I’m working on a podcast project that will be launching soon, and I’m looking for a volunteer who would be willing to listen to the show in advance of posting in order to jot down “show notes” — i.e., make note of the various topics discussed and at which time indexes they appear.
Lightspeed is now open to submissions. If you’re interested in submitting a story, please read our guidelines and submit your story via our online submissions system.
Jeremy Lassen at Night Shade Books just sent me this sneak peek at the cover for THE LIVING DEAD 2. Please note that the artwork and the basic design is final, but the featured authors are not final (some of them are still pending acceptances or contracts).
Nebula Awards season is upon us. Current Nebula rules dictate that during the annual nomination period (November 15th thru February 15th), eligible members of SFWA can nominate works for the Nebula. The six works that receive the highest number of nominations during the nomination period in each category will be placed on the final ballot. Due to changes in Nebula rules, for this year’s Nebula Awards, works published from July 1, 2008 thru December 31, 2009 are eligible during the current nomination period.
My anthologies include several works that are currently eligible. All stories belong in the short story category unless otherwise noted. Linked stories are available online in their entirety. SFWA members can download the stories via the links provided (email me at johnjosephadams@gmail.com if you’re a SFWA member and have issues downloading the files).
Seeds of Change [SFWA members download]
Prime Books, August 2008
The Living Dead
Night Shade Books, September 2008
Federations [SFWA member download]
Prime Books, May 2009
By Blood We Live
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be the fiction editor of a new science fiction online magazine called LIGHTSPEED, which will be published by Prime Books. I’ll be leaving F&SF at the end of the year to take on this new role. The press release below has all the pertinent details.
Prime Books Announces LIGHTSPEED, a New Science Fiction Magazine
ROCKVILLE, MD, OCT. 16 — Prime Books, the award-winning independent press and publisher of Fantasy Magazine, announced today that in June 2010 it will launch a new online magazine called LIGHTSPEED (www.lightspeedmagazine.com), which will publish four science fiction short stories every month, along with an assortment of non-fiction features. LIGHTSPEED will be edited by John Joseph Adams, the bestselling editor of anthologies such as Wastelands and The Living Dead, and Andrea Kail, a writer, critic, and television producer who worked for thirteen years on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Adams will select and edit the fiction, while Kail will handle the non-fiction.
LIGHTSPEED will focus exclusively on science fiction. It will feature all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between. No subject will be considered off-limits, and writers will be encouraged to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope. New content will be posted twice a week, including one piece of fiction, and one piece of non-fiction. The fiction selections each month will consist of two original stories and two reprints, except for the debut issue, which will feature four original pieces of fiction. All of the non-fiction will be original.
LIGHTSPEED will open to fiction submissions and non-fiction queries on January 1, 2010. Guidelines for fiction and non-fiction will be available on LIGHTSPEED‘s website, www.lightspeedmagazine.com, by December 1, 2009.
About John Joseph Adams
John Joseph Adams (www.johnjosephadams.com) is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as By Blood We Live, Federations, The Living Dead (a World Fantasy Award finalist), and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. He has been called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble’s Unabashedly Bookish blog and his anthology The Living Dead was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. In addition to his editorial work, he is also currently a reviewer for Audible.com and a blogger for Tor.com.
About Andrea Kail
Andrea Kail (www.andreakail.com) is a graduate of the Dramatic Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has spent the last two decades working from one end of New York’s television spectrum to the other: HBO, MTV, A&E, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, as well as thirteen years at NBC’s Emmy Award-winning Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Her fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, and her novella, “The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom,” was a first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest and appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. XXIII. Since 2005, Andrea has also been writing lively film criticism for such venues as Paradox Magazine and CinemaSpy.
About Prime Books
Prime Books (www.prime-books.com), edited and published by Hugo Award-nominee and World Fantasy Award-winner Sean Wallace, is an award-winning independent publishing house specializing in a mix of anthologies, collections, novels, and magazines. Some of its established and new authors/editors include John Joseph Adams, KJ Bishop, Philip K. Dick, Theodora Goss, Rich Horton, Nick Mamatas, Sarah Monette, Holly Phillips, Tim Pratt, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, and Jeff VanderMeer.
Contacts
Sean Wallace, publisher, sean@lightspeedmagazine.com
John Joseph Adams, fiction editor, john@lightspeedmagazine.com
Andrea Kail, non-fiction editor, andrea@lightspeedmagazine.com
Zombie lovers, don’t forget: I’ll be pontificating on the undead in Ramsey, NJ tonight. Details here.
I’ll be attending CapClave next weekend, Oct. 16-18, in Rockville, MD (near Washington, DC).
Two stories from my anthology Seeds of Change (“Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor and “Drinking Problem” by K.D. Wentworth) are nominated for the Washington Science Fiction Association’s Small Press Award, which is presented at CapClave.
Here are the program items I’ll be participating in:
Sat 1pm Montrose – New writers
Participants: Larry Hodges (m), John Joseph Adams, John Betancourt, Tad Daley, Scott Edelman, Shelia Williams
How did you get started in the field? How are you shaping your career? What advice would you give new writers?
Sat 5pm Montrose – New Media
Participants: Barbara Krasnoff (m), John Joseph Adams, John Andrews, Davey Beauchamp, Neil ClarkeWebcomics. Manga. YouTube videos. Pseudo- blogs (fiction in blog format). Twitter fiction. Podcasts. What are they? How do they work? How can I get them? How can I get involved? What’s worth the audience’s time?
Sat 9pm Plaza – Small Press Award
Participants: WSFA and the nomineesWho will win the annual WSFA small press award? Come and see. Celebrate with cake.
Sun 10am Montrose – The Editors Panel
Participants: Neil Clarke (m), John Joseph Adams, Christopher M. Cevasco, George Scithers, Ted White, Shelia WilliamsWhat do editors look for? What trends are they seeing? What do they want to see in manuscripts? Do editors still work with writers and if so how?
Sun 3pm Montrose – Podcasting
Participants: Nobilis Reed (m), John Joseph Adams, Davey BeauchampWhat is podcasting? How can authors and readers make use of it? What podcasts would interest SF fans?
Sunday 11am (Dealer’s Room?) – Autographing
John Joseph Adams
Additionally, Prime Books (publisher of my anthologies Federations and Seeds of Change) will be having a party at some point during the convention, it looks like it’s going to be Saturday night. I’ll be helping out with that and likely present the whole party. When more information is available about that, I’ll post it here on the blog.