After the outgoing vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America posted an entry at sfwa, slamming professional authors who post their works online (he later toned down his wording), author Jo Walton wrote a post encouraging authors to "give away professional quality work online" on April 23 "to celebrate our technopeasanthood ( Read more... )

I've decided that my duskpeterson journal (which I've hitherto been using only as a place from which to post) has a use after all. I can use it for the little day-to-day progress reports that I don't want to post at my main journal, because some people, I'm sure, are reading this journal mainly for the updates notices ( Read more... )

The Slash Skinny is a news and market report on four genres of professionally published literature and art featuring same-sex attraction: original slash, femslash, yaoi, and yuri. The April 2007 issue is available through the link in this sentence for 99¢ as an HMTL
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Top news this month: A slash writer leads a revolt ( Read more... )

The highlights:

-A new site linking to older mainstream fantasy stories.
-A new issue of True Tales e-zine.
-Recommendations of online male homoerotic fiction.
-mdbl's Private Parlor moves to duskpeterson.com.
-A vid community blog.
-A new market report for male/male and female/female fiction.
-A subdirectory on original fiction in the fan fiction ( Read more... )

I've received comments from a couple of readers that they'd like to see the navigation improved at duskpeterson.com. If any of you have been having problems navigating around the domain, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know where your difficulties lie, as well as offer any suggestions you might have on how to improve the navigation.

Someone asked us for this sort of list on another forum, and I figured I'd share my list here as well. This only lists book-length works because I haven't been keeping track of my reads till recently, so I've forgotten most of the short works I read this year.

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For those of you who are interested, the annual Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll has opened. The poll is sponsored by the Critters Writers' Workshop, and it "honors print & electronic publications published during 2006." Stop by and nominate your favorite novels, short stories, poems, artwork, editors, publishers, magazines/e-zines, forums, ( Read more... )

Four gay, bisexual, and transgender works from my online magazine True Tales: An Erotic E-zine of Masculinity and Power were finalists for this year's Rauxa Prize for Erotic Writing, so I'm listing them all in this post. They're all at a site for adults only, though the ratings vary. (Press release describing how the works came to be written and ( Read more... )

A Happy Solstice to you all. (Except for those you in the Eastern Hemisphere. You'll have to wait till tomorrow.) I hope your holiday season is bright and full of good reading.

For those of you who are members of this community, I'll have a holiday gift in a few days.

Standard spoiler warnings apply.

And there's a touch of angst in this chapter, a hint of "what might have been."

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