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Original post — A Call to Words: #FictionFightsBack

Thanks for spreading the word, everyone. We here at Bad Menagerie are grateful #FictionFightsBack is seeing so much support.

I’m getting a lot of questions along the lines of, What can I do if I don’t have that big of a fanbase? Or, How can I help if I’m not a writer?

First of all, if #FictionFightsBack doesn’t fit your options, there are many other ways you can stand up. But if you want to help this initiative in particular, here are some i...

I spent a day feeling powerless, angry, and afraid. I’m still angry and afraid, but now I’m figuring out what I can do.

This will be the first thing.

Yesterday I thought, I might write a story in the Russell’s Attic universe about the characters reacting to this. Then I thought, I’ll do that, and I’ll donate all the proceeds to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, charities for trans teens, and other similar organizations… I’m going to commit to regular donations anyway, but I don’t have a lot of mo...

Plastic Smile is OUT!Get it now at your retailer of choice:

Amazon

Amazon UK

Apple

Kobo

Barnes & Noble

My first readers are generally of the opinion that this is the Best. Book. Yet.

Oh, and remember the bundle?The box set of books 1, 2, AND 3?

IT IS ON SALE

LIKE, SUPER SALE

LIKE, SUPER MEGA AWESOME SALE

Seriously, for this upcoming week only, you can get ALL THREE of the first three books for just 99 cents.

Nintey-nine. Cents. For THREE BOOKS.

If you haven’t picked up book 3 yet, this is...

News news news news news!

We have a Russell’s Attic book 4!It is available for preorder on Amazon!And more retailers will be coming soon — here is the the official Book Page that will be updated with links.

The Book 4 has a cover! It is gorgeous, as all Najla Qamber’s covers are:

The Book 4 has a release date! That release date is June 30.

What to know what it’s about? Here is the blurb:

Cas Russell, antisocial mercenary, has decided to Fight Crime. With capital letters, like in one of her...

It’s HERE! Get over a million words of fiction from this year’s Campbell-eligible authors!

This anthology includes 120 authors—who contributed 230 works totaling approximately 1.1 MILLIONwords of fiction. These pieces all originally appeared in 2014, 2015, or 2016 from writers who are new professionals to the SFF field, and they represent a breathtaking range of work from the next generation of speculative storytelling.

All of these authors are eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Bes...

It’s HERE! Get over a million words of fiction from this year’s Campbell-eligible authors!

This anthology includes 120 authors—who contributed 230 works totaling approximately 1.1 MILLIONwords of fiction. These pieces all originally appeared in 2014, 2015, or 2016 from writers who are new professionals to the SFF field, and they represent a breathtaking range of work from the next generation of speculative storytelling.

All of these authors are eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Bes...

UPDATES: Submissions are now closed! We had OVER A HUNDRED AUTHORS send us their work. Updates on the anthology coming soon! (If you want live updates on the build, follow@sl_huang on Twitter.)

We have a cover! By the amazing Holly Heisey. See below.

We also have a title! Thanks to a suggestion by Effie Seiberg, the anthology will be called UP AND COMING: STORIES BY THE 2016 CAMPBELL-ELIGIBLE AUTHORS.

If you would like updates on this project via email, mailing list information is now at the e...

I’m happy to announce that fellow SFF author Kurt Hunt and I will be building aCampbell anthology this year!

The original CAMPBELLIAN ANTHOLOGY is the brainchild of author M. David Blake, and he’s put a monumental amount of effort into making it happen in prior years. Since he decided not to make one this year due to slate voting, we asked his blessing to step up and build a similar book for 2016 (title to be announced). We expect to be the curators of such an anthology for this year only.

Wh...

Below is a categorized list of my published work from 2015 that is eligible for awards nomination in 2016. The best quick entry point into my work for this year is “By Degrees and Dilatory Time” (short story category), as itis both a standalone and has been well-received.

The Campbell

I am in my second year of Campbell eligibility.

Novels

Root of Unity

Short Stories

“By Degrees and Dilatory Time” at Strange Horizons “Fighting Demons” at The Book Smugglers (sequel to “Hunting Monsters”)

No...

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By Ken Hawkins from SC, USA (Closed sign) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

Some number of years ago, while I was still at university, I was very pumped up the day before Thanksgiving. Not because of the holiday, but because I was in one of those moods in which I was getting a ton of shit done, being super productive . . . I finished my classes and bounced off to do errands, which included some research for a class at one of the libraries, running...