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The 2019 July Short Story Challenge – Day by Day

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Cora

For starters, Smashwords is currently having its annual summer sale, where you can get plenty of e-books at reduced prices, including several of mine. In other news, blogging will be light for the next month, because I’m currently doing the … Continue reading →

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First Monday Free Fiction: Boardwalk Baby

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Cora

Welcome to the July edition of First Monday Free Fiction. To recap, inspired by Kristine Kathryn Rusch who posts a free short story every week on her blog, I’ll post a free story on every first Monday of the month. … Continue reading →

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Some Reactions to the 2018 Nebula Award Winners and a Post-mortem on the 20Booksto50K Issue

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Cora

The first reactions to the 2018 Nebula Award winners are pouring in. For my own take, see this post. Lela E. Buis has a brief post listing the Nebula winners, but in the comments she expresses some concern that Mary … Continue reading →

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Some Comments on the 2018 Nebula Award Winners (and a bit about the Eurovision Song Contest)

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Cora

So the winners of the 2018 Nebula Awards were announced yesterday and the finale of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest took place as well. And lest they be forgotten, the winners of the 2018 AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have … Continue reading →

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Love Through Space and Time – A Round-up of Indie Valentine’s Day Speculative Fiction

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Cora

Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite Valentine’s Day science fiction, fantasy and horror by indie authors. … Continue reading →

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An Awards Post that’s not about the Hugos

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Cora

The 2018 Hugo Awards ceremony is still a couple of hours away. And due to the awkward timing (the ceremony starts at 5 AM German time), you probably can’t expect a post from me about it until tomorrow night. However, … Continue reading →

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Convention Programming in the Age of Necromancy – A Short Story

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Cora

In my blogpost about the 2018 July Short Story Challenge, I wrote that every year that challenge generates one or two stories that are not something I can publish either in e-book form or send to a magazine. Often, these … Continue reading →

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Voting is open for the 2018 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Cora

As I mentioned before, my In Love and War short story “Baptism of Fire” is a finalist for the 2018 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards. Voting is now open for the awards and the official ballot … Continue reading →

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“Baptism of Fire” is a nominee for the 2018 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Award

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Cora

The nominations for the 2018 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards, which are run by the small press Bards & Sages, were announced today. I was going to put the link to the announcement into the weekly … Continue reading →

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The July Short Story Challenge 2017 – 32 Short Stories in 31 Days

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Cora

Yes, you read that correctly. I wrote a bonus story for this year’s July short story challenge, so there’s actually 32 stories to come out of the challenge this year. But let’s backtrack a bit. In 2015, Dean Wesley Smith … Continue reading →

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