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Libby replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Brilliant news, Richard! Many congratulations.
And Kate too. Really good.
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RichardB replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Thank you, Kate. Yes, it is. Once again I seem to have missed the boat to be the first to announce it, but hey, who cares? After writing and submitting two novels and getting 60% form rejections and 40% no reply at all, it does feel rather good to have got some validation at last.
Bitter, moi? Not just at the moment.
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Knicks replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 3 years, 8 months ago
Thank you for the link, Richard! 😊✨
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RichardB replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 3 years, 8 months ago
Oh, it’s gone live all on its little ownsome.
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RichardB replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 3 years, 8 months ago
For a start, you could try Jericho Writers, which is what the Writers’ Workshop, sponsors of the old Word Cloud, morphed into a few years back.
Sorry, I can’t make the kink go live without the entire post vanishing. You’ll have to copy and paste.
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Knicks started the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 3 years, 8 months ago
Hey, I hope this finds you well. I recently finished edits on the manuscript of my current novella, and would like to move forward to the next step, that of soliciting the services of an editor – preferably one who specializes in editing speculative fiction – to help me tighten and polish the story.
My one hesitation comes from not knowing all…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Ah. Forgot to check for new posts (not often necessary here, sad to say), hence the duplication with Ath’s post.
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RichardB replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
That’s four Denizens now on the longlist, a 20% hit rate. Impressive. Or is anyone else going to come out of the woodwork?
Wot I said to Ath, Daeds: making the longlist is an achievement, so congrats on that.
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Daedalus replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Not bad at all!
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Athelstone replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
4 longlisted and 2 shortlisted. I call that impressive for a small site like this.
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Daedalus replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Congrats to the long and shortlistees! I’ve only just noticed that my story was on the longlist – as I’d already resigned myself to not being listed, missing out on the shortlist does not come as a blow, but I’m delighted for Richard and Kate, best of luck to both of you!
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RichardB replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Well yes, obviously. But making the longlist is quite an achievement too.
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Athelstone replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
I didn’t make the shortlist but I tell myself it was obviously a moment of madness by whoever made the choice 😀
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Bella replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Wow!
Very well done.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Film, storytelling – psychic distance again – and looking under the bonnet in the forum Blogs 3 years, 8 months ago
Sorry for delay in replying to your very interesting thoughts @libby, but I’ve been neck deep in work lately.
Re modernists etc using the techniques and ideas of psychic distance before Gardner codified it. Yes, absolutely, a large measure of what he was doing was identifying techniques that were already out there. I would suggest that his…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Congratulations to you too, Kate. We may be a small group of people here on the Den, but we’re talented…
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RichardB replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 3 years, 8 months ago
Thank you, Ath. I’ve only just this minute found out myself, and I’m still taking it in. Oh, and thanks too for your challenge, without which it would never have been written.
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Congrats, Richard!
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Libby started the topic Writing for the market in the forum Blogs 3 years, 8 months ago
From Homing: on pigeons, dwellings and why we return by Jon Day. It’s my current read.
“One of the readers for Darwin’s publisher of On the Origin of Species, a clergyman named Whitwell Elwin, called the book ‘a wild & foolish piece of imagination, for an outline it is too much & for a thorough discussion of the question it is not near enough.’ R…[Read more]
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I’ve seen a few instances where great works have had poor or strange reviews, but that must be one of the funniest.
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And isn’t Whitwell Elwin a great name for a Victorian clergyman? Or any Victorian man for that matter.
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He could have been named especially for the job.
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Hilary replied to the topic The Future of the Den (again) in the forum Blogs 3 years, 8 months ago
Hello. Long time no see, everyone. I’m posting this to say I do occasionally pop in to see what’s going on, but haven’t actually logged in for a Very Long Time. So, apologies. And also, thanks to you faithful few, and especially Ath and any other admin (?) for keeping it going. Yes, other things going on for me too, but the other day I was feeling…[Read more]
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Hi Hilary, lovely to see you here! Hope all’s going well with the book. x
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Thanks, Thea. Yes, all is well with the book, thanks. Publication date January next year. So excited! Hope all’s well with you.
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Oh, that’s fab, Hilary ! Please post an update when the book comes out. Looking forward to reading it 🙂
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 3 years, 8 months ago
Congratulations @alex . Well deserved.
I loved Ath’s and Knicks’ stories too. So atmospheric and full of life’s complications.
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