I asked the randomizer droids to run a list of those who wanted to participate and...congratulations, SciFiBookCat, you won a copy of Linnea Sinclair’s FINDERS KEEPERS! Please email your address to sfrgalaxyNOSPAM@gmail.com (don’t forget to remove the NOSPAM).
Thanks to all who entered (and those who hung around just for the greatness that is SFR). Everyone had so many insightful comments that I can’t wait to chat with you more. Now, onto the news....
BIG RELEASE TODAY!
Susan Grant’s MOONSTRUCK is now available! Stay tuned because within the next two weeks, I’m giving away a copy to one lucky visitor. Plus, we’ll have ourselves a big fancy shindig to celebrate Susan Grant’s work as well as the release of another great science fiction romance.
In the meantime, I want to fill you in on all the super author events happening around the country (*and* in Canada, woot!).
If you’re going to the Book Expo in L.A. on June 1, be sure and look for Kage Baker.
Eve Kenin is appearing at Book Expo Canada. Details are at her Web site.
Connie Willis will emcee the Locus Awards Banquet June 20 & 21.
Pauline B. Jones will be at ApolloCon June 27-29; full details here.
And finally:
Linnea Sinclair will present RWAOnline’s June 2008 Workshop
WORLD BUILDING FOR WRITERS. OR, WHY EVERYONE IN THE GALAXY SHOULDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH
Registration Period May 19 – June 1
***** Permission to Forward Granted *****
RWA® Online Chapter presents:
Class: World Building for Writers. Or, Why Everyone in the Galaxy shouldn't Speak English
Instructor: Linnea Sinclair
Dates: June 2 – 13
Registration Opens: May 19
Registration Deadline: June 1
Fee: $15 Non-Chapter members. RWAOL Chapter #136 members; free.
Payment method: PAYPAL is recommended!
It’s safe and fast! Check and money orders also accepted.
Registration: www.rwaonlinechapter.org/campus.htm
NOTE: -Use your real First and Last Name & Choose Pay Option.
ONLY Chapter #136 members choose the Chapter Member option button.
For more information: workshops@rwaonlinechapter.org
CLASS DESCRIPTION: Commercial fiction today has become more texturally-rich with the melding and combing of genres, from romantic suspense to urban fantasy to science fiction romance…and beyond. Yet too often, writers ignore the depths available and present the reader only with shades of well-known, present day locales with a magician, vampire or rocket ship added. Or else writers go to such depths that the novel ceases to be enjoyable fiction and instead becomes a dry, intergalactic travelogue or magical species encyclopedic entry.
Multi-award winning science fiction and fantasy romance author Linnea Sinclair's workshop will teach you how to get the most out of your multi-genre novel and explore the importance of world building. You'll learn how to use your 'strangeness budget'; how to create customs, religions, histories, politics and languages; how to maintain reader interest in things known and unknown, and have fun at the same time.
BIO: Winner of the prestigious national book award, the RITA, science fiction romance author Linnea Sinclair has become a name synonymous for high-action, emotionally intense, character-driven novels. Reviewers note that Sinclair's novels "have the wow-factor in spades," earning her accolades from both the science fiction and romance communities. Sinclair's current releases are GAMES OF COMMAND (PEARL Award winner and RITA finalist) and THE DOWN HOME ZOMBIE BLUES (PEARL Award Honorable Mention), with SHADES OF DARK scheduled for July 2008.
A former news reporter and retired private detective, Sinclair resides in Naples, Florida (winters) and Columbus, Ohio (summers) along with her husband, Robert Bernadino, and their two thoroughly spoiled cats. Readers can find her perched on the third barstool from the left in her Intergalactic Bar and Grille at www.linneasinclair.com.
FORMAT: Course is conducted via online discussion (bulletin) board on the RWA® Online website. Non-chapter members MUST complete both the workshop registration AND the discussion board login registration for access. Instructions for login are presented after the registration pages (or to return to the login instructions, go to www.rwaonlinechapter.org/WorkshopAppTY.html. The workshop is available for up to one week after the end date and a downloadable archive of the workshop will be available the week following the workshop.
Joyfully yours,
Heather
4 comments:
About Susan Grant's MOONSTRUCK - our best grocery store up here in Alaska is Fred Meyer's, which is Kroger's to you Lower 48ers, I think. {I call it the best because their book selection is about ten times more than the other ones. {I dunno 'bout you, but a mom's got to have priorities!} They always have Susan's books in stock. Always. And I'm wondering if it's an Alaska thing, or if it's a Fred Meyer's/Kroger's thing. It's almost always either STAR PRINCE or CONTACT, although the last one was STAR PRINCESS. Then, they put MOONSTRUCK out on May 23rd. Her new releases seem to stay on the shelves longer than those around her too. They sell, they're re-stocked. Now, they do this with Nora Roberts (also known as JD Robb, I think) and J.K. Rowling and such, but I haven't noticed any other SFR author getting this kind of treatment from them. Although, I must confess I don't pay as good attention to authors whose books I don't read or encounter regularly on-line.
So, any of you been to Freddies/Kroger's lately?
We live too far away from a big city to visit a regular brick-and-mortar bookstore anymore. It's Freddies or on-line shopping. Although, I get almost all my books free because I review them at Enduring Romance. I imagine Alaska has a higher-than-average number of on-line shoppers.
I might run into a Kroger's sometime since I moved back to NC. I'll be sure and check out the book section.
Maybe with the Alaska/Kroger's/Fred always carrying Susan Grant's books--maybe it's both. Maybe the book buyer likes her stuff and takes into account the Alaskan factor.
???that'd be my guess.
The Science Fiction and Science Fiction Romance shelves are always well-stocked all over Alaska, although I don't have anything to compare it to. I haven't been Outside in a few years. ("Outside" is Alaskanese for 'outside Alaska.')Maybe it would be interesting to poll SFR readers' vocations. We do have a lot of military bases and high-tech jobs in Alaska. Maybe we have a lot more scientifically minded women up here. But, yanno, I used to be a nanny - not a computer software designer - and I love SFR.
Kimber, that is really interesting about your Fred Meyer's! I notice that the local CVS stocks SFR, notably Colby Hodge, Marjorie Liu, Liz Maverick/Crimson City and CJ Barry -- I'm thinking it's because Dorchester has such good distribution into the local drug stores and supermarkets here in NY.
Congrats to the winner of the contest!
Michele L.
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