Sime~Gen Perspectives Newsletter
July 2002
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Contents:
* AWARD
* Jean Lorrah's BLOOD WILL TELL
* WRITING FELLOWSHIP
* MARKET FOR SF SHORT STORIES
* NEW AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
* NEW REVIEWS
SITES TO REMEMBER
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS
HOW TO CONTACT EDITOR
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** AWARD
The Sime~Gen Novel presentation site has become a "featured site of the day" on 7/17/02 on a search engine.
** Jean Lorrah's BLOOD WILL TELL
BLOOD WILL TELL, Jean Lorrah's e-book that won the Lord Ruthven Assembly Award as best vampire novel of 2001, has been contracted by a new small press, Ben Bella Books http://www.benbellabooks.com/. This means physical books will be available in brick and mortar bookstores, although as Ben Bella is new and small, it will probably be specialty stores and not Wal-Mart. The book will have new cover art, and author and publisher are currently working on a promotion scheme. It should be available toward the end of 2002.
BLOOD WILL TELL will continue to be published in e-book form by Awe-Struck E-books http://www.awe-struck.net/, its original publisher, but the print-on-demand version will be withdrawn in October.
Find out more about BLOOD WILL TELL at http://www.simegen.com/writers/bloodwilltell/ .
** WRITING FELLOWSHIP
Bernheim Writing Fellowship 2003
The Trustees of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest are pleased to announce the 2003 Bernheim Writing Fellowship. Bernheim is a beautiful 14,000-acre property located 25 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky. It encompasses a nationally recognized arboretum and 14,000 acres of natural area protecting diverse plant and animal species. Thirty-five miles of hiking trails and twenty miles of gravel fire roads offer abundant recreational opportunities, and attract several hundred thousand visitors each year.
Jurying Procedure
The Jurors will select the award recipient based on the quality of the work samples submitted. Support materials will be considered, but only as a secondary resource.
Eligibility
The goal in all of Bernheim's activities is to help realize its mission of strengthening the bond between people and nature by finding new ways to connect nature with people's everyday lives. We believe that if people recognize and benefit from the many values found in nature, quality of life will be improved, and thus they will be motivated to protect the natural world for both its practical and its intrinsic value. To that end, the Bernheim Writing Fellowship is given annually to a talented writer who will work within the forest and/or arboretum to create works that are inspired by nature. The Fellowship provides the writer an opportunity to advance his or her own skills and career while enhancing awareness of Bernheim's goals regionally, nationally and internationally.
Award
The Fellow recipient is required to live at Bernheim for up to three months while working on his/her project. Bernheim will provide comfortable housing in a beautiful wooded setting, plus a financial grant of up to $1000.00 to cover travel, material cost and personal expenses.
The recipient of the Bernheim Fellowship must donate examples of a body of work produced during the Fellowship to Bernheim for its permanent use. These works will become part of The Bernheim Library Collection. Fellowship recipients will be asked to interact with the public in some way, which may include participating in workshops, readings, book signings, etc. Bernheim will reach an agreement regarding the work to be donated and the interaction required from each artist.
Calendar
Do not submit until October 1, 2002
Deadline is December 31, 2002
Jury Deliberation
January 1 - February 28, 2003
Notification
March 15, 2003
Writing Fellowship
Bernheim Forest
P.O. Box 130
Clermont, KY 40110
If you have any questions, call Julie Schweitzer, Art Coordinator at Bernheim 502-955-8512 x 243 on Tuesdays or Wednesdays between 10am and 6pm.
Past Recipients of the Bernheim Writing Fellowship:
2001 Cecelia Woloch, California - writer/poet
2002 Luisa Fels, Los Angeles - writer
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** MARKET FOR SF SHORT STORIES
Attention Science Fiction and Fantasy authors! Echelon Press is compiling an anthology of fun, witty, short speculative fiction!
The book will have a simultaneous release in trade paperback and PDF e-book sometime in mid-2003 and will feature ten to fifteen humorous short stories.
The anthology won't get a title until the stories are chosen for inclusion, so for now, the project will be referred to loosely as WYRD WRAVINGS.
Submissions will be accepted through midnight of October 15, 2002. Submissions should be 4,000-12,000 words in length, and may be submitted electronically.
For more information, please visit http://www.echelonpress.com/wyrdwravings/
Please direct questions to: WyrdQuestions@echelonpress.com Note: Please do NOT send submissions to the above address.
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** NEW AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Elaine Corvidae, author of WINTER'S ORPHANS
** NEW REVIEWS
Fantasy:
YESTERDAY'S DREAMS by Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Historical:
GILDED by Catherine Karp
THE MAIDEN'S SONG by Debra Tash
Mainstream:
THE POISONED APPLE by Todd E. Shewmaker
VULTURES IN THE SKY by Shields McTavish
Mystery:
HOSTILE TARGET by Scott A. Siebels
PRIMAL JUSTICE by Richard E. Gill
Romance:
ECHOES OF ANGELS by Caitlyn McKenna
OATH OF CHALLENGE by Marly Chance
OATH OF SEDUCTION by Marly Chance
THE PRICE OF PLEASURE by Joanna Wylde
WINTER'S ORPHAN by Elaine Corvidae
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