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Category Archives: publications
For Reviewers/Book Bloggers: ARCs and Review Copies for 2018 Projects
I have enough coming out in 2018 that some of the different campaigns are colliding a bit. Some are self-pubbed projects, others are with presses but I’m helping with the marketing where I can. If you’re someone who would like … Continue reading
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Tagged ARC, flash fiction, idea to draft, if this goes on, review copy, steampunk, Tabat
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My Award Eligible Stuff for 2017
If you’re looking for my roundup of F&SF posts by other writers, it’s here. Most of my stories appeared privately for Patreon. Those Patreon stories included: PATREON, October, 2017. A Restless World, co-written with Rachel Swirsky. (flash) PATREON, October, 2017. … Continue reading
GoodReads Giveaway for 2 Signed Copies of Neither Here Nor There
Goodreads Book Giveaway Neither Here Nor There by Cat Rambo Giveaway ends December 23, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
What I Wrote in 2016 and The List of Award Eligibility Posts I’ve Found
Oh, it’s that time! The season of looking back at the year and seeing what you did or didn’t get done. And the season for starting to nominate for awards. I’ve been reading and recommending for a while now, but it’s always fun to read all the wrap-up posts and find anything that I missed. I do have a monster post full of some of this year’s reading, but I’m still working on that. (When I have it, there will be a link here.)
Writers wondering whether or not they should put up an awards eligibility post, the answer is yes, yes you should. Do us all the favor of collecting your stuff and making it easy to find. If you’ve got a lot, point out some favorites.
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Tagged a. merc rustad, a.c. wise, aaron canton, award eligibility posts, bud sparhawk, c.c.s. ryan, david mack, erica satifka, fran wilde, kate heartfield, lia swope mitchell, lora gray, matt dovey, nattering social justice cook, nin harris, publications, sabrina vourvoulias, SFWA, valerie valdes, writing advice
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Idea to Draft Finally No Longer Just a Draft
One of the things that I’ve been working on in the past six months is converting all of my live classes to on-demand versions. A few months ago I decided to try the Idea to Draft class and found it presented more problems than any of the others. I will spare you the saga, which I have blogged about elsewhere. Here’s the section on story basics, and here’s the one on what to do when you have just a scene. I will be teaching the live version, in which I work with students on their specific ideas, on July 9, which will be the last time I teach the live version in 2016.
I am very proud of this class, because I don’t think there are any other classes that take the same approach. I’m turning it into a book, which may be e-form only because it’s going to have a wordcount in the 100k+ range when you add in all the example stories. While Creating an Online Presence is, i think/hope, useful for writers on the business and career level, this is a book that works at the craft level and incorporates a lot of my story theory, the stuff that has evolved out of teaching and writing and thinking a lot about these things.
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Tagged idea to draft, idea to finished draft, online writing classes
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2015 Publications in Retrospect
2015 was a good year for publications, including a few nonfiction ones. Huzzah! Part of that was the Patreon campaign, another was the flurry of promotional pieces I released to accompany my first novel. 34 stories published in one year is a record for me, although many of them were flash pieces and/or self-published either as publicity for my novel or for my Patreon campaign. Here’s the month by month breakdown, with some stats and what’s coming up in 2016.
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Tagged beasts of tabat, free fiction online, online writing classes, patreon, SFWA
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Being Epic
I’m getting ready to head off to the Nebulas in about an hour. Ten years ago at this time, I was getting ready to go off to Clarion West for six weeks. I’d quit my job at Microsoft and my … Continue reading
Recent Stuff: Book! More Book! I Like 2015 So Far!
I’ve announced it on social media, But I haven’t blogged about it yet, so I wanted to pass along some terrific news.
As some of you know, I have a novel that is the first volume of a fantasy quartet that I’ve been shopping around for a while. It’s a great pleasure to be able to announce that BEASTS OF TABAT will appear this year from Kevin J. Anderson’s stellar Wordfire Press. Now that I have some confidence that the books will appear, I’m finding that words on the second book, HEARTS OF TABAT, are flowing much much MUCH more easily, and that’s been my primary focus this week.
But! I have additional great news…
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