LTUE!!

42 What? That's not enough? Fine. In 2010, I was just getting started hooking myself into the writing community, and I stumbled across the Sci-Fi / Fantasy symposium Life, the Universe, and Everything. Imagine my shock when I realized that this three-day…

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Christmas Short Stories

Christmas isn't just ubiquitous in stores this time of year. Every sitcom has to have a special Christmas episode. Authors with established contemporary series are often compelled to write a Christmas novella or short story, usually bringing together characters who have never…

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Why Short Stories?

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…

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What Works Blogfest

To get everyone excited for the LTUE Contest 2014--which will be accepting submissions soon and publishing the winners for the first time this year in the debut edition of Sibyl's Scriptorium [deep gasping breath]--we're exploring the SFF short stories, poems, and illustrations…

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