Sime~Gen Perspectives Newsletter
January 2003
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Contents:
* NEW PUBLICATIONS
* NEW APPOINTMENT
* AWARD
* WESTERCON WRITING WORKSHOP
* WRITING CONTEST
* SIMECENTER
* NEW REVIEWS
SITES TO REMEMBER
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS
HOW TO CONTACT EDITOR
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** NEW PUBLICATIONS
This spring I will have three vampire stories coming out as audio books, available for MP3 streaming from the Web for free. See http://www.simegen.com/writers/audio/
for information. There will be other audio-book news later.
In March or April, two of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's books will be available from Wildside Press and on amazon.com and brick-n-mortar stores -- MOLT BROTHER and CITY OF A MILLION LEGENDS. Information . Plans are for hardcover, trade paperback and e-book availability. The titles aren't up on the wildsidepress.com website yet, but http://www.simegen.com/jl/ has been added to the wildside webring.
Meisha Merlin plans to have the first Sime~Gen Omnibus available by the first week in July. It can already be pre-ordered at the publisher's website . Information is at http://www.simegen.com/writers/simegen/
Later, Jean Lorrah's award winning novel BLOOD WILL TELL will be out in hardcover and trade paperback from Ben Bella Books. Its cover is already up on the web at http://www.benbellabooks.com . Information at http://www.simegen.com/writers/bloodwilltell/ .
Ben Bella Books has also picked up Jean's Savage Empire novels. Winston Howlett, one of our resident professional writers, will be authoring or co-authoring new novels in that series. Watch for the launch of the new Savage Empire website with all the information on that series.
Toward the end of 2003, Ben Bella Books will release Jacqueline Lichtenberg's novel THOSE OF MY BLOOD - in Trade Paperback and probably HC too. Information: http://www.simegen.com/writers/luren/ (Luren is what the vampires call themselves in this Vampire Romance). Ben Bella likewise has an option on the other novel in the Luren Universe -- DREAMSPY.
** NEW APPOINTMENT
Linda Nelson is taking the position of Administrative Reviews
Assistant/Department Secretary.
Everybody please give her a hearty thank you. She's already doing a lot of work for Sime~Gen but seems to be a glutton for punishment.
** AWARD
Jean Lorrah's BLOOD WILL TELL has won Best Paranormal in the LORIES contest sponsored by From the Heart chapter of Romance Writers of America.
** WESTERCON WRITING WORKSHOP
The first week in July - coinciding with the release of the first Sime~Gen Omnibus by Meisha Merlin - Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg will be teaching an in-person writing workshop on the Business of Writing, sponsored by Westercon (one of the major SF/F Regional Conventions) in Seattle, Washington. Westercon membership is extra.
The workshop runs the entire day, Wednesday, July 2. Westercon programming starts Thursday July 3. Westercon programming will include a large and varied writing craftsmanship track of programming.
The student fee for just our Workshop is $75. The sign-up page is not yet open, but there is limited enrollment. Any duly Registered student of WorldCrafters Guild who wishes to come and learn with us should e-mail simegen@simegen.com and we'll try to reserve you a space.
** WRITING CONTEST
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bis Whitacre
Assistant Director, Books For Life Foundation
(317) 685-2500 or bis@booksforlifefoundation.com
Books For Life Foundation Announces $25,000 Literary Competition Indianapolis, Ind. - Books For Life Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to aiding aspiring authors and poets, announces the $25,000 John T. Lupton "New Voices In Literature" Awards. Named after the founding benefactor of the foundation, the awards honor the finest query letters and book proposals for both fiction and non-fiction works not previously published by traditional means. Entry fee information, submission deadlines, and competition rules are available at www.booksforlifefoundation.com. By providing what we believe to be the largest single award for this type of competition, Books For Life Foundation hopes to inspire writers everywhere to pen professionally written query letters and book proposals a critical step on the path to becoming published, states Mark Shaw, creative director of Books For Life Foundation. We hope this award will encourage writers from around the world to submit their work for consideration. The Lupton awards will be presented during the May 2003 WRITER'S DIGEST Writer's Program at the BookExpo America Convention in Los Angeles.
Details about the Writer's Program and the Lupton awards are featured in the February 2003 issue of WRITER'S DIGEST. Books For Life Foundation is dedicated to educating writers about the publishing process. All foundation services are free of charge. The foundation also conducts seminars entitled "How To Become A Published Author or Poet: A to Z" utilizing its publication, BOOK REPORT, PUBLISHING STRATEGIES, WRITING TIPS, AND 101 LITERARY IDEAS FOR ASPIRING AUTHORS AND POETS, by Mark Shaw. More information about the foundation is available at www.booksforlifefoundation.com , by telephoning Bis Whitacre at 317-685-2500, or via e-mail to bis@booksforlifefoundation.com.
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** SIMECENTER
The featured recipient this month is again the Arrowhead Drop-In Centre.
Please visit their page...recently updated, and much more elegant than before.
Donate to this worthy organization, in return for enjoying the excellent stories and artwork our contributors have donated.
Don't forget to tell them that you were 'referred' by SimeCenter.
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This month's story is one of several donated by Jacqueline Lichtenberg. This one is "Aventura".
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In the Art department, we have a series of "Patterns" (just what you want, to spice up your backgrounds) by Geoffrey B. Chew, who has contributed beautiful and fanciful artworks for several editions of SimeCenter.
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Please visit Simecenter
to enjoy these offerings, and make donations to our recipient.
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** NEW REVIEWS
Romance
BY INVITATION ONLY by Kit Tunstall
HEAD OVER HEELS by Cindy Procter-King
HOUSEBREAKING A HUSBAND by Lori Soard
MIDNIGHT DESIRES by Kate Hill and Sherri L. King
MISS BEATRICE'S BOTTOM by Sahara Kelly
RAVYN'S FLIGHT by Patti O'Shea
RUPERT, THE DEVIL-DOG FROM HELL by Daisy Dexter Dobbs
SHIPWRECKED AND WOOING JENNY by Elaine Hopper
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT 2 by MaryJanice Davidson, Lani Aames, and Margaret L. Carter
TOURIST ATTRACTION by Molly J. Ringle
WICKED WISHES by Stephanie Burke, Marly Chance, and Joanna Wylde
***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights:
vampires
romance
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