Happy Halloween everyone! It is that fun time of year when spooks and goblins and whatever other costume a soul devises comes out to play. It is a time when you can practice your role-playing skills openly without getting weird looks from…
The judges for this contest are amazing, brilliant, and filled with talent! It's been a blast learning all about them and I'm sure you'll feel the same way when you're finished with this blog! Eric James Stone A Nebula Award winner,…
The first poem I wrote was when I was in kindergarten and my class wrote a “Senses Poem”. Basically we wrote something that we could see, smell, hear, taste, and feel on the indicated lines of the worksheet. It was incredibly simple,…
Okay, confession time: I want to be a novelist. Preferably a NYT Bestseller. I actually find it hard to write short things--I'm a lawyer, dang it: we think "brief" is its own oxymoron--and I dream of going on book tours where I'll…
We are excited to introduce the Aether Illustration Contest this year. LTUE has included science fiction and fantasy art in various forms (panels, presentations, and even art shows at times!) for as long as I can remember. We were long overdue having…
There is an adage among writers that goes, “Write what you know.” This statement is interpreted to mean that an author's work will make a stronger connection with people when the author writes things that are familiar to them. Of course, only…