Cover Reveal!

Hi! I'm at LTUE, so this will be short, but Tu Books revealed the cover for Drift today! You can read all about the cover creation process at the Lee & Low blog, then click on one of the blogs at the bottom of the post to see the cover. It looks amazing!

Short Stories in a Nutshell

On Friday at LTUE, I'm giving a presentation on writing short fiction. I'm not going to have a computer at LTUE (well, probably not), so I thought I'd put this up in advance. 

EXAMPLES: 

NOVEL-LIKE (traditionally plotted, common POV): 
“Nanny’s Day” by Leah Cypess

“The Judge’s Right Hand” by J.S. Bangs

“Rejiggering the Thingamajig” by Eric James Stone

“X Marks the Spot” by Kat Otis

UNIQUE POV/VOICE:

“Movement” by Nancy Fulda

“Un Opera Nello Spazio: A Space Opera” by Oliver Buckram (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2013)

“The Wanderers” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

“They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson

“Regarding Your Unexpected Visit to the Surface of an Apparently Only Mostly Uninhabited Planet” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

“Demonic Summoning, Ratings and Reviews” by Simon Kewin

“How to Love a Necromancer” by Jess Hyslop

DIFFERENT PLOT STRUCTURE/ENDING:

“Buy You a Mocking Bird” by Eric James Stone

“The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu

“Neighbours” by Rob Butler

“Dark Swans” by Terra LeMay

“The Last Seed” by Ken Liu

“What We Ourselves Are Not” by Leah Cypess (Asimov's September 2013)

RESOURCES:

Critters.org: an online critiquing workshop

The Leading Edge: local SF/F magazine where you can volunteer to read slush and learn more about how magazines operate -- invaluable opportunity if you live in Provo

The Submission Grinder: a searching tool to find short story markets

SFWA Markets: a list of markets that count towards SFWA membership

*Lamely, Blogger explodes when I try to add the authors' names as labels, due to the length. Sigh. I apologize that there aren't author tags on this post.

 

Novelocity Round-Up and Campbell Anthology

My short story, "Blank Faces", has been reprinted in the 2014 Campbell Anthology. The anthology collects over 860,000 words of fiction from writers eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. It won't be available after nominations, so if you'd like a copy, sooner is better than latter.

Also, here's a round-up of posts from Novelocity this January:

Introductions
Favorite Fantasy Worlds
Favorite Reads in Your Late Teens and Twenties
Left Wanting More
January News