Here’s a thought for our writers:
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your humble webmaster was looking over site statistics and noticed we are now linked from Wikipedia’s entry on the Cthulhu mythos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu) entry.
The article has a section for online mythos short stories and links to Larry Santoro’s story, “God Screamed and Screamed, then I Ate Him,” from Cthulhu and the Coeds, and posted right here on our site. This is great exposure for us, coming from a highly-regarded site in the esteem of the search engines, and linking on a very popular search term.
The Hugo Awards for best science fiction works in 2005 were presented Saturday, August 26, 2006 at the 64th World Science Fiction Convention, LACon 4, in Anaheim, CA.
They are as follows below.
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Writer’s Digest has announced a poetry award contest. Prizes offered are the following:
For more information, see:
http://fwpubs.sparklist.com/t/2002940/5506773/947/0/
Porchlight Music Theatre is seeking comic songs and sketches on the theme of “Halloween.” A workshop will be presented Monday October 30, 2006 with the possibility of performing the new musical as part of the 2007-2008 season. Songwriters and sketch writers should submit materials no later than September 30, 2006. Please send all materials to Porchlight Music Theatre, Attn: Matthew Gunnels, 2814 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL 60657. Submissions and inquiries may also be sent to porchlighttheatre@yahoo.com with HALLOWEEN in the subject line.
Today we switched over to a new site design based on the flexible and popular WordPress web publishing system. It will allow us to maintain the site and publish new pieces with much more ease and flexibility. It also handles categorization much better than our previous site did, and it should now be much easier to navigate our site and browse what interests you.
Migrating to a web publishing system also involved a change in the look and feel of the site. We’re now going after a clean, minimal style. We’re a site done by writers and readers for writers and readers. Words and content matter the most to us, and the new site shows that clearly.
WordPress also ushers in more interactivity for you, our readers. You can create a Twilight Tales account and leave comments to articles and stories.
It’s an exciting time for our web enterprise, with more changes to come in the next few months. Stay tuned!
by David P. Munger
John O’Neill is the publisher and editor of Black Gate Magazine, a fine quarterly anthology magazine focusing on adventure fantasy. He’s a good friend of Twilight Tales, too. He has participated in a Twilight Tales editor’s panel on publishing, and has been a judge for several of our “Authors in the Hot Seat” critique shows. John has always approached these things with a likeable frankness, and combines helpful honesty with encouragement and positivity. He’s an emminently approachable professional with a keen vision for his publication and for genre work in general.
We had a chance to toss the ball back and forth over e-mail and chat about Black Gate, ever-nebulous genre boundaries, and the future of short fiction in publishing.
