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Tag Archives: fritz leiber
Free Fritz Leiber
In prepping for the WFC panel, I found there’s a bunch of Fritz Leiber stuff available free on the Kindle. Here’s some links for fellow Kindlers. The Big Time Bread Overhead The Creature From Cleveland Depths The Moon is Green … Continue reading
World Fantasy Schedule for 2012
I will be reading at 1:30 on Friday in the Aurora room. I will probably read a recent space opera piece that I think will do well aloud.
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Tagged andy duncan, danel olson, fritz leiber, panels, s.t. joshi, secrets, violette malan, wfc, world fantasy convention
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Why Titles Matter
The writer can’t afford to throw away the possibilities of the title, there’s just too much chance to set the hook in the reader there with the right cast. Make your lure beautiful, jingly with poetic principles, flashy or intricate or if you’re among the most daring, something so simple and beautiful in its form that it’s irresistible. Load it with the sensory or weight it with muscular verbs, but make it pull the reader in so your first three paragraphs can render them helpless and absorbed and yours for the story. Continue reading
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Tagged alfred bester, algis budyrs, allamagoosa, anton lee baker, arthur c. clarke, avram davidson, c.m. kornbluth, david langford, david levine, elizabeth bear, eric frank russell, fritz leiber, hugo awards, michael swanwick, neil gaiman, robert bloch, ted chiang, titles, will mcintosh, writing
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