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SF & Fantasy

Have Your Manuscript Professionally Critiqued


icon-worldbuildersPatrick Rothfuss is a New York Times bestselling author but that’s not the reason I call him friend. He has one of the most giving souls I’ve met, and he’s proving it again with Worldbuilders!

Got a manuscript and want it professionally critiqued? Make the jump to find out how you can donate to a great cause!

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SF & Fantasy

Cubicle at the End of the Universe: Betsy Mitchell


Those pesky book submissions . . . Find out how our editor got herself into trouble, in this week’s Cubicle at the End of the Universe!

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What I Learned This Week: Why I Say No


Reading literary agent Janet Reid’s interesting post on the reasons she rejected manuscripts last year gave me the inspiration to tally up my own thanks-but-no-thanks to see what came across my desk during 2009. We moved offices last February and I’ve never relocated my copies of reject letters from January and February ‘09, but from March through December I passed on 133 manuscripts. Here were the reasons why:

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Monster-free China: Mieville’s The City & The City


I shouldn’t admit this, but I am always a little surprised when an author meets a due date. Being a good writer requires a lot of thinking and planning, and those acts are often indistinguishable from their unruly stepcousin procrastination. So it should be no surprise that writers are late with their work sometimes.
When China [...]

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