My second anniversary.

I have another book job in. :>

The Clave workshop will prepare critiques in a few weeks. Soon, Shimmer #11 will go to the printers.

I consider September my anniversary month because this is when I began working for Locus and had just become staff for Shimmer.

Happy second anniversary to me!

New book for weekend.

This makes me happy. It's a writer I'm not familiar with.

EV and Shimmer are gearing up for our next issues, but in varying stages of production. Normally I don't bring up the production of any 'zines in my queue. Two are monthly, two are not, and the latter pair often arrive in proofreading around the same time.

And the SPWW (Sanctuary Press Writing Workshop) will run at ConClave 34.

Life is good. Busy.

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.