m. c. de marco

Paramourtal has been slightly delayed but should be out sometime this month, with my story still in it. I have seen the proofs and it’s looking good.

I retweeted this a while back, but now it’s made it to io9: The perfect home for the world’s tiniest hobbits. It’s beautiful, useless, and instructive: with enough obsession, you can do anything—even make a living at writing fiction.

It’s time for me to plunge into the guts of the website and resurrect the To Appear block, for my upcoming story “Sympathy from the Devil,” to appear in Paramourtal, a paranormal romance anthology coming out this summer from Cliffhanger Books. Check out their website for more details…

Via a mailing list: GigaNotoSaurus is a new market for longer science fiction and fantasy stories (up to 25,000 words), paying a flat rate of $100. Check out the submission guidelines.

Thanks to some fellow Odyssey graduates for pointing me to the latest Writers of the Future contest news. The first set of honorable mentions for last quarter has been up at the new location of the WotF blog for a while now. The second set appeared in a press release last week; yours truly was honorably mentioned. The semi-finalists and finalists came out yesterday in another press release.

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Via twitter: Razib at Gene Expression digresses from gene expression to the question of religion and fantasy. He manages to dig up more Jewish fantasy writers than Michael Weingrad did for his article in the Jewish Review of Books, Why There Is No Jewish Narnia:

To put it crudely, if Christianity is a fantasy religion, then Judaism is a science fiction religion.