by Monica Valentinelli
The key with any marketing plan built around your personality is to be yourself. Both you and your work are unique, so you owe it to yourself to pick and choose how you want to market you and your books.
by Jennifer Brozek
I am a great fan of writing and reading stories about protagonists in a heap of trouble digging themselves out to win the day. Rosemary and Rue is exactly that kind of book.
by Sarah Brandel
If you’ve been thinking about submitting a novel to Apex but you haven’t quite gotten around to it, yet, it’s time to kick your submission process into high gear. Apex Book Company will be closing to novel submissions on June 30th. Any novel queries we receive after that date will be deleted unread.
We’re looking for dark SF/fantasy and horror novels between 50,000 and 100,000 words in length. Please make sure to read our submissions guidelines before submitting.
by Jennifer Brozek
Vampires are the apex predator in fiction today. They are deadly, sexy, enticing, terrifying, and ideal as both a menace and an attraction. We love to read about these intriguing monsters. Love to defeat them. Love to be defeated by them. John Joseph Adams put together a collection of vampire stories that not only flows well together but shows off the best and worst aspects of our favorite creature of the night.
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Tagged anne rice, By Blood We Live, elizabeth bear, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen, jennifer brozek, joe hill, John Joseph Adams, John Lanagan, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, michael a. burstein, neil gaiman, Night Shade Books, Reviews, Stephen King, Tad Williams
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by David Jack Bell
Now that I’ve had a book come out and another one on the way, I’ve become accustomed to the questions people like to ask authors. How do you think this stuff up? is a big one, as well as, How did you get published? I expected those questions and had heard other writers discuss—sometimes humorously—the ways they responded to those inquiries. But there’s one question I get that appears simple to answer but which always leaves me a little tongue-tied:
How long did it take you to write this?
by Gord Sellar
The first time someone called me hyeong, I had no idea what it meant.
by Tracy Chowdhury
Co-author of the Chronicles of Shandahar talks about her experience with self-publishing.
by Brock Cooper
There has been many a night when I have stayed up way past any sane hour contemplating why zombies have this natural need to eat human flesh, especially the brain.
by Brian Freeman
There are huge changes coming to Cemetery Dance, starting with issue #61.
by Brock Cooper
Zombie Strippers is one of the few zombie movies out there that has more saline implants than dead bodies…and there are a lot of dead bodies.
by Kaolin Fire
An odd thing happened last year: it was decided (and by decided I mean by fandom, The World Science Fiction Society, not some nefarious overlord somewhere) that the “Best Semiprozine” award had lost its luster. And if that decision is ratified this year, then that’s that. So Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine (a 2009 Hugo Nominee for “Best Semiprozine”) has created and spear-headed http://savesemiprozine.org/ as an educational campaign for the preservation of the award.
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Tagged beneath ceaseless skies, celebrity blog, clarkesworld magazine, hugo awards, Kaolin Fire, locus magazine, save the semiprozine, savesemiprozine.org, shimmer magazine, sidewise awards, worldcon
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by Maggie Jamison
A Note: Before writing this review, I want to make something perfectly clear. I have—in the past—been mostly a Next Generation viewer, and have not had much exposure to The Original Series. I have a working knowledge of characters, minor plot elements, alien species, and that’s about it. So for you out there in my shoes, this review is for you. For those hard-core trekkers who are mortified that I even mentioned Next Gen in the opening paragraph of this review: I bow to your greater Trek knowledge and beg you not to set your phasers to kill
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Tagged bones, chris pine, kirk, next generation, scotty, spock, star trek, sulu, the original series, uhura, zachary quinto, zoe saldana
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by Sarah Brandel
Lately it seems that every time I turn around there’s another movie being remade. Or a classic series being re-imagined. This isn’t necessarily a recent trend, but it makes me wonder why. Are filmmakers out of ideas? Is there really nothing new under the sun? However, the more I think about it, the more examples I find of people recycling or reusing stories, both inside and outside the film industry.
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Tagged anne rice, death note, fairy tales, fullmetal alchemist, life on mars, midnight sun, myths, o brother where art thou?, pamela dean, re-imagining, restart, retelling, spider-man, star trek, stephanie meyer, the grudge, the office, the ring, twilight, x-men
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by Jacob Kier
A good portion of us love to see the world end. Civilization grinding to a halt thrills us. A ravaged city leaves us breathless. Whether it’s an uprising of the living dead, alien invasion, plague, nuclear holocaust, natural disaster, or some other harbinger of total destruction, we cheer, “Bring it on!” But why does the destruction of the planet, the human race itself, fascinate us?
Psst! In case you didn’t already know, Ekhi, the main character in Paul Jessup’s Open Your Eyes, has a Twitter feed covering events leading up to the start of the book.
by Maggie Jamison
MIT has put together a huge catalog of its classes—many of them, to my delight, physics and math classes—and posted them for free on the OpenCourseWare web site. You don’t have to sign up for anything (payment is purely voluntary via the donations link), and yet they’ve opened up a world of knowledge that I otherwise might not have access to unless I returned to college (and even then, not for free!).
by Sarah Brandel
Travel writing has been some of the best science fiction I’ve ever read.
by Alma Alexander
The moon is full. Can you see the black shadows it throws on the paths in your garden? Can you hear the whispers that come out of the dark? It is only on a night like this that I can tell you this tale, because it is only on nights like this that you will believe me.
by Jason Sizemore
We LOVE writing acceptance letters. It’s the rejections that cause us the most agony. With this in mind, I asked each of our editors to share with me the top three annoying traits they find in the Apex slush (both short story and novel). I hope you find their answers to be enlightening and entertaining.
by Sarah Brandel
If the medium is the message, which mediums might best for telling particular types of stories?
