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Genre Defined: Speculative Fiction

by Liana Posted on September 15, 2013
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Genre Defined

Speculative fiction, otherwise known as spec fic and often used interchangeably with SFF, is my genre. So a decent start on a definition scavenged from my random reading of writing/publishing industry material:

Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.

This is cited as coming from Wikipedia, but I found it on an interesting website called Science Fiction and Other ODDyssies.

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Newsy Bits...

by Liana Posted on August 11, 2013

As promised, I will tell you what happened to my poetry submission: It was rejected. Ah, well. :shrugs: I'm starting to get okay with that. I'm really wanting to publish my own collections, and well... That means keeping a hold of my own work.

I am aware of the visibility that short fiction and poetry credits bring, however, as I've found most of my own favorites that way; but we shall have to see what happens, and I'll keep working.

Speaking of which, updates on the writing front: I'm a writer of many distractions. My stories arrive five at a time—often before the last batch is completed—and I'm continually interrupted by poems. Nevertheless, I have ben actively writing on "Everything is Blood" for lithiumlaughter, which has been like pulling teeth eking out a few words here and there; the Kingdoms and Thorn collection, which will probably be simply called Kingdoms & Thorn; and various snippets as they come; besides poetry in the evenings.

There are several completed 365 Challenge pieces that I haven't taken the time to post yet:

  • "Godling Wild" — Vardin ficlet
  • "A Pairing of Convenience" — X-Men Movieverse fanfic
  • "When the Coffee Doesn't Work, Drink More Tea" — poem
  • "Snow Day" — Kingdoms & Thorn short fiction
  • "Five Reasons I Love You" — Kingdoms & Thorn poem (yes, the infamous one I almost lost; 86 lines at that)
  • "Acceptable Cost" — Kingdoms & Thorn short fiction

It seems that blogging and hectic writing do not always get along. Sorry?

What have you been writing lately?

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Who Me? Secret Project?

by Liana Posted on July 28, 2013

Um... Well. Yeah.

There was this small matter of having accumulated a small mountain of small fictions presented in the Kingdoms and Thorn storyworld and a certain someone ( :coughs: thecatisacritic :coughs: ) who kept pestering me for a certain book and lo and behold, secret project underway.

And today, I got a cover I kinda sorta like though I didn't find even one free stock photo that really made me think of Ashen or the Database. Ah, well. We'll see.

Glass Angel

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Book Announcement: Gone Hunting and other short stories of Vardin

by Liana Posted on April 30, 2013

Gone Hunting and other short stories of Vardin

Gone Hunting

and other short stories of Vardin

Print | Kindle | Nook | PDF

John Henry saw a healer touch a dying child and the little girl walk away. Rhiannon de Alyón is a Vardin hunter with orders to ensure his silence. She failed to reckon the price she would have to pay to succeed.

A hunt gone wrong, a child’s uncontrollable power manifested, and a horror about to be unleashed. A young hunter, Pesheneh, must join her father and his team to rescue the child from capture and her nation’s secrets from being revealed.

Born in a land hidden and separated from the rest of Europe by the Barrier, Casal is caught between two sides of her heritage. Will she bind herself to the land as a Guardian—or do the dangerous work of the Hunters who cross the Barrier?

Three stories of hunters with fantastic powers and the Barrier between two worlds.

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So about January...

by Liana Posted on February 3, 2013

I did more work on the website and more writing than I could have expected. I can't rightly call it just blog anymore. The menu holds just a handful of links, but they are portals into a newly vast area of the site: Bibliography, Fandom (the baby of the bunch), and Challenges.

So on those challenges. The only one I'm pretty on target with is the 365 Challenge, but I'm getting back on the pony with reading and also with the 100 Things challenge, where I write 100 blog  posts about creativity. I also intend to start slowly moving my fanworks over here and to add a Heinlein Challenge page. I started and failed the Heinlein Challenge last year, but I'd like to get at least 52 items out on submission this year. It is time to grow the scribbler's income and writing, publishing, submitting is the only sure way to do that.

In January 2013, I wrote and published 1 review for the 52 Read Challenge.

In January 2013, I wrote and posted 11 stories, 2 fanfics, 1 metafic, and 6 poems for a total of 25/365 items by the 365 Challenge count. Total word count: 8312. Total line count: 203.

This does not include any WIP or non-challenge works.

How was your January?

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Making Plans of Scribbles and Scrolls...

by Liana Posted on December 30, 2012

Thoughts here, please. I'm working away at setting up project and production goals for the year and I feel utterly torn. Do you have rathers?

  1. I thought about setting up a subscription website with everything I have available—fiction, poetry, etc.—normally for sale available to subscribers. Say $5/mo.
  2. I also thought about doing an email subscription fiction thing, like Bruce Holland does here.
  3. I thought about hosting a quarterly fishbowl, where readers can prompt stories/poetry and read their own while I save the rest for submission or they can sponsor those stories for free publication.
  4. I thought about doing a print books subscription thing like Dean Wesley Smith does here.
  5. I thought about doing a web serial updating upon donations (don't think I have the audience for that).

Do any of these appeal to you? Would you be interested in any of these?

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An Update on the Scribblings of the Scribbler

by Liana Posted on October 25, 2012

As some of you know, I'm quite busy trying to keep roof over head, redo a website, and provide necessary support for the movie project I've been a part of for... a long time. You probably don't know what I've been up to or why it's taken me so long.

En brief, am:

  1. proofreading a novella for a client
  2. drafting three stories for the last Ficlet o'Clock—Room for Magic, Breath from a Stone, and (fanfic) Girls that Go Bump in the Mind
  3. submittingsomething once weekly via the Heinlein challenge
  4. creating huge swaths of new functionality for a client's website
  5. creating huge swaths of new functionality for this website
  6. in the process of the above, identifying a plethora of bugs for the Pods CMS team
  7. finishing a huge special cleaning job and then heading into my regular time-consuming cleaning job
  8. applying for work in Civil Services :prays... hard:
  9. trying to order the muse to pipe down on City of Glass and Storm (It's a tad ambitious to try to finish three shorts and two novellas simultaneously. Just saying.)
  10. reading everyone else's blogs and posted fiction in the smatterings of moments I dare to ambitiously call "free time"

What's on your docket?

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Posting Schedule Change-Up for City of Glass

by Liana Posted on August 27, 2012
This entry is part 12 of 13 in the series City of Glass

Due to a fear on my part of moving too slowly, I bumped up my initial City of Glass posting schedule to twice weekly. Due to the reality of my first thought being the better one, I'm bumping it back down to once weekly. The novel will now update on Thursdays only.

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