All Your Human Are Belong to Us: Cats, Authors, and Science Fiction and Fantasy

Since I’ve already talked about cats in SFF in this “top 10 cats” post, I decided to go after this subject from a different angle:  authors.  On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I conducted an informal survey on the relationship between authors, their cats, and genre.  The results were both familiar and unusual.* As […]

SFF Reappraisals: Brian Francis Slattery

SFF Reappraisals is a new column on WISB which discusses under-appreciated or lesser known writers in an attempt to explain why they deserve greater recognition. ————————– Though a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award in 2012, Brian Francis Slattery’s literary science fiction has thus far been “under the radar” within wider SF circles.  I think this […]

Hugo Award Reading: Suggest Shorts/Novelettes/Novellas (Final Open Call)

The title says it all.  I’m working on my nomination ballot for the Hugo Awards, and I need more suggestions for the shorter-than-a-novel categories so I can get a proper survey.  If you have a suggestion, please leave it in the magic comment box (links to online stories are appreciated). By the way, I had […]

Patreon Updates: Rewards, Milestone Goals, and February Offer Madness

In case you missed it, I made some changes to my Patreon page, which include the following: Added 5 reward levels, which give Patrons various special abilities and what not Added 3 Milestone Goals (the most expensive goal involves me starting an sf/f writing podcast where I talk to authors about their process) Added more […]

On Self-Publishing and the Hugh Howey / Data Guy January 2015 Report

(Parts of this post originally appeared on my Google+ page and in the comments on Mike Reeves-McMillan’s post on the report.) You may be aware that Author Earnings, a data analysis site run by Hugh Howey and someone called Data Guy, recently released a report on ebook sales and the market share of those sales […]

A Conversation with Josh Vogt About the Internet and Perverted Things

(Trigger warning for anyone bother STD analogies…) SCENE:  In the minutes before Shaun’s new editing website went live, an unsuspecting Josh Vogt is gifted an exchange of adolescent absurdity on Facebook. SHAUN:  I want to announce this thing, but I can’t do it if the stupid thing doesn’t propagate.  Make Internet love and spread already! […]