Epidode #35 of "ShunnCast" is now available, in which Bill, against his better judgment, accompanies a runaway Elder Finn to the airport, where he experiments with phrases you must never use whilst frequenting such establishments. In other words, this is the episode you've been waiting for!
http://www.shunn.net/podcast?id=35
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shunncast.
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What is wrong with the following sentence (from a New York Times article by Manohla Dargis)?
Still, it proved that a studio division could make money, win awards, attract talent and excite the audience, which is why Miramax and all it helped wrought is one of the best things to happen to Hollywood since the end of the old studio system.Or am I, like Jennifer Garner trying to tell Conan O'Brien that snuck is not a word, stumbling over some once-bad English that quietly gained acceptance while grammarians' heads were turned?
Part Two of Amy Brozio-Andrews's interview with yours truly is now available at Absolute Write! This time around we discuss genre, conventions, and technology.
Part One of the interview, which focuses more on writing, revision, and inspiration, is still available as well.
Absolute Write says they don't usually break their interviews into two parts, but apparently I rambled unstoppably way past their word limit!
The good folks at Asimov's have released their 2006 preliminary Nebula Award ballot entries online for free.
This means you can now read my novella "Inclination" at their site for free, in its entirety.
But that's not all! Read Paul Melko's excellent novella "The Walls of the Universe" as well, not to mention Daryl Gregory's moving novelette "Second Person, Present Tense." I highly recommend them both.
Epidode #34 of "ShunnCast" is now available, in which Bill finds his privacy violated by a heinous and despicable criminal act on the part of his mission president, only to head out on split-offs with Elder Finn and discover even darker and more shocking revelations. Plus, they shot Joseph Smith?!
http://www.shunn.net/podcast?id=34
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The 2006 preliminary Nebula Award ballot has just been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). My novella "Inclination" is up there in the novella category.
The preliminary ballot is essentially the Nebula longlist. SFWA members will now vote to narrow the ballot down to five nominees in each category. The resulting final ballot (a/k/a shortlist) will then be voted on in March, with the awards ceremony to be held the weekend of May 11-13 in New York City.
What? What's that you say? There are only four works on the preliminary ballot in the novella category? Well, don't that beat all? I guess that means those stories all advance automatically to the final ballot. Which would make me...
Holy shit! I'm a Nebula nominee again! (Er, somewhat unofficially.) <frantic work-inappropriate happy dance>
Congrats also to our own ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
paulmelko, whose deserving novella "The Walls of the Universe" enjoys the same fate as "Inclination"—all the cooler because our two pieces bookended the April/May issue of Asimov's. Paul, we will tear up Gotham come May.
Big congrats also to bobhowe, whose excellent novelette "Do Neaderthals Know?" makes the prelim, and to planetalyx for "A Key to the Illuminated Heretic"! And to 14theditch for his terrific novel The Girl in the Glass. What other LJers am I missing?
Epidode #33 of "ShunnCast" is now available, in which the link between Mormonism and Masonry is explored, while Bill and his companion strike living gold in the last happy days they'll be destined to share.
http://www.shunn.net/podcast?id=33
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Attention, Asimov's readers!
Voting for the 2006 Asimov's Readers' Awards is now underway, with a convenient online form for your polling ease.
Please remember that my story "Inclination" is up for consideration in the novella category. If you wanted to rank paulmelko's novella "The Walls of the Universe" somewhere up there too, that would be okay by me.
Also remember gregvaneekhout's excellent and exciting short story "The Osteomancer's Son," Tim Pratt's short story "Impossible Dreams," beth_bernobich's novelette "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange," Kris Rusch's novelette "Except the Music," and anything published by Jack Skillingstead in 2006.
Epidode #32 of "ShunnCast" is now available, in which Bill and his companion engage in a war of practical jokes with the sister missionaries, with hilarious, painful, and sometimes terrifying results. And the zero hour creeps ever nearer...
http://www.shunn.net/podcast?id=32
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