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Summary Reviews: Clarkesworld, March 2021
As part of my ongoing study of others’ editorial practices, I usually share capsule reviews of the stories and articles in Clarkesworld each month on Twitter. Right now, though, I’m off Twitter while addressing legal-status anxiety, so I’m going to run those capsule reviews here instead. The aim is to distill each piece so that…
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Confidence and the Creator: A Lesson from the First Week of Self-Publishing
This past week I learned an unexpected lesson about e-publishing. An important lesson! But a tricky one. Some folks bee-line for self-publishing because they think it’s an easy way to make money and become an accomplished writer. They know in their guts that their work is good enough, irrespective of how much they’ve read in…
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Of all the lengths that SF&F can take…
One of my favourite points of literary confusion between English and Spanish is that a “novel” in English is a “novela” in Spanish… but a “novella” is treated as quite a different literary category in the English-speaking world. For Nebula-Award-nomination purposes, a “novella” is a work between 17,500 and 40,000 words. (In Spanish, the term…
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