Daily Archives: November 17, 2010
Two More Countries Heard From
Posted on November 17, 2010 26 Comments
It’s a good month for The Ghost Brigades: Here you see its Hebrew and Romanian versions, respectively. Both are fairly interesting cover treatments, I have to say. In other news, I agreed to new foreign language offers for both Fuzzy Nation and The Android’s Dream (which foreign language to be revealed when the contract is […]
That’s My Kid
Posted on November 17, 2010 100 Comments
My daughter had to serve detention today. Her crime: Being sarcastic to a teacher. This is, you can imagine, a bittersweet moment for me.
MFA Programs and Commercial Publishing
Posted on November 17, 2010 70 Comments
Elise Blackwell, author and director of the MFA program at the University of South Carolina, offers in The Chronicle of Higher Education a rebuttal to my suggestion that MFA writing programs offer a course on contracts and the publishing industry. Her position is that the goal of MFA programs is “not to grow hothouse flowers […]
Not Quite Accurate SF Movie Descriptions; Favorite Video Games
Posted on November 17, 2010
I’ve got two — two — TWO!! links for you this morning. First, over at FilmCritic.com I’ve written up some “accurate but misleading” descriptions of famous science fiction films, inspired by Rick Polito’s famous TV listing of The Wizard of Oz (“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying