[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: Mohanraj interview: Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing
Original Message- From: Mary Anne Mohanraj Mohanraj interview: Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing Some of you might enjoy this interview -- I talk about the Carl Brandon awards, how Strange Horizons got started, Clarion West experiences, grant money for writers, writing your identity, my current work, problems with the writing of inexperienced writers, etc. and so on. http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/2008/07/aisfp-56/ - Mary Anne - Mary Anne Mohanraj - http://www.mamohanraj.com Director, Speculative Literature Foundation - http://www.speclit.org Board member, DesiLit - http://www.desilit.org
RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] My new blog
Belated congrats! I read your first post. I really liked it Tracey From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ravenadal Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:57 AM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] My new blog In the face of staggering indifference I have started a new blog. Read the first entry at: http://blackplush.blogspot.com/ ~rave! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] The Lit-SF Debate Has Become A Trope In Its Own Right
The http://io9.com/5113466/the-lit+sf-debate-has-become-a-trope-in-its-own-righ t Lit-SF Debate Has Become A Trope In Its Own Right By Charlie Jane http://io9.com/people/charliejane/posts/ Anders, 1:00 http://io9.com/5113466/the-lit+sf-debate-has-become-a-trope-in-its-own-righ t PM on Thu Dec 18 2008, 309 views Yet another literary boffin has said science fiction novels can't be literary, and it's (not surprisingly) sparked some controversy. Benjamin Kunkel in Dissent Magazine wrote a long exegesis http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1308 on the difference between SF and literature - in a nutshell, literature has more complex characters and trickier dilemmas about the place of the individual in society. Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber took http://crookedtimber.org/2008/12/16/they-bellow-til-were-deaf/ issue with Kunkel's analysis. I had a sense that Farrell was oversimplifying Kunkel's argument, and that Kunkel was actually making some valid points mixed in with his ill-supported generalizations. I was struggling with how to say that in a blog post, but luckily, Cheryl Morgan did it for me http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=2789 . Her thoughtful response to Kunkel's argument is well worth reading for its own sake, as she dissects the difference between genres and tropes. (Like, it's actually possible to write a novel about clones without doing the usual Are clones human? thing.) In a weird sense, the debate over literary fiction vs. SF has in itself become ridden with tropes, and Morgan does a good job of cutting through them. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] Is It Time for a Change in Publishing Black Literature?
By Shon Bacon http://chicklitgurrl.wordpress.com/ November 17, 2008 Is It Time for a Change in Publishing Black Literature? http://readersrooms.com/wp-content/authors/Shon%20Bacon-93.jpg Recently, I read a post on author Bernice McFadden's MySpace blog - http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewfriendID=104202531b logID=446786829 Will a Black President Help Me, the Black Writer. You should definitely take the time to read it in its entirety (if you don't have Bernice as a friend on MySpace, you might need to add her first). In the post, Bernice talks about (and this is my summarizing her post, mind you) how President-Elect Barack Obama represents a different view of Blacks in America, a view we don't often see in media. We're so used to seeing Blacks in stereotypical roles - dealers, hustlers, druggies, hoes, and the list goes - unfortunately - on and on. As Bernice states in her post, Obama is representative of the Black American we seldom see in publishing. Meaning, he is not a whore-monger, drug-dealer, drug user or absent baby-daddy. He is not a slave to designer labels and he does not wear bling. We have not seen him ducking into a bodega to buy a forty, he does not congregate on street corners, and no source has come forward to reveal that he smoked a blunt before his debates with John McCain. Her question - Will a Black president help me, the Black writer - comes from the notion that if we can elect a Black president, can publishing houses open their eyes to the idea that Blacks have a myriad of experiences and as such, there should be a myriad of stories written to reflect those experiences - and not just those very few experiences we've seen countless times. Here was my response (polished a bit here) to her post: I think just as Obama started with a grassroots campaign of believers, black writers who want a change need to start a grassroots campaign, too. The people of America saw Obama for nearly two years - with his eloquent words - tell them that change could happen, that it was time to happen. He tapped into the future, the youth, to support his advances. He looked into the eyes of elderly white people and said, I can help you, too. He looked at Republicans, those who could barely get up the nerve to say they were tired of their party, and said, I know how you feel, don't tell me. Let's fix this thing together. Just as Obama connected beyond Blacks and sparked the change that took place on the second best day of my life, those black writers who want a change in the publishing industry have to fight for the change and connect beyond their color, too. And, unfortunately, it doesn't come from telling the publishing industry - yet again - that they need to change; they don't buy it, no matter how much convincing we try to do. They want to see the numbers, they want to see the sales, they want to SEE the change. So, I guess, the question is how do we start that grassroots campaign for change in the publishing industry for black writers? How do we convince our constituents that we are worthy of being read, of being published so that it's not just about us - the writers - complaining (as the industry might say - sour grapes), but it's about the people who are ready, who are craving for more diversity in black literature? Do we do more self-publishing (or as I like to call it indie publishing) of diverse works? Do we become voices in various forms of media so that we can be spokespersons for those who are publishing diverse works? Do we form consortia derived from Black-oriented publishing houses, PR firms, marketing firms, book clubs, magazines, TV networks, radio stations so that we can disseminate information about those diverse works? How do we regroup and move forward in a way that promotes all arrays of Black literature.and not just to Black readers, but to all people? Can we? What say you? http://readersrooms.com/?p=1455 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] Is It Time for a Change in Publishing Black Literature?
November 17, 2008 Is It Time for a Change in Publishing Black Literature? Recently, I read a post on author Bernice McFadden's MySpace blog - http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewfriendID=104202531b logID=446786829 Will a Black President Help Me, the Black Writer. You should definitely take the time to read it in its entirety (if you don't have Bernice as a friend on MySpace, you might need to add her first). In the post, Bernice talks about (and this is my summarizing her post, mind you) how President-Elect Barack Obama represents a different view of Blacks in America, a view we don't often see in media. We're so used to seeing Blacks in stereotypical roles - dealers, hustlers, druggies, hoes, and the list goes - unfortunately - on and on. As Bernice states in her post, Obama is representative of the Black American we seldom see in publishing. Meaning, he is not a whore-monger, drug-dealer, drug user or absent baby-daddy. He is not a slave to designer labels and he does not wear bling. We have not seen him ducking into a bodega to buy a forty, he does not congregate on street corners, and no source has come forward to reveal that he smoked a blunt before his debates with John McCain. Her question - Will a Black president help me, the Black writer - comes from the notion that if we can elect a Black president, can publishing houses open their eyes to the idea that Blacks have a myriad of experiences and as such, there should be a myriad of stories written to reflect those experiences - and not just those very few experiences we've seen countless times. Here was my response (polished a bit here) to her post: I think just as Obama started with a grassroots campaign of believers, black writers who want a change need to start a grassroots campaign, too. The people of America saw Obama for nearly two years - with his eloquent words - tell them that change could happen, that it was time to happen. He tapped into the future, the youth, to support his advances. He looked into the eyes of elderly white people and said, I can help you, too. He looked at Republicans, those who could barely get up the nerve to say they were tired of their party, and said, I know how you feel, don't tell me. Let's fix this thing together. Just as Obama connected beyond Blacks and sparked the change that took place on the second best day of my life, those black writers who want a change in the publishing industry have to fight for the change and connect beyond their color, too. And, unfortunately, it doesn't come from telling the publishing industry - yet again - that they need to change; they don't buy it, no matter how much convincing we try to do. They want to see the numbers, they want to see the sales, they want to SEE the change. So, I guess, the question is how do we start that grassroots campaign for change in the publishing industry for black writers? How do we convince our constituents that we are worthy of being read, of being published so that it's not just about us - the writers - complaining (as the industry might say - sour grapes), but it's about the people who are ready, who are craving for more diversity in black literature? Do we do more self-publishing (or as I like to call it indie publishing) of diverse works? Do we become voices in various forms of media so that we can be spokespersons for those who are publishing diverse works? Do we form consortia derived from Black-oriented publishing houses, PR firms, marketing firms, book clubs, magazines, TV networks, radio stations so that we can disseminate information about those diverse works? How do we regroup and move forward in a way that promotes all arrays of Black literature.and not just to Black readers, but to all people? Can we? What say you? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] Reading Too Much Into Race
Reading Too Much Into Race By Carleen Brice Sunday, December 21, 2008; B04 December is National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give It to Somebody Not Black Month. What, you haven't heard of it? Wondering whether it's a joke? Well, it is and it isn't. I've got my tongue firmly lodged against my cheek, but I'm really hoping that this holiday season you'll buy a book by a black author and give it to somebody who isn't black. Because as a black author trying to reach a wider audience, I believe that this guerrilla marketing effort -- although sort of a stunt -- may be one of the only ways writers like me will be able to find white readers. The accepted wisdom of the publishing industry is that books by black authors should be marketed to black audiences; after that, hopefully, they will cross over to whites and others. This is what a writer friend of mine was told when she wrote her first book. Ten books later, she has yet to cross over, despite respectable sales and favorable reviews. Without that crossover success, she's having a hard time finding a publisher for her latest literary novel. One editor rejected her latest work with the comment that it was beautifully written, but since there hadn't been a new breakout African American author in years, she would have to pass on it. It's not that black readers aren't buying books. According to the research firm Target Market News, which tracks African American consumer spending, black households spent an estimated $270 million on books in 2007. But as my writer friend's situation and that of many others illustrates, it's extremely hard to have a viable career in publishing without support from a wider (read: not exclusively black) audience. And it's difficult for black authors, especially of literary fiction, to develop the buzz that sells books. White readers don't hear our books discussed generally (except, of course, the ones by heavy hitters such as Toni http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Toni+Morrison?tid=informlin e Morrison, Alice http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Alice+Walker?tid=informline Walker and a few others). And without media exposure and water-cooler talk, they don't know which of our books they might like. Publishers themselves are spending their precious marketing dollars targeting black readers specifically. As editors and publishers we have to acknowledge that the base audience for these books are African American readers, said Stacey Barney, an editor with the Penguin imprint G.P. Putnam's Sons. Once you've secured that base readership, then you can go after other markets for the book. But securing that base readership is part of the problem. A trip to one of the major chain bookstores shows what Barney's talking about. Walk past the general fiction section, and you'll find the African American fiction section. The shelves there will be lined with all the same subjects you find in the rest of the bookstore. The one thing linking them is that the authors are black. It's very handy if all you read is fiction by black people. You can go right to your special section. Someone like me, who enjoys a wider variety of reading, might look in both general fiction and the black fiction section. I'm black and would never feel out of place browsing in the black books section. A white reader, on the other hand, might not take that same look and might not know that the books exist at all. Borders developed its stand-alone African American fiction section more than a decade ago, according to buyer Ernesto Martinez. The stand-alone section is a successful strategy, he said. After years of being against the idea, the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, my local independent bookstore, is considering launching an African American fiction section in its flagship location. Black customers asked for one after the store moved to a more diverse neighborhood. To me, it seems a bit ironic that, at a time when black authors are fighting not to be marginalized, some black readers are asking for African American fiction sections. But I can understand their reasons. Some blacks read only books by black authors out of loyalty or a desire to keep seeing stories about themselves in print. It makes sense that they'd like to find those books in one location, but it also speaks to the way readers have come to expect a dividing line, books clearly marked us and them. Marketing black books only to black readers is frustrating in another way. Who says that all black readers are alike? That's a question Karen Hunter has struggled with. She's an author who also has her own imprint with Simon Schuster's Pocket Books, primarily publishing works by black authors. Black people are not monolithic -- we don't all like the same things, she said. So why wouldn't a white person be interested in some of the same subjects that a black person would? Of course, one best-selling black author of the moment happens to be our president-elect.
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: (NAME-MCE) Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book
Original Message- From: name-mce-boun...@nameorg.org [mailto:name-mce-boun...@nameorg.org] On Behalf Of Bill Howe Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:01 AM To: ***NAME-MCE ***NAME-MCE Subject: (NAME-MCE) Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book December 23, 2008 Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book By CHRISTOPHER MAAG CLEVELAND - Five years ago, young Muslims across the United States began reading and passing along a blurry, photocopied novel called The Taqwacores, about imaginary punk rock Muslims in Buffalo. This book helped me create my identity, said Naina Syed, 14, a high school freshman in Coventry, Conn. A Muslim born in Pakistan, Naina said she spent hours on the phone listening to her older sister read the novel to her. When I finally read the book for myself, she said, it was an amazing experience. The novel is The Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims, said Carl W. Ernst, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Springing from the imagination of Michael Muhammad Knight, it inspired disaffected young Muslims in the United States to form real Muslim punk bands and build their own subculture. Now the underground success of Muslim punk has resulted in a low-budget independent film based on the book. A group of punk artists living in a communal house in Cleveland called the Tower of Treason offered the house as the set for the movie. The crumbling streets and boarded-up storefronts of their neighborhood resemble parts of Buffalo. Filming took place in October, and the movie will be released next year, said Eyad Zahra, the director. To see these characters that used to live only inside my head out here walking around, and to think of all these kids living out parts of the book, it's totally surreal, Mr. Muhammad Knight, 31, said as he roamed the movie set. As part of the set, a Muslim punk rock musician, Marwan Kamel, 23, painted Osama McDonald, a figure with Osama bin Laden's face atop Ronald McDonald's body. Mr. Kamel said the painting was a protest against imperialism by American corporations and against Wahhabism, the strictest form of Islam. Noureen DeWulf, 24, an actress who plays a rocker in the movie, defended the film's message. I'm a Muslim and I'm 100-percent American, Ms. DeWulf said, so I can criticize my faith and my country. Rebellion? Punk? This is totally American. The novel's title combines taqwa, the Arabic word for piety, with hardcore, used to describe many genres of angry Western music. For many young American Muslims, stigmatized by their peers after the Sept. 11 attacks but repelled by both the Bush administration's reaction to the attacks and the rigid conservatism of many Muslim leaders, the novel became a blueprint for their lives. Reading the book was totally liberating for me, said Areej Zufari, 34, a Muslim and a humanities professor at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Fla. Ms. Zufari said she had listened to punk music growing up in Arkansas and found The Taqwacores four years ago. Here was someone as frustrated with Islam as me, she said, and he expressed it using bands I love, like the Dead Kennedys. It all came together. The novel's Muslim characters include Rabeya, a riot girl who plays guitar onstage wearing a burqa and leads a group of men and women in prayer. There is also Fasiq, a pot-smoking skater, and Jehangir, a drunk. Such acts - playing Western music, women leading prayer, men and women praying together, drinking, smoking - are considered haram, or forbidden, by millions of Muslims. Mr. Muhammad Knight was born an Irish Catholic in upstate New York and converted to Islam as a teenager. He studied at a mosque in Pakistan but became disillusioned with Islam after learning about the sectarian battles after the death of Muhammad. He said he wrote The Taqwacores to mend the rift between his being an observant Muslim and an angry American youth. He found validation in the life of Muhammad, who instructed people to ignore their leaders, destroy their petty deities and follow only Allah. After reading the novel, many Muslims e-mailed Mr. Muhammad Knight, asking for directions to the next Muslim punk show. Told that no such bands existed, some of them created their own, with names like Vote Hezbollah and Secret Trial Five. One band, the Kominas, wrote a song called Suicide Bomb the Gap, which became Muslim punk rock's first anthem. As Muslims, we're not being honest if we criticize the United States without first criticizing ourselves, said Mr. Kamel, 23, who grew up in a Syrian family in Chicago. He is lead singer of the band al-Thawra, the Revolution in Arabic. For many young American Muslims, the merger of Islam and rebellion resonated. Hanan Arzay, 15, is a daughter of Muslim immigrants from Morocco who lives in East Islip, N.Y. In the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, pedestrians threw eggs and coffee
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: [scifinoir2] Top 10 Comics and Novels for 2008
From: scifino...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:56 PM To: scifinoir-...@yahoogroups.com; scifino...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Top 10 Comics and Novels for 2008 Top 10 Comics and Novels for 2008 So you guys won't buy books that cost $3.99 and you don't like events so explain the top 10 list to me, I'm confused.Its either hypocrisy or a very loud minority. Which one is it? http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/2009/01/12/top-10-comics-and-novels-for-2008/#m ore-1205 Official Press Release (BALTIMORE, MD) - (January 9, 2009) - Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion #1 was the best-selling comic book title for 2008 based on total unit sales to comic book specialty shops, according to Diamond Comic Distributors, the world's largest distributor of comics, graphic novels, and pop-culture products . All eight issues of the limited series crossover event placed in the top ten comics of 2008, and were joined by Uncanny X-men #500 (#6) and DC Comics http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/wp-admin/ http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif' first issue of its 2008 mega-event, Final Crisis #1 (#10). In addition, Marvel http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/wp-admin/ Comicshttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif closed out 2008 as the top publisher, leading both Retail Dollar and Unit Market Shares, with a 46% Unit Market Share, and a 41% Retail Dollar Market Share. DC Comic's was the comic book industry's second leading publisher with 32% Unit Market Share, and a 30% Retail Dollar Market Share. 2008's top-selling graphic novel was the perennial best-seller, DC Comics' Watchmen TP, which enjoyed renewed success in the wake of the upcoming feature film in 2009. DC Comics also dominated graphic novel sales by taking seven of the top ten spots. Comic book and graphic novel sales through comic book specialty shops remained strong in 2008, with graphic novel sales increasing five-percent over 2007 remarked Diamond CEO Steve Geppi. Our publishers did a tremendous job of creating compelling storylines that comic fans wanted to see, and we remain optimistic about the comic book industry heading into 2009. 2008 TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS QUANTITY SHARE RETAIL SHARE MARVEL COMICS 45.82% 40.81% DC COMICS 31.67% 29.94% DARK HORSE COMICS 5.05% 6.49% IMAGE COMICS 3.32% 3.73% IDW PUBLISHING 2.92% 3.08% OTHERS 11.22% 15.95% 2008 TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS Quantity Rank Description Price Publisher 1 SECRET INVASION #1 $3.99 Marvel Comics 2 SECRET INVASION #2 $3.99 Marvel Comics 3 SECRET INVASION #3 $3.99 Marvel Comics 4 SECRET INVASION #4 $3.99 Marvel Comics 5 SECRET INVASION #5 $3.99 Marvel Comics 6 SECRET INVASION #6 $3.99 Marvel Comics 7 UNCANNY X-MEN #500 $3.99 Marvel Comics 8 SECRET INVASION #7 $3.99 Marvel Comics 9 FINAL CRISIS #1 $3.99 DC Comics 10 SECRET INVASION #8 $3.99 Marvel Comics 2008 TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS TRADE PAPERBACKS Quantity Rank Description Price Publisher 1 WATCHMEN TP $19.99 DC Comics 2 BATMAN THE KILLING JOKE SPECIAL ED HC $17.99 DC Comics 3 JOKER HC $19.99 DC Comics 4 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 10 WHYS AND WHEREFORES $14.99 DC Comics 5 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 08 MADE TO SUFFER $14.99 Image Comics 6 BATMAN DARK KNIGHT RETURNS TP $14.99 DC Comics 7 FABLES TP VOL 10: THE GOOD PRINCE $17.99 DC Comics 8 WANTED GN $19.99 Image Comics 9 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 8 TP VOL 02: NO FUTURE FOR YOU $15.95 Dark Horse Comics 10 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 01 UNMANNED $12.99 DC Comics [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: Scholarships available for writers of color: Clarion West Writers Workshop
-Original Message- To: Carl Brandon Society Subject: [CarlBrandon] Scholarships available for writers of color: Clarion West Writers Workshop Dear colleagues and friends at CBS: Applications are open for the 2009 session of the Clarion West writers workshop, an intensive six-week, live-in workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in speculative fiction. We believe you can help us get our information to the ambitious, talented applicants were looking for. Gifted writers are found in all races, but because speculative fiction reflects the prejudices of the culture around it, proportionately fewer writers of color are successful. Clarion West is dedicated to improving those proportions. Co-founded in 1984 by J.T. Stewart, a woman of color, and Marilyn J. Holt, Clarion West has produced some of the most exciting and creative new writers in the field, including Kathleen Alcalá, Andrea Hairston, and Nisi Shawl. Our 2009 instructors are John Kessel, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Bear, Nalo Hopkinson, David Hartwell, and Rudy Rucker. Hopkinson, winner of the World Fantasy and Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, has edited four anthologies focused on representing people of color in narratives of the fantastic. A number of scholarships to the workshop are available, including the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually to a writer of color. For more information on the workshop and application process, please visit http://www.clarionwest.org. If you are referring potential students, please tell them to visit our website and apply there. Application and scholarship information is on the site. Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, Eileen Gunn :: :: :: :: :: Eileen Gunn Vice-Chair, Board of Directors The Clarion West Writers Workshop 340 Fifteenth Avenue East, Suite 350 Seattle, Washington 98112 phone :: 206-323-0052 email :: g...@radarangels.com :: :: :: :: ::
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: [CarlBrandon] net flix film competition for new filmmakers
-Original Message- From: carlbran...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:carlbran...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Carole McDonnell Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:11 AM To: carlbran...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [CarlBrandon] net flix film competition for new filmmakers Hey, it's worth a try...would be nice if a minority filmmaker won. http://www.netflixfindyourvoice.com/ Good luck! -C
[SciFiNoir Lit] Samuel Delany Will Come Into Your House And Shred Your Notebooks
Samuel http://io9.com/5138216/samuel-delany-will-come-into-your-house-and-shred-yo ur-notebooks Delany Will Come Into Your House And Shred Your Notebooks By Charlie Jane http://io9.com/people/charliejane/posts/ Anders, 1:40 http://io9.com/5138216/samuel-delany-will-come-into-your-house-and-shred-yo ur-notebooks PM on Fri Jan 23 2009, 1,102 views http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/01/9780819567161.jpgSamuel Delany http://io9.com/tag/samuel-delany/ not only helped redefine science fiction, he's one of a few SF writers who teach writing at the college level. So I was excited to see he'd written a book about writing. The book in question, About Writing, isn't quite what I'd expected from someone who's been teaching creative writing for the past thirty years. It's definitely not a style guide or a tutorial on fiction writing. (The book's subtitle, 7 essays, 4 letters 5 interviews, could be a bit of a clue.) Instead, it's Delany's ruminations, gathered over the years, about both the craft of fiction writing and the writer's life in general. There are fantastic insights in there, as well as advice that might make you rethink everything about your approach to fiction writing - even if you end up disagreeing with some of it. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/01/2521891156_b8ca0fbc5b_o.jp gYou have to have a bit of patience, though. Delany says, in the book's intro, that he doesn't think you can talk about how to write fiction, without also discussing why people write fiction, and the world in which we write it: [This book] deals with three other topics and the relations between them. One - which it shares with most books on writing - is, yes, the art of writing fiction. The other two are far less often discussed in classes and rarely figure in such how-to books. First, how is the world structured - specifically the socio-aesthetic world - in which the writer works?... Second (and finally), this book discusses the way literary reputations grow - and how, today, they don't grow. He goes on to prove his point in the intro, mixing a nuts-and-bolts discussion of scene-setting with a long passage on the nature of begeisterung (roughly translated as inspiration, but it's actually one of those German words that needs a 500-word explanation in English.) There are some good nuts-and-bolts essays - in particular, the essays on Thickening The Plot and Characters are pretty helpful. Even here, though, Delany throws some curveballs, albeit welcome ones. Take the essay on plot, for example. Delany goes off on some tangents, and also seems to be discussing scene-setting instead of plotting. But it all comes together, when he explains that the key to a good plot is actually visualizing the events of the story as if they really happened. And if you're forced - by a cranky critique group, or your own conscience - to change the story's events around, then you must revisualize the story all over again. See it in your mind, through the lens of key details, until you can convince yourself that on some level the story actually did happen (as opposed to 'should have happened') in the new way. It's actually pretty amazing advice. A lot of the other nuts-and-bolts advice winds up in the back of the book, in an appendix called Nips, Nits, Tucks And Tips. Including info like when to use the first person, how to punctuate dialogue, and the dramatic structure of fiction. The rest of the book includes speeches, essays and letters, where Delany tells funny anecdotes and reminisces about his early friendships with storytellers and his encounters with other science fiction writers. (I didn't actually know he taught Vonda McIntyre at Clarion, but apparently he did.) He explains why Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a bad book, discusses how to achieve literary acclaim (including a discussion of Doris Lessing's refusal to cooperate with a would-be biographer) and a lengthy discussion of the state of writing and editing today. The book is full of insights and startling arguments, but it's probably not a book you'll read in one go. I've found myself picking it up, reading one essay, and putting it down again for a day or two. It might actually be that rarest of creatures - academic bathroom reading. This isn't, by any means, a criticism. It's a very dense, ruminative book full of ideas that will pop into your head a few days after you read them. But it also feels a bit, at times, like Delany is sitting in an overstuffed armchair lecturing the reader, which goes over better in smaller doses. Luckily, the book comes packaged with the dosages already divided up. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] How do you focus on completing your writing goals?
Did you meet all your writing goals last year? I didn't. I wasn't able to write as much as I liked. I didn't a start a new book like I envisioned. In the past I use to be bummed out because I wasn't making a dent in my goals. Now I know beating myself up doesn't help me get closer to my goals. It makes me fear them more. This year I decided to take little chunks out of the elephant instead of trying to eat him all up in one bite. Maxine Thompson advised in a workshop to set a timer for 15 minutes and just write. Don't try to edit, just write. Do this everyday and you'll see yourself getting closer to your goal. One page a day for 365 days and you'll have a manuscript at the end of the year. I know it sounds like baby steps, but sometimes when you're trying to reach a goal, baby steps add up to larger steps. If writing a book is at the top of your goals for 2009, start taking those little bites, before you know it you'll have your book. I've started my chewing and will keep you posted on the WIP. How do you focus on completing your writing goals? http://readersrooms.com/2009/01/26/new-start/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] OCTAVIA E. BUTLER The Topic At Black Writers Symposium in NYC
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York presents The NATIONAL BLACK WRITERS CONFERENCE BI-ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM THE WORK AND LIFE OF OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Saturday, March 28, 2009 Founders Auditorium Medgar Evers College, CUNY 1650 Bedford Avenue 10:00 am - 5:00 pm The program features readings panels on the world renowned author and her contribution to literary writing. Participating writers include L.A. Banks, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, and Nnedi Okorafor- Mbachu. The cost for this event is $10 general admission; $5, Senior, Student, Faculty. This event is opened to all. Send an SASE, call, e- mail, or visit the Web site for more information. www.mec.cuny.edu/blacklitcenter Octavia Butler is considered a master storyteller in the genre of speculative fiction. Her work explores themes such as race, gender, power, sexism, and spirituality. This symposium is dedicated to exploring her work in particular and the impact of speculative fiction in the literature of Black writers. About the National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) The NBWC, inspired by the late John Oliver Killens in 1986, brings together writers, critics, book-sellers, book reviewers, educators, students, and the general public in order to establish a dialogue on emerging themes, trends and issues in black literature. Co -Sponsored by Up South, Inc. Up South, Inc. is the producer of the annual Up South International Book Festival, held in New York City in the Fall. Visit www.upsouth.org or writeblueme...@aol.com for more information. The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York11225. Phone 718 270-6983 / Emailwriters@ mec.cuny. edu [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: Odyssey Writing Workshop 2009
From: scifinoir_lit-ow...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifinoir_lit-ow...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Susan Sielinski Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:21 PM To: scifinoir_lit-ow...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Odyssey Writing Workshop 2009 Dear Sci Fi Noir Lit List Owner, If the members of Sci Fi Noir Lit are interested in writing science fiction, fantasy, or horror, they might be interested in the Odyssey Writing Workshop. The 2009 workshop will be held from June 8 to July 17 at Saint Anselm College http://www.anselm.edu/ in Manchester, New Hampshire. Odyssey provides a great opportunity for writers to improve their skills and receive feedback from editors and authors. More information can be found in the press release below, or on the workshop website www.odysseyworkshop.org http://www.odysseyworkshop.org/ . The director, Jeanne Cavelos http://www.sff.net/odyssey/jcbio.html , is always happy to answer questions and discuss the workshop. She can be reached by email at jcave...@sff.net. I'd appreciate it if you'd consider forwarding this to your list. Thank you, Susan Sielinski Odyssey Administrator susansielin...@yahoo.com www.odysseyworkshop.org http://www.odysseyworkshop.org/ Publicity Release January 2009 ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP ANNOUNCES SUMMER 2009 SESSION About Odyssey Since its inception in 1996, Odyssey has earned a place as one of the most respected workshops in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing community. Odyssey is for developing writers whose work is approaching publication quality and for published writers who want to improve their work. The six-week workshop combines an intensive learning and writing experience with in-depth feedback on student manuscripts. Top authors, editors, and agents have served as guest lecturers, including George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Jane Yolen, Terry Brooks, Robert J. Sawyer, Ben Bova, Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Hand, Jeff VanderMeer, Donald Maass, Sheila Williams, Shawna McCarthy, and Dan Simmons. Fifty-three percent of Odyssey graduates go on to professional publication. The program is held every summer on Saint Anselm College's beautiful campus in Manchester, NH. Saint Anselm is one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country, dedicated to excellence in education, and its campus provides a unique, lovely setting and state-of-the art facilities for Odyssey students. College credit is available upon request. Jeanne Cavelos, Odyssey's director, founder, and primary instructor, is a best-selling author and a former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, where she won the World Fantasy Award for her work. Being a writer/editor makes Cavelos uniquely suited to provide students with constructive and professional critiques of their work. I give the same unflinchingly honest, concrete, detailed feedback that I provided as a senior editor, Cavelos said. Her typewritten critiques average around 1,000 words, and her handwritten line edits on manuscripts are extensive. In addition, she guides students through the six weeks, gaining in-depth knowledge of their work, providing detailed assessments of their strengths and weaknesses in private meetings, and helping them target their weaknesses one by one. Odyssey class time is split between workshopping sessions and lectures. An advanced, comprehensive curriculum covers the elements of fiction writing in depth. Students learn the tools and techniques necessary to strengthen their writing. The workshop runs from June 8th to July 17th, 2009. Class meets for four hours in the morning, five days a week. Students spend about eight hours more per day writing and critiquing each other's work. Prospective students, aged eighteen and up, apply from all over the world. The early admission application deadline is JANUARY 31st, and the regular admission deadline is APRIL 8th. Tuition is $1900, and housing is $700 for a double room and $1400 for a single. Meet Our 2009 Writer-in-Residence Odyssey's 2009 writer-in-residence is Carrie Vaughn, New York Times bestselling author and Odyssey 1998 graduate. Carrie is the author of the phenomenally popular Kitty novels, about a werewolf who hosts a talk radio show. The first novel, Kitty and the Midnight Hour has over a hundred thousand copies in print. Books five and six of the series, Dead Man's Hand and Kitty Raises Hell, will appear in 2009. Carrie's short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards series, and other anthologies. She has a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been a lifelong science fiction fan and reader. Other Guest Lecturers Odyssey is pleased to welcome its 2009 guest lecturers: bestselling author Jeffrey A. Carver; award-winning authors Melissa Scott, Patricia Bray, and
[SciFiNoir Lit] Glyph Award Nominees Have Been Announced
Honoring the best in African-American comics (both as contributors and thematically), the nominees for this years Glyph Awards have been announced: http://ecbacc.com/wordpress/?p=488 Story of the Year Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist Incognegro; Mat Johnson, writer, Warren Pleece, artist Justice League of America: The Second Coming; Dwayne McDuffie, writer, Ed Benes, artist Pilot Season: Genius, Marc Bernardin Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artist Presidential Material: Barack Obama; Jeff Mariotte, writer, Tom Morgan, artist Best Writer Marc Bernardin Adam Freeman, Genius Mat Johnson, Incognegro Jeremy Love, Bayou Jeff Mariotte, Presidential Material: Barack Obama Dwayne McDuffie, Justice League of America Best Artist Jamal Igle, Supergirl Jeremy Love, Bayou Warren Pleece, Incognegro Afua Richardson, Pilot Season: Genius Larry Stroman, Black Panther Annual #1 Best Male Character Black Lightning, Final Crisis: Submit; Grant Morrison, writer, Matthew Clark, Norm Rapmund, Rob Hunter Don Ho, artists; created by Tony Isabella Trevor von Eeden Black Panther, Black Panther Annual #1; Reginald Hudlin, writer, Larry Stroman Ken Lashley, artists; created by Stan Lee Jack Kirby Lwanga Moses, Unknown Soldier; Joshua Dysart, writer, Alberto Ponticelli, artist; inspired by the character created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert The Spectre, Final Crisis: Revelations; Greg Rucka, writer, Philip Tan, Jeff de los Santos Jonathan Glapion, artists; inspired by the character created by Jerry Siegel Bernard Bailey Zane Pinchback, Incognegro; created by Mat Johnson, writer, and Warren Pleece, artist Best Female Character Destiny Ajaye, Pilot Season: Genius; created by Marc Bernardin Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artist Lee Wagstaff, Bayou; created by Jeremy Love, writer and artist Storm, X-Men: Worlds Apart; Christopher Yost, writer, Diogenes Neves, artist; created by Len Wein Dave Cockrum Vielle, Fungus Grotto; created by Shatia Hamilton, writer and artist Vixen, Vixen: Return of the Lion; G. Willow Wilson, writer, Cafu, artist; created by Gerry Conway Bob Oksner Rising Star Award Jennifer Crute, Jennifers Journal Damian Duffy John Jennings, The Hole: Consumer Culture Charlie Goubile, Blackbird Starline X. Hodge, Candi Ashley Woods, Millennia War Best Reprint Collection Aya of Yop City, Drawn Quarterly Me and the Devil Blues V1, Del Rey Nat Turner HC, Abrams Best Cover Final Crisis: Submit, Matthew Clark Norm Rapmund, artists; Richard Tonya Horie, colors The Hole: Consumer Culture; John Jennings, illustrator Pilot Season: Genius, Afua Richardson, illustrator Unknown Soldier #1, Igor Kordey, illustrator Vixen: Return of the Lion #1; Josh Middleton, illustrator Best Comic Strip Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist Café con Leche; Charlos Gary, writer and artist Fungus Grotto, Shatia Hamilton, writer and artist Jefferson Jacks from Crankshaft; Tom Batiuk Tony Isa bella, writers, Chuck Ayers, artist The K Chronicles, Keith Knight, writer and artist Fan Award for Best Comic Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #33-35; Christos Gage, writer, Sean Chen Sandu Florea, artists Pilot Season: Genius; Marc Bernardin Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artist Presidential Material: Barack Obama; Jeff Mariotte, writer, Tom Morgan, artist Vixen: Return of the Lion; G. Willow Wilson, writer, Cafu, artist Young Avengers Presents #1; Ed Brubaker, writer, Paco Medina, artist The judges for the 2009 competition are: Valerie DOrazio, president, Friends of Lulu; Mathan Erhardt, writer, Comics Nexus; Ed Mathews, columnist, Pop Image; Tim OShea, writer/interviewer, TalkingWithTim.com; and Elayne Riggs, comics reviewer and commentator. The ballot for the Fan Award for Best Comic is now open at the website for the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC), http://ecbacc.com/wordpress/?p=488 and will remain open through March 31, 2009. Write-in selections can be e-mailed to GCA Committee Chair Rich Watson at rich.wat...@gmail.com. IMPORTANT: Write-in selections are ONLY for choices not on the online ballot. ANY WRITE-IN SELECTIONS FOR CHOICES ALREADY ON THE ONLINE BALLOT WILL NOT BE COUNTED AND WILL BE DISCARDED. The 2009 GCA ceremony will be held May 15,202009, in the Skyline Room of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Park Central branch, as part of ECBACC, which will take place at the Crown Plaza Philadelphia Center City, May 16, 2009. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] Short Commercial Breaks For 'Dollhouse,' and 'Fringe' Not Returning
Short Commercial Breaks For 'Dollhouse,' 'Fringe' Not Returning One executive calls it a 'noble experiment' By MICHAEL HINMAN mailto:mhin...@airlockalpha.com Mar-14-2009 http://www.airlockalpha.com/news426158.html Advertisers and viewers alike seemed to respond to the shorter commercial breaks in two of Fox's freshman dramas Fringe and Dollhouse, but apparently that didn't translate into extra dollars for the network as MediaPost is reporting its remote-free TV won't return next season. Financially, it wasn't viable, an unnamed executive told the publication. It was a noble experiment. Viewers enjoyed it. Fox itself is not commenting on the rumor, but it seemed there were a few problems with the shorter commercial breaks that led to its end. The first being that 10 minutes of commercials typically seen in a 60-minute drama were reduced to five minutes, forcing Fox to charge a premium that advertisers weren't exactly willing to pay, especially in the current down economy. At first, Fox was charging as much as 50 percent more than commercials that would've typically ran without the shorter commercial breaks, but in recent weeks, it's said that premium was closer to 25 to 30 percent. Using shorter commercial breaks meant that the shows would be more expensive to produce as Fox had to add at least five additional minutes to shows -- time that would eventually get cut in reruns or in syndication. Fox said after the initial airings of Fringe that advertisers were getting far better recall for their ads in that show than in others, but there just weren't enough advertisers willing to join the likes of Sony Pictures, American Express, Apple Inc. to pay a higher price for that better recall. Some reports had the cost of a 30-second spot on Fringe at $300,000. Fringe airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET and Dollhouse airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] ...is anybody reading ANYTHING?
I'm just finishing up The Darker Mask as collection of short stories by Steven Barnes, Walter Mosley, LA Banks and others. I just finished a story about a Latina crack addict turned superhero and a story about the life of a henchman from his perspective. Only three more stories left, so I'm looking for something else What are you reading? From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifinoir_...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ravenadal Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:30 AM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] ...is anybody reading ANYTHING? This is supposed to be a SciFiNoir LIT group...is anybody reading ANYTHING...sci fi? ~rave? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] 10 Science Fiction Prequels, Ranked By Crappiness
10 http://io9.com/5223980/10-science-fiction-prequels-ranked-by-crappiness Science Fiction Prequels, Ranked By Crappiness By Charlie Jane http://io9.com/people/charliejane/posts/ Anders, 12:52 http://io9.com/5223980/10-science-fiction-prequels-ranked-by-crappiness PM on Thu Apr 23 2009, 19,423 views . So we decided to rank 10 science fiction prequels in order of crappiness. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word prequel was actually invented for science fiction by Anthony Boucher, writing in the Magazine Of Fantasy Science Fiction in 1958. But prequels have become ever more common in recent years, with prequels to The Thing and I Am Legend also in the works. Star Trek and Wolverine may turn out be the greatest movies ever - and Caprica was way better than I'd hoped. But let's face it: most prequels are awful. And by prequel, I mean something that takes us back before the start of a saga, to show us the events that led up to the saga's beginning. So Phantom Menace is a prequel, but Batman Begins isn't. Okay? So... starting with least sucky, and working our way up to suckiest, here are 10 science fiction prequels that are already out there: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/04/n4340.jpg10) Wild Seed by Octavia Butler. This is one of my favorite novels ever, so it's hard to believe Butler actually wrote it after three other novels in the Patternmaster series. It tells the relationship between a telepath named Doro and a shapeshifter named Anyanwu. Their telepathic descendants later become ultra-powerful in the novels Mind Of My Mind and Patternmaster, which Butler wrote earlier but are set later. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/04/heb_prelude_to_foundation. jpg9) Prelude To Foundation by Isaac Asimov. One of Asimov's later Foundation books was actually a prelude, telling the story of Hari Seldon's early years. And Seldon turns out to have hung out with R. Daneel Olivaw, who's operating under the name Demerzel. By all accounts, it's pretty worthwhile addition to the saga, although this guy http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book379.html says the characters seem unusually shallow, even for Asimov, and maybe we didn't need to know that much about Seldon's early life. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/04/caprica-free_01.jpg8) Caprica. Like I said, this was way better than I'd hoped. This Battlestar Galactica prequel, newly on DVD, is a slightly overwrought melodrama, but it does explore interesting questions about artificial intelligence and the difference between a digital copy of a person and the real person. The least interesting thing about it is how it's going to connect with BSG. 7) When The Tripods Came by John Christopher. Did we really need to know how the alien Masters conquered humanity? The original Tripods trilogy starts out with humans already conquered, and then fills in the details of how it happened. But author Brian Aldiss insisted it wasn't credible these aliens could have conquered 20th century humans, with our awesome technology. So Christopher went back and wrote a prequel, explaining how the Masters took us over using mind control via a television show called The Trippy Show. Not really an essential addition, and it slightly dilutes the awesomeness of starting with humanity already crushed. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/04/f9HztgEj2Qo.jpg6) Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. Not nearly as bad as Crystal Skull, but not nearly as good as Lost Ark, this movie is actually the earliest cinematic Jones story, despite coming out after Raiders. It has a few highlights, like the early poisoning sequence, the subterranean train chase and the gun/knife fight. But it's mostly cheesy and dull where Raiders was sharp and fun. 5) The Dune Prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Frank Herbert wrote six Dune books. And since his death, his son and Anderson have written 10,000 books, mostly set before the original novels. They include Lost Lunch Menu Of Dune and We Were Going To Have A Jihad But Then We Found That Lunch Menu And Decided To Get Lunch Instead, Of Dune. Just http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-reviews/dune-prequels/ check out David Louis Edelman's review of the prequels, in which he calls them out for pointless unpleasantness, turning Baron Harkkonen into a cartoon, and making a much-studied and richly detailed universe a smaller place. 4) Cube Zero. I don't know much about this prequel to the first two Cube films, but it looks totally awesome. Check it out: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/04/Rift2YECKOI.jpg 3) The Aliens Vs. Predator films. These are essentially prequels to the original Alien films, since they take place on present-day Earth, before humans have spread out across the stars. And if Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem had been a hit, the directors planned a third AVP film which would have linked the series to Alien directly. Thank goodness for small
[SciFiNoir Lit] The Future Of Science Fiction Publishing Is In Cyberspace
The http://io9.com/5224464/the-future-of-science-fiction-publishing-is-in-cyber space Future Of Science Fiction Publishing Is In Cyberspace By Alasdair Wilkins http://io9.com/people/AlasdairWilkins/posts/ , 9:18 http://io9.com/5224464/the-future-of-science-fiction-publishing-is-in-cyber space AM on Thu Apr 23 2009, 1,514 views of science fiction writers and editors recently met at a publishing conference to discuss how blogs and internet marketing have affected the publishing industry and what their impact will be going forward. The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, held this past February, is a yearly event that brings literary professionals together to examine current trends and new technologies in the publishing world. One panel, called Where Do You Go with 40,000 Readers? A Study in Online Community Building, included John Scalzi http://io9.com/tag/john-scalzi/ (author of Old Man's War), Tobias Buckell http://io9.com/tag/tobias-buckell/ (author of Halo: The Cole Protocol), and Patrick http://io9.com/tag/patrick-nielsen-hayden/ Nielsen Hayden (editor of the science fiction publisher Tor Books http://io9.com/tag/tor-books/ ); the panel was moderated by Ron Hogan http://io9.com/tag/ron-hogan/ of Beatrice Books. All three of the panelists are bloggers as well. A video of the panel has just gone up (we've put it at the bottom of the post), and here's a quick summary of the highlights. The basic premise of the discussion was that using blogs and newer media like Twitter can make publishing a more successful enterprise - a not particularly startling assertion in 2009. But the panelists delved into the nuances of what really makes a difference. Patrick Nielsen Hayden noted the appeal of successful bloggers goes beyond just their ability to write: As an editor who's always look for good, promising new writers, obviously the ability to write an entertaining work of popular fiction is absolutely paramount, but on a secondary level, somebody who can keep an audience engaged with their personality and their thoughts on a variety of topics that aren't the incredibly boring subject of writing is a big plus. It basically suggests somebody who's going to flourish in the new media environment. Towards the end of the panel, John Scalzi http://io9.com/tag/john-scalzi/ returned to this idea and succinctly spelled out the relationship between his roles as blogger and science fiction author: When you build those 40,000 people or 4,000 people or however many you have because what you write is interesting to them and they come back again and again and again you develop an interest in yourself as an author. There's somebody in this room who once said the next generation of authors will be performers as well and there is something to that. My performance is not necessarily what I'm doing now, for example my performance is on my website on a daily basis. It makes a difference. Of course, it's all well and good to trumpet the coming of this bold new media as the next big thing, but does it actually translate to increased sales? Nielsen Hayden gave a resounding yes to this question: We published John's first novel, Old Man's War, as a hardcover original. Like most hardcover originals from unknown science fictions writers it shipped a very few thousand copies and went back to press almost immediately, and by the time a year had elapsed we had sold nearly like nine thousand copies in hardcover, over two-thirds of them through online sources, mostly Amazon. Which is to say the brick and mortar book industry mostly treated it like any first novel and it took them a long time to realize their lunch was being thoroughly eaten by online sales because John already existed online. Moreover, a web presence is not only useful in driving up print sales; increasingly, it can be an end in itself, and a more popular one than traditional sources of science fiction at that. Scalzi discussed the impact of the Tor Books website offering original short fiction: I think one of the things that was very useful for Tor to do, quite honestly, was they they did from the outset publish some original fiction. And I think that is something that is very useful, not just for upcoming authors but for existing authors.The short fiction market is kind of in turmoil at the moment and people are wondering where they're going to be able to find short fiction and how it works and where we go from there. The fact that Tor from the outset is doing short fiction has made quite a difference. I'll give you an example using my own particular story. We did, after The Coup, which came out when Tor.com debuted and after two weeks, more people had clicked through to read the story, or at least look at the story, than the combined circulation of the big three science fiction magazines. One of Tor's advantages is that it actually pays writers a decent rate compared to the prestige science fiction magazines. Tor's online content pays about 25
[SciFiNoir Lit] Reginald Hudlin to leave Black Panther
A New Team for Black Panther A new Panther for Marvel yields a new writer and artist. First details and art. by Richard George http://comics.ign.com/email.html Jesse Schedeen http://comics.ign.com/articles/981/981788p1.html May 11, 2009 - Reginald Hudlin http://stars.ign.com/objects/142/14220155.html has been the regular writer of Black Panther http://comics.ign.com/objects/143/14303338.html for over four years now. After Hudlin renewed interest in the character with Who Is the Black http://stars.ign.com/objects/924/924248.html Panther?, T'Challa went on to take a much more active role in the Marvel Universe, including help lead the fight against Iron Man's pro-Registration forces in Civil War and temporarily joining the Fantastic Four. With Dark Reign remaking the Marvel Universe, Black Panther has followed suit by undergoing some drastic changes. The series recently relaunched with a new #1 issue, wherein T'Challa was grievously injured and Wakanda was left without a Black Panther. With Wakanda's enemies closing in, an all-new, all-female Panther must rise to defend her homeland. As this turns out, this storyline will be Hudlin's last. After almost five years and dozens of issues, Hudlin is leaving Black Panther, making way for a new writer. That writer is horror novelist Jonathan Maberry. Maberry will be joined by new regular artist Will Conrad http://stars.ign.com/objects/142/14254100.html . The two writers will collaborate on August's Black Panther #7, after which Hudlin will move onto a new Marvel project and continue work on the upcoming BP animated series. Hudlin will still be involved with the series as a consultant going forward. We chatted with both writers - as well as editor Axel Alonso - about the past, present and future of Black Panther, and how Maberry plans to steer the series forward with its new lead. _ http://media.comics.ign.com/media/143/14303338/img_6740466.html http://media.comics.ign.com/media/143/14303338/img_6740466.html http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/981/981788/black-panther-vol -5-20090511044004304-000.jpg http://media.comics.ign.com/media/143/14303338/img_6740466.html IGN Comics: Let's run through the creative changes that are in store for Black Panther. Reggie, you're stepping aside as writer and Jonathan is coming aboard - but you guys will be co-writing for an issue, right? Jonathan Maberry: Yeah, we had a blast banging ideas back and forth. Reggie's been lighting a lot of fires in Wakanda and that gave me a chance to hit the ground running. I did a little consulting on the second half of the Deadliest of the Species arc. We worked as a team on BP #7, which is the first installment of the Power arc, and we bounced so many intriguing ideas off of one another that the arc starts with some eye-opening events. Reginald Hudlin: When we relaunched the book, I had over a year's worth of plans starting with the attack on T'Challa that would lead to a bold new direction for the series. I was very happy that the first arc is being as well-received as it is. We were going to co-write the second arc together, but by the time I finished the first issue, I was ready to move on.?? IGN Comics: Will we be seeing an artistic change for the series as well? Maberry: Yes -Will Conrad is penciling it and I've seen about half of the pages for #7. Outstanding! Will's style really suits the new story direction, too. There are new characters and even new villains, and Will will get a chance to put his stamp on that. IGN Comics: Reggie, what was behind your decision to leave the series? It's our understanding you'll still be a consultant on the series - what will that entail? Will you still be providing plot ideas or long-term plans? Hudlin: I started this book as a mini-series, not an ongoing series. But the guys at Marvel liked my work enough to turn it into a regular series. Then out of the blue I got a corporate world as the President of Entertainment at Black Entertainment Television. I carved my Black Panther commitment out of my deal because it was a great creative outlet during a time when I didn't have the time or latitude to do my own projects. But it was always a juggling act. When I was doing Panther and Marvel Knights Spider Man while being an exec it almost killed me. Once I left BET, I could really devote myself to the new arc. But once it got out there that I was available, suddenly there were a lot of film, television and other comic book projects popping up. I had to make some hard choices. One of the things that makes writing a monthly comic really tough these days are the big events that dominate the business. As a reader I love stories like Civil War and Dark Reign, and as a writer they have provided springboards for some of my best work in this medium. But they also call for lots of planning and haggling over characters, like pleading for Dr. Doom a year in advance. It's a lot easier for me to write a
RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: On the Mother of the Matrix Suit
I think they may have stolen Matrix, but I dunno about Terminator. that one is a stretch. I think there may be some truth to her claim but all that will end up obscured by some of the claims that are not believable and sound outright ridiculous, regardless of whether they are true. But I believe either way it is in Time Warner's best interest to suppress this. Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:41 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: On the Mother of the Matrix Suit According to what I read on her websites, Time-Warner owns many of our new media websites and is actively suppressing it... sancochojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:When I tell white people about the story, they don't believe that the Matrix was from her idea. They find it hard to believe, especially when mainstream media doesn't jump on it. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, belsidus2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The woman bringing suit on the grounds that they stole her idea and used them in the Matrix and the Terminator movies was on the radio here this week. Whatever one might think of the suit, it is fairly novel that an African American can allege theft of an intellectual property and be taken seriously. Chris Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.9 - Release Date: 5/12/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.9 - Release Date: 5/12/2005 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/pkgkPB/SOnJAA/Zx0JAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Another Fav Quote
Guys: just a reminder. These quotes are for the portal that is replacing SciFiNoir. The majority of the content will be related to speculative fiction as that is going to be the focus of the site. While many of the quotes being submitted are great, they have nothing to do with speculative fiction Thanks Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rising Sun Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:20 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Another Fav Quote Mad dogs and Englishmen alone go out in the mid-day sun. Noel Coward Anyone who would give up a little liberty for more security deserves neither. Ben Franklin...My Fav links: http://www.geocities.com/jagrslc/tv.show.swop.list.htm [My complete TV Show collection for exchange]... http://www.geocities.com/jagrslc [My FF]... http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/tv-divx/ [Swop Mart for TV Shows]... http://www.geocities.com/slustufflikethat/First.Ladies.pdf [My labour of Love] __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Black Voices Column on Sci Fi Noir
I'm not saying it did not happen. Obviously, anything goes with yahoo. I've never seen nine hundred members and i get notification whenever a member joins. Additionally, we have a lot of moderated members, so I have to go to the site at least every 48 hours. If they were added, the new member notification system was malfunctioning. hmmm Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kelly Wright Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:18 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Black Voices Column on Sci Fi Noir Tracey, I went to your link page and one thing struck me: the blurb about one group was deleted after their member numbers suddenly exploded. I remember being plesantly surprised when I noticed that our SciFiNoir group suddenly had almost 900 members. Makes me wonder if we were spammed out of existence. ~rave! --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella \(formerly Tracey L. Minor\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys: I hate to set the record straight, because I wish what you think is true, but I did some research and determined that not only does yahoo and Google cover themselves in their terms of service, but they have do this to thousands of groups and they always get away with it. See the following link of some of the other victims. http://www.scifinoir.net/othervictims.htm The only thing that is going to work is a massive public boycott with tremendous media exposure. Since most media is consolidates into a few incestuous companies, that is unlikely. If I had time, I might try to launch a major public awareness campaign, but I don't so I made a compromise. And did the following: Sent out a notice to about 100 African American discussion lists Sent out a notice to about 10 Star trek discussion Lists Sent out a notice to about 20 blogs dealing with intellectual property and censorship issues Sent out a notice to about 10 scifi and trek sites Sent out a notice to about 10 tech media Distributed a notice on PRWEb, but something is up, because my notice is supposed to and always has in the past been distributed on Google News and it has not yet. I am putting together a resource guide for moderators which provides tools to protect yahoo group owners and information about the policies of the free groups. I still plan on sending my notice to daily newspaper in major market tech editors and African American weekly editors, but I am waiting to see if one major player covers this after they investigate my claims. If they do, it may cause other tech editors to cover it too. My goal is modest, to raise awareness about what yahoo does from a barely murmured whisper to a very loud whisper. I hope to prevent a few people from making my mistake. I hope that as this continues, more people will know and jump ship to google or some other player.I told Art my plan and his response was to say that he was going to run out and by stock in yahoo. So this may be an idiotic. While I am not longer fighting yahoo directly, I am in my heart I am. I hope I have not let you down Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carole McDonnell Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:11 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Black Voices Column on Sci Fi Noir Loved the article Lester! Liked the idea also that Tracey didn't just let the situation drop. As a wimp myself, I tend not to fight major battles. But it's good to know that there are some warriors out there. Maybe yahoo will think twice about messing around with our stuff in the future. -C Carole McDonnellThen said I: 'Here am I; send me. www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html groups.yahoo.com/group/genrechristianwriters groups.yahoo.com/group/Thecontestinganthologist --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Dr. Lester K. Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent an email to the list a few weeks ago when the sh*t hit the fan, and wrote a column about it. I wanted to thank everyone that responded...the story came out today or yesterday. It can be found here: http://bv.channel.aol.com/newsmain/canvas_directory/columnist? id=20050511123109990001 Let me know what you think. peace lks Dr. Lester K. Spence Assistant Professor, Political Science, Afro-American Studies Washington University Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti
[SciFiNoir Lit] Scifinoir Reincarnation Status Report and Request
Just providing this update. I have the mailing list and the portal installed. I am now in the process of configuring and customizing them. While the list is easy to configure, the portal is a very complicated but feature-rich communication/content application so that will take some time. In the meantime, I was wondering if any of you would be interested in helping me alpha test it. I need to try out the features as I install, bug-fix, and customize the modules and it is hard to do so as one person. It would not involve a major time commitment. (about 15 minutes a week) Participants would be involved any of the following activities: ~registering ~Posting ~filling out your profile ~uploading images ~setting up your own mini-group ~setting up you own image gallery ~submitting a trouble ticket ~submitting links ~subscribing to a message thread ~responding to a message from your email client ~posting a review ~sending info to a friend ~setting up a project ~uploading an avatar ~submitting your favorite quotes ~uploading files ~downloading files ~etc. Tracey de Morsella Phone: 215-849-0946 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] View The What Happened to ScifiNoir at Yahoogroups FAQ, at: http://www.scifinoir.net Look for our reincarnation as Dark Energy Cafe -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.5 - Release Date: 6/7/2005 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Intro: Charlyn AKA Zebbie - Canada, Hamilton, On
Subject: Re: File - membership_faq 1. Name: Charlyn 2. Location: Canada, Hamilton, On 3. Nickname/ Alias: Zebbie 4. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: all 5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Brown Girl in the Ring, Octavia Butler, I love all the star trek..but voyager...that strange english scifi Gormander (sp) 6. Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Butler, Ellison, Hopkinson, etc... 7. Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: Coronas 8. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: Matrix...all 9. Topics of importance to you: My writing and reading 10. Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative Fiction: I don't make it a problem, I lovde to read..right now one of my favourite poets is Petrach..go figure...but I was glad to have found...Butler and others... 11. Your own published works, if any: Short story York University Student Journal--The changing... 12. Your web site:NA 13. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: NA 14. Memberships in science fiction clubs: No 15. Anything else you think is important: I am eager to see what is up with the scifinoir world.. --- SciFiNoir_Lit Moderator SciFiNoir_Lit- __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.6 - Release Date: 6/8/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.6 - Release Date: 6/8/2005 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
I told Steven Barnes about Lion's Blood Discussion RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Lion's Blood again
I have enjoyed this discussion very much. So much so, that I told Steven Barnes about it. In his reply, one comment tickled my funnybone. It was in response to Chris' statement: I still remember a picture taken back in the 80's in Locus magazine he had on this shirt with this Alien's beak coming out of it and he was contorted like he was a victim and I was thinking, Who is this crazy negro) Steve's response was: Ah, I remember that Alien shirt. Sigh. Too bad latex deteriorates so quickly... I miss his presence on the list Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of belsidus2000 Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Lion's Blood again Folks first off let me thank Professor Spence for posting this. Usually folks have to pay for this kind of flava and he's laying it on us free. I thank you for the time you have put in on it and the thought, and contributing your expertise and study to this list to the stimulation of our minds, and the nourishment of our intellects and souls And now I got to carry you on to the but BUT I think you have been mayhap a little bit hasty--see below-- --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I've got a bit of time. The reason I reiterate exactly how this thread started--as a critique of what Barnes has to do to get to the next level-- Just what is this next level we are talking about? To reiterate, the man is a published author. Novels. TV scripts. Known and loved throughout fandom. I still remember a picture taken back in the 80's in Locus magazine he had on this t shirt with this Alien's beak coming out of it and he was contorted like he was a victim and I was thinking, Who is this crazy negro) What level? Greater sales? More awards? Please clarify is because without that part we veer off into weird directions. Directions that may be lively but may end up shedding more heat than light. This is why the comparison with Turtledove, something Chris neglected, becomes important. Turtledove's writing is a definite problem as it relates to black people. The depiction of Africans in his fantasy riff of World War II was deeply problematic. But he's the best in the business...in alternative history. Where is that Wikepedia url I posted while back. There were about 40 or more books on that list. Nowhere on that list or in any of the literature I have read on Alternative History has it stated that Turkle-hoosit is the best in the business Could it be that YOU like him the best? Please clarify If we're to refer to Barnes as one of the best in alternative history, then to ME what we're saying is that he's as good as, if not better than, the best in his field. Now we're cutting through the bramble and getting down to the stump. You may say that. But I think you need to let us know this is your opinion--learned though it may be--or quote or cite some other authorities What makes an alternative history good? Some of the same things that makes a STORY good. Because in science fiction, one of the most important things is creating a believable world--the world in science fiction and fantasy is as much a character as the real characters--getting the reader to suspend her disbelief is crucial. You don't suspend her disbelief, and it doesn't really matter how good or interesting your characters are. In alternative history for ME, an important part of suspending disbelief is creating a plausible jumping off point for the alternative universe. In Philip Roth's recent novel THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA his jumping off point isa 1940 presidential election in which truman loses to Charles Lindbergh. Already Roth has violated your rule because Truman wasn't on the ticket in 1940--but this apparently is not your beef with him. Did you miss it? Once Lindbergh wins he quickly establishes America as an anti-Semitic nation that uses all types of terroristic legislation and behavior to subjugate American jews. For a number of readers, this account was riveting. There's one problem though. There was ALREADY an example in the forties of a group of people who were subjugated by terroristic policy and law. US. I don't know how Roth could've ignored this simple fact--lynching had died down a bit but people were still being dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night, they were victimized and brutalized by night riders, their land stolen, their bodies broken by slave labor. But Roth did. No way in hell does that alternative history ring true for me. I cannot suspend my disbelief. ... Why. I have heard other people criticize the book on this count. I myself think it is a valid criticism. I think though we have to realize that if we were to ask Roth about this, he would probably say I feels ya homie but I gots to git MINES! ie, he probably had
[SciFiNoir Lit] Yahoo Chat-Room Decision Draws Fire
June 23, 2005 EMAIL THIS ARTICLE PRINT THIS ARTICLE DISCUSS THIS ARTICLE WRITE TO AN EDITOR Rather than shut down perhaps hundreds of user-created chat rooms, Yahoo should have targeted only those involved in illicit behavior, some privacy advocates said. By Antone Gonsalves InternetWeek Yahoo Inc.'s decision to pull the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms following reports that some of them were used to promote sex with minors was an overreaction by the entertainment portal, privacy advocates said Thursday. Yahoo shutdown the chat rooms following complaints from sponsors such as PepsiCo Inc., State Farm Insurance and Georgia-Pacific Corp., The Associated Press reported Thursday. The sponsors were upset over a report by KPRC-TV in Houston that adults in some of the chat rooms were trying to lure children into the virtual meeting places. Rather than shutdown user-created chat rooms in mass, Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., should have targeted only those involved in the illicit behavior, said the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a free speech and privacy advocate in San Francisco. This is a real overreaction on the part of Yahoo, Annalee Newitz, policy analyst for the EFF, said. To just unilaterally shut down chat rooms is really chilling to free speech. Unless the chat room was obviously involved in illicit behavior, Yahoo should have provided some means for innocent chat room organizers to explain their activities and remain operating. Yahoo promises its customers that they can speak freely with each other, and then at the whim of advertisers, shut everything down, Newitz said. There's no due process, and seemingly no rhyme or reason. There's just this overreaction on the part of Yahoo to please its advertisers. Yahoo declined to discuss its decision to shut down all its user-created chat rooms, issuing instead a statement that said, We are working on improvements in the service to enhance the user experience in compliance with our terms of service. No date had been set as to when Yahoo would resume the chat-room service, a spokeswoman said. According to the AP story, KPRC-TV reported that in some cases, lewd pictures were being sent to minors in chat rooms with such titles as Younger Girls 4 Older Guys, and Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys. Yahoo does not monitor the content of its chat rooms, but will shut down those that are found through complaints to violate the company's policies, the AP said. Yahoo requires users to agree not to harm minors in any way or to distribute content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, ... or otherwise objectionable. Current law protects Internet service providers, such as Earthlink and America Online, from illegal activity on their networks, because it would be unreasonable to expect them to monitor all the traffic. Nevertheless, illicit activity brought to the attention of ISPs must be reported to law enforcement. With chat rooms, however, the service provider's liability would depend on whether it monitors them as a stated company policy, Newitz said. Illicit activity, however, would have to be reported, if brought to the service provider's attention. In April, a 19-year-old Los Angeles woman sued AOL, claiming a former monitor of a kids only chat room persuaded her to send him nude photos of herself when she was a teenager and to engage in phone sex. The suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court is pending. Tracey deMorsella, Managing Producer Convergence Media, Inc. Home of The Multicultural Advantage Phone: 215-849-0946 E-mail: tdemorsella @multiculturaladvantage.com http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 6/24/2005 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] RE: VERIFIED - Urgent -read- groups being deleted
For you moderators, writers, and artists out there. archive and back up your files. See resources below: The Mail Archive: a free, easy-to-use archiving service for electronic mailing lists. www.mail-archive.com/ Yahoo Group and Files Downloader 2.0 http://tinyurl.com/c3xv6 TT-Solutions :: yahoo2mbox http://www.tt-solutions.com/en/products/yahoo2mbox/ Archiving Yahoo! Groups Messages with WWW::Yahoo::Groups http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/969 Download and Read Yahoogroups Messages Offline http://www.personalgroupware.com/info.htm Tracey deMorsella, Managing Producer Convergence Media, Inc. Home of The Multicultural Advantage Phone: 215-849-0946 E-mail: tdemorsella @multiculturaladvantage.com http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of md_moore42 Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:26 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Fwd: [LetsHelpEachother] VERIFIED - Urgent -read- groups being deleted This issue was mentioned in another yahoo group that I belong to: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** This is true. I have verified it groups are already disappering *** Hi Friends! Yahoo is deleting groups that have even one member that does not have their age in the Yahoo Profile. The reason for this is they are in trouble for Sex Chat Groups that had underage members in these groups. So now Yahoo as of Midnight 6/23/05 will delete the entire group for having any members that do not have their age in the Yahoo Profile. There is no recovery for the Group, it will no longer exist. Please if you love this group, update your Yahoo Profile to show your age, any age will do, as long as you are over 18! Very Important!!! To update your age in your yahoo profile, You must log in, then go to my account, Then click on Edit/Create Profiles Then click on edit next to your yahoo id then fill in your age. Hope this helps. I do not know how much it is true but I suspect it is as I know there are list hoppers reporting groups who share adult stuff who are not in their adult area. I hate to have to do this but I do not want to loose my groups. Please add your age to your profile. If you do now I will be forced to drop you. This msg is being passed around to all groups. Moonlight Creations Jewelry Affordable Handmade Beaded Jewelry http://moonlight-creations-jewelry.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Moonlight_creations_jewelry/ http://moonlightcreationsjewelry.blogspot.com/ eBay:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/ellenlafleche half.com: http://stores.half.com/ellenlafleche Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links --- End forwarded message --- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.2/29 - Release Date: 6/27/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.2/29 - Release Date: 6/27/2005 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: 2nd attempt to post RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Public archives
The archiving I used is free Internet service that is not affiliated with Yahoo. The only way there servers can access yahoo servers is if there is nothing blocking them. It was an emergency situation. I was at the hospital all day, everyday for two weeks and then spent the following three weeks caring for my Mom. I had limited Internet access, and I sought this as a temporary fix. We are still using it, because I had to take off so much time from my business. I have not had the time to finish setting up the replacement archive system, nor transfer them to our new servers. I hope to do so by August and then discontinue the use of the free archive system. I realize some of you are nervous about this, but over the past two months, there have been some exciting discussion threads and I m afraid to loose them. Another reason, I am taking this position is that, lately I am having trouble posting on both lists. something is definitely up with yahoo. I just want to be prepared this time. Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nora Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:59 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: 2nd attempt to post RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Public archives On 7/5/05 2:56 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Tracey. I think I was one of the people who asked about this, and I just want to clarify -- I don't want you to discontinue archiving. I still lament the loss of the other group's old messages! What I was asking about was making the archive *private* as opposed to open for anyone to see. This is just a matter of you changing the group's options/settings. I don't know what kind of archiving software you're using, but is it capable of continuing to archive the group's messages if you made them private? If you wanted to, I mean. Yahoo will keep watching in any case, but if the archive is made private then the public would have to join the group to see what we're talking about. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/39 - Release Date: 7/4/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/39 - Release Date: 7/4/2005 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Public archives
Let me correct myself. You seemed to be questioning the wisdom of having our posts made public. I think most people would interpret that to mean that you were raising the question about whether we should continue to do so. I understand that perspective and agreed with the position until Yahoo deleted the other list. Emotionally, I still agree with that. Intellectually, i feel that having them public temporarily is a small price to pay. There is nothing wrong with raising questions. However, if you raise questions, you get answers. sometimes the answers you get might not be what you anticipated they would be. Your question was partially based on the misconception that some of us had recent made a bid deal about not having privacy. Since I lead the protest, I felt I could speak on behalf of those of us who took action after yahoo deleted us. If our beef has been about privacy, it would have been strange for me to go and make the archives public. So, I felt the need to explain why I took such actions in response to your questions and correct your misunderstanding about why I initially was fighting yahoo not privacy, but computerized censorship and the destruction of intellectual property. If you take into account, my rage, sense of loss, and fear over the loss of everyone's messages, writing, artworks, and images, my response to immediately archive everything publicly as temporary measure might be understandable. I sought to explain that to you and anyone else reading the thread. From your reply, Ah well. This is why I dislike the directness of nonfiction in all its forms -- essays, letters, reviews-- words spoken directly can betray both the speaker and the hearer. A reminder to me, anyway, to stick to fiction and not speak too much or give too much commentary, I get the impression you think I am accusing you of something and I am not. I do not see why you think you have to back down from the position you took. You did nothing inappropriate. You spoke your mind. I like to think that as someone who abhors censorship, that I do not censure people on the list. I do not think clarifying my stance again yahoo or why I made the list public is censuring you. I hope not For some reason, you are taking my responses personally and as a personal attack on what you posted. I do not think that is what i am doing. I think I am making clear my actions and the reasons for them. I sought to correct your misconceptions about why we were protesting yahoo's actions, and to explain why the ok my reply as a queue to not speak your mind. I think it is good that you did spoke up. As I said, doing so encouraged others to express how they feel about setting the list to be public for temporary public archiving. However, if I am attacking you , please accept my apology. That was not my intent. So let me clarify how the archiving works. The archiving application will only work if the messages are public. Making the message private will prevent us from having any protection from yahoo deleting everything. Regarding Steven Barnes. Steven Barnes has been a member for at least two years. At times he has been extremely active on both lists. He only recently unsubscribe. About two weeks before the message thread started. I told him about the discussion and he asked me to forward some of the opinions, but a family emergency prevented me from doing so. I did not want him to read one message and take it out of context. I understand your concerns and they are valid ones. If someone has another option for archiving I am extremely open to it. Unfortunately, taking a month off from my business caused me to take a severe financial hit. The only way i can get back on track is to work around the clock. Unfortunately, I won't have a lot of time for SciFiNoir. so, whatever alternative solution someone comes up with, it has to have limited involvement from me. If people do not mind that the site will not be archived, I can shut off the archiving. Lets discuss this. What to you want to do? Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:51 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: RE: 2nd attempt to post RE: Public archives Oh my! Did I do that? Did I actually call you to discontinue the archive? I don't think so. I think you read my email incorrectly. I was just calling the public nature of our forum to your attention. And wondering about stuff. Wondering aloud if people wanted non-listmembers reading their comments. (Hey, as it is...if Steven Barnes did a google search for Lion's Blood all our comments about him would come up in his search.) I wasn't really recommending anything. Just throwing a question out there. Ah well. This is why I dislike the directness of nonfiction in all its forms -- essays, letters, reviews-- words spoken directly can betray both
RE: 2nd attempt to post RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Public archives
Normally, I would have told you guys, but I was dealing with a life and death situation and limited time, and I simply acted. So I really do understand everyone's concerns. If I sound abrupt, it is because I'm playing catch up and rushing through non-work related stuff. hopefully this is temporary. -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nora Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:48 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: 2nd attempt to post RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Public archives On 7/5/05 7:32 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The archiving I used is free Internet service that is not affiliated with Yahoo. The only way there servers can access yahoo servers is if there is nothing blocking them. It was an emergency situation. I was at the hospital all day, everyday for two weeks and then spent the following three weeks caring for my Mom. I had limited Internet access, and I sought this as a temporary fix. Ohhh, OK -- I didn't realize you *had* to keep the archive public. Never mind. =) I realize some of you are nervous about this, but over the past two months, there have been some exciting discussion threads and I m afraid to loose them. Another reason, I am taking this position is that, lately I am having trouble posting on both lists. something is definitely up with yahoo. I just want to be prepared this time. No, no, I understand completely! Glad you're doing it. =) Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/39 - Release Date: 7/4/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/39 - Release Date: 7/4/2005 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Barnes Due Pitching TV Series RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Lion's Blood again (what should barnes do?)
Since there are a lot of Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due fans on the site, I thought you might be interested in hearing Due's manager is in the process of pitching their joint effort Danger Word, the short story collaboration that was part of Dark Dreams as a series for TV. has anybody read this? I'm about to take a 14 hour plane ride. should i take this? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0758207530/qid=1122711100/sr=8 -3/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_3/104-9837244-9551917?v=glances=booksn=507846 Tracey -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:20 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Lion's Blood again (what should barnes do?) On Jun 26, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Carole McDonnell wrote: --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I don't think we'd have the United States as we know them now. We'd have a literal confederacy...twenty or thirty states that are more or less countries unto themselves. Meaning that strong federal countries (countries with a centralized national government) would be able to trump them either in raw manpower or in bureaucracy. If England decided to go to war for example, they'd only need to go through the Parliament. If this new US wanted to go to war, they'd have to go to EACH STATE SEPARATELY to get their approval. And even THEN some states might not want to cough up the loot needed to deal with the threat. The southern states might be a confederacy but wouldn't the northern states still be the united states The northern states wanted the union didn't they? They did, but in the process of passing the Corwin Amendment, they'd really end up hijacking the union--becoming more of a confederacy in order to keep the south from leaving--in order to save it. Now SA didn't exist during this time period. True. But if all else remained the same, Europe would still be sending folks to Africa and to Australia. And some countries such as SA would probably exist. Or maybe not. Who knows if the US's slavery position helped make those imperialist European-oppressed African countries more -- or LESS-- prone to racist imperialism. Maybe US slavery encouraged the Afrikaans, etc. But maybe the Civil Rights movement a century later also helped the europeans leave Africa. Who knows? But i do like the idea of the US being more multicultural and having more multicultural power with a culture more influenced by Native Americans, Africans, and good Europeans. Yep, am a wuss. The last holdout of the rainbow coalition. I do too...but I am not sure when the particular multicultural reality that we are envisioning truly takes hold to build a nation. lks Dr. Lester K. Spence Assistant Professor, Political Science and African Afro-American Studies Washington University Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities 2004-2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.2/29 - Release Date: 6/27/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/2005 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h48c9bf/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705020227:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122718849/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: Theater To Be Renamed For August Wilson
-Original Message- From: GIRLFRIEND [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of T. McCormick Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Theater To Be Renamed For August Wilson September 2, 2005 Theater Is to Be Renamed for a Dying Playwright By JESSE McKINLEY I have a robust imagination, but I never imagined anything like this. The words are those of August Wilson, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, who next month will receive one of the great honors in American theater: his name affixed to the marquee of a Broadway theater. Rocco Landesman, the president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns five Broadway theaters, said yesterday that his company would change the name of the Virginia Theater, at 245 West 52nd Street, to the August Wilson Theater. The new marquee, with a giant neon sign bearing the writer's signature, is to be unveiled on Oct. 17. Mr. Wilson, 60, will be the first African-American for whom a Broadway theater is named. He will take his place beside such theatrical figures as the playwright Eugene O'Neill, the composer George Gershwin and the actress Helen Hayes. He's one of the most important American playwrights ever, said Mr. Landesman, who has known Mr. Wilson since his breakthrough with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in 1984. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers. Mr. Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an interview with The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he announced that he was dying of liver cancer, with three to five months to live. He disclosed it with the type of plainspoken grit one of his heroic characters might admire. I've lived a blessed life, Mr. Wilson said. I'm ready. Mr. Wilson said that his cancer was too far along to be treatable, but that he would continue writing until his death, putting the final touches on his monumental 10-play cycle. The plays document the African-American experience in the 20th century, and each is set in a different decade. The final play, Radio Golf, set in the 1990's, had its premiere in May at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven and now is playing in Los Angeles. The news of Mr. Wilson's cancer shocked many on Broadway, where eight of his plays have been produced, including his Pulitzer Prize winners, Fences and The Piano Lesson, as well as other critical hits including Two Trains Running. The larger theatrical community, where he is known as both a strong advocate for the development of minority playwrights and minority audiences, was also stunned, and theaters where his work has been produced issued statements with best wishes, while theatrical Web sites overflowed with similar messages. For Jujamcyn executives, the renaming was a delicate matter, one they said was richly deserved but tragically accelerated. I'm sure he knows that we might not be doing this at this point if not for the circumstances, said Jack Viertel, the creative director at Jujamcyn and a longtime friend of Mr. Wilson's. But he's been so stand-up about the whole thing, it hasn't been awkward. The company also plans to help set up a fund in Mr. Wilson's name to bring disadvantaged young people to Broadway. Mr. Wilson was too fatigued to be interviewed yesterday, said his assistant, Dena Levitin. But in a statement from his home in Seattle, he said: I have a robust imagination, but I never imagined anything like this. I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed. Others along Broadway said the renaming was appropriate and overdue. A great choice, said Emanuel Azenberg, a veteran Broadway producer. The man is a major American playwright. The Virginia was built in 1925 and renamed in 1981 in honor of Virginia M. Binger, the wife of James H. Binger, who owned Jujamcyn then; it is the latest of several theaters to change names. In 2003, the Martin Beck Theater was renamed in honor of Al Hirschfeld, the caricaturist. This year, adjoining theaters on West 45th Street were renamed for Bernard B. Jacobs and Gerald Schoenfeld, two executives from the Shubert Organization, Broadway's most powerful landlord. Several other theaters have picked up corporate names in recent years, including the American Airlines Theater and the Hilton Theater, both on West 42d Street. The soon-to-be August Wilson Theater is currently dark but has been, over the years, the home of hits (Jelly's Last Jam) and misses (Carrie, the musical). In 2001, King Hedley II, the 1980's segment of Mr. Wilson's cycle, was performed there. Yesterday Mr. Landesman said he intended to produce Radio Golf, the final chapter of Mr. Wilson's cycle, on Broadway next season. Long before that, however, Mr. Landesman intended to recognize - permanently - the contributions of an old friend. The marquee is going to survive August, Mr. Landesman said. And it is going to survive me. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG
[SciFiNoir Lit] Best and worst spec fic books of 2005
What do you guys think were the best and worst speculative fiction books of 2005. Please share with us why you made your selections. What forthcoming books are you looking forward to Tracey de Morsella Convergence Media, Inc Publisher of The Job Seeker's Guide to Diversity Employment Resources 8345 NW 66th Street, Suite 8916 Miami, FL 33166-2626 Phone: 888-750-6132 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.jobseekersdiversityguide.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.10/218 - Release Date: 1/2/2006 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Their Eyes Were Reading Smut
of import and value produced in the early 21st century, why their founts of inspiration are so parched? At times, I push myself away from the computer in anger. I don't want to compete with Legit Baller. But then I come across something like The Known World by Edward P. Jones and again I am inspired. But I must say that I retain very little of the hope and excitement and enthusiasm that I had when my first book was published eight years ago. I feel defeated, disrespected and troubled about the future of my community and my little subsection of this carnivorous, unforgiving industry. Nick Chiles, the editor in chief of Odyssey Couleur magazine, is the co-author, with Denene Millner, of A Love Story. Tracey de Morsella Convergence Media, Inc Publisher of The Job Seeker's Guide to Diversity Employment Resources 8345 NW 66th Street, Suite 8916 Miami, FL 33166-2626 Phone: 888-750-6132 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.jobseekersdiversityguide.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.13/221 - Release Date: 1/4/2006 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Some new Amazon programs for authors
i was passing this info along to a publishers group I'm on and I thought some of you who sell your books on Amazon might be interested as well. Some of these programs are new So You'd Like to . . . Guides So You'd Like to . . . guides are a way for you to help other customers find all the items and information they might need for something they are interested in. Maybe there is an indispensable set of reference materials that you'd recommend to a new college freshman wishing to study literature. Maybe there are several items you think are necessary for the perfect barbecue. As you create your guide, keep in mind that you needn't have purchased these items at Amazon.com. Each So You'd Like to . . . guide can cover all sorts of topics, and can be as specific or as general as you'd like. You can include any item from the Amazon.com store that has a 10-digit ASIN or an International Standard Book Number (ISBN). An ASIN or ISBN is a unique number used to identify each item in the Amazon.com store. These unique item numbers are displayed on the product information page for each item. Go ahead and create a So You'd Like to . . . guide. It's free, easy, and fun. Simply click the to Write a So You'd Like to . . . guide link on Your Amazon Home to start. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/14279691/ref=br_bx_c_2_2/104-9 837244-9551917 Amazon Connect Amazon is getting ready to launch a new and unprecedented program for authors whose books are sold on Amazon.com. By participating in the Amazon Connect program, authors are able to post messages to their book detail pages, profile page and blog on Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/13023961/ref=br_bx_c_1_2/104-9 837244-9551917 Amazon Honor System Web sites use the Amazon Honor System to collect voluntary payments from their users and to accept payment for digital content. The Honor System allows the Web site to raise money for continued operations without resorting to intrusive banner advertisements. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/542032/ref=br_bx_c_1_3/104-983 7244-9551917 Tracey de Morsella Convergence Media, Inc Publisher of The Job Seeker's Guide to Diversity Employment Resources 8345 NW 66th Street, Suite 8916 Miami, FL 33166-2626 Phone: 888-750-6132 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.jobseekersdiversityguide.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.16/225 - Release Date: 1/9/2006 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] 1 more - Some new Amazon programs for authors
Amazon Shorts http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/570212/ref%3Damb%5Fleft-2%5F6 7018301%5F1/104-9837244-9551917 Amazon Shorts features previously unpublished short-form literature for sale exclusively at Amazon.com. Fiction and nonfiction pieces on a wide variety of topics are available in a digital format only for just $0.49. This is a great way for authors to maintain a more direct and frequent communication with their readers as well as promote their backlist. = i was passing this info along to a publishers group I'm on and I thought some of you who sell your books on Amazon might be interested as well. Some of these programs are new So You'd Like to . . . Guides So You'd Like to . . . guides are a way for you to help other customers find all the items and information they might need for something they are interested in. Maybe there is an indispensable set of reference materials that you'd recommend to a new college freshman wishing to study literature. Maybe there are several items you think are necessary for the perfect barbecue. As you create your guide, keep in mind that you needn't have purchased these items at Amazon.com. Each So You'd Like to . . . guide can cover all sorts of topics, and can be as specific or as general as you'd like. You can include any item from the Amazon.com store that has a 10-digit ASIN or an International Standard Book Number (ISBN). An ASIN or ISBN is a unique number used to identify each item in the Amazon.com store. These unique item numbers are displayed on the product information page for each item. Go ahead and create a So You'd Like to . . . guide. It's free, easy, and fun. Simply click the to Write a So You'd Like to . . . guide link on Your Amazon Home to start. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/14279691/ref=br_bx_c_2_2/104-9 837244-9551917 Amazon Connect Amazon is getting ready to launch a new and unprecedented program for authors whose books are sold on Amazon.com. By participating in the Amazon Connect program, authors are able to post messages to their book detail pages, profile page and blog on Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/13023961/ref=br_bx_c_1_2/104-9 837244-9551917 Amazon Honor System Web sites use the Amazon Honor System to collect voluntary payments from their users and to accept payment for digital content. The Honor System allows the Web site to raise money for continued operations without resorting to intrusive banner advertisements. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/542032/ref=br_bx_c_1_3/104-983 7244-9551917 Tracey de Morsella Convergence Media, Inc Publisher of The Job Seeker's Guide to Diversity Employment Resources 8345 NW 66th Street, Suite 8916 Miami, FL 33166-2626 Phone: 888-750-6132 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.jobseekersdiversityguide.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.16/225 - Release Date: 1/9/2006 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Duchovny Set for Hulk Role?
Former X-Files star David Duchovny is set to become the new Incredible Hulk after Aussie actor Eric Bana pulled out of the sequel project. Peter Cuneo, the vice chairman of comic book franchise Marvel, revealed Duchovny is the frontrunner to play the green giant in The Incredible Hulk 2 in a recent interview with AOL's Motley Fool Radio Team. He said, Duchovny's name has been bought up several times. He's quite the fan too. Bana pulled out of the sequel when he discovered the plan was to release the film direct to DVD. Cuneo insists there's still life in the Hulk project: Hulk did $250 million worldwide box office, which is a huge box office, and as you may recall, we had tremendous success with our toy line, which was a complete sell-out, over $100 million worldwide. http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-18/ Tracey de Morsella Convergence Media, Inc Publisher of The Job Seeker's Guide to Diversity Employment Resources 8345 NW 66th Street, Suite 8916 Miami, FL 33166-2626 Phone: 888-750-6132 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.jobseekersdiversityguide.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.19/231 - Release Date: 1/16/2006 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: Nalo Hopkinson speaks at DePaul University, 1/25/2006, 3:00 pm
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CarlBrandon] Chicago: Nalo Hopkinson speaks at DePaul University, 1/25/2006, 3:00 pm My Groups | CarlBrandon Main Page Reminder from the Calendar of CarlBrandon Chicago: Nalo Hopkinson speaks at DePaul University Wednesday January 25, 2006 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm This event does not repeat. Event Location: DePaul University, Richardson Lib. Rosati Rm 300 (Chicago) Phone: (773) 325-7512 Notes: Seeing the Future with Doubled Vision Nalo Hopkinson AUTHOR Wednesday, January 25, 2006 3pm - 5pm Richardson Library Rosati Room 300 Lincoln Park Campus Book Signing Follows All Center events are free admission. For more information call the Center for Culture and History of Black Diaspora at (773) 325-7512 http://www.depaul.edu/~diaspora PARKING $7 before 4 p.m.; $5 after 4 p.m. with DePaul ID VISITORS: same rate with validation Sheffield Parking Facility at 2335 N. Sheffield (next to Dominicks) Clifton Parking Deck at 2330 N. Clifton (Fullerton and Clifton) Sponsors: Ce ADVERTISEMENT -- Copyright © 2006 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS a.. Visit your group CarlBrandon on the web. b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/239 - Release Date: 1/24/2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW:join a Reading at WisCon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pamela K. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CarlBrandon] Reading at WisCon Hi all, Teresa Crater and I, who are both Broaduniverse members, are thinking about trying to have a reading at WisCon (Madison Wisconsin, Memorial Day Weekend) with a MiddleEastern/North African Theme. Apparently the Wiscon organizers are looking for themed readings this year. We are looking for other writers who might be interested in joining with us in proposing this reading. You can email me privately, [EMAIL PROTECTED], if you'd like to jump on board. Pamela Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/239 - Release Date: 1/24/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/239 - Release Date: 1/24/2006 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: Nalo Hopkinson is teaching creative writing online this spring and summer (pass it on)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nalo Hopkinson Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:26 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: [CarlBrandon] I'm teaching creative writing online this spring and summer (pass it on) http://learn.utoronto.ca/uoft/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=loa dcms=falsecourseId=937508 From May to August this year, I'll be one of the mentors in an online creative writing programme offered by the School of Continuing Studies of the University of Toronto. Information is below. The basic fee is $599 Canadian, and it looks as though there may be an extra $125 Canadian for students outside Canada. That isn't exactly clear on the website, though, so if you need to know, please contact the School of Continuing Studies directly. University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies SCS 1524 Online Mentor (creative writing) Course Details Get feedback on your manuscript from prominent Canadian writer Helen Humphreys or another instructor in our program. Designed for writers of any genre, this e-mail based course will appeal to those who require feedback on matters of artistic craftsmanship, as well as shaping and honing a manuscript in-progress. Register any time and we'll match you with a mentor in our program; you have 12 weeks to submit up to 75 pages (including rewrites) in standard, double-spaced 12 pt. format. This course is not applicable to the Certificate in Creative Writing. Choose a mentor from amongst the following: Helen Humphreys, Writer Nalo Hopkinson, B.A., M.A., Writer Kelli Deeth, B.F.A., M.F.A., Writer Kent Nussey, B.A., M.A., Writer Michael Winter, B.A., Writer Janis Rapoport, B.A., Writer Rachel Manley, Writer, Governor General Award Winner Ken McGoogan, B.A.A., M.F.A., Writer Rob Ferguson, B.A., Writer Elaine K. Stirling, B.A., Writer Cary Fagan B.A., M.A., Writer Catherine Graham, B.A., M.A., Writer Michael Helm, Writer, Editor Barbara Kyle, Writer Noah Leznoff, B.Ed., M.A. Christine Pountney, B.A., M.A., Writer Mike O'Connor, Editor of Insomniac Press Lee Gowan, B.A., M.F.A., Writer Glenda MacFarlane, Writer, Editor Kim Echlin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Writer Marnie Woodrow, Writer Edo Van Belkom, Writer Antonio D'Alfonso, B.A., M.Sc., Writer Rosemary Aubert, B.A., M.A., C.Cri., Writer Helen Porter, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., Writer, Storyteller Ken Babstock, Poet Ken Sherman, B.A., M.A., Poet Judith Robinson, B.A., B.Ed., M.F.A., Writer Howard Wiseman, B.A., M.F.A., Screenwriter Ray Robertson, B.A., M.F.A., Writer Kathy Kacer, Writer Lynne Kositsky, B.Ed., M.A., Writer M.T. Kelly, Governor General Award Winner Robert Priest, Writer, Songwriter Alan Zweig, B.A., Writer, Filmmaker Judy Fong Bates, B.F.A., B.Ed., Writer Elizabeth Ruth, B.A., M.A., Writer Learner Outcomes: Skill development in a sustained piece of creative writing. Required Prerequisites: A sample of written work (10 pages) must be submitted to the Writing Program Office in order to determine acceptance into the workshop. Recommended Prerequisites: None SCS 1524 - 003 Status: Available 4 May 2006 to 31 Aug 2006 Thu 7:00PM - 9:00PM Tuition: $599.00 Cdn Delivery Method: ON-LINE Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 1/27/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 1/27/2006 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] FW:Lessons From Octavia Butler- Sista SciFi Author
Wasn't sure if this was posted before. Just in case it wasn't, I'm posting it. Tracey -Original Message- From: African-Americans in Higher Education [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of S. E. Anderson Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [AFAMHED] Lessons to Learn From Octavia Butler- Sista SciFi Author http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/158201 Democracy Now! November 11th, 2005 Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion We speak with Octavia Butler, one of the few well-known African-American women science fiction writers. For the past thirty years, her work has tackled subjects not normally seen in that genre such as race, the environment and religion. [includes rush transcript] The Washington Post has called Octavia Butler 'one of the finest voices in fiction period. A master storyteller who casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature.' Octavia has described herself as an outsider, and a pessimist, a feminist always, a Black, a quiet egoist, a former Baptist, and an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. Octavia Butler wrote her first story when she was ten years old and as she has said, she has been writing ever since. Race and slavery is a recurring theme in her work. Her first novel, Kindred was published in 1979. It tells the story of a black woman who is transported back in time to the antebellum South. The woman has been summoned there to save the life of a white son of a slave owner who turns out to be the woman's ancestor. Octavia is the author of ten other novels including the Parable of the Sower series. She is the recipient of many awards including the Nebula Award and the MacArthur 'genius' award. Her latest book is called Fledgling. * Octavia Butler, award-winning science fiction author RUSH TRANSCRIPT This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution. Donate - $25, $50, $100, more... JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, normally we don't spend a lot of time talking about science fiction on Democracy Now!, but today we're joined by one of the preeminent voices writing in the genre today. Octavia Butler is one of the few well-known African American women science fiction writers. For the past 30 years her work has tackled subjects not normally seen in that genre. The Washington Post has called her one of the finest voices in fiction, period. A master storyteller who casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and let's the reader see the terror and the beauty of human nature. Octavia has described herself as an outsider, a pessimist, a feminist always, a Black, a quiet egoist, a former Baptist, and an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. AMY GOODMAN: Octavia Butler wrote her first story when she was 10 years old, and she has said she's been writing ever since. Race and slavery is a recurring theme in her work. Her first novel Kindred was published in 1979. It's a story of a black woman who is transported back in time to the antebellum South. The woman has been summoned there to save the life of a white son of a slave owner, who turns out to be the woman's ancestor. Octavia Butler is the author of ten other novels, including Parable of the Sower series. She's the recipient of many awards, including the MacArthur Genius Award. Her latest book is called Fledgling. Welcome to Democracy Now! OCTAVIA BUTLER: Thank you. AMY GOODMAN: About a vampire? OCTAVIA BUTLER: Yeah, it was kind of an effort to do something that was more lightweight than what I had been doing. I had been doing the two Parable books -- Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents -- and they were what I call cautionary tales: If we keep misbehaving ourselves, ignoring what we've been ignoring, doing what we've been doing to the environment, for instance, here's what we're liable to wind up with. And I found that I was kind of overwhelmed by what I had done, what I had had to comb through to do it. So eventually I wound up writing a fantasy, a vampire novel. JUAN GONZALEZ: But you also tell a lot about vampires themselves. The Ina people? Could you talk a little about that? OCTAVIA BUTLER: Well, of course, I made them up. But one of the things I discovered when I decided to write a vampire novel was that most writers these days who write about vampires make up their own, and it really is a kind of a fantasy matter. You make up the rules and then you follow them. AMY GOODMAN: Tell us about your protagonist in Fledgling, who this vampire is. OCTAVIA BUTLER: Ok, she is a -- AMY GOODMAN: She is an operative word, I think, to begin with. OCTAVIA BUTLER: Oh, okay. She is a young girl. You're right.
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Sikhs in Science Fiction (Adherents.com database)]
Original Message Subject: [CarlBrandon] Sikhs in Science Fiction (Adherents.com database) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:39:42 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /Found this in my online travels. This info came from a larger database, /Adherents.com - Religions in Literature, located here:/ http://www.adherents.com/lit/ It's interesting to explore. For example, I visited their link on Afro-Brazilian references in sf/f. I don't know how current this is or how often the database is updated. Worth checking out. / Best, SRT http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_sikh.html Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ SPONSORED LINKS Science fiction and fantasy YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "SciFiNoir_Lit" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [CAAR] CASTING CALL!]
Original Message Subject: [CAAR] CASTING CALL! Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:40:09 -0400 From: Pamela Booker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pamela Booker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *_ACTORS NEEDED_* *_ _* We are casting a multiracial group of actors for a play reading for invited producers. The reading will be held on *Monday 26 June at 7p,* and presented by the Soho Think Tank/Sixth Floor Reading Series. See for additional information. Both equity and non-equity actors are invited to read for the roles. *_BREAKDOWN AS FOLLOWS:_* *_ _* *_ _*All actors must have strong vocal projection, and be comfortable with poetic language and ensemble chorus verse. Look is more important than actual cultural identity. Prefer professional actors with experience. Age range for all characters: 30-40. * Afghani woman, wife mother Pashtun Muslim who is proud and war-fatigued. *Asian/Pacific-Rim/Indonesian American (male) - Local Newspaper photographer who is a brilliant artist and angry because of missed opportunities. *White American (male) - Magazine photographer who is internationally renowned for his dazzling cover stories and cocky. *Middle-Eastern/South Asian/North African (male) Muslim Soldier/Freedom Fighter who will also play other various professional characters. *AUDITION DATES* Wed 7 June 6p Thurs 8 June 6p Sat 10 June 3p callbacks Actors will be reimbursed up to $30 for local travel, cabs, meals, gas, etc. Please contact director ANITA GONZALEZ for appointment and audition location: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *REHEARSAL SCHEDULE* Fri/Sat/Sun June 23-25 (12-4p) *READING MON 26 JUNE at 7P* * ** * *DUST* Written by Pamela S. Booker Directed by Anita Gonzalez Can love and purpose be found again in the aftermath of an apocalyptic moment? An Administrative Assistant, a Pashtun mother, a Muslim Freedom Fighter and two photographers with conflicted agendas, share dreams and betrayals in a passionate search for meaning in the age of global terror. Pamela S. Booker, Advisor Art Design Studies Parsons The New School For Design Office of Advising 2 West 13th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 212 229-5855 ext. 4036 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ SPONSORED LINKS Science fiction and fantasy YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "SciFiNoir_Lit" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: 300,000 free ebooks from worldbookfair.com
Original Message Subject: Free chapter added to saga of e-books Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 08:50:12 -0400 From: Walter Kwami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The developing world could really benefit from this free e-books project... *** Free chapter added to saga of e-books By David Mehegan, Globe Staff | June 2, 2006 For much of the past decade, the publishing world has been trying to figure out how to make money selling books in electronic form. Now a private project wants to give e-books away for free. Project Gutenberg, a 35-year-old nonprofit based in Urbana, Ill., announced yesterday it is putting as many as 300,000 books online, where they will be available for free download. Called the World eBook Fair (worldbookfair.com), the program will last a month -- July 4 to Aug. 4 -- and will be repeated annually. The catalog of available works will include fiction, nonfiction, and reference books, mostly those that are no longer protected by copyright. ``It will include the oldest books in the world, including every author you have heard of in your life, other than current ones, said Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg's founder. The fair also will offer classical music files, both scores and recordings, as well as films. About 95 percent of the books are in the public domain and not subject to copyright law, Hart said. The copyright holders of the remaining 5 percent have given permission for use of their works. Copyright law generally protects a work for 70 years beyond the death of its creator. Roughly 20,000 of the books have been scanned by thousands of Gutenberg volunteers -- and are already available at gutenberg.org -- but the majority will be loaned to Gutenberg for the month by more than 100 e-book libraries, including the World eBook Library, which normally charges a fee for temporary access. As many as 100,000 of the 300,000 books will remain available permanently. Gutenberg plans to offer 500,000 books in next year's fair, 750,000 in 2008, and 1 million in 2009. Still, even these numbers are a fraction of the tens of millions of books that have been published throughout history. ``Our stuff is all free, Hart said. ``We want people to take these books and use them, to keep them in their PDAs. Our mission is to help break down the walls of ignorance and illiteracy. Efforts to establish a commercial e-book marketplace have stumbled. Attempts to sell hand-held readers failed because they were clumsy and delicate, downloadable books were few, and fees were high. Google recently announced a plan to make millions of books searchable online, but the company has faced opposition from publishers outraged over potential copyright infringement. Attempts to reach publishers and booksellers last night were unsuccessful. In the World eBook Fair, the books can be downloaded and read on almost any kind of computer -- even a cellphone or PDA . The idea is not merely to lend or rent access to the book but to give it away so that it can be kept in a library, copied, or shared with friends. Hart said the major flaw with previous attempts to sell e-books was the device. ``Those readers were dinosaurs before they were born, he said. ``This generation grew up on Game Boy. The screen of a cellphone is fine for them. The iPod had been out only a week when someone wrote a program so you could read our books on it. Hart, 58, has been the dedicated visionary behind the project since its inception in 1971, working out of his basement in Urbana since graduating from the University of Illinois. In a phone interview, he spoke in evangelistic tones about the social virtue of the project. ``We want to increase literacy and education from the bottom up, he said. ``I think of this as a blue-collar project. Our target is not the erudite professor of Shakespeare -- it's everybody, as many people as we can encourage to read. Gutenberg volunteers -- who have been typing and scanning books into computers for 35 years, well before anyone had heard of the Internet -- have the passion of Wikipedians. ``I have 40,000 people to help, Hart said. ``There are no universities or corporations involved, just a lot of people in attics banging on their computers. We have one workaholic insomniac who has scanned 2,500 to 3,000 books by himself. He buys them, scans them, and proofreads them. Though Hart is the project's conceptual force, the unpaid CEO of Project Gutenberg is Gregory Newby, acting chief scientist of the Arctic Area Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. While more low-key than Hart on the phone, he was no less fired with conviction. ``As we see it, if e-books are to succeed, readers have to be allowed to do everything they can do with a real book, Newby said. ``If you use Google Book Search, you can search text, but after a few pages you can't read any more. If you try to use it like a book, you encounter a lot of barriers. Newby said
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?
So let me get this straight (no pun intended if she has her hair straightened on relaxed she is a sell out??? if I decide at the end of the summer that I am tired of wearing a fro and i want to get a relaxer, I'm a sell out too? Seems to me that are some pretty superficial criteria for selling out. Tracey When you guys see her dressed up with pressed hair like Condoleeza Rice you will know you heard it from me first. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, sancochojo mccartjf@ wrote: I was debating on if I should stand up in my office cube and applause. I could not have said it better. You know the old street cliche, if you have something to say, say it to my face. Her blog gives everyone the opportunity to challenge her, but to cower away and say I don't feel like it, blah blah when asked to write the author back and challenge her yet have all the energy to write about 6 or seven post here to talk junk about her, says a lot. Nora, it isn't crabs in the barrel, its big giant lobster claws in a barrel. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora njem@ wrote: -Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hayden Hopkinson seems to be disowning Afrofuturism, a movement, genre, thang that she helped start. One reason why she could be doing this is because she is going to sell out-- a) You're presupposing that Afrofuturism *is* a movement. That doesn't seem to be a settled debate yet. b) Maybe she's disowning it because she *didn't* help start it. If she had, I don't think she'd have been so surprised to suddenly find the label applied to her. And c) sellout is right up there with nigger and bitch in my book -- it's a dire, them's-fightin'-words insult. I don't know about you, but I didn't join this community to insult my favorite authors. Citing your own post with the definition from the Afrofuturism listserv, Afrofuturism or Afro-futurism is an African American and African Diaspora subculture whose thinkers and artists see technology and science fiction as a means of exploring the Black experience and finding new strategies to overcome racism and classism. By this definition, Afrofuturism is meant to be an *intentional* thing. Its members must *see* tech and SF as a means of blah blah blah. If you don't write SF with the intention of exploring the Black experience and combatting racism/classism, then you shouldn't be counted as part of the movement. It's not just being a black person writing SF that qualifies you. Heck, by this definition, you don't even have to be black -- you just have to have that exploratory, developmental purpose in mind. I *am* black, and it permeates everything I do, but I'll be frank: exploring the Black experience is the furthest thing from my mind when I write most of my stuff, even when I'm writing about black people. I'm not trying to combat racism, I'm just trying to have fun telling a story. So if someone tried to stick the Afrofuturism label on me, I would probably react in much the same way as Nalo. Afro whatism? *Me*? Huh? I think it's a disservice, both to authors and to this nascent movement, to hijack people into it. A movement doesn't *need* to go hunting for members, if it has the ideological strength to grow and develop on its own; its members will find it, because it serves a need. But when people declare that so-and-so's work *must* be Afrofuturism, whether that person intended it that way or not, they're trying to bogart her into it. The thing is, by doing this they make the movement, if indeed it is a movement, look too weak to stand on its own. It has to coerce its most prominent members to join? That's not a movement, that's Scientology. Even worse, by insinuating that she's a sellout if she doesn't, any Afrofuturists trying to claim Nalo may effectively achieve the complete opposite effect, and send her running for the hills. It is not clear what she is saying. First she says it isn't a movement. Then if it is she doesn't have anything to do with it. Then she admits that she helped start it--whatever it is. There is a lot of confusion here that is open to interpretation. She is in the public eye. She will be classified, catgegorized, turned into a brand folded spindled and mutilated just like all the rest, from Plato to Oprah-- It's part of the game-- Bullshit. It's one thing to discuss the probable intentions of an author who's dead, or impossible (for us) to contact, a la Octavia Butler. But to do this to a woman who's alive, when **you've got her blog right there** and you can talk
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?
The link to her book, Brown Girl in the Ring goes to the following link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0446674338/vietnamgeneratioA/ They do not need her permission to do that TRacey Chris Hayden wrote: Check again. That is not from Amazon. That is from the Afrofuturism website --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those are amazon affiliate links amazon books sales. You do not need the authors permission for that. also i do not get the impression that she is against afruturism, but simply reluctant to own the title as an Afrofuturist Tracey Chris Hayden wrote: She never saw fit to have her name removed from this http://www.afrofuturism.net/text/lit.html Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ SPONSORED LINKS Science fiction and fantasy YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "SciFiNoir_Lit" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?
I responded to it inadvertently. I posted around the same time saying basically, that I got the impression that as a member of two groups that frequently get pigeonholed into very tightly targeted genres with very segmented markets: (women and African Americans), I felt like she she was trying not to be labeled. Tracey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Dr. Lester K Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:59:12 - Subject: Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out? Nora made the most cogent point, given Hopkinson's comments...but no one has responded to it: On Jun 1, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Nora wrote: I think I responded to it. She thinks it is a disservice. I do not. Let us be Frank. Nalo Hopkinson is not suffering as a result of my actions. She will lose no sleep. She will suffer no anguish. No one will stand up at her next readings and demand she be down with Afrofuturism or else. If this discussion comes to her attention, if she pays it any attention, it will probably be to laugh. Nora is attributing to her feelings and reactions she might not have. But she is passionate and committed and fun. It is possible even that Nalo Hopkinson, after some thought, might agree with me and withdraw her comments. Where will all of you be then? I think it's a disservice, both to authors and to this nascent movement, to hijack people into it. A movement doesn't *need* to go hunting for members, if it has the ideological strength to grow and develop on its own; its members will find it, because it serves a need. But when people declare that so-and-so's work *must* be Afrofuturism, whether that person intended it that way or not, they're trying to bogart her into it. The thing is, by doing this they make the movement, if indeed it is a movement, look too weak to stand on its own. It has to coerce its most prominent members to join? That's not a movement, that's Scientology. Furthermore this is from a person who has told me--not once, but several times--to Love it or Leave it when it comes to Sci Fi. I am going to make her Queen of Black Speculative Fiction if it kills me What I got from her comments is that she was real uncomfortable being labeled as the leader of something just because she was one of the most successful folks (art wise) on the afrofuturist list. The only two people who could compare to her are probably Kodwo Eshun and DJ Spooky (who have both since left the list). The movement to the degree it exists could be about all types of stuff that she doesn't know aboutbut because she's black, an author, and used to be on the list, she is not only associated with the concept, SHE IS ASKED TO SPEAK AUTHORITATIVELY ABOUT IT. What's wrong with that? Isn't that what happens to you when you get out in public? If I am not mistaken that is how you make your living. It's honest. In that context? If someone asks me to speak about something from the authoritative standpoint, and I don't actually have expertise? I back the hell up. Excuse me if there was a gap in the typing. I fainted dead away at the intelligence that LK Spence has a reverse gear on it. I seem to remember a discussion we had about amendments to the Constitution a while back... This is what she did, from my perspective. Even worse, by insinuating that she's a sellout if she doesn't, any Afrofuturists trying to claim Nalo may effectively achieve the complete opposite effect, and send her running for the hills. Chris is just trying to get people interested enough to respond, but I feel you. If she runs for the hills it will be to get her shootin' irons, I bet. You don't get to be Nalo Hopkinson without being able to get down. Nora is being protective. She is doing it out of love. That's why we adore her Bullshit. It's one thing to discuss the probable intentions of an author who's dead, or impossible (for us) to contact, a la Octavia Butler. But to do this to a woman who's alive, when **you've got her blog right there** and you can talk to her directly, and to do it with this deliberately insulting polemic, smacks of whispering behind your hand to me. It's disrespectful and cowardly, not to mention catty as hell. Catty? Isn't that a sexist term? If I was a woman, I might be insulted. Maybe I came to you guys first instead of insulting her. So if I was wrong I could be set straight. Very well. Nobody calls out The Notorious BIG of SF. See my email to her. One of the first threads I participated in when I got here was on a thread where someone asked what Steven Barnes needed to do to get to the next level. I said my piece...and then we had a long discussion about it. After a while I realized that it was foolish for me to talk about Barnes HERE...and not do so to HIM (http://darkush.blogspot.com for those
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: [CarlBrandon] Are you selling out?
Nalo: I'm part of that discussion. I thought you should have some background on this. The message thread which can be viewed by the public at: http://301url.com/nalo-sells-out Here is the short version: He posted a link to your blog with the question of you selling out. (great post and discussion by the way- added your blog to my feeds, so I'm glad he brought it to our attention) Most who were involved in the discussion, did not agree that your well a sell out. Some of us interpreted your comments to be a clarification of your position and that in world in which female and African American writers can be easily pigeon-holed, perfectly reasonable. Most of us do not really understand his premise for saying that you are a sell out. Most of us had a problem with the fact, that he raised the question with us and not you, since you provided a forum for discussion that matter below the post. His reason was that he did not want to take the time to register. That prompted several participants in the conversation to discontinue. So, perhaps that is what prompted him to finally address you directly. He posted, in my opinion, irrelevant factors that he claimed were evidence that you sold out and were indeed a part of the Afrofuturism movement in the past. They include: the fact that you have not forced Alondra to remove the Amazon link to Brown Girl in The Ring from her Afrofuturism site and that you dramatically changed your look to a straighten hair do. Many of us felt his accusation and lack of real substance in his argument to be a crabs in the barrel act (as Nora put it). sniping at someone who's successful and trying to make them look bad. I'm glad he has decided to address you directly since you provide several ways in which people can do so. I'm also glad this conversation was raised because it inspired an interesting discussion on Afrofuturism Note: I'm cross-posting this on SciFinoir Lit Tracey de Morsella SciFiNoir Literature Moderator Nalo Hopkinson wrote: It's going to be a day like this, apparently. Just received the following email, which was copied to the SciFiNoir discussion group on Yahoo: Dear Ms. Hopkinson: I saw this on your blog. http://nalohopkinson.blogspot.com/2006/04/just-want-to-clarify.html **Are you selling out?** My response: NH: Dear (embargoed): Read the post. Read my blog. Read my writing. Read about the political work I do. Come to your own conclusions. I'm not interested in trying to convince you one way or t'other. Best, -nalo -- I'm never terribly sanguine about the metaphor of tools, functionality or work when it's appropriated for any discussion of the central purpose of one or another branch of art, literary or paraliterary (and that includes what's generally perceived as ethnic, racial, or class-based art.) -- Samuel R. Delany SPONSORED LINKS Writing book http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Writing+bookw1=Writing+bookw2=Writing+a+bookw3=Writing+child+bookw4=Book+writing+softwarew5=Science+fiction+and+fantasyw6=Writing+a+book+reportc=6s=149.sig=y2eg6vElueLyccicIbmLvw Writing a book http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Writing+a+bookw1=Writing+bookw2=Writing+a+bookw3=Writing+child+bookw4=Book+writing+softwarew5=Science+fiction+and+fantasyw6=Writing+a+book+reportc=6s=149.sig=lO3Ub95nJOYxhLh9xKmaZA Writing child book http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Writing+child+bookw1=Writing+bookw2=Writing+a+bookw3=Writing+child+bookw4=Book+writing+softwarew5=Science+fiction+and+fantasyw6=Writing+a+book+reportc=6s=149.sig=SdauVgsyQ7cty1c0_Mdmcw Book writing software http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Book+writing+softwarew1=Writing+bookw2=Writing+a+bookw3=Writing+child+bookw4=Book+writing+softwarew5=Science+fiction+and+fantasyw6=Writing+a+book+reportc=6s=149.sig=IyTXzOVz9wcG0elM8KQAlA Science fiction and fantasy http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Science+fiction+and+fantasyw1=Writing+bookw2=Writing+a+bookw3=Writing+child+bookw4=Book+writing+softwarew5=Science+fiction+and+fantasyw6=Writing+a+book+reportc=6s=149.sig=XRnFz_kSPtPnWY1VFwJpwQ Writing a book report http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Writing+a+book+reportw1=Writing+bookw2=Writing+a+bookw3=Writing+child+bookw4=Book+writing+softwarew5=Science+fiction+and+fantasyw6=Writing+a+book+reportc=6s=149.sig=v6l7bRwIsnHwqukmL3bvDQ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group CarlBrandon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CarlBrandon on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/. Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Cornel West: His Harvard peers seek his return]
Original Message Subject:Cornel West: His Harvard peers seek his return Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:02:04 -0400 From: Walter Kwami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Village Idiot Productions To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some seek a scholar's return His Harvard peers hope to woo West By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff | June 6, 2006 With Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers about to exit, some professors are planning an effort to woo back celebrity scholar Cornel West, who decamped to Princeton after Summers assailed his scholarship and teaching. ``Nothing could please me more than West's return, said Henry Louis Gates Jr., the outgoing chairman of the school's department of African and African American studies. ``Cornel West is the man. Gates, interviewed yesterday, said many of his colleagues in the department felt the same way. He declined to comment on whether he believed that West was interested, saying they have not had formal talks. West did not respond to a call last week, and an assistant said he was traveling yesterday and unreachable. Perhaps no other event at Harvard could serve as a greater symbolic rebuke of Summers than a decision to rehire West, a scholar of religion and political philosophy. Summers's dispute with West in 2001 produced the first major controversy of his presidency, giving him a reputation among campus critics as a bully whose approach to leadership favored attack over persuasion. Conversely, his champions saw it as evidence of a refreshing boldness lacking among most college presidents. West's departure was a blow to African-American studies at Harvard. Enrollment plummeted in the introductory class he had taught. The departures of four other professors, three of them renowned scholars, for a variety of reasons over the last four years contributed to a sense that the ``dream team that Gates built had fallen apart. Bringing West back would require the approval of either Derek Bok, who next month will become interim president, or Bok's successor. The African and African American studies department has been hiring large numbers of respected but lesser-known scholars. It remains strong, professor Ingrid Monson said yesterday, ``but none of us are as electric in the classroom as Cornel West. ``I think everyone of us, when we learned president Summers was leaving, had this on our mind, added Monson, who is chairwoman of the music department as well as a professor in African and African-American studies. ``I called Skip [Gates] immediately and asked, `Have you talked to Cornel?' West has left no doubt that he returned to Princeton, where he had taught previously, because of Summers. In his 2004 book, ``Democracy Matters, he described the fateful encounter in October 2001. Summers began the meeting by using an obscenity to ask West to help him cause problems for an outspoken conservative professor, Harvey Mansfield, West said. Then the president complained that West had missed three weeks of classes to work on Bill Bradley's presidential campaign in 2000, that he was contributing to grade inflation, and that his rap CD was an embarrassment to Harvard. He also said West needed to do more scholarly work. West denied all the accusations, saying he had missed one class in his entire time at Harvard, that his grades would hold up next to those in any other department, and that he had written 16 books, including scholarly work. Summers, West wrote in this book, ``messed with the wrong Negro. Summers has never publicly offered his version of the episode, but has said he tried to reach out to West before the professor left Harvard. A Summers spokesman did not return a call yesterday. Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a professor at Harvard Law School and a friend of West, said he would welcome him back, but expressed skepticism that he would leave Princeton. ``He loves Princeton, Ogletree said. ``He's got wonderful colleagues and a supportive president, and an environment where his teaching and his scholarship are consistently respected. The fact that Gates wants to poach West from Princeton suggests he is not planning to leave Harvard, despite regular rumors to that effect. Gates said he intends to stay in Cambridge and continue making documentary films on African-American history. While he is stepping down at the end of the month as department chair after 15 years, he will remain director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. A new department chairman has not been named. Gates said he expects that in the fall, the faculty will discuss the idea of recruiting West with Bok and Jeremy Knowles, who will become interim dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Bok did not return a call yesterday, and Knowles said he didn't know anything about it. Bombardieri can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOW-TO-JOIN: Join Boston Blacks Online via the World Wide Web at
Why Bulter's works were not displayed - [SciFiNoir Lit] Oops! Forgot about this...]
the profile of Anor was just posted with a really relevant question I thought I would bring to the groups's attention. See below : 15. Anything else you think is important: THE WEEK BUTLER DIED, ISHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WALK INTO ANY BN OR BORDERS AND FIND FLEDGLING (at the very least) PROMINENTLY FEATURED--DID NOT! WHAS'UP WITH THAT??? Any comments from the group? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Diversity in SF/Fantasy for Youth]
Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Diversity in SF/Fantasy for Youth Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:59:35 -0500 From: Nnedimma [EMAIL PROTECTED] *I just found this article and book list (on Booklist's website): Core Collection: Diversity in SF/Fantasy for Youth.* Mattson, Jennifer (author). FEATURE. First published May 15, 2006 (/Booklist/). As Alma Flor Ada has said, Children need windows and mirrors—windows that offer glimpses of other worlds, mirrors that reflect and validate their own experience. For the child or young adult drawn to speculative fiction, recommenders looking for stories that reach beyond European traditions have long faced challenges. After all, much of classic youth fantasy, from Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles to Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising sequence, has obvious roots in Arthurian and Tolkien-inspired mythologies. Recently, though, numerous authors have offered welcome detours from thoroughfares teeming with wizards, fairies, trolls, and goblins. One of these is Sophie Masson, whose //Snow, Fire, Sword/ default.aspx?page=show_productpid=1652234/ (2006) roams the literal and spiritual landscapes of an alternate Indonesia; for others, look to the list below, which includes titles published for adults as well as youth, and encompasses both fantasy and sf. Because of the list’s particular focus on tales set in recognizable versions of our own world, or in invented worlds steeped in familiar cultural traditions, readers will emerge aware of innumerable roads not taken. One hopes, though, that even the list’s limited scope will help perform what Hazel Rochman, Books for Youth Contributing Editor and author of /Against Borders/ (1993), considers one of the key tasks of multicultural literature: to make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and literal recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. *Alexander, Lloyd.* The Iron Ring. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=572122 1997. Puffin, paper, $5.99 (0-14-130348-4). Gr. 6–9. The struggle to be true to one’s dharma, or ethical code, and the mythology of India are at the core of this adventure, in which a young king journeys to fulfill a debt. *Allende, Isabel.* City of the Beasts. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=1658827 2002. HarperCollins, $19.99 (0-06-050918-X). Gr. 9-–12. The ancient spiritualities of South American native peoples, as well as the lush, mystery-draped Amazonian setting, are at the crux of Allende’s first novel for young adults. *Blackman, Malorie.* Naughts and Crosses. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=1180222 2005. Simon Schuster, $15.95 (1-4169-0016-0). Gr. 8–11. This intelligent work of speculative fiction sets a star-crossed romance within an alternate English society, in which persecuted naughts, who are white, are segregated from privileged crosses, who are black. *Butler, Octavia E.* Kindred. 1979. Beacon, $14 (0-8070-8369-0). Originally published for adults, this classic time-slip novel mixes fantasy with piercing history as it thrusts a modern-day African American woman into an era where she must live as a slave. *Cooper, Susan.* Green Boy. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=901035 2002. Simon Schuster, $16 (0-689-84751-3). Gr. 4–7. In an action-packed ecological fable, 12-year-old Trey and his younger brother slip into the Otherworld, where environmental oblivion parallels threats their Caribbean community faces from developers. *Corder, Zizou.* Lionboy. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=1501333 2004. Dial, $15.99 (0-8037-2982-0). Gr. 4–7. Half-Ghanaian Charlie’s proud biracial ethnicity is a matter-of-fact but important part of his quest to rescue his kidnapped parents, which continues in two additional installments. *Dalkey, Kara.* Little Sister. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=1005133 1996. Sagebrush, $13.99 (0-613-08265-6). Gr. 5–8. Thirteen-year-old Little Puddle, daughter of a noble family in twelfth-century Japan, journeys deep into the spirit world to reclaim her sister’s wandering soul. Details of culture and history invigorate this quest story, originally published by Harcourt. *Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.* The Conch Bearer. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=1649736 2003. Roaring Brook, $16.95 (0-7613-1935-2). Gr. 5–8. Indian settings and spirituality infuse Divakaruni’s tale of an impoverished Calcutta boy who becomes responsible for a magical conch shell. Book 1 in the Brotherhood of the Conch series. *Farmer, Nancy.* The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. default.aspx?page=show_productpid=451445 1994. Scholastic, $19.99 (0-531-08679-8). Gr. 7–10. In a dystopian Zimbabwe in the year 2194, the 13-year-old son of the nation’s military ruler embarks on a series of perilous adventures. A 1995 Newbery Honor Book. *Gaiman, Neil.* Anansi
[SciFiNoir Lit] What are you reading?
Before my Mexican adventure began, I used to be more on top of things. Anyway, I'm trying to repent and get things back on track. So what are you guys reading these days, say over the past several months. What are your thoughts on the books you have read. Did you like them are were they are waste of time. If you liked or haded the books, why do you feel the way you do. and finally are there any books you plan on starting within the next few weeks? Tracey Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Life without art music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/9I_uBB/YPaOAA/Zx0JAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What are you reading?
I loved my soul to keep. I think you should read the living blood (sequel) after it. both are awesome.How is black rose? coming back to the states in a few weeks to visit my mom and I plan on stocking up some some good sci fi to get me through the summer Tracey Princess Watterson wrote: right now i'm reading tananarive due black rose. then i'll read my soul to keep by tannarive due i tried to read walter mosely's blue light but i didnt like it. i also attempted to read clive barker's damnation game but i didnt like that either before that octavia's wild seed book. before that i read parable of the sower and parable of the talents by octavia butler. absolutely loved those two. she had a 3rd installment to the parable series called parable of the trickster but i dont know how far she got into it because she died before she published it if its just one page i want to read it! before that i read the bluest eye by toni morrison (i think) i reallly really like the bluest eye i love to see people delve into the psyche of black people conseulafrancis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm re-reading Toni Morrison's novels for a class. Song of Solomon is better than I remembered. Sula left me cold this time around. I'll second Chris's rec of _Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic BooK_. Excellent read. conseula --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, if you are down there prospecting for gold in the Sierra Madre with three crazy white guys don't go to sleep-- What am I reading? Tried to read Blind Lake by-- forgot his name--couldn't. Marvel Visionaries:: Stan Lee--don't waste time or money on it The Campaigns of Napoleon--re reading it for the third time--I love this book V for Vendetta by Alan Moore--first two parts were good, last one he fell apart--didn't like the artwork History of Def Jam records--read that one--real good Title escapes me--about Geeks and Gangsters--a history of comix mostlyh about the tradgedy of Jerry Siegel--real good --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) tdlists@ wrote: Before my Mexican adventure began, I used to be more on top of things. Anyway, I'm trying to repent and get things back on track. So what are you guys reading these days, say over the past several months. What are your thoughts on the books you have read. Did you like them are were they are waste of time. If you liked or haded the books, why do you feel the way you do. and finally are there any books you plan on starting within the next few weeks? Tracey http://members.blackplanet.com/asiaticearth Humanity's first sin was faith; the first virtue was doubt. - New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/co.u8A/gOaOAA/Zx0JAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What are you reading?
i forgot black rose was her book on madame cj walker Tracey Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: I loved my soul to keep. I think you should read the living blood (sequel) after it. both are awesome.How is black rose? coming back to the states in a few weeks to visit my mom and I plan on stocking up some some good sci fi to get me through the summer Tracey Princess Watterson wrote: right now i'm reading tananarive due black rose. then i'll read my soul to keep by tannarive due i tried to read walter mosely's blue light but i didnt like it. i also attempted to read clive barker's damnation game but i didnt like that either before that octavia's wild seed book. before that i read parable of the sower and parable of the talents by octavia butler. absolutely loved those two. she had a 3rd installment to the parable series called parable of the trickster but i dont know how far she got into it because she died before she published it if its just one page i want to read it! before that i read the bluest eye by toni morrison (i think) i reallly really like the bluest eye i love to see people delve into the psyche of black people conseulafrancis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm re-reading Toni Morrison's novels for a class. Song of Solomon is better than I remembered. Sula left me cold this time around. I'll second Chris's rec of _Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic BooK_. Excellent read. conseula --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, if you are down there prospecting for gold in the Sierra Madre with three crazy white guys don't go to sleep-- What am I reading? Tried to read Blind Lake by-- forgot his name--couldn't. Marvel Visionaries:: Stan Lee--don't waste time or money on it The Campaigns of Napoleon--re reading it for the third time--I love this book V for Vendetta by Alan Moore--first two parts were good, last one he fell apart--didn't like the artwork History of Def Jam records--read that one--real good Title escapes me--about Geeks and Gangsters--a history of comix mostlyh about the tradgedy of Jerry Siegel--real good --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) tdlists@ wrote: Before my Mexican adventure began, I used to be more on top of things. Anyway, I'm trying to repent and get things back on track. So what are you guys reading these days, say over the past several months. What are your thoughts on the books you have read. Did you like them are were they are waste of time. If you liked or haded the books, why do you feel the way you do. and finally are there any books you plan on starting within the next few weeks? Tracey http://members.blackplanet.com/asiaticearth Humanity's first sin was faith; the first virtue was doubt. - New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/gi.u7A/fOaOAA/Zx0JAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd:NAN Grant for Women Webcomic Creators]
Original Message Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:54:25 - From: grlshaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] This just popped over the email. Hernandez says pass it along to any and all who might be interested, so feel free to forward beyond this list. WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN PURPOSE In order to foster women publishing independently, with economy, and as owners of what they create, I will award FOUR grants annually, of a year's free hosting at WebComicsNation.com, to women making a regularly-updating new or existing webcomic of any genre or style. The recipients will have unlimited data storage and bandwidth, the ability to choose to support their work with ads, and a storefront for selling merchandise. The name of the grant is Nan, after the digital person Nan 11 from Rumble Girls: Silky Warrior Tansie. In RG, Nan agitates, comments on, and works behind the scenes to help the heroine, Raven, come to the understanding that being her own girl is the key to her strength. I believe the Web already has what women wanting to make comics need, and that it has and continues to transform American comics from a work-for-hire Boy's Club to a stage for everyone to perform on and be seen. The Web is living up to its promise, and comics can, too. DEADLINE Submissions are now open. Deadline for submissions is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006, 6PM Central. ANNOUNCEMENT OF GRANTS NAN Grant recipients will be notified WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006, via email. A press release will be sent out concurrently. (Because, dadgum, we all need good news by Wednesday.) ELIGIBILITY 1. Persons applying MUST be female. You will have to provide me with a document such as a driver's license, birth certificate, military I.D., etc. stating you are female. In the case of team comics (no more than three persons on a team), the entire team MUST be female, and remain so for the period of the grant. 2. Applicants must be 18 years old. 3. The work submitted must be free of contractural obligation for web publication, must be the property of the applicant(s), must not infringe on other's rights, nor be libelous or slanderous. 4. I am kindly disposed towards manga and Oni-like comics, but good comics most of all. 5. Previous experience a plus, but not neccessary. 6. The NAN Grant is open to ALL female webcomickers, regardless of experience. This includes young, brand-new comickers, older brand-new comickers, experienced comickers now paying a success tax for bandwidth use, professionals from other fields. You have to either already be making a comic that needs hosting, or want to host a new one. 7. Applicant bears sole responsibility for following these guidelines. Failure to comply with items 1.-3. will result in revocation of awarded grant. RIGHTS 1. Applicants retain ALL rights to their work. Submissions are the sole property of their creator(s), period. 2. Comics published with a NAN Grant that are later collected for print are requested to add Originally published in (year) on Webcomicsnation.com, with the aid of Women Webcomicker Grant Nan to their indicia. 3. I reserve the right to use applicant's names and representative art to publicize NAN without further compensation. (This means I will tell people who's applied, who's won, and point the inquiring to their work.) 4. NAN Grant recipients are encouraged to crow as soon as they recieve notification emails. GUIDELINES 1. Ideally, BEFORE YOU SEND ME YOUR PROPOSAL, BUY or BORROW and READ How To Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen. (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/ obidos/ASIN/1582972516/qid=1066192984/sr=2-1/ ref=sr_2_1/103-7710080-8024610) While it is geared towards non-fiction proposals, it does teach everything you need to know about crafting a readable proposal. What I do not want to see is your entire story written out in a single-spaced block in email. Have mercy. 2. Show me you already know how to put a comic/images online. I want to see clean presentation (which means learning how to use an image editing program to take out grays from scans), good lettering (many decent free fonts available at blambot.com, so there's no excuse for lettering in Times New Roman), and basic HTML (which will greatly enhance your experience in hosting with WebComicsNation.com). Excellent proposals by Lynn Lau and Leigh Dragoon that won their creators contracts at GirlAMatic.com can be found here: http://tentative.net/jupiter/ And here: http://www.spidric.com/proposal/default.asp 3. Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], subject line NAN: (title), otherwise my spam filters will eat it. To this address, send me the URL of your submission, and attach a scan of a document that verifies your gender. Don't tell me it isn't your best work. If it's not, why should I look at it? If you do things like use u for you, 4 for four and LOL for punctuation, don't when you write me.
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Fwd: Disney Doesn't Dream Black]
Original Message Subject:Fwd: Disney Doesn't Dream Black Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:13:21 EDT From: Miriam Lee Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: GIRLFRIEND [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello: I thought that I would share this e-mail I got from my listserv this morning. Please read, sign, and pass along. Peace - Miriam Greetings, Everyone: The message below is both intriguing and disturbing. On one hand, it would be wonderful to see Disney follow through with the production of an African American fairytale; but, on the other hand, it is troublesome to think that our fairytales do not count unless they are validated by a Disney production. As librarians/historians/writers/educators, we all know of African American fairytales, such as, the stories by Virginia Hamilton and others. I wouldn't want Ms. Helm to be inundated with e-mail from us, but perhaps a short list of titles about AfroAm fairytales from someone in BCALA (a Children's specialist?) would be appropriate. Are there any takers? (Note: I am forwarding Hurley's article, Seeing White: Children of Color and the Disney Fairy Tale Princess from The Journal of Negro Education to her. Maybe someone has additional suggestions.) Jean Currie Church Chief Librarian Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Howard University Washington, DC 20059 Phone: 202-806-7497 Fax: 202-806-6405 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: shwesterfield Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:56 PM To: Subject: Fw: Disney Doesn't Dream in Black - Please sign and pass on - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:57 AM Subject: FW: Disney Doesn't Dream in Black - Please sign and pass on Dear Disney Company, In December 2005, I made my first visit to Disney World with my family. The experience was breathtaking. Throughout our journey, the adults were astonished by how the themes were brought to life. The children were fascinated and engaged particularly by the Princess', Minnie's House, the fake snow that fell at night, the parade, eting the characters and asking questions as well as taking pictures with the characters. Above all, the girls were intrigued by the Princess' mini shows. However, my daughter had a question. She said, How come there's no Princess here like me? I asked, What do you mean? She replied, You know, a Princess like That's So Raven or Penny Proud. I responded by saying, Unfortunately, Disney has not created fairytales for children like you. In other words, there are no Princess' of African American descent. As the evening came to an end, I began to ponder on her question. I thought to myself...well, why aren't there any African American Princesses in such a place where the motto is We Make All Dreams Come True. I decided to email your company to ask why. A few weeks later, I received a surprising call. The woman I spoke to reassured me that my question and concern was taken seriously and would be looked into further. During this conversation, I asked why there aren't any African American Princesses. The woman stated because there aren't any African American fairytales. She said, Well we have Pocahontas who represents Native America, Mulan who represents the Chinese, Jasmine who represents the descendants of the Middle East and the African Americans have Lion King out of Africa. That reply left me with the thought that she just compared African Americans to wild animals. After that statement, I just laughed and respectfully ended the conversation. One thing I realized was that I can't blame her for her response. Disney has not created an African American fairytale. As an educator/parent, we all know that through life experiences what we can touch, see, feel, taste, and hear leaves a lasting impression. Disney, you hold the power to make life experiences become a reality to a melting pot world, which includes African Americans. Disney's motto is We Make All Dreams Come True. Well, Disney, my child and other children like her have a dream and through their Disney experience, they are depending on you to make it come true. Thank you, Katrina Y. Helm and others Please press forward and circulate to everyone in your address book. When we reach 1000 names, return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! 1. Katrina Helm, CLT, NC 2. Shewana Gamblin, CLT, NC 3. Hunter Heath, CLT, NC 4. Steven White VA 5. Arielle White VA 6. Dion Stith NY 7. Alexandria Stith NY 8. Itasha Hilton, NY 9. Qiessence Coleman, NY 10. L. Buchanon, NY 11. K. Wallace, NY 12. K. Penn - NY 13. D. Wall - NY 14. J. Scott - VA 15. A. Jackson - OR 16. D. Bailey-Braxton - OR 17. M. Raiford - GA 18. A. Shaw - GA 19. C.Burke - OR 20. A. Pledger - OR 21. A. McCoy - IL 22. T. Pledger - IL 23. C. Lobbins - IL 24. J. Lobbins - IL 25. Jessie Whitaker, IN 26. Vernell Ball-Daniel IN 27. Charlotte D. Pfeifer-Gillam-IN 28. R. Crowelle, Hbg, Pa
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Saw Battlefiled Earth over the weekend
Why did the military do that with clancy books Chris Hayden wrote: Had heard about how bad it was and tried to watch it but had to give up (shortly after the scene in the bar where Travolta, playing a monster) is getting drunk and complaining about being screwed over by his boss-- Gawd! It was bad. But come to think of it, so were the books. But I remember they were best sellers, though I have never known anybody who personally raved about them. Do you think the church of Scientology jacked up the numbers by buying/ordering those books? I have heard that the military used to do that with Tom Clancy books all the time. Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
I am legend news Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] six feet under creator does vampires-Southern Vampire book series.
pages because the author went on and on about how beautifully blond and buxom the main character is...I was like Dude! I just can't relate. Then I tried again a week later and devoured it, s satisfying. Reminds me of the Tanya Huff detective series. Now that is something I will get HBO for! Hey, did you all hear about I Am Legend becoming a movie starring Will Smith as the last human, and Johnny Depp as the head vamp Oh I'm so excited...let me see if I can find the link... Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody heard about this, the rest of the world tends to get HBO stuff about three to six months behind you guys, so I have not seen anything like this. Tracey == HBO, 'Six Feet' creator reunite for new series By Andrew Wallenstein Thu Oct 27,11:59 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO has dug up a new deal with Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, but this time he's switching from the dead to the undead. ADVERTISEMENT The first project covered under the two-year development deal Ball signed with the premium cable channel will be based on the Southern Vampire book series. Written by Charlaine Harris, the series chronicles the intermingling world of humans and monsters in contemporary rural Louisiana, particularly vampires, thanks to a synthetic blood formula that allows them to roam far from their coffins. The books are funny, scary, sexy, romantic, bizarre and really fun, Ball said. I couldn't put them down. I will try to remain as true to the spirit of her book as possible. HBO has ordered an hour-long pilot to be written and directed by Ball. There is no set timetable for shooting the Southern pilot, but Ball believed it would happen sometime next year. Ball, who also won an Oscar for writing American Beauty, last created Six Feet Under, which revolved around a family mortuary business. The Emmy-winning series ended in August. I was ready to do something a little lighter in tone than 'Six Feet,' Ball said. Five years of staring into the abyss was enough. Bringing Ball back into the fold represents a coup for HBO, which has proved adept at getting the creators of its hit series to come back for another try; Deadwood executive producer David Milch recently signed a new deal, and Sex and the City executive producer Michael Patrick King already has completed a second series for HBO, The Comeback. I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV, said Carolyn Strauss, HBO's president of entertainment. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't even try. Then he read this book and said, 'I want to do this.' It was really a beautiful surprise. Since burying Six Feet Under, Ball has also written several screenplays on spec and developed a theatrical production in New York, All That I Will Ever Be. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter - Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: SLF Mentorship Program: Autumn Session]
Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] SLF Mentorship Program: Autumn Session Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:46:34 -0500 From: Mary Anne Mohanraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carl Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES FALL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announces the second session of its mentorship program. The program will take place August 1 through October 31, 2006. Participants will be able to gain valuable advice in the areas of business and craft from accomplished professional writers willing to share their experience. The mentors will not be critiquing mentee work, but will be talking about the nuts and bolts of writing. This session's mentors include Leah Cutter, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Jenn Reese, Ben Rosenbaum, and John Scalzi. *** Leah R Cutter is the author of three historical fantasy novels as well as several fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories. Her most recent novel is The Jaguar and the Wolf (Roc 2005). She's lived all over the world, inc luding Hungary and Taiwan, and now resides in Seattle, WA with her cat and many books. She supports herself and her writing habit by doing technical writing for a California-based software company. Her website appears at http:// www.leahcutter.com. Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu 's first novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, was published in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin. It will be published in Nigeria in 2007 by Kachifo Ltd. Her second novel, Ejii the Shadow Speaker, will be published by Hyperion Books for Children in 2007. Her short story, The Chaos Magician's Mega Chemistry Set will be published in Space and Time Magazine's 100th issue in 2006. Nnedi is currently finishing her PhD in English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is also a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop (2001). Jenn Reese lives in Los Angeles, where she studies martial arts, plays strate gy games, and sits in traffic. She's a 1999 Clarion workshop survivor and her stories have appeared in Polyphony, Flytrap, and various DAW anthologies, as well as online at Strange Horizons and Lone Star Stories. Her first novel, Jade Tiger, is forthcoming from Juno Books. Her website appears at www.jennreese.com. Ben Rosenbaum has been a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. His stories have appeared in Asimov's, Ft;SF, Harper's, Nature, McSweeney's, YBSF, YBFH, and other publications. John Scalzi is the author of 10 books, including the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War and its sequel The Ghost Brigades, the astronomy handbook The Rough Guide to the Universe , and the best-selling Book of the Dumb humor series. His work has also appeared in various newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post , the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dayto n Daily News, Jungle magazine, the Official US PlayStation Magazine and others. Scalzi Consulting, his writing/editing shop, consults for online and financial institutions such as AOL, Network Solutions, US Trust and Oppenheimer Funds. He enjoys pie. *** We are accepting a maximum number of 25 applicants, as each of the five mentors will receive five mentees. If you are accepted, we'll ask you for a $15-$30 fee for participation in the three month program. The fee (as with all our fees) is sliding-scale; pay what you can afford. Fees go directly to supporting other SLF programs, such as our travel and older writers' grants. To apply, please send a one-page bio and personal statement that includes an assessment of your writing experience and what you would like to get from a mentorship as an attached Word .doc or .rtf (Rich Text Format) file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .org. This will serve as your introduction to your mentor and the group, if you are selected for the program. Also, indicate if you have a preference for a particular mentor (preferences are not guaranteed, however). There is no fee for application to the program. Applications are due by midnight, July 25th, 2006 For more information, visit our mentorship website at http:// www.speculativeliterature.org/Programs/Mentorship.php or email PR contact Ashley Gronek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you! -- The Speculative Literature Foundation is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interests of readers, writers, editors and publishers in the speculative literature community. Speculative literature is a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard and soft science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to folk and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern mythmaking -- any literature containing a fabulist
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [AFAMHED] Judging a Book by Its Writer's Color]
Original Message Subject:[AFAMHED] Judging a Book by Its Writer's Color Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:11:40 -0500 From: S. E. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: S. E. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: How can you be neutral on a moving train? In this case, the moving train is US literature. When one does not write about one's race one is still writing about one's race. Why? Because we live in a nation and world that is governed by race and class. White publishers of Black authors really don't like Black authors to give them manuscripts solely about whitefolk. they didn't like when Richard Wright was alive and don't like it now. But we Blackfolk have the right to write about whitefolk in their world without having a single central Black character. That's not writing beyond race. That's writing within race. Many of us Blackfolk know both world's intimately. It's just a question of can some of us Blackfolk write NOT just about Blackfolk, but about other folk as well? Yes we can and we should. But... that doesn't make our writing better or universal or race-free because we choose to write NOT about Blackfok. xxx http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i47/47b01201.htm July 28, 2006 Judging a Book by Its Writer's Color By GENE ANDREW JARRETT Thanks to the widely acclaimed Norton Anthology of African American Literature, we can read and celebrate an assortment and abundance of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama by black writers. But this admirable book ignores a remarkable history: Some of our most celebrated black authors weren't always so hungry for texts about themselves, an actual phrase used to introduce the anthology's second edition. Contrary to this claim, some canonical authors were just as interested in writing about our common humanity, regardless of racial differences. Take a look at this list of authors and some of their fiction. Ironically, although numerous anthologies tend to hail the former, they often ignore the latter: Francis Ellen Watkins Harper's Sowing and Reaping (1876-77); Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Uncalled (1898); Nella Larsen's The Wrong Man and Freedom (1926); Jean Toomer's York Beach (1929); Wallace Thurman's The Interne (1932); Ann Petry's Country Place (1947); Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee (1948); Chester Himes's Cast the First Stone (1952); Richard Wright's Savage Holiday (1954); James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (1956); Samuel R. Delany's Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (1968); Toni Morrison's Recitatif (1983); and Octavia Butler's Bloodchild (1984). These short stories, novelettes, or excerpts of novels have two things in common. First, they feature characters who are white or racially unmarked or ambiguous. Second, these works tend to go unread, undersold, or out of print. For those reasons, they could be thought of as the anomalies of African-American literature. A 2004 international bibliography of academic scholarship prepared by the Modern Language Association supports this point, particularly because the editors of anthologies of African-American literature tend to be scholars. In an analysis I did of the MLA bibliography, I found that anomalous stories constituted the main subject matter of less than 2 percent of all the dissertations, articles, chapters in edited collections, and books published on African-American writers since 1963. Such a circumstance has certainly prevented us from realizing how prolific and sophisticated our most famous black authors actually were. By neglecting these works, we also fail to learn more about the most famous examples of African-American literature. The Wrong Man and Freedom, stories about the emotional struggles of white women, anticipated Nella Larsen's experimentation with certain literary themes and techniques that later appeared in her two classic novels about racially mixed women, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). The themes of dialect and male chauvinism in Seraph on the Suwanee recalled Zora Neale Hurston's earlier outstanding novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Finally, by the time Recitatif appeared, Toni Morrison had already released two well-known novels The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973) whose themes of strong women and deadbeat fathers also enhanced her first short story. In addition to the idea of anomalies, the lesser-known works of fiction mentioned here could also be thought of as African-American literature written beyond race. The word beyond doesn't necessarily assert an optimistic belief that we can advance beyond race in our world. To do so would be naïve; it would ignore race's persistent and pervasive social impact today. However, it does mean, as Toni Morrison explained in a 1994 lecture at Princeton University entitled Home, that blacks can admirably and usefully write literature that is at once race specific and
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: DiversiconDiversicon: a Project of Speculative Fiction.
--- Original Message Hi, everyone! As we're gearing up for Diversicon (www.diversicon.org http://www.diversicon.org) in MN this August 11-13, I wanted to send a quick note out that if anyone has any postcards, buttons, bookmarks or other fun free promotional items regarding your recent/older books, or fun upcoming events, let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send you my address so that we can set it out on the tables, although the space is limited to first-come, first-serve. We're expecting about 100 to 125 people for this year's convention, which focuses on multicultural speculative literature (fantasy, horror and science fiction.) I'd need to know by Monday, though, so we can get things in the mail on-time. We've got some great writers and publishers stopping by, and as an additional fun note, there will be great give-aways at Diversicon including terrific back issues of Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Mental Floss, and fun things from Dark Wisdom, Tripmaster Monkey Magazine, and more. At this point, registration is $40 for adults and $30 for students. It will take place at Holiday Inn Select International Airport, 3 Apple Tree Square, in Bloomington. For more information visit www.diversicon.org http://www.diversicon.org. Have a great day, Bryan Thao Worra http://members.aol.com/thaoworra http://thaoworra.blogspot.com Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: DiversiconDiversicon: a Project of Speculative Fiction.
Hi Andrea: I'm glad you are going. Unfortunately I'm not going. I just thought it was n interesting event Tracey Andrea Hairston wrote: Hey Tracey, I'm coming to Diversicon--I'll see you there and I'll bring some stuff fro my novel, Mindscape. Andrea - Original Message - From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.commailto:scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ; SciFiNoir Litmailto:SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 2:50 PM Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: DiversiconDiversicon: a Project of Speculative Fiction. --- Original Message Hi, everyone! As we're gearing up for Diversicon (www.diversicon.orghttp://www.diversicon.org/ http://www.diversicon.orghttp://www.diversicon.org/) in MN this August 11-13, I wanted to send a quick note out that if anyone has any postcards, buttons, bookmarks or other fun free promotional items regarding your recent/older books, or fun upcoming events, let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send you my address so that we can set it out on the tables, although the space is limited to first-come, first-serve. We're expecting about 100 to 125 people for this year's convention, which focuses on multicultural speculative literature (fantasy, horror and science fiction.) I'd need to know by Monday, though, so we can get things in the mail on-time. We've got some great writers and publishers stopping by, and as an additional fun note, there will be great give-aways at Diversicon including terrific back issues of Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Mental Floss, and fun things from Dark Wisdom, Tripmaster Monkey Magazine, and more. At this point, registration is $40 for adults and $30 for students. It will take place at Holiday Inn Select International Airport, 3 Apple Tree Square, in Bloomington. For more information visit www.diversicon.org http://www.diversicon.orghttp://www.diversicon.org/. Have a great day, Bryan Thao Worra http://members.aol.com/thaoworrahttp://members.aol.com/thaoworra http://thaoworra.blogspot.comhttp://thaoworra.blogspot.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Kill Harry?
I read that by killing a major character, it makes it near impossible for corporations involved to continue the story without the author Tracey Chris Hayden wrote: In response to rumors that JK Rowling plans to kill Harry Potter, some people are urging her not to do it. Let's take our own poll. I say she should kill him. In the most ghastly manner possible. What sez everybody? This could get as good as the poll where the DC readers decided to kill Robin! Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Has anyone seen this forthcoming Octavia Butler collection?]
Original Message Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:14:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Libero Della Piana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey all, Maybe everyone knows about this, but aparently a new volume collecting all four patternist novels is coming out in January 2007. I stumbled across this reference on Amazon. The title is Seed to Harvest. Anyone know anything else about it? I don't believe these novels where ever collected in one place before. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446698903/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_75/102-7167531-0173752?%5Fencoding=UTF8v=glancen=283155 Libero Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] World Spying Upon Girls Community!!!
No, I've been very ill and my brain is foggy. I let 4 spams get by. Sorry about that Tracey Astromancer wrote: Looks like a spammer got by Tracey... for.email [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:for.email%40yahoo.com wrote: World Spying Upon Girls Community!!! Only real spying pics/video upon wifes, girlfriends, sisters, spying for girls on beach, nature, windows, locker rooms, street, indoor, office, parties, and etc. Spying for women's upskits, pissing, showers and etc. Join us! Add your pics / video! La'V' is always watching...Be careful who you talk to. - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie - Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited Try it today. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Diversicon, August 3-5]
--- Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Diversicon, August 3-5 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:22:25 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mind you, it's a TOTAL bias- but I'm also going to say it would be great if people can make it to Diversicon this year (www.diversicon.org http://www.diversicon.org) in August in Minneapolis. Their guest of honor is absolutely awesome and *not to be missed*. She's a dynamic speaker and a vibrant personality with some tremendous experiences and a unique perspective to draw upon. With her experience in theater, short fiction and a novel, and with African American studies at the academic level, it's really worth your time. I had a chance to visit with her during the last Diversicon, and she's the kind of guest I wish could come back every year. There should be some kind of special fund or something like that. :) And of course, I'll be back again as well, showcasing a few all-new panels on Southeast Asian mythology and cryptozoology, cryptogeography and a few other fun discussions just for Diversicon. I might even show off the secret robot army I picked up from last year's auction when my wife wasn't looking. But that's a long story. :) B. http://www.myspace.com/thaoworra ** http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom%2Fnewaol Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Minirant: Racism within the SF community]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message I was griping on my blog, earlier this week, about how I've encountered more overt homophobes, racists, sexists, etc., within the speculative fiction community than in any other literary realm. Some of them are of the not-quite-benign, one day we'll all be one race so let's try hard to breed racism away, stupidism branch of the family. But there are also a surprising number of unapologetic extremists (e.g., Orson Scott Card). Now as I read about the racist opinion piece published last week in the Asianweek newspaper by columnist Kenneth Eng, (details here: http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/070228_prince/ ) I see some articles pointing out that Eng is a science fiction writer. WTF?? What *is* it about this field that attracts such people? Aren't we supposed to be progressive? Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [CarlBrandon] Eng's Scifi book]
Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Eng's book Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:25:41 -0500 From: Nora [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, this looks all kinds of stupid: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=yisbn=097487650Xitm=1 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=yisbn=097487650Xitm=1 Anybody know anything about DNA Press? Are they a real publisher, or a publisher like Publish America? Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/kOt0.A/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: MODERATE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to SciFiNoir_Lit]
Original Message Subject:MODERATE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to SciFiNoir_Lit Date: 4 Mar 2007 16:28:20 - From: Yahoo! Groups Notification [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, A message has been sent to the SciFiNoir_Lit group from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message summary: FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:26:32 - SUBJECT: Kolon Hello My pdf book is in spanish, but have a lot of pictures and my question, is: what do you think about my book, is it graphic novel, novel with images or is comic? http://www.kolon.es A complete copy of this message has been attached for your convenience. This message requires your approval for one of the following reasons: * Your group is set to moderate all messages from this user, OR * Your group is set to moderate messages from all users To approve or reject this message using the web, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/pending?view=1msg=1395 To approve this message using email, reply to this message. You do not need to attach the original message, just reply and send. To reject this message using email, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: The pending message will expire after 14 days. If you do not take action within that time, the pending message will be automatically rejected. Yahoo! Groups does this to maintain a high quality of service for our users. Thank you for choosing Yahoo! Groups. Regards, Yahoo! Groups Customer Care Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] Intro:raul lilloy, cuevas del almanzora, almeria,spain
1. Name: raul lilloy 2. Location: cuevas del almanzora, spain 3. Nickname/ Alias: rlilloy 4. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: novel 5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: martians chronique 6. Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors:bradbury, ballard, borges 7. Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: ripley 8. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:twilight zone 9. Topics of importance to you:science fiction 10. Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative Fiction: i dont know, what author do you recommend me? 11. Your own published works, if any:kolon.es 12. Your web site:parquelunar.com (in spanish, imsorry) 13. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: mmm 14. Memberships in science fiction clubs: this is the first 15. Anything else you think is important:write cool Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0It09A/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/DtIolB/TM ~- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Octavia Butler's Work Pitched For Comics
Butler's SF Pitched For Comics Writers House literary agent Merrilee Heifetz is trying to pitch graphic novel adaptations of the works of the late SF writer Octavia Butler, Publishers Weekly reported. Heifetz represents the Butler estate and told the publication that she's received permission from the estate to seek out publishers to produce comic-book adaptations of Butler's novels. There's no deal yet, but Heifetz has begun shopping the idea. The estate wants to make sure that Octavia's audience continues to grow, Heifeitz said. They want to make sure she has younger readers. Butler is the author of such acclaimed works as Kindred and the Parable series. She received the 1999 Nebula Award for best novel and a 1995 MacArthur Fellowship. She died in February 2006. Heifetz is also the agent for graphic novelist Neil Gaiman and fantasy novelist Sherilynn Kenyon, whose Dark Hunter works are being adapted into comics by St. Martin's Press and Marvel Comics. Heifetz said that she knew and worked with Butler and is convinced Butler would have sought to turn her works into graphic novels if she were still alive. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=40872 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: File - welcome
Hi! ND, here. Happy Easter! 1. Name: ND (N. D. Hansen-Hill) 2. Location: Auckland, New Zealand 3. Nickname/ Alias: ND/Melody 4. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: all 5. Your web site: www.NDHansen-Hill.com http://www.NDHansen-Hill.com 6. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: I prefer books which begin today, in the here and now. I hate it when I don't like it when I need a map or lots of backstory to understand what's happening. -- Heroic Fantasy, SF, Horror GILDED FOLLY, ELF, TREES, STATIC http://www.NDHansen-Hill.com Fictionwise, Cerridwen Press, Five Star Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [scifinoir2] OT: Steven Barnes Weighs in on Imus on NPR]
Original Message Subject:[scifinoir2] OT: Steven Barnes Weighs in on Imus on NPR Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:05:05 - From: ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven Barnes, who I have often found to the center of my left, offers an astute commentary on the Imus situation on the NPR program All Things Considered, tonight. ~rave! __ The Black Prince. The Black Church. A State of Mind. http://www.theworldebon.com http://www.theworldebon.com Community email addresses: Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] J.R.R. Tolkien to publish new book 30 years after his death
J.R.R. Tolkien is about to publish a new book Studios Stalk Tolkien's Hurin More than 30 years after his death, J.R.R. Tolkien is about to publish a new book, The Children of Hurin, and Hollywood studios are already interested in acquiring film rights, the Reuters news service reported. The book goes on sale April 17. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher, now in his 80s, constructed The Children of Hurin from his father's manuscripts and said he tried to do so without any editorial invention. Tolkien is the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The story is set long before The Lord of the Rings in a part of Middle-earth that was drowned before Hobbits ever appeared, and tells the tragic tale of Turin and his sister, Nienor, who are cursed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. David Brawn, director at Tolkien publisher HarperCollins, told Reuters that the initial worldwide print run for the new book, featuring illustrations by Oscar winner Alan Lee, was 500,000 and added that Hollywood studios are eager to buy the film rights of the new book. We all want this first and foremost to enjoy life as a book, Brawn told Reuters. No one's saying never to a film, [but] the film rights are reserved by the estate. We want to see what reaction it gets and then let it run its course. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=41123 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Fwd: Intro: Marilyn, Orlando, FL
1. Name: *Marilyn * 2. Location: *Orlando, FL *3. Nickname/ Alias: *MAS *4. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: I have just really started to get into SciFI, so I am still really open to all books, written by all authors. 5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: N/A 6. Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: So far, I like Brandon Massey, L.A Banks, Octavia E. Butler, Gregory Townes 7. Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: N/A 8. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:N/A 9. Topics of importance to you: N/A 10. Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative Fiction: N/A 11. Your own published works, if any: N/A 12. Your web site: N/A 13. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: N/A 14. Memberships in science fiction clubs: None, this is my first. 15. Anything else you think is important: I really love to read and read all genres, by all authors regardless of race. As long as it is a well written book, that is all that matters to me. I am also involved in a local bookclub in Orlando. Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Intro: Phyllis, Orlando, FL
1. *Name:* Phyllis 2. *Location:* Orlando, FL 4. *Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres:* Fairly open, but I tend to favor those dealing with some aspect of the African Diaspora and African folklore. 5. *Favorite Speculative Fiction Books:* * My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood by Tananarive Due * Lion's Blood by Stephen Barnes * Kindred by Octavia Butler * John Crow's Devil by Marlon James * The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson * Unburnable by Marie Elena-Johns 6. *Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors:* * In addition to the ones listed above: I've enjoyed works by T.L. Gardner, L.A. Banks, Brandon Massey, Gregory Townes * Non-AA authors: Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake series), J. K. Rowlings (Harry Potter series), Neil Gaiman (loved Anansi Boys); but I'm NOT a Stephen King fan. 11. *Your own published works, if any*: None - purely a reader/consumer. 12. *Your web site:* Don't have one... 14. *Memberships in science fiction clubs:* Other than this forum, I don't have any. Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd:Writing Panel at East Coast Black Comic Convention]
Original Message From: blackmalewriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey folks, I will be giving a panel on Saturday, May 19th, 2007 at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Con in Philly about how unpublished talent can get their careers started in this business. Check out this link with a slew of other people of color in the business. http://ecbacc.com/content/?q=node/32 The workshop is set up mainly for entry-level writers, so if you might know someone who is interested in breaking into the biz as a writer, feel free to drop me a note or just have them show up for the panel. Also, it would be nice to finally meet some people from this site, so you are welcome to say hello during the show. See you soon... B http://foolscrusade.blogspot.com/ Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Inro: Mitch Mack, LA
1. NAME: Mitch Mack 2. LOCATION: L.A. 3. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and supernatural horror, especially those with Afro-themed interests. That pretty much covers them all. Subs would be time-travel, vampires, zombies, and folklore all over the world. 4. Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: A lot of S.King's stuff, and two graphic novels Watchmen and Frank Miller's Give Me Liberty (Hope this get made into a movie with the lesbian chick from Smokin' Aces) I'll get back with you guys on more. 5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, Tolkien. 6. Your own published works, if any: None yet, plenty of unpublished though roughly around three novels. :( 7. Your web site: None 8. Memberships in science fiction clubs: None 9. Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative Fiction: I have too many views to list here. 10. Anything else you think is important: Have written tons of spec fiction, including screenplays for already produced short films. Working on black sci-fi documentary/book series. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48518/*http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/;_ylc=X3oDMTE3NWsyMDd2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDY2FyLWZpbmRlcg--%20 Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: What Happen to the Great African American Author?]
Original Message Subject:What Happen to the Great African American Author? Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:25:55 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What Happen to the Great African American Author? by LaShelle Turner http://www.thesop.org/html/writers.php?writer=turner Posted October 12, 2007 Something is inherently wrong with the publishing industry http://www.thesop.org/article.php?id=7762# when former hip hop video star, Karrine Steffans, is the most interviewed and talked about African American author this year. This woman, who has made a career of telling lurid details of her intimate life with hip hop celebrities, has been on every major syndicated black radio program in the country. Her first book, /Video Vixen/, became a bestseller and her second book, /The Vixen Diaries/, is gathering even more press. She even made it to the modern day pinnacle of author success; she was on Oprah. Are we so used to salacious gossip that it has become literature? Do we want these types of books to represent the model of a bestselling black author? Karrine Steffans represents the reality for many black authors in today's publishing industry. There are few great examples of African American literary authors on bookstore shelves. Most chain bookstores are filled with books by black authors who write tales of lust, sex, drugs and more sex. Steffans's books started a new genre of books, the Hip Hop Tattle Tell. Since the debut of her first book, many have followed her recipe for book selling success. Carmen Bryan's /It's no Secret/ told her story of becoming a hip-hop baby mama. Tarsha Jones's /Meet Ms/. /Jones/ tells of her sexual conquests of rap stars, being a DJ is the side story. Even Terry McMillan's ex-husband Jonathan Plummer has made his debut as an author. His book, /Balancing Act, / is a thinly veiled fiction version of his very public divorce from McMillan. No doubt ghostwriters are writing most of these books. It is hard to learn sentence structure and cohesion between all the bed hopping and chasing celebrities. Note to all struggling black authors trying to get a publishing http://www.thesop.org/article.php?id=7762# deal: Forget sending out queries and taking creative writing workshops, just go sleep with a few black celebrities and remember to take good notes. What is most frightening about these books is who is reading them. Most are young, impressionable teen-aged African American girls. These books basically tell young black girls how to become hip-hop groupies. It is sending the message that fame and sex are interrelated. Real talent is only a minor detail. With the exception of Alice Walker or Terry McMillan http://www.thesop.org/article.php?id=7762#, most black authors do not garner the same media attention as Ms. Steffans. Very few become household names. Most live an obscure life, never making enough money to quit their day jobs or make the /New York Times/ best seller list. As an avid reader, it is a hard task trying to find African American books http://www.thesop.org/article.php?id=7762# with good substance. True, there are many good nonfiction and romance books http://www.thesop.org/article.php?id=7762# by black authors, but where are all the great books like Alice Walker's /Color Purple/ or Edward P. Jones's /The Known World. /Where are our Joyce Carol Oates and Jodi Picoult?/ /One has little other choice but to read great fiction books by authors of other races. Still, one longs to read about the black experience through the imagination of a well-written author of color. The publishing industry is sending a message to African American readers. Black Americans do read, but only at a superficial level. Substance and great writing talent does not sell; well at least in our communities. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups SouLive Susan group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouLive-Susan?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [NPHC] Americans Are Closing the Book on Reading, Study Finds]
Original Message Subject:[NPHC] Americans Are Closing the Book on Reading, Study Finds Bad news for all the authors among you http://chronicle.com/http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/11/742n.htm Monday, November 19, 2007 *Americans Are Closing the Book on Reading, Study Finds* By JENNIFER HOWARD Americans aren't just reading fewer books, but are reading less and less of everything, in any medium. That's the doleful conclusion of To Read or Not to Read, a _report_ http://www.arts.gov/pub/pubLit.php scheduled for release today by the National Endowment for the Arts. Subtitled A Question of National Consequence, the report piles on the bad news delivered by Reading at Risk, the NEA's 2004 warning about the nation's rapidly declining literacy (/_The Chronicle,_/ http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i45/45a00101.htm July 16, 2004). The story the data tell is simple, consistent, and alarming, writes Dana Gioia. the NEA's chairman, in the new report's preface. Elementary-school children have posted some gains in literacy, but there is a general decline in reading among teenage and adult Americans. Most alarming, he continues, both reading ability and the habit of regular reading have greatly declined among college graduates. Unlike the 2004 study, To Read or Not to Read examined not just literary reading but all kinds of reading, including online. And it tapped a far wider range of sources, notably statistics from the Department of Education and the Department of Labor, as well as academic and corporate studies. None of it adds up to good news for the written word. Just how reading-averse have Americans become? In 2006, the study found, 15-to-24-year-olds spent just seven minutes on voluntary reading on weekdays� 10 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays. They found time to watch two to two-and-a-half hours of television daily. Older and presumably wiser� or at least more bookish� generations didn't do much better. In 2006 people ages 35 to 44 devoted only 12 minutes a day to reading. Even the best-read group, Americans 65 and older, logged less than an hour each weekday and just over an hour on weekends. This study shows that reading is endangered at the moment in the United States, especially among younger Americans, Mr. Gioia said during a telephone news conference announcing the report. *Drop in Proficiency* When Americans do manage to read something, whether it's a book or a blog, more and more of us can't do it well. The proportion of 12th graders reading at or above the proficient level fell significantly from 1992 to 2005, from 40 percent� hardly a robust number to begin with� to 35 percent. Meanwhile, during roughly the same period, the share of college graduates who could reliably find their way through a piece of prose declined by 23 percent. If you think your master's or doctorate renders you immune to the national decline, think again: Even Americans who have studied at the graduate level saw their reading skills atrophy: 51 percent were rated proficient readers in 1992, but only 41 percent made that grade in 2003. Aside from making authors, publishers, and librarians weep, what do those dismal numbers mean for the nation? These negative trends have more than literary importance, Mr. Gioia writes in the preface. As this report makes clear, the declines have demonstrable social, economic, cultural, and civic implications. The report confirms that poor readers tend to make poor students, who become poorly paid workers. Twenty percent of American workers don't read at the level required by their jobs. In 2003, 58 percent of proficient readers earned at least $850 a week; only 13 percent of below-basic readers did. That reality hasn't been lost on employers, 38 percent of whom say high-school graduates don't measure up when it comes to reading comprehension. And those employers are shelling out large amounts� an estimated $3.1-billion among corporations, for instance� for remedial training. *A 'Distracted' Society* The study does not dwell on what's to blame, but it makes ominous references to multitasking and to the omnipresence of electronic media. You become distracted as a society, said Mr. Gioia in the news conference. I don't think, in a country that publishes 100,000 books a year, the problem is that people can't find something they want to read. Absorbing one negative statistic after another, one wonders why the NEA didn't name the report Requiem for Reading. Mr. Gioia understands the cumulative disheartening effect. It's easy to read the data as a negative story, and the trends are almost consistently down, he told reporters. But he refused to give in to despair: Is this a cultural apocalypse? No. He made a game attempt to find a silver lining, observing that the report highlights the crucial importance that reading has on individual lives and
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [CarlBrandon] Am I a sellout?]
Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Am I a sellout? Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:51:48 -0600 From: Nnedimma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nnedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something bit me this morning to write this essay titled /Am I A Sellou/t? It's about assumptions about what people should read. I was irritated when I wrote this but I think I managed to keep my emotions in check. :-) Read it at: http://nnedi.blogspot.com/ Nnedi Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[Fwd: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: [Fwd: Research on Blade]]
Thanks Chris: I am forwarding your reply to the person who sent the original inquiry Tracey Original Message Subject:[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: [Fwd: Research on Blade] Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:31:28 - From: Chris Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com (Do you want to research Goyer or Blade? You could start here And follow to IMBd and Marvel links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Goyer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Goyer --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com mailto:SciFiNoir_Lit%40yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message Subject: Research on Blade Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:15:17 -0500 From: Gerald Holmes GVHOLMES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: African American Studies and Librarianship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am a little embarrassed to ask this question but I will. I am working with a faculty member who is interested in scholarly research on the topic of Blade created by David Goyer. I would appreciate any suggestions. Gerald Holmes Gerald Holmes Reference Instructional Services Dept., University Libraries, UNCG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [CarlBrandon] Trying to get Octavia E. Butler in the SciFi Hall of Fame]
Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Trying to get Octavia E. Butler in the SciFi Hall of Fame Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:00:49 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Peeps, I just emailed the Science Fiction Hall of Fame (http://www.empsfm.org/) to try to get Octavia E. Butler in there this year. It seems to me to be a large oversight and long overdue. This was their answer. I don't know if we want to exert any pressure here. They may just do the right thing on there own, but I thought that I'd let people know how the issue currently stands. Jenn - Original Message - From: 'Therese Littleton' [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed Feb 13 14:36 Subject: Fwd: RE: Octavia E Butler Hello; Thanks for writing to us. Each year, EMP/SFM museum members nominate up to four people for the Hall of Fame. Then the list of nominees is given to a panel of 7-10 science fiction professionals--authors, filmmakers, publishers, editors, fans, and artists--to choose the year's inductees. Ms. Butler is frequently nominated for the Hall of Fame, and I am sure that she will be chosen for induction soon, given the remarkable and influential body of work she created. I hope that clears up your question. Thanks again for writing. Warm regards, Therese Littleton Director of Curatorial Affairs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:40 AM To: CEO Subject: Octavia E Butler How can I get Octavia E Butler nominated to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame? Is there a process? Should I get a petition together? Indigocafe.com ... http://www.indigocafe.com An Independent Online Community Bookstore Cafe A Bookseller's Tale ... http://www.booksellerstale.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: Launchpad Workshop accepting applications]
Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Launchpad Workshop accepting applications Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:17:35 -0500 From: KTBradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case you're all not aware, the Launchpad Workshop is open for applications again. Some info: Launch Pad is a free, NASA-funded workshop for established writers held in beautiful high-altitude Laramie, Wyoming. Launch Pad aims to provide a crash course for twelve attendees in modern astronomy science through workshops, guest lectures, and observation through the University of Wyoming's two large telescopes. This year's guest instructor is writer and amateur astronomer Jerry Oltion. Other lecturers include University of Wyoming professors Michael S. Brotherton, PhD and Jim Verley. Applications are now open for 2008's workshop, and will be accepted until March 31st, 2008. Attendees will be notified as soon as possible and no later than April 15th. I attended last year's workshop and it was really, really wonderful. It's basically the science/astronomy class many SF writers wish they had in college. Plus we got to look through some big ol' telescopes and see really amazing stuff. (I've never seen Jupiter through a telescope before. I saw 4 moons! It was amazing.) Writers of every level are encouraged to apply. They're looking mostly for writers who have a publishing track record, but they also consider neo-pros with potential. Mike is also committed to getting female and POC participants (really and for true). Check out the website and apply, even if you think you have a slim chance, because your chances might not be so slim! http://www.launchpadworkshop.org/about.html Tempest [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: turn off your lights...]
--- Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] turn off your lights... Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:53:43 -0600 From: Nnedimma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients: ; *Just want to pass this on: Will You Turn Off Your Lights for an Earth Hour?* http://sfist.com/2008/03/28/will_you_turn_o.php Today, March 29, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. millions of people will turn of their lights to make a statement about climate change. It's all a part of Earth Hour, a green event conceived by the World Wildlife Fund. Over 100 U.S. cities are participating in the do-goodery, including Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix, and, of course, San Francisco. While this won't do much insofar as saving the planet--which is doomed!--it will make a dark and profound statement about conservation and the environment. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
