Night Shade Books is having a sale. Jason Williams sez:
It’s getting on about time to make room in the warehouse again, which means it’s sale time! We win, you win, everybody wins.
Until midnight on Tuesday, February 20th, you can get 50% off of your order by entering in coupon code NSB773. There is a four book minimum, and this coupon applies to preorders as well as in-stock items.
Let the buying begin!
You heard the man. Shop!
If you’ve ever wanted a t-shirt with a scuba-diving pink elephant on it, today’s your lucky day. My niece and her friend have setup a spreadshirt.com shop that not only has the aforementioned scuba-diving elephant Ts, but other designs as well.
Check it out and help support my niece’s college fund!
My friend (and F&SF’s humor competition editor) Carol Pinchefsky just had an article published in The New York Times. It’s not about science fiction or writing–it’s the story of how she ended up with her husband–but go read it anyway!
Back in August, I posted about my visit to The Met, and was dismayed over the fact that I brought my camera, but neglected to bring a change of batteries, and so ran out of power after just a few photos. Well, I made another trip this weekend, this time armed with fresh batteries in the camera, and an extra pair in my pocket. As a result, I took lots and lots of photos this time. I didn’t get to everything in the museum I wanted to see, but that just gives me an excuse to go back. This time around, I documented the armor section pretty well, and I viewed a temporary exhibit on faces in medieval sculpture, though this exhibit forbade photography (even flashless, apparently).
View the whole set here.
I’m going to be speaking at the Garden State Horror Writers meeting in March. About what, I’m not sure yet. Most of you reading this are writers. What do you guys want to know about? When Doug Cohen did GSHW, he talked about cover letters. What should I do?
Kaolin Fire writes to tell me about a new magazine:
Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine publishes 200 pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, articles, and art, and features contributors from around the world. GUD (pron. “good”) pays semi-pro rates for content and pays royalties on the profits of the sales of the magazine, effectively making the contributors shareholders for that issue.
GUD is available for purchase in print and electronic (PDF) format. It is published twice yearly, although we expect to go to four issues a year in our second year of publication. The initial print run for Issue 0 was 200 copies (and the second run is 200 copies as well), and we are investigating distributorship for the magazine within the US and abroad. We expect our circulation to grow as word gets out.
Check it out at www.gudmagazine.com.
I just learned about this new audiobook-type project called AudioFilk.com. Here’s what I was told about it:
We’ve just launched a new Audiobook-esque type site called AudioFlik.com. It’s pretty much what you’d get if you combined an audiobook, radio drama, and film soundtrack. We deliver the content weekly to subscribers of each program, but since you’re a self-professed Sci Fi hound, I wanted to offer to put you on our comp list for our first production which is a Sci Fi dealio entitled ARCTIC INVASION.
Basically we send out a new “Chapter” each week, but instead of special apps or unique programs, we just send it out via our nifty system that uses old fashioned email for distribution. At any rate, check out the site and let me know if you’re into it. The first chapters is available below.
Site: AudioFlik.com
Current production site: ArcticInvasion.com
Free Chapter:
http://www.audioflik.com/ArcticInvasion_free.html
Anyone heard of that, or listened to it yet? Any thoughts?
In my previous post, I showed off my F&SF collection. Here, you’ll see the rest of my Shrine to Short Fiction. When I reorganized my books (which I did in part, because [a] they weren’t organized at all, and [b], I needed to remove them anyway so I could secure the bookcases together), I decided that I wanted to keep all the short fiction repositories separate, so that when I’m looking for a specific short story, I’ll have a better chance of actually finding it.
Pictured there on the bookcases are all of my anthologies and collections in hardcover or trade paperback. On the floor there are all of my mass market books of short fiction. I had to order more of the 2-shelf bookcases, so I’m waiting on those to arrive, at which point I’ll put the mass markets on top of that 5-shelfer there which currently has audiobooks piled on top of it.
For those curious, if you go to the Flickr page of this photo and view the original hi-res size, you should be able to zoom in closely enough to read most of the titles.
I don’t remember if I blogged about this previously or not, but last year I bought a complete run of F&SF from a long-time fan, who no longer had the room to store his collection. It took me a while to get around to it, but I finally got them all unpacked. Behold. That’s all of them.
Well, except for the November 1983 issue. That appears to be the only one I’m missing. Anyone have one they wouldn’t mind parting with?
Also pictured here are my new 5-shelf bookcases, on top of which you can see I’ve stacked smaller 2-shelf bookcases. The 5-shelfers are all screwed together for stability, as are the 2-shelfers, but I need to attach the 2-shelfers to the 5-shelfers with shims or something (as suggested in the comments to a previous post).
In addition to F&SF issues, you’ll also see some other stuff on the shelves. For instance, there’s a complete run of F&SF‘s sister publiation, Venture, which didn’t last very long (it had two brief runs in the 50s and 60s), and a few F&SF anthologies. Below that are some misc. short fiction magazines and graphic novels.
Oh well, it seems the restoration of comments was a futile endeavor. Whenever they’re active, I get so much comment spam that it’s a burden to my server.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can use instead? When I had the comments linked to the Rumor Mill, it seemed like no one wanted to comment there. Or perhaps no one would have commented anyway…
