2009 Eisner Award Winners
The 2009 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were given out at the just-concluded San Diego Comic-Con. The awards were voted by comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers, from a jury-created...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman to narrate Peter and the Wolf in free NYC concert
The World Financial Center in lower Manhattan (New York City) is presenting a free performance of the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra on 16 January 2010, featuring special guest Neil Gaiman narrating...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer engaged
Author Neil Gaiman and musician Amanda Palmer have announced, quite succinctly, that they are engaged to be married.
View ArticleBooks Received: January 2010
This page is updated as books are received throughout the month. Darkling Fields of Arvon by James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc(Legacy of the Stone Harp: Book Two), Baen, $14.99, 448pp, tp,...
View ArticleHM’s Best American anthologies’ guest editors for 2010
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Houghton Mifflin has announced the line-up of “guest editors” for this year’s crop of “Best American” anthologies. There are some interesting names on the list:...
View ArticlePS Publishing publishing Ray Bradbury’s The Machineries of Joy
PS Publishing is releasing another Ray Bradbury collection, this one with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. Publisher Peter Crowther tells us “hot on the heels of our edition of Ray’s Long After Midnight...
View Article2010 British Fantasy Award Winners
The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of their 2010 British Fantasy Awards this weekend at this year’s British Fantasy Convention, FantasyCon 2010, which was held in Nottingham, UK. As...
View ArticleTrue Review #76 now available
The December 2010 issue of Andrew Andrews’s True Review (Number 76) is now available on the web. The quarterly review ‘zine kicks off with an introduction (“The Power of the Short”) and an editorial...
View Article2011 Audie Awards nominees
The Audio Publishers Association has announced the nominees for their 16th annual Audies awards, “devoted entirely to honoring spoken word entertainment.” The winners will be announced 24 May 2010 at...
View ArticleFantastic Stories of the Imagination paying 10 cents a word
Editor Warren Lapine has just announced that he is reading for Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, which he projects to be a yearly anthology. Lapine writes “I’m looking for stories that cover the...
View ArticleChiZine Publications is Relaunching ChiZine Magazine
ChiZine Publications is re-launching their online speculative fiction ‘zine, The Chiaroscuro/ChiZine.com, “as well as creating the ChiHub, an online navigation page from which all things ChiZine will...
View Article2010 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees
The finalists for the fourth annual Shirley Jackson Awards—for writers of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic—have been announced. The winners of the juried awards will be announced...
View ArticleMichael Bocaccino sells Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling to Harper...
Michael Boccacino sold Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling to editor Maya Ziv at Harper Perennial via agent Sandy Lu of the L. Perkins Agency. The book is currently expected to appear in July...
View ArticleFourth Annual Shirley Jackson Award Winners
The winners of the fourth annual Shirley Jackson Awards—honoring the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic—were handed out at this weekend’s Readercon. We detailed the...
View Article2012 Audie Awards nominees
The Audio Publishers Association has announced the nominees for their 17th annual Audies awards, “devoted entirely to honoring spoken word entertainment.” The winners will be announced 5 June 2012. The...
View ArticleHarperCollins to publish Ray Bradbury tribute book
Wasting no time following the news of Ray Bradbury’s death, Publishers Weekly is reporting that HarperCollins will publish a Bradbury tribute book in July. “Called Shadow Show, the book will be a...
View ArticleAppearances: July-September 2012
Here are the appearances we know about for the second three months of 2012. We’ll add in new ones as we hear of them. For future events, see other files in our Readings & Signings section. Authors,...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman sells five new books to HarperCollins
Publishers Weekly is reporting that Neil Gaiman has signed a five-book deal with HarperCollins, in a deal negotiated by agent Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House, HC Children’s Editor-in-Chief Kate...
View ArticleMost Popular and Updated Articles: 8-14 July 2012
The most-viewed SFScope articles during the past week (8-14 July 2012) were: 1. Fred Lerner donates science fiction collection to Columbia University (People/Activities, 10 July 2012) 2. Bleach‘s new...
View ArticleMcFarland publishes Aaron Drucker & Tara Prescott’s Feminism in the Worlds of...
Editors Aaron Drucker & Tara Prescott announce the publication of Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry, and Prose from McFarland Press. The collection of new essays...
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