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Dragon Changes
Apparently, it is Dragon week at Felapton Towers. We’ve had a house of dragons, a prince of dragons and now an award of Dragons. File 770 reports that changes are afoot at the Dragon Awards: “The Dragon Award administrators have announced they will reduce the number of award categories from last year’s 15 to 11…
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More blogging advice: controversy
A blog, website, newsletter or social media account doesn’t need controversy to be successful. However, Here’s the top 10 posts of all time for this blog: Title Link Debarkle https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/debarkle/ The True History of R2D2 – Sith Lord https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/the-true-history-of-r2d2-sith-lord/ The Puppy Kerfuffle Timeline https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/the-puppy-kerfuffle-timeline/ The Nebulas & 20booksto50, not-a-nudge-nudge-slate https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/the-nebulas-20booksto50-not-a-nudge-nudge-slate/ Meanwhile, Former Sad Pups Keep…
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Debarkle Chapter 68: History Rhymes — Nebulas 2019
One of the contradictory themes of the 2015 Sad Puppy campaigns was its dual claims of tradition and change. Brad Torgersen had sought a traditional publishing path within science fiction, seeking a mentor from an influential editor (Mike Resnick) and publication in one of the longest-running science fiction magazines, Analog. However, the Sad Puppy campaign…
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Tying up old plot lines
There is a lot of noise amid the right-SF social media sphere currently. It’s very free form and the broader cause is that in mainstream SF&F communities there has been the recent cases of some very prominent and well connected men being held accountable for the way they have been treating other people (earlier coverage).…
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Blogiversary: Greatest Hits
Five years of all this nonsense but what nonsense were people reading and when? I’m down here in the archive stacks of Felapton Towers and blowing the dust off the weird old filing cabinets to find out. These posts are just the numbers-game hits rather than special favourites and often other factors drove the traffic…
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April Brings the First Slate of the Year
Buds are budding and spring is springing, at least in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. The Dragon Award website may still be in its wintery slumber but we have our first proper slate for it.* Russell Newquist’s Silver Empire publishing has been filling the gap left in right-wing SFF publishing left by Castalia…
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Yet another alt-SFWA
We’ve covered attempts at creating alternatives to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America before but the face behind the latest attempt has a better track record of getting things done. Craig Martelle (who you may recall from the LMBPN/20Books kerfufle) has announced a new organisation called The Independent Alliance of Science Fiction &…
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Looking back at a kerfuffle
Back in July the Galaxy’s Edge* magazine, Robert J Sawyer’s regular column discussed some issues around the SFWA. The column was also covered in this Pixel Scroll at File 770. I didn’t engage a great deal with Sawyer’s comments because I’m not a part of the SFWA and I’m unlikely to ever be and I’ve…
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Authors behaving badly: Episode# 1,234,543 Richard Fox
I won’t add much commentary but if you haven’t already read Mike Glyer’s piece on Richard Fox’s poor behaviour: http://file770.com/perjury-not-piracy-is-the-problem/ For earlier context see: https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/next-few-days-are-nebula-shorts-days/ https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/nebula-shorts-going-dark-by-richard-fox/ https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/its-worth-talking-about-lmbpn-publishing-when-talking-about-the-nebula-nominees/ I know that Mike Glyer takes book piracy seriously and I know that I do. Fake DMCA notices, as well as being an increase in hostile tactics deployed…
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Dragon Award Update
A general round-up of who is saying what and where. The Red Panda Fraction have started an award suggestion spreadsheet http://bit.ly/DragonAwards2019Eligible using the same model as the Lady Business Hugo one. Very useful even if you aren’t participating in the Dragon Awards. Previous years I tried to systematically collect Dragon Award requests for nominations. I…
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