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Voting for the Locus Awards is almost closed! Anyone can vote - and you can write in any eligible entries!

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Support your faves!💖

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Let me tell you, if no one has:

You have big ideas, and they are simply breathtaking.

Hang on, mate. You'll find your flow, your groove, your tribe, your roots.

Editing a novel is like climbing Mt. Everest, hitting an impasse 90% up that immediately transports back to the bottom, and setting out to climb it again with hopefully enough course correction to make it successfully to the top.

Check it out! My interview with Nalo Hopkinson is out at Locus!

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Over at Clarkesworld, my interviews with Sofia Samatar and Ann Leckie are out!

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I really enjoyed teaching this class, and every time I hang out with and get to know Augur folks, I am impressed and delighted. Great energy, great culture, great intentionality.

Sitting in on Arley Sorg’s Networking workshop for Augur Magazine and I was reminded of my least favourite con phenomenon:

When someone comes up to someone you’re speaking to and ignores you until they know you ALSO have a ✨ Cool Title ✨

This con season, don’t be That Guy

Voting is OPEN for the Locus Awards!

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Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles!

If something you read in was special to you, support the author and the works❤️‍🔥

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It's time to hone your query letter skills and agent and editor Arley Sorg is here to teach you how. Sign up for his query letter class when you donate to our fundraiser!
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TWO MORE DAYS until Arley Sorg's networking workshop! 🤩

This Saturday April 6, join us for, 'Making the Most of the Moment: Networking for Writers,' at 2PM EST.

Grab your tickets before they're gone!
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Meanwhile...

Voting is OPEN for the Locus Awards!🤩

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ANYONE can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles! 🐉

If you read something you loved, support the author & the works!💞

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-mostly- updated calendar; + updates on query/mss reading on FAQ page

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VERY SOON: Making the Most of the Moment Networking class for Augur Magazine

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Query letter class as Locus Magazine Indiegogo perk!

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Perhaps for the first time ever (?) all three mags (Fantasy, Lightspeed, Nightmare) have stories as Nebula Awards finalists!

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Delighted to see a story from Nightmare on the Hugo ballot!

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Congratulations to all the finalists!

tried to post something to Facebook & Facebook sometimes does a thing where it posts only the images, deletes the text....

tried to post a thing to Blue Sky and it kept doing a thing where it posted only text, wouldn't post the images....

anyways - me and some kitties!

Check it out! My interview with Nalo Hopkinson is out at Locus!

subscribers.locusmag.com/back-issues

Over at Clarkesworld, my interviews with Sofia Samatar and Ann Leckie are out!

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I've seen MANY queries come in which are written in ways that will make it much harder to land an agent - so I'm offering a Query sesh to support the Locus Indiegogo!

There are readings, collectibles, actual BOOKS, critiques, chat sessions, & much more!

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writers! quick reminder -

rejection

*does NOT mean*

you are a bad writer.

keep writing, striving - improving your work - sending it out -

find other ways to figure out if the work is doing what you want it to do -

rejection is not a metric for quality.

you GOT this!💖

I taught this class in-person at Can*Con last year and it went really well! If you'd like to get my thoughts on how to make the most of in-person events, like conventions, jump in this.👇🏽

My recent interviews @ Locus include...

Moses Ose Utomi
Andrea Stewart
Ai Jiang
John Scalzi
Justina Ireland
John Wiswell
Anna-Marie & Elliott McLemore
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Emma Törzs

...and more! If you enjoy reading these interviews, do the thing!👇🏽

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