Tor UK Launches Newsletter
Tor UK, publishers of Neal Asher, Mark Charan Newton, Alan Campbell and many others has launched an email newsletter to keep fans up to date with the latest developments. You can sign up here.
Author: Cheryl Morgan
Cheryl Morgan is the editor of Salon Futura and owner of its publisher, Wizard's Tower Press. She is also non-fiction editor for Clarkesworld Magazine. Cheryl has won three Hugo Awards: Best Fanzine in 2004 for Emerald City, Best Fan Writer in 2009 and Best Semiprozine for Clarkesworld in 2010. She is a director of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions and of Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF & F Translation. She lives near Bath in the UK.
Angry Robots Invade North America
Angry Robot, the new company that publishes, amongst other people, our friends Colin Harvey and Lauren Beukes, has launched in the USA and Canada. Much robotic excitement can be found over at their website.
Best American Fantasy Cancelled
From Jeff VanderMeer comes the sad news that the ground-breaking Best American Fantasy anthology series has been canceled. Larry Nolen, who had taken over as series editor, has posted the list of stories he and guest editor, Minister Faust, would have been considering for inclusion in the fourth volume of the series. Check out the list at Larry’s blog, the stories are well worth a look.
Colleen Lindsay Joins Penguin
Colleen Lindsay has left her position as an agent with FinePrint Literary Management and is taking up a job doing online PR for Penguin. Lindsay was previously in PR with Random House before taking up agenting. We wish her all the best in her new job.
Scalzi and Egan Win Seiuns
John Scalzi’s novel, The Last Colony [Purchase], and Greg Egan’s story, “Dark Integers”, have won the translated fiction categories in this year’s Seiun Awards in Japan. For the full results see SF Awards Watch.