That’s the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to you: (For the record, I’m glad Jim Kelly told me this summer to wait, and I’m glad Mary Robinette Kowal told me last week to go for it.) But speaking…
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I Survived My First Surrey International Writers’ Conference #SiWC14
And the proof, as usual, is on Twitter: twitter.com/search?q=%40curtiscchen%20%23siwc14&src=typd Highlights included: finally meeting Stephanie and David in person, after many online writing Hangouts; seeing my VPXII classmate Katrina again and getting an autographed copy of her book; learning about book…
I Am Not Canadian
I recently came across this post on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like “microblogging” service: http://weibo.com/1654694194/BnIEU7RQ6 What do you mean, you don’t read Chinese? Fine. Here’s Google’s auto-translation: To be fair, I can see how someone in China might be confused, since I…
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I Will Not Get Paid This Much for Any of My Novels
But it’s nice to see that publishers still believe in science fiction. Last month, this bit of news showed up in the Publishers Lunch daily newsletter: Try not to think about the fact that Weir originally self-published his first novel,…
I Support #SportsNight2014
Something wonderful happened on Twitter last Friday night. That something was #SportsNight2014. If you follow my writer persona, you may have noticed me retweeting some of my favorites: Natalie gets really into Call of Duty #SportsNight2014 — Alice has a…
I’M OLD
AND THAT’S OKAY. ISN’T THAT RIGHT, THE DOUBLECLICKS? RIGHT. http://youtu.be/zCF_js2y0Ec I don’t have any big plans for my birthday this year—mostly because, honestly, it’ll be hard to top last year’s incredible awesomeness—but it’s been a really good year so far……
I Don’t Worry Too Much about Piracy and Here’s Why
TL;DR: oh, just go read Cecilia Tan’s blog post instead. This summer, my friend Katrina Archer self-published her YA fantasy novel Untalented (previously a 2009 ABNA quarterfinalist): This week, she discovered that the eBook version had been pirated: If I…
I Support Movie Reboots with All-Female Casts
And I have been thinking about it probably too much, thanks to this sidebar from the August 15th issue of Entertainment Weekly (click for larger version): Yeah, I know, that’s pretty tongue-in-cheek. The online article “Would all-girls ‘Ghostbusters’ be a…
I Am Home
It’s been less than a week since my Clarion West (CW) adventure concluded, and I’m still readjusting to normal life and catching up on all the e-mails I’ve been ignoring for six weeks or more. I’m almost done clearing out…
I Will Miss Being Here
It’s the middle of Week Six now, the final week of Clarion West 2014, and I’ve turned in my final story for critique tomorrow morning. It’s all downhill from here: just seven more stories to read and give feedback on,…