Marketing tips.

Some of the blogs and other links I find end up stored in my emails, including mailing lists.

Tonight I decided to store a post here, from Market My Words. That's the point of having labels in Blogger after all. :> Molly O'Neill, the guest blogger, talks about the importance of web presence and other tips for authors.

It's a really good post.

Discovery: editorialass

Through Tor.com, I found E.A. talking about deadlines and why it's important to hit them. She gives all sorts of really good publishing tips. I've linked her to the side of my page here.

2009 Hugo award

EV won the Hugo! Best Fanzine 2009

How's that for all sorts of awesome???

It's all John, I joined EV just after he'd picked everything for 2008-2009. I'm still excited. Huzzah!

Edited to add: Nice words from Kevin to the NYRSF staff.

I have the coolest editors. Really, I do.

Summer break: Offline

I'll be working at Pennsic War 24-July through 9-August. Please catch me when I return... or sometime before then.

I will get back into email sometime 10-August.

Thank you!

Another book inbound...

Due in June. Interestingly enough, I believe it is the same day I had a book due last summer.

And I just discovered that there is an author who has had a story come out every June for 25 years in Asimov's: James Patrick Kelly.