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Great Novel Writing Advice for Beginners - JEAN ARCHAMBAULT-WHITE - 0 views

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    Jean Archambault-White is a seasoned writer who had worked various writing jobs such as a columnist, technical writer, and freelance writer throughout her more than thirty years of experience. She has been writing since she was fourteen and was first published at the age of fifteen. Currently, Jean Archambault-White is an author who has written around four books including her riveting novel series Eloise of Westhaven. As a novelist, Jean Archambault-White is sophisticated and well-read - a manifestation of her extensive experience in the literary world.
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Basic Science Fiction Library - 0 views

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  • BAXTER, Stephen. This British hard-SF writer won the 1996 Campbell Award for The Time Ships [Amazon|Powell's], a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
  • BESTER, Alfred. The Demolished Man [Amazon|Powell's]. Flamboyant novel of murder in a world where telepathy is common. Hugo, 1953.
  • The Stars My Destination (also titled Tiger! Tiger!, 1957) [Amazon|Powell's] is another major novel, the Count of Monte Cristo in a world of teleportation.
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  • For his important short fiction, Starlight (1976) [Amazon|Powell's].
  • CADIGAN, Pat. Synners [Amazon|Powell's] won the 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Fools won the 1994 award for this author who won her first acclaim as the only female cyberpunk author at the time; soon after considered the "Queen of Cyberpunk." Patterns (1988) [Amazon|Powell's] was her first major collection of short works, and Mindplayers (1987) [Amazon|Powell's] was her breakout novel.
  • CAMPBELL, John W. The Best of John W. Campbell (1976) [Amazon|Powell's]. Influential, longtime editor of Astounding/Analog, Campbell began as a writer of space epics and then turned to writing the more subtle psychological, philosophical stories collected here.
  • DOCTOROW, Cory. Doctorow is an SF author, blogger, and technology activist. He co-edits Boing Boing and contributes to many other publications. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His fiction has been nominated for all the major awards and won the Locus Award and the Sunburst Award. Doctorow speaks frequently about copyright, technology, and post-scarcity economics. His Little Brother [Amazon|Powell's] won the 2008 John W. Campbell Award.
  • CHERRYH, C. J. Downbelow Station [Amazon|Powell's]. Hugo, 1982. This former high school Latin teacher writes about carefully designed future civilizations and alien societies, as well as fantasy novels, such as her Rusalka trilogy.
  • CLARKE, Arthur C. Childhood's End [Amazon|Powell's] (1953). A visionary, eschatological novel about Earth's children changing into pure mentality and joining the Overmind. Clarke is one of the three best-known contemporary science-fiction writers of his time (the other two were Asimov and Heinlein) and worth reading in any of his three moods: extrapolative, poetic, philosophical. Other important books: The City and the Stars (1956) [Amazon|Powell's]; Rendezvous with Rama [Amazon|Powell's], Hugo, Nebula, Campbell, 1974; The Fountains of Paradise [Amazon|Powell's], Hugo, Nebula, 1979; and the novelization of the Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [Amazon|Powell's].
  • DICK, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle [Amazon|Powell's]. The United States has lost World War II, and Japan and Germany have divided it up, except for the Rocky Mountain states, where a novelist is writing a book in which the United States won the war; one of the best of the alternate-history novels. Hugo, 1963. Dick, who died in 1982, was a prolific author whose books, all of interest, dealt often with the nature of reality: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [Amazon|Powell's] (upon which the film "Blade Runner" was based, 1968); Ubik [Amazon|Powell's] (1969); Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Campbell, 1974) [Amazon|Powell's]; and Valis (1981) [Amazon|Powell's].
  • CHARNAS, Suzy McKee. Walk to the End of the World (1974) [Amazon|Powell's] was one of the early post-holocaust feminist dystopias, followed by Motherlines (1978) [Amazon|Powell's], a feminist utopia. "Boobs" won the 1989 Hugo.
  • FARMER, Philip José. To Your Scattered Bodies Go [Amazon|Powell's]. The first novel in Farmer's Riverworld series, in which all past human beings are revived to find themselves living along the banks of a long river. Hugo, 1972. The first had Richard Burton as its hero, the second, The Fabulous Riverboat [Amazon|Powell's] (1971), Mark Twain. Farmer is prolific, and delights in reviving old heroes in fiction or fictionalized biography such as Tarzan Alive [Amazon|Powell's] (1972) and Venus on the Half Shell [Amazon|Powell's] (1975).
Sunny Jackson

Beneath Ceaseless Skies : : Submissions Guidelines - 0 views

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  • "secondary world": some other world that is different from our own primary world in some way
  • It could be different in terms of zoology (non-human creatures), ecology (climate), or physical laws (the presence of magic).
  • It could be set on Earth but an Earth different from our primary world in terms of time (the historical past) or history (alternate history).
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  • It could have a "pre-tech" level of technology, or steampunk technology, or magic as technology, or anything else that's not advanced or modern technology.
  • the setting should contain some element that is in some way fantastical.
  • The inhabitants of this secondary world should have developed their own culture in response to the uniqueness of their world.
  • The characters should fit this culture, and the qualities of the secondary world should have some bearing on the plot.
  • (You can't publish that story as a first-run or "new" story anywhere else in the world, and you can't have it appear anywhere else, in print or online or as audio, before or for ninety days after we publish it. But after that you can have it reprinted online and/or in a reprint magazine and/or in any reprint anthology, like one of the many Year's Best collections.)
  • Our favorite characters are "round characters": ones who grow and change over the course of a story instead of remaining the same.
  • Our favorite styles are lush yet still clear.
  • We have a preference for limited points-of-view, first-person or third-person, because we find it harder for a story to get deep inside a character's head from an omniscient point-of-view.
  • We find present tense occasionally pretentious and second-person point-of-view always annoying.
  • We prefer stories that are as original as possible, particularly in the setting.
  • We usually find that fairy tale-style or myth-style narratives don't provide a gritty or immediate enough perspective to make us feel the texture of the secondary world or the direness of the protagonist's struggle.
  • In addition to fantasy, we also enjoy stories set in other types of secondary world that likewise don't have modern technology, including steampunk, smoke & sorcery, weird West, sixguns & sorcery, etc.
  • very dry sense of humor
  • We prefer under 10,000 words.
  • the longer a story is, the better it must be
  • we only want self-standing stories.
  • We are not interested in reprints (stories that have previously appeared anywhere in print or online, including on a personal website or blog).
  • Multiple Submissions (more than one story submitted at a time): We do NOT accept these.
  • Please wait until you have received a reply to your submission before sending another.
  • Simultaneous Submissions (stories that are currently under submission to another market): We DO accept these, but ONLY if you state in your cover letter that your submission is simultaneous, and ONLY if you notify us IMMEDIATELY when another market accepts your story.
  • For standard acceptances, we pay 5 cents US per word, which is professional rate as defined by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
  • For this payment, we purchase the following rights: First World Serial Rights First World Electronic Rights An Option to buy Non-Exclusive World Anthology Rights An Exclusive Period to buy Limited-Time Exclusive Audio Rights
  • We strongly prefer characters who yearn for something, external or internal, and feel driven to attain it.
  • (You also can't sell the audio rights to anyone else for ninety days after we publish the story. And if during those ninety days we buy the audio rights from you, you can't have the story appear in audio form anywhere else before or for ninety days after we podcast it. But after that you can resell the audio rights, including to one of the many fiction podcast websites.)
  • We also hope that you will let us keep the story in our online archives after ninety days.
  • We are a SFWA-qualifying professional market, so any sale to us can be used to qualify the author for membership in SFWA.
  • Format your manuscript in Standard Manuscript Format. If you don't know what that is, look it up.
  • Include your name, address, and email on the first page, and a running header with your last name, the title, and page number at the top of every subsequent page.
  • We do prefer a SHORT cover letter
  • Mention the title of your story in case the attachment gets lost.
  • Type it into the body of your email.
  • If you have prior fiction sales, list the best one or two. 
  • If you've been to any writing workshops, mention them. 
  • TELL US if this is a simultaneous submission.
  • DO NOT give a synopsis or summary of your story
  • Attach your manuscript to an email
  • ".DOC" or ".RTF"
  • DO NOT send a *.DOCX file
  • Use the subject line Submission: (the title of your story)
  • your subject line MUST include the word "Submission" or our spam filter will delete your email.
  • You should receive our email auto-reply within 24 hours after sending your submission.
  • Our response times average 3-5 weeks, occasionally as long as 6-7 weeks.
  • If we post on the BCS Forums that we've replied to all submissions sent before a certain date, but you sent yours before that date, please query us using the email form on our Contact page. We really mean this; it's not necessary to wait.
  • All rejections and acceptances will be notified by email.
  • Unsolicited Rewrites:  We do not accept unsolicited rewrites of stories that we've already rejected. (That is a nearly universal policy among short fiction markets of all genres.) 
  • we don't take submissions of artwork.  But we are interested in names of artists and links to their online portfolios, so that when we are ready to buy art, we can check out their work. 
  • If you're an artist and would like us to put your name and portfolio on our list to check out the next time we're looking for artwork, feel free to send us your information using our Contact page.
Sunny Jackson

Submissions :: Angry Robot Books - 0 views

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Self-Editing Fantasy Fiction: 4 Essential Rules to Perfect Your Book - Collette Jackson... - 0 views

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