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on May 7
Ken Schneyer
backed a project
Nightmare Magazine by John Joseph Adams
A new horror magazine edited by John Joseph Adams, editor of Lightspeed and the bestselling anthologies Wastelands and The Living Dead.
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78% funded $5,900 pledged
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on May 4
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #83"Confinement" now available on SQ Mag.
Post CommentMy dark, urban fantasy story "Confinement" is now available on SQ Mag.
It's a bit more graphic and disturbing than what I usually do. Not for kids.
After reading, you might want to look at this painting:
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on February 20
Ken Schneyer
backed a project
An Author's Grimoire: a manual for fantasy writers by Elaine Isaak
A how-to book for fantasy writers: a nitty gritty guide to writing your novel, and starting your career as an author.
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on December 15
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #82Other stories to read online.
Post CommentI should also mention that you can now find three more of my stories online:
- "Keeping Tabs" is in the Fourth Quarter 2011 issue of Abyss & Apex (note: this one will be available for free only for a limited time; afterwards you'll have to be a subscriber to read it).
- "Neural Net", a hypertext story, is in volume 10, number 4 of Ideomancer.
- "Working Holiday" (a crime story, of all things) is in the maiden issue of Comets & Criminals.
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on December 15
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #81Pedestal Magazine Buys "The Mannequin's Itch"
Post CommentThis is a big day for this Kickstarter project. The Pedestal, a professional-level online magazine that does occasional SFF issues, has bought "The Mannequin's Itch", which was the last of the stories I wrote for this project. Curious that the last story written should be the first story published!
The story will appear in the upcoming issue (Issue #67), which is scheduled to go live on December 21. I've also been asked to do a voice recording of the story to appear on the site, for which I bought myself a new microphone. Issue #67 is edited by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon, two prominent SFF writers who are brought in by Editor-in-Chief John Amen for the speculative fiction issues. It is a wonderful place for my story to be.
Thrillingly, two of my Kickstarter backers -- the wonderful writers Liz Argall and Beth Cato -- have already been published in The Pedestal, so this really feels like a family affair. In fact, I know I was thinking about Liz's style when I did the first draft of this story.
PDFs will be forthcoming to those with Top Secret Clearance and above. Signed hardcopies may be harder to arrange, since I don't think The Pedestal produces hardcopies. But maybe I can come up with something...
Cheers,
Ken
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on July 10, 2011
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #80Daily Science Fiction buys "The Age of Three Stars"
Post CommentI'm happy to report that I've sold "The Age of Three Stars" to Daily Science Fiction.
I wrote the first draft of this story in December of 2009 while sitting in a coffee shop in East Greenwich, RI, waiting for my daughter to complete a master class in modern dance. It was nearly a year before I had a draft I was willing to send out to markets. It sold after only six months, which is very quick for me. It may actually appear online before the two-year anniversary of the first draft, which is also pretty fast.
Patience and persistence are everything in this business.
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on July 3, 2011
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #79My Schedule for Readercon 22
Post CommentHere is my schedule for Readercon 22, July 14-17, Burlington, MA.
Friday July 15
11:00 AM (Rhode Island Room)
What Writing Workshops Do and Don't Offer
Leah Bobet, Michael J. DeLuca, Eileen Gunn, Barry B. Longyear, Geoff Ryman, Kenneth Schneyer (leader)
Clarion, Clarion West, Clarion South, and Odyssey all follow the so-called "Milford Method" of roundtable critique. Many graduates of these programs praise the benefits of this method, but it may not be right for everyone. This panel will discuss not only the things the Milford Method does teach, but the things it really cannot teach, and the sorts of personalities who are likely (or unlikely) to benefit from it.
6:00 PM (Salon F)
The Dissonant Power of Alternative Voicing
Glenn Grant, Paul Levinson, Kate Nepveu, Kenneth Schneyer (leader), Howard Waldrop.
At Readercon 21, there was a panel discussion on the use of documentary text in fiction to lend "authority" to the voice. It can be argued, however, that alternative voicing strategies, particularly the use of documents, framing narratives, etc., are powerful precisely because they are not authoritative. Readers know that they are reading an incomplete version of the document, and consequently are led to imagine what is not being said. What lurks in the interstices between texts? What is this particular document-writer failing to say, or deliberately omitting? This panel will explore the use of dissonance occasioned by indirect voicing to make the reader a fuller, more active participant in the process of creating the fiction.
Saturday, July 16
11:00 AM (New Hampshire Room)
Clarion Class of 2009 group reading.
Heather Albano, Grady Hendrix, Matt London, Tanner Jupin, Kenneth Schneyer (organizer).
Members of the Clarion Class of 2009 read selections from their work.
Sunday July 17
10:00 AM (Maine Room)
Protecting Literary Legacies.
David G. Hartwell, Jeff Hecht, Barry N. Malzberg, B. Diane Martin (leader), Kenneth Schneyer.
Intellectual property is a nebulous idea, and the more so as duplication technology advances and digital rights change the definitions of terms like "in print." How can you protect your rights not only for yourself but for your descendants? Our panelists explain the ins and outs of wills, literary executors, copyright statutes, and everything you need to know to make sure your works live on after you're gone.
11:00 AM (Salon F)
Borders (if Any) Between Fan Fiction and "Original Fiction".
Gwynne Garfinkle, Eileen Gunn, Kate Nepveu, Madeleine Robins, Kenneth Schneyer (leader).
Maguire's Wicked books. Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Chabon's The Final Solution. Kessel's "Pride and Prometheus." Resnick's "The Bride of Frankenstein." Reed's "A Woman's Best Friend." Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast. All of these stories employ characters, settings, and pre-existing plots from other authors, yet these authors (with the possible exception of Chabon) would probably deny that what they have written is "fan fiction." Lee Goldberg has spent thousands of words explaining why his dozens of authorized television tie-in novels are not "fan fiction." Is there an actual, definable difference between fan fiction and original fiction, or this just another instance, like Margaret Atwood's, of authors rejecting a label or genre in order to remain "respectable" or "marketable?"
12:00 PM (New Hampshire Room)
Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop group reading.
F. Brett Cox, Elaine Isaak, Alexander Jablokov, Steven Popkes (organizer), Kenneth Schneyer.
Members of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop read selections from their work.
2:00 PM (Vermont Room)
Reading by Kenneth Schneyer.
....from a work not yet selected.
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on June 13, 2011
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #78"The Tortoise Parliament" now available
Post CommentDigital Science Fiction's debut anthology First Contact is now available in both Kindle and other e-book formats. A print version is expected by the end of the month.
It contains my story "The Tortoise Parliament" and several other nifty pieces I'm reading now.
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on April 24, 2011
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #77Digital Science Fiction buys "The Tortoise Parliament"
Post CommentHi backers,
I haven't forgotten you. Nothing writerly has happened since December, because I've been so focused on the Science Fiction course I'm teaching this term. I expect to start working on revisions of my six Kickstarter stories when classes get out in May.
Meanwhile, I just heard that Digital Science Fiction, a new Canadian online anthology, is going to buy my story "The Tortoise Parliament." This is good news!
And seriously, I'll be sending updates as promised when I get around to revising this summer.
Best wishes,
Ken
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on January 1, 2011
Ken Schneyer
Posted project update #76My Fiction Report for 2010
Post CommentHere's a link to my Live Journal entry in which I detail my writing, revising, submissions and sales for last year.
Ken Schneyer
Barrington, RI
Ken Schneyer's fiction has appeared, or soon will appear, in Analog, Clockwork Phoenix 3, GUD Magazine, Odyssey, Nature Physics, and the Newport Review, among others. He is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop and a member of the Science F... view more
