We’re proud to congratulate our outgoing Grants Administrator at the SLF, Malon Edwards, on being named an Ember Award finalist for the inaugural Ignyte Awards! Malon has done amazing service to the field for more than a decade as our grants administrator, and we’re so pleased to see him getting recognized for that unsung labor. I’m […]
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Revised chapters 1-4, clean-up pass. No major changes to make in this section, so it went very fast, about 2 hours to review about 11,400 words. I have to think a little about what I’m doing at the start of chapter 5, so this seems like a good point to break for today. Going to
Okay, so here’s a state-of-the-novel-revision update. Prepare for writing geekery. I’ve been working on this book for a long time. I started it after signing with Russ Galen, who represents a lot of very successful commercial SFF authors, and I intended to write a commercial book. What does that mean? Well, I wasn’t really sure,
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August 2020—The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Carrie Callahan is the winner of the $1000 2020 Working Class Writers Grant. Callahan received the grant for her short story “The Zombie in the Yard.” She is also the recipient of a 2019 Writers of the Future Award for her short story “Dirt Road Magic,” which
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Sunday brunch segment at WGN, our local station. Shout-out to Kavi who got up at 7 a.m. (very early for a teenager) to be my videographer, and who did TikTok dances behind the iPad to make me laugh and calm me down while I was waiting for them to start. I am not sure I’ve
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Okay, binging Private Practice re-runs makes two things clear: – you should not stick so many ridiculously attractive doctors together in one practice unless you WANT them all sleeping with each other – and once again, if even some of these people were poly, it would solve so many problems. Of course, where would soap
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It’s apparently my day for Facebook groups. I’ve started that writing accountability group I mentioned, tentatively named the writing shed. I’m making it part of the SLF’s Portolan Project, but in a very low-key way for now, so it’s not too much of a time commitment for me. Please feel free to join me —
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I’m in a group for women and nonbinary writers with kids, and am seeing plaintive cries from people who are worried about maintaining writing careers this fall, in the midst of supervising e-learning, illness, etc. If you don’t need the writing income immediately, and you’re primarily worried about career-building, then honestly, I would say the
I made it to the end of this revision pass, and my SF novel, Liminal Space, stands at 79,930 words. WHEW. For those keeping track, I added close to 20K words in this drafting pass. (Not bad work for a month of dedicated summer effort. It definitely helps that the children can mostly feed themselves
It took me a while to get into writing today, but finally got to it around 11. I’d planned to go back and start implementing clean-up edits, but instead, went back into chapter 21, revising to match up better with the new material I’d added to 13, and then went on to chapter 22. I
