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You might know Maureen McHugh as the award winning author of literate and deadpan science fiction novels and story collections, but she's also part of Fourth Wall Studios, which is busy building the scaffolding of a new way of telling stories and involving people in them. Check out DIRTY WORK and go for a pretty amazing ride.
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If you're in or near Portland, Oregon right this moment, A.M. Dellamonica will be reading at Powells in Cedar Hills tonight at 7, and signing BLUE MAGIC, sequel to her Sunburst Award winning INDIGO SPRINGS. I happen to know she's going to read from a story called "Wild Things" set in the universe of the novels, and it's a sexy wild fun story.
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The fab and amazing M.K. Hobson's kickstarter for THE WARLOCK'S CURSE, number three in her VENEFICAS AMERICANA series is a great example of kickstarting done right, is well worth both your time and a little backing, and offers in return not just what promises to be great books, but backer updates featuring puppies, elegant awesome swag, and all over coolness.
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Chris N. Brown is his indubitably smart self in this article in The New York Revue of Science Fiction, "Science Fiction in the Edgelands."
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My old friend Dean Mermell's book, The Digital Storyteller's Handbook, is available on iTunes for various iThings, from Amazon for Kindle, and from B&N for Nook. Dean knows his stuff and if you're a writer who needs to make a book trailer at some point but needs some clues on making it well, Dean's book is probably a good investment. From the reviews, it is "...a fun and practical guide to media creation. It covers scripting, storyboarding, production with video and DSLR cameras, sound, preparing for editing, and much, much more. If you want to make short films, Kickstarter videos, web content for a business, documentaries, or document live performances, this book will prove invaluable and get you inspired and empowered to make great stuff."
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I have a Pinterest; so far I'm just pinning to one board, which I've named "images of awesome." I'm a very visual person, so I guess Pinterest was inevitable for me.
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In other news, my website, storyrain.com, is languishing in outmoded software/new computer purgatory and has not been updated for a while. I need to pretty much start over and that's taking me some time. Like pacing by a cold pool before getting hot and sweaty enough to make myself plunge in.
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If you're in or near Portland, Oregon right this moment, A.M. Dellamonica will be reading at Powells in Cedar Hills tonight at 7, and signing BLUE MAGIC, sequel to her Sunburst Award winning INDIGO SPRINGS. I happen to know she's going to read from a story called "Wild Things" set in the universe of the novels, and it's a sexy wild fun story.
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The fab and amazing M.K. Hobson's kickstarter for THE WARLOCK'S CURSE, number three in her VENEFICAS AMERICANA series is a great example of kickstarting done right, is well worth both your time and a little backing, and offers in return not just what promises to be great books, but backer updates featuring puppies, elegant awesome swag, and all over coolness.
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Chris N. Brown is his indubitably smart self in this article in The New York Revue of Science Fiction, "Science Fiction in the Edgelands."
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My old friend Dean Mermell's book, The Digital Storyteller's Handbook, is available on iTunes for various iThings, from Amazon for Kindle, and from B&N for Nook. Dean knows his stuff and if you're a writer who needs to make a book trailer at some point but needs some clues on making it well, Dean's book is probably a good investment. From the reviews, it is "...a fun and practical guide to media creation. It covers scripting, storyboarding, production with video and DSLR cameras, sound, preparing for editing, and much, much more. If you want to make short films, Kickstarter videos, web content for a business, documentaries, or document live performances, this book will prove invaluable and get you inspired and empowered to make great stuff."
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I have a Pinterest; so far I'm just pinning to one board, which I've named "images of awesome." I'm a very visual person, so I guess Pinterest was inevitable for me.
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In other news, my website, storyrain.com, is languishing in outmoded software/new computer purgatory and has not been updated for a while. I need to pretty much start over and that's taking me some time. Like pacing by a cold pool before getting hot and sweaty enough to make myself plunge in.
