I have been very pleased by the response to my post yesterday entitled “Where Have All the Good Blogs Gone?“, which tried to offer some optimism after the recently announced closures of two well-known genre sites, SF Signal and My Bookish Ways. Pleased not just because this has been the most popular post on my site for… Continue reading Something Old, Something New
Where Have All the Good Blogs Gone?
Two very well-known and much-loved genre sites have announced their closure over the last few days. First SF Signal, long-running multi-contributor site established by John DeNardo and JP Frantz. Then My Bookish Ways, the blog of SF Signal associate editor Kristin Centorcelli. These closures have prompted renewed discussion about various issues that have been… Continue reading Where Have All the Good Blogs Gone?
Interview with Kristin Centorcelli (My Bookish Ways, SF Signal)
Originally posted on S.C. Flynn:
This morning I’m going to be chatting with Kristin Centorcelli, Editor in Chief at My Bookish Ways, Associate Editor at SF Signal, and reviewer at Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. SCy-Fy: You write for two very busy genre blogs, Kristin. How do you organise your time? KC: Coffee first,…
Defying Doomsday
May 30 sees the publication of Defying Doomsday, a very interesting anthology edited by Holly Kench and Tsana Dolichva and published by Twelfth Planet Press. Here is the blurb: Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet. A woman faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family. New friends… Continue reading Defying Doomsday
Blowing a Shorter Trumpet
Thanks to everyone who responded to or shared my recent announcement about my upcoming Australian post-apocalyptic fantasy novel CHILDREN OF THE DIFFERENT (go here to see the announcement.) The Hive is buzzing nicely! The positive reaction has been very pleasing. Thanks especially to everyone who offered guest post space or expressed an interest in receiving… Continue reading Blowing a Shorter Trumpet
Blowing my Own Trumpet
Hello everybody! I am publishing a Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy novel later this year entitled CHILDREN OF THE DIFFERENT. The setting is Western Australia (where I am from); I hope the novel is interesting to you. Here is the blurb: Nineteen years ago, a brain disease known as the Great Madness killed most of the world’s population.… Continue reading Blowing my Own Trumpet
Hugo Awards 2016
I am very pleased to say that this blog has just been included on the Hugo Awards longlist recommendations on the nerds of a feather site. In the middle of some mighty genre sites and people appear these very generous words: “SCy-Fy (Stuart Flynn, ed.) – massive number of interviews with genre bloggers at a time of great change… Continue reading Hugo Awards 2016
2015 Reading on SCy-Fy
I read 85 books in 2015, fairly evenly divided between science fiction and fantasy. The photo shows an average mail day. Science fiction was slightly ahead this year in part because of my push to read all of the first 24 books in the Gollancz SF Masterworks series; I blogged about that here. My reading… Continue reading 2015 Reading on SCy-Fy
SFF Interview Index
The 200th post on this blog is an early piece of new year’s resolution-satisfaction. I promised myself that in 2016 I would finally compile and publish a complete index of my series of interviews with SFF bloggers and other genre people that concluded six months ago. At last, links to all 102 of them are set out… Continue reading SFF Interview Index
SCy-Fy: 2015 in review
Happy New Year, everyone! 2015 was the first full year of this blog. The raw stats say 120 posts and 21,000 hits: Click here to see the complete report. This was a year of two very different halves, though. Most of those posts and hits came in the first half, when I was still living in… Continue reading SCy-Fy: 2015 in review
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