Ah but they don't let everybody in Clarion. They don't have the
space. You could never get into Clarion. They might decide you
aren't Clarion material. They might be right. They might be wrong.
If you can't go to Harvard you have to settle on one of the other Ivy
League Colleges, not wait
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Odyssey sounded interesting to me, but I didn't care for its
apparent
exclusive focus on fantasy -- I write both fantasy and sci-fi, and a
bit of
slippy/interstitial.
Where did I get the idea that you wuz a Fantasy hand?
I'll take a look at it. Can you email it to me?
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi guys:
I wanted to rework a short story for the Devotion antho. The
Gleaners. It's
a favorite story but one which has gone sadly awry. I don't know
what to make
of it.
One thing I noted while reading Illium and Olympos was the violence
that fairly dripped from the pages of the books.
It got so that after awhile I was numb and desensitized--I remember
being relieved when a sympathetic character was horribly killed at the
hands of a monster.
I began to note
Last I heard, Odyssey was just as selective as Clarion. It's very much the
same as Clarion, just different in its focus (fantasy) and format (novels
and shorts).
Nora
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Sent:
Hi Chris:
Thanks so much! Will email it to the belsidus2000 address unless you
want it mailed to some other addy.
Basically, tell me what the main character's issue is...and who are
the main characters. Is it about third world poverty? Is it about
lost souls? Is it about forgivemess? Is it
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--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Odyssey sounded interesting to me, but I didn't care for its
apparent
exclusive focus on fantasy -- I
January 4, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Their Eyes Were Reading Smut
By NICK CHILES
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/opinion/04chiles.html?emc=eta1
Snellville, Ga.
LAST month I happened to go into the Borders Books store at the Stonecrest
mall in Lithonia, Ga., about a half-hour from my house here. To
ah yes, but they're reading ...
even tho i don't read the genre he's ranting about, i resent the
snobbery inherent in his lament. first writers complain we don't
read, then when we do, don't like *what* we read. what constitutes
smut? literature? is scifi/fantasy smut or lit? he not careful, he
