There’s a new interview with me up at Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews, in which I discuss Wastelands, Seeds of Change, The Living Dead, and other projects. If you’re a loyal reader here, probably not much new to see, but if you’re a JJA interview completist, well, there you go.
Over on the F&SF Forum, editor Gordon Van Gelder posted the following note:
We’re going to do a promotional giveaway with this issue. There’s a box of copies of this issue on its way to me and I’d like to give away the copies people who will blog about the issue. So here’s the deal:
1) Go to our "Contact Us" page: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/contact.htm
2) Tell us where to mail your copy of the issue.
3) Receive the issue and blog about it. Naturally, we prefer if you read the issue before blogging about it, but I’m just insisting that you blog about it. (The first time we tried this promotion, people mistakenly thought they should blog about the magazine before receiving the issue. No. Get the issue first, then blog about it.)
4) Send us a link to your blog.
That’s all there is to it. I’ll post here when we run out of the giveaway copies.
Spread the word!
That’s 160 pages of top-notch science fiction & fantasy. Here’s the table of contents:
THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
July • 59th Year of Publication
NOVELLAS
NOVELETS
SHORT STORIES
DEPARTMENTS
CARTOONS
COVER
As an addendum to my previous post in which I offered up electronic review copies my anthology Seeds of Change, I just wanted to say that if you all wanted to post reviews to Amazon.com too, well, that would be swell (i.e., cross-post the review on your blog and Amazon).
For all you reviewers and bloggers out there: Prime Books, the publisher of my new anthology, Seeds of Change, is encouraging me to send out free PDF copies of the anthology to folks who might be willing to review it and/or blog about it. If you’d like to see a copy, send me an email (or leave a comment, etc.) and I’ll shoot one over to you.
(Now, bear in mind that the book is not out until August, so we’d want you to hold off your review coverage until then.)
Update: This promotional giveaway has ended. Thanks!
F&SF regular Matthew Hughes a free electronic copy of his new novel Template:
Special offer for reviewers, bloggers, newsgroup posters and people who just like to talk about books in public: in May, PS Publishing will release Template, a stand-alone Archonate novel that I consider to be my best work yet (even though it was written in 2003). I will send an rtf file of the book to anyone who commits to review, blog, post or otherwise harass the world about it. Just send me an e-mail at "himself(you know what symbol goes in here)archonate.com" and I’ll shoot you a copy.
James Nicoll, meanwhile, is trying to organize a review-a-thon:
I find it tremendously annoying that Hughes is not better known than he is. My cunning idea is that it might be fun if a bunch of reviewers on LJ should all agree to read and review Template on the same day. LJ doesn’t lend itself to the same kind of communal participation as rasfw but I think this could be worthwhile. Any volunteers? [Current Target Date: May 11th] I probably should have encouraged people to mention this on their blogs and livejournal accounts. Consider this said encouragement.
I also find it tremendously annoying that Hughes is not better known than he is. I read an advance copy of Template, and I have to say, it’s one of the best–if not the best–things Hughes has written to date. So please consider participating in the review-a-thon. Or just go out and order a copy!
I’m trying to decide which is more lame: not blogging for several days, or having only my del.icio.us links posted during my absence. At least if I were just silent, there would be a certain dignity in that, but to have only auto-blogging going on, that seems somehow pathetic.