(1) HIGH CONCEPT. This quartet of movie posters for Solo features Han Solo, Qi’ra, Lando, and Chewie. (2) WAIT A MINUTE. Mark Hamill is going to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You mean he didn’t already … Continue reading
By Carl Slaughter: Humor author Jody Nye has way too much fun. So do the authors she hangs out with. CARL SLAUGHTER: Why do you write primarily humor? JODY LYNN NYE: I enjoy it. I love a book that makes … Continue reading
(1) FIRST TO WHAT? Matthew Kirschenbaum’s latest discovery about the early days of writers using word processors is shared in “A Screen of Her Own: Gay Courter’s The Midwife and the Literary History of Word Processing” at the Harvard University … Continue reading
(1) YOUTUBER PAYOLA? ScienceFiction.com headlined that “The FTC Has Proven That Warner Brothers Has Paid YouTubers For Positive Reviews”. In some not so awesome news, Warner Brothers was caught buying off YouTubers to give them positive reviews of their video … Continue reading
(1) RAMBO REPORT. “SFWA is Many Things, But Not a Gelatinous Cube” insists Cat Rambo, the organization’s President, in a 3,800 word update published halfway through her two-year term in office. I was looking at Twitter the other day and … Continue reading
(1) OH, PUH-LEEZE. Hoping to prove his superiority to his critics, Simon Pegg resorts to the Quantum Defense as he justifies a gay Sulu, in “A Word About Canon” The main thrust for those who aren’t keen on our LGBT Sulu, … Continue reading
(1) RADIO SFWA OFFICIAL VIDEO. Henry Lien has released the video of Radio SFWA as performed on stage at the Nebula Banquet in May. Lien, who wrote the song as a recruiting anthem for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers … Continue reading
(1) IT’S TIME TO PLAY: NAME THAT ELEMENT. You might remember the petition to honor the late Terry Pratchett by giving element 117 the name Octarine — “the color of magic” from Pratchett’s fiction. An article at Nature Chemistry reviews the competing … Continue reading
(1) A postcard from the Baen beachhead at Dragon Con. This #dragoncon photo goes out to my fiends at File770: pic.twitter.com/78ejOGHsRS — Ray Radlein (@Radlein) September 5, 2015 (2) The Stanley Hotel in Colorado inspired Stephen King’s novel The Shining, … Continue reading
Rants, disenchants, and Peter Grant, in today’s Scroll. (1) “The Taffeta Darling,” a guest brought in by the Dallas Gaming Expo to help direct games, says the whole thing was run so badly she quit and wrote “Where’s The Ball Pit? Or … Continue reading