July’s acquisitions include:
I’m back from vacation and already processed some slush and am back into the swing of things at F&SF. However, I’m still playing catch-up with all of my freelancing work, so I’ve had no time to blog. But a trip report will be forthcoming at a later date!
Multiple-award-winning author Brian Evenson, whose novel The Open Curtain is a finalist for this year’s International Horror Guild Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book is about a Mormon boy who accidentally uncovers information about a murder committed by a grandson of Mormon prophet Brigham Young.
Check out the new public SFWA newsgroup on SFF.net, SFWA SkunkWorks. It’s mission, basically, is to alert members to “new trends in SF publishing, even ‘bleeding edge’ trends that were experimental and hadn’t proven themselves one way or another.”
Already, I found something useful: according to Tobias Buckell, AmazonConnect now allows you to run your regular blog’s feed through AmazonConnect, which means you can blog as normal and still reap the benefits of Amazon blogging without the extra hassle. I can’t actually find the information about this that Toby’s talking about, but that could be because I don’t have AmazonConnect setup for myself yet, since I don’t have any books available on Amazon (as of yet).
I couldn’t resist this one, of course…
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