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And How Long was that Story?
My story 'One of Our Bastards is Missing', the second in the Jonathan Hamilton sequence, from The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume 3, is 9300 words long, which makes it, in Hugo terms, a Novelette.
I thank you. I'm going to stop this now, I promise!
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Knew a girl called novelette once. She et a lot and was quite novel:)
Couldn't resist. I'm sorry.
@Ian...Wow. That was just...wow. :) But in a good way!
Paul, don't ever stop promoting your own stuff on your own blog! If you do, I will come over there and slap that British modesty right out of you. I mean it. :)
Now what's really shameful is promoting your stuff on someone else's blog...which I'm about to do right now: http://tinyurl.com/ylgyusp
My latest Tor.com piece, called "Religion and Science Fiction: Asking the Right Questions." Only posting here because you said I should, and also because you started to address a couple of things along these lines in your New Year's resolutions post. I hope that's OK. Would love to hear what you think. :) Thanks!
Lol Teresa,
Just read that back. It was quite lame, but kind of cute I guess. Thankfully I have no plans on writing comedy. So the world is safe.
@Paul. I'm with Teresa. I mean how are we going to know whats coming up if you don't let us know about it:)
I have one question that am asking more for clarification.
Do you have to be an attendee of world con to vote on the Hugos or is there another way you can vote?
Only ever done the small events. Bit frightened at the idea of being in a room with over 150,000 people lol.
I can answer that one - you have to be a member of Worldcon, or of the previous year's Worldcon, to vote in the Hugos. So if you've paid a supporting membership for this year's Worldcon but you're staying at home, or if you supported or attended last year, you're eligible to vote this year.
Indeed, one can have a supporting membership, where you get the booklets sent to you, and get to vote in the Hugos, but don't actually go. In recent years, a scheme has been set up (and promoted thanks to the efforts of John Scalzi) to send such folk the majority of the nominated books in ebook form. Last year the combined value came to more than the price of the membership. But encouraging people to do that on my own behalf, rather than to support the Hugos, is genuinely beyond want I hold to be fair. Teresa: that was a nice primer column on the subject, but there's a wealth of prose to read on the subject, The Sparrow really being SF And Religion 101. I'd like to see that fine Christian SF writer Phil Dick claimed more as such too.
What I'm loving about having posted that on Tor is that, when I asked for book recommendations they're coming from all over the place. I'm determined to make 2010 the year I read more sci-fi, as too much of my life has been taken over by sci-fi films and television. And according to EVERYONE, it seems, I need to start with The Sparrow and Philip Dick.
As for non-fiction prose on religion and sci-fi, do any of you have any recommendations on that front? Or any writers I should check out that cover this a lot?
And thanks for taking the time to read my post, Paul. I realize that I have so much to learn, and I'm not nearly as well-read as I could be, but I'm hoping to change that! :)
It sounds, from the comments, like you've already got quite a following on Tor. I didn't realise you were purely a TV/comics columnist, sorry!
I don't have a following on Tor, actually - or rather, I'm just starting to get one? This religion post was only my SECOND column on Tor ever, my 1st being that Doctor Who piece. I'm excited to be writing for a site that has such a large readership - I've been slowly gaining Twitter followers, and I have the strange feeling that people are actually caring about what I have to say. It's weird. :) But nice.
As for what I "usually" write about in sci-fi for other sites, yes I tend to focus more on sci-fi television and film and comics. As I've mentioned, while I read a lot, it's been a long while since I've read any sci-fi, though that was ALL I read when I was younger. Looking to change that this year. Especially since I'm writing some sci-fi fiction at the moment...
I'm in an interesting place right now. I used to be an actor-writer-producer. Two years ago, I decided to drop the hyphenates and stick with writing, which is what I'm best at, and what I've been good at since I was about three. Once I made that decision, opportunities seemed to come out of the woodwork, and now things are starting to gel for me in this arena. It's a nice time.
I wonder what it was like for you just before things really started "happening" writing-wise?
It's good to see so many (surprisingly restrained, in that there are few nutters) people turning out for you there. Tell us how to find you on Twitter! I was at rather a low ebb when the writing started to come together, having failed to be a scientist. I'm really pleased that you got the Tor gig after being a regular commenter here, I hope other folk who make such progress share their stories too.
I can be found at Twitter @teresajusino
It's a very, very creative Twitter name. :)
And BTW, thank you for being so encouraging. It really means a lot to have someone I respect so much be seemingly in my cheering section. A little encouragement goes a long way. :)
Cool!