Been editing celebrity bios for the Dragon*Con program book all day. My absolute definition of editorial hell. My happy place is people on fire right now. Stabbity.
Received my Dragon*Con guest schedule. Here’s what I’ll be doing when I’m not shackled to my desk at Daily Dragon headquarters:
• Friday 9/4, Noon: Guest lecture – “Marketing Short Fiction” for Ann Crispin’s Beginner Writers Workshop.
• Saturday 9/5, 1PM: “Y’all vs. You Guys: Regional SF and Fantasy” – Southern science fiction/fantasy is often a genre to itself. Other parts of the world have their own flavor. Fairlie (Hyatt).
• Saturday 9/5, 4PM: Autograph signing. M301-M304 (Marriott).
• Sunday 9/6, 2:30PM: “Bite Me!” – The First Ladies of the Fang discuss trends in vampire fiction…and maybe more! (Moderator) Regency VI – VII (Hyatt).
The vampire one is the first panel I’ve ever moderated so I’m rather nervous about it. It’s also in one of the big, main programming rooms, so strike “nervous” and insert “strangled by butterflies.” Yeah. I’ll be doing some research beforehand for that one…
Blinding headache, yet I’m revved and raring to go—prolly due to the cocktail of uppers, Sudafed, coffee, and Excedrin I took. Healthy lifestyle, pfft, I say. Also, ow.
Been invited to speak at the 2010 Asian Festival of Children’s Content by the National Book Development Council of Singapore. Coolness. And they’re offering to cover my hotel, food, and local transportation expenses. But that leaves me with managing the airfare to Singapore. Urk.
My story “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” is now out in the August issue of Apex Magazine. Free fiction! Go read!
The Carl Brandon Society is now taking nominations for their 2008 Parallax and Kindred awards through September 1st.
The Parallax Award is for an outstanding speculative fiction work by a self-identified writer of color and the Kindred Award is for an outstanding speculative fiction work dealing with race and ethnicity. (The same work can be nominated for both awards.) There’s a (growing) list of stories and collections published in 2008 on the Carl Brandon Society wiki for perusal.
Shameless self-promotion: Both “Daughter of Botu” and “A Thread of Silk” (in RMSF) were both originally published in 2008.
To nominate, go here.
Also wanted to passing along a call for poetry via Alas from poets of color by CavanKerry Press that I received from rachel_swirsky:
Decisions about manuscripts received during our Winter 2009 submission period are in the final stage and decisions will be completed soon.
Absent among our finalists are titles by authors of color. We’d like to include a more diverse population of writers – and perhaps you can help.
If you know any writers of color whose work is ready for publication, we’d appreciate your notifying them to submit asap.
Writers must reside in the United States and manuscripts must be in polished state—ready for publication. Writers may submit for one category: New Voices (not yet a published author), Notable Voices or LaurelBooks. Writers should go to www.cavankerrypress.org, for more information and read CKP’s guidelines carefully. We will accept submissions until August 31.
Thanks so much.
Joan
Joan Cusack Handler
CavanKerry Press Ltd.
A not -for-profit literary press serving art and community
www.cavankerrypress.org
The announcement is located here (posted by a white Jewish poet who writes poems about the cultural intersection between him and his Iranian wife, among other things).
Day one of my three-day weekend and I’m utterly unmotivated to heft any of the bazillion hamsters in need of juggling. Stupid hamsters. Stupid brain.
Yay! Sold my story “The End of the Universe” (reprint) to Drabblecast.
Speaking of podcasts, just saw that “Daughter of Bótù” is now up at PodCastle. *Squee!*
Elbow deep in Georgia code, only slightly more fun than a Brillo Pad to the eye. But at least I’m catching up on lotso podcast episodes. Page proofs and new supplement/volume checking is fairly mindless, ideal for sticking in headphones and savoring some fabulous audio fiction.
