1/03/2011

News Post 575

At the New Authors' Fellowship, Ren Black has kicked off the Renegade Project, where YOU the reader get to choose how the story goes on. Comment to participate:
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/renegade-project-1/

Brandon Barr gives another sneak peek at his upcoming novel After the Cross:
http://christiansciencefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/after-cross-sneak-peek-part-2.html

Author C.S. Lakin has a new website:
http://www.cslakin.com/

Robert Treskillard reviews Sword in the Stars by Wayne Thomas Batson:
http://www.epictales.org/blog/robertblog.php/2011/01/01/title-6

Maurice Broaddus gives us the rundown of all his short stories for sale at Angry Robot:
http://mauricebroaddus.com/?p=2611

Janalyn Voigt interviews James Rubart:
http://bookreaderscentral.blogspot.com/2011/01/meet-and-greet-james-l-rubart.html

Marcher Lord Press has acquired Oxygen and The Fifth Man by Randy Ingermanson and John Olson - more at TitleTrakk:
http://titletrakkbooknews.blogspot.com/2011/01/marcher-lord-press-acquires-oxygen.html

1/02/2011

News Post 574

Yellow30 Sci-Fi has posted its list of the decade's best 25 small-press titles:
http://yellow30scifi.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/the-top-25-books/

James L. Rubart is the guest of honour at this month's Where The Map Ends interview:
http://www.wherethemapends.com/Interviews/current_interview.htm

Residential Aliens ezine, edited by LGG member Lyn Perry, is nominated in the Preditors & Editors poll - go vote here:
http://www.critters.org/predpoll/fictionzine.shtml

Kat Heckenbach has posted the latest in her series on fantasy art:
http://kat-findingangel.blogspot.com/2011/01/inordinate-fondness-for-beetles.html

Janalyn Voigt talks about appearing on Clash of the Titles:
http://kdawnbyrd.blogspot.com/2010/12/clash-of-titles-janalyn-voigt-giveaway.html

And for writers: an exhaustive list of questions to ask yourself about your story - great for getting it unstuck:
http://thescriptlab.com/the-formula/story/development/26-story-questionnaire