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Scop 101
scop (skop) — n (in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel an Anglo-Saxon minstrel, usually attached to a particular royal court, although scops also traveled to various courts to recite their...
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2011 World Fantasy Awards Ballot
The World Fantasy Convention 2011 will be held October 27-30 in San Diego, California. Judges are Andrew Hook, Sascha Mamczak, Mark Rich, Sean Wallace, and Kim Wilkins Life Achievement winner Peter S....
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New Trailer for Gaslight Arcanum
The good people at Edge did a terrific job on this new trailer for Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes. The trailer features a catchy soundtrack, illustrations from the book, and photos...
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I’ll Meet You in the Gaslight
If you missed the Bitten By Books event last week, you can still access highlights at The Gaslight Gallery, a new blog sponsored by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. The blog features some...
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Everything you want to know about writing … and then some.
Any questions? Lots of presenters conclude with that phrase. I’m different. I like to start with it. The strategy may not be as harebrained as it sounds. I’ll explain. I’ve just returned from my...
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“Dramatize it! Dramatize it!”
In my previous post I promised to spend time responding to questions submitted during my most recent presentation on “The Art of Revision” at Seton Hill University. If you want to know more about the...
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Communing with the Masters
It’s about community, not competition. A number of people have submitted emails in response to the news post I put up yesterday, and some have asked about the meaning of the Dante quote: e più d’onore...
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Voices & Music at Jozart Center for the Arts: A Stoker Homecoming
What is the sound of horror? We explored the question at last week’s World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, with a multi-media reading from Voices: Tales of Horror. As part of the on-going...
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Monster Wrangled!
Mission accomplished . . . but of course I had expert help from the fourteen talented writers who attended the presentation. Together, we considered how to effectively present strange creatures in...
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