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Charlie Jane Anders
The Speculative Literature Foundation is launching a Convention Support Grant, to help conventions get back on their feet as pandemic measures ease. (Thanks to File 770.)
Hugh Howey is initiating a self-publishing contest similar in structure to Mark Lawrence’s Self-Publishing Blog-Off. Ten book bloggers will review up to 300 self-published SF novels. At the end of a year, a winner will be chosen from among the finalists.
Alexandra Petri knocks it out of the park for her Washington Post column, a post pandemic horror-satire (or is it?).
For Polygon, Charlie Jane Anders shares her opinion of creating non-human races, and world-building.
Polygon shares summer releases. The Mary Sue focuses on audiobooks. (Kat will be pleased!)
Meet, or meet again, five queens of the Gothic. (They’re not literal queens.)
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A Scene from the Black Widow Film, Courtesy of IMDB
More from Publishers Weekly on the US Book Show.
Will there ever be a John Stewart Green Lantern movie? This article doesn’t know either, but it’s still interesting.
Screenrant also shares a clip and some thoughts about the upcoming Black Widow movie.
Who knew that 17th century spycraft involved intricate knowledge of how to “refold” a letter after it had been read? A fascinating article on “letterlocking.”
Ars Technica labels Demeo the best virtual reality D&D clone game every created.
Don't know how to answer that, Andrew; I've only read the long. But when it comes to REH, more is…
Would you recommend the long or the short version of Three Bladed Doom?
"A Gent From Bear Creek," originally a collection of short stories later cobbled together to make a novel, and "Three-Bladed…
What were the 4 novels we wrote? Two were Almuric and Hour of the Dragon, what's the other 2?
He has a new one just out (or being released soon) called DRILL. I'm interested, but I may need to…