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New entry Nov 01
Critter Notices
P&E Seeks New Caretaker
Unfortunately, much of the data on the P&E site has become stale and outdated, and needs a new caretaker with the time required to update the site. The listings are being removed until they can be updated by a new caretaker.
Note that the P&E/Critters Annual Readers Poll will run as usual in January.
If you are interested in taking the reins of P&E, and possess what's needed — at least 20hrs/week to volunteer, excellent investigative skills, in-depth knowledge of the publishing industry, ability to detect scams from not-scams, thick skin, good web site skills, good writing ability — please get in touch. Thanks for your interest!
Interviewed!
I'm being interviewed live on public radio for Critters 20th birthday. For those who want to listen, it's on the 10am (Mountain time) show on Thursday, 11/19/16, on Colorado Public Radio - www.cpr.org has streaming on the site or it's 90.1 FM in the Denver area. [Interview is done, you can listen on the site]
Free Web Sites
Free web sites for authors (and others) are available at www.nyx.net.
ReAnimus Acquires Advent!
ReAnimus Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of the legendary Advent Publishers! Advent is now a subsidiary of ReAnimus Press, and we will continue to publish Advent's titles under the Advent name. Advent was founded in 1956 by Earl Kemp and others, and has published the likes of James Blish, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and many others. Advent's high quality titles have won and been finalists for several Hugo Awards, such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Heinlein's Children. Watch this space for ebook and print editions of all of Advent's current titles!
Network speeding up
I'm switching the connection over to a new, shiny 10X faster network because of all the load. There might be bits of downtime as your boxes learn new addresses and things. Should be brief. Let me know of any prolonged outages you see.
Preditors & Editors Changeover
With the very sad passing of Dave Kuzminski, who ran P&E, I've taken over the P&E duties. Lots of what I hope are improvements; check it out at pred-ed.com.
Critters Server is Dying has been Replaced
See important details here in my blog. Let me know if you find anything that isn't working right. (Manuscripts are now available for this week, FYI.)
Book Recommendation
THE SIGIL TRILOGY:
The universe is dying from within...
"Great stuff... Really enjoyed it." — SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock
Announcing ReAnimus Press
If you need help making ebooks from manuscripts or print copies—or finding great stuff to read—look no further! An ebook publisher started by your very own Critter Captain. (And with a 12% Affiliate program.) [More]
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News
Critters is 21!
Yes, 21 years ago Critters was born. Wow! Thanks so much to all of you, who've made it such a resounding success!
Books from Critters!
Check out Books by Critters for books by your fellow Critterfolk, as well as my list of recommended books for writers.
How to Write SF
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells by Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor. (This is one of the books your ol' Critter Captain learned from himself, and I highly recommend it.)
(Also via Amazon)
New Book from a Critter Member
**NOW IN
PRINT EDITION
TOO!** Awesome new book,
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SPECULATIVE FICTION OPENINGS,
from a Critter member whose unearthed a shard of The Secret
to becoming a pro writer. Really good piece of work.
"...if you're at all concerned about story openings, you'd be nuts not to read what Qualkinbush has to say." —Wil McCarthy, author of BLOOM and THE COLLAPSIUM
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The Critters Queue
Submission files themselves are here.
Queue of manuscripts out or to be sent (dates are estimated,
depending on number of mss. sent out, which depends on number of
members; probabalistically, the end of the queue is usually about
a month away):
Title Author
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Week of 13-Sep-2017 (Crits due 20-Sep-2017):
SF Bring the Revolution Steve Donnelly -#27089
SF Rise of the Cryptbringer Chapter 53-55 Keir Puplett -#27090
SF Hidden : A Dystopian Science Fiction Adventure Troy McLaughlan -#27091
F Paint the Void Emily Randall -#27092
SF Cloud Racer Carleton Chinner -#27093
SF Rebirth_V2_ Guy McDonnell -#27094
F Biscuits and a Pot of Tea Emma Jin -#27095
H The Horror of Bologorsk Sandor Kovacs -#27096
SF Impractical, Breakable Jasmine Kelley -#27097
SF Paradise, New Texas Mark Suplinskas -#27098
SF The End Of Forever Colin Cortie -#27099
SF Faster Than Light Can Carry You Renan Bernardo -#27100
SF The Analog Thief Andrew Gill -#27101
H The Chair Genivieve Duda -#27102
F The World after Raxelleon Fell, Chapter 4 Luke Pettis -#27103
H I Am A Monster, Chapters 1-2 Kevin C. Norris -#27104
SF Ablator: Darkening Skies, Chapters Prologue, 1-2 Andrew Rowley -#27105
SF Rocket Fuel Pee Oliver Franks -#27106
H With It, He Goes On All Fours C. James Sweeney -#27107
Week of 20-Sep-2017 (Crits due 27-Sep-2017):
SF In A 10-Count, We're Done Dan Reade
SF The Legend of Terrence Smith and Life on Europa v6.1 Robert Harpold
F Though the Trees Try to Warn Us, Chapter 2 Jennifer S Hane
SF The Sum of Memories Daniel L. Johnson
F The Valley of Fiends, Chapter 1 Matthew Rettino
SF Demon of the Sword Justin Powell
F Life and Death on the Rocks Alexandria Baisden
SF Outpost David Williams
F A World Apart Randy R. Henke
F Wingtip Oxfords Rebekah Moore
H Death's Design Stephanie Musarra
F Warden's Path, Chapters 5 - 8 Mike Haycock
F Rescuing the Enemy, Chapter 3 Jeff Naylor
SF Entanglement Christopher Blake
SF A Neutral Affair Rebecca DeVendra
F Finding Sanity Devon Browning
F Child of the House Kaitlyn Whipple
SF The New Ascetic, Chapters 2-5 Kevin Le Gall
SF The Hall of Life James Yu
SF Fatherhood _selection from Gaia_ Amy Hammack Turner
Week of 27-Sep-2017 (Crits due 4-Oct-2017):
SF Shadow Kid Melissa Olinde
SF The Persistence of Memory Joel Schroeder
F One Gold Piece Dave D'Alessio
F The Cleanup Marina Zubakhina
F Deadwastes, Chapter 1 Christian R. Zink
F The God and the Body Smith Nick King
SF Fruits of Kindness Wayne Martin
SF Astera Vol1 - Episode 6: Era's Secret Part 1 Joy Landa
SF Observing the development of new high-sentient corporeal life from inception to separation Pamela Najar-Simpson
SF Source Errors Julian Azorlosa
SF The Other Blues Mary Makarova
SF Audra, Chapter 2 Chris Turner
F Cutting Darla Jackson
F The Death of Major Laterre Aaron Wilson
F Ember Sparks Bombs History, Chapter 1 Charity June
SF Asphodel Kristen Bickerstaff
H The Twelfth Hour Chapter 1 Emily Palmieri
F The Broken Veil Chapters 1-58 Karen Baer
F Arithmomania Margaret Moller
H Star Spangled Snow Darryl Segich
F Queensmen, chapter 6 Bethany Rae Salway
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(Note, if the last week above looks abnormally large, it probably
needs me to add a new week, a task I do manually when I get around
to it. Future critique dates are approximate and subject to change.)
Symbols:
[@] - Pro [SFWA/HWA] author
[*] - Extra week(s) for holidays/aburt-out-of-town.
[mpc] - Most Product Critter Award winner
[!] - Special non-Wednesday dates because Critter Captain will be out of town
[ERROR!] - This means there is a problem and your manuscript will NOT be
sent out - Contact the Critter Captain ASAP if you see this by your name.
Waiting to enter Queue (Will enter at end of queue on "[date]"):
SF Astera Vol1 - Episode 6: Era's Secret Part 2 Joy Landa [4-Oct-2017]
SF Astera Vol1 - Ep 7: Justin's New Era _Finale_ Part 1 Joy Landa [?]
SF Astera Vol1 - Ep 7: Justin's New Era _Finale_ Part 2 Joy Landa [?]
F Rise of the Cryptbringer Chapter 56-57 Keir Puplett [20-Sep-2017]
F Rise of the Cryptbringer Chapter 58-59 Keir Puplett [?]
F Rise of the Cryptbringer Chapter 60-61 Keir Puplett [?]
F Rise of the Cryptbringer Chapter 62-63 Keir Puplett [?]
F Rise of the Cryptbringer Chapter 64-Epilogue Keir Puplett [?]
SF Even Though You're No More Renan Bernardo [20-Sep-2017]
F Warden's Path, Chapters 9 - 12 Mike Haycock [27-Sep-2017]
F The World after Raxelleon Fell, Lina's Arc Ch. 1 Luke Pettis [20-Sep-2017]
SF To William Evans, Chief Engineer and Systems Lead Dan Reade [27-Sep-2017]
SF We Are All Human Here Rebecca DeVendra [27-Sep-2017]
F Ablator: Darkening Skies, Chapters Prologue, 3-4 Andrew Rowley [20-Sep-2017]
F The Bottom of the Funnel Renan Bernardo [?]
SF The Rules of Scavenging v7.1 Robert Harpold [27-Sep-2017]
SF Nanny MARK L SUPLINSKAS [20-Sep-2017]
F The Unbelievable Death of Joseph Goldberg Oliver Franks [20-Sep-2017]
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Held until participation ratio improves (then out that week):
H Pinehill Murders Kyra Johnatone-Adrain [05-Jul-2017]
F Truth of Ronan Nathan Chen [12-Jul-2017]
F The Circle, Chapters 1 & 2 Shay Cormack [12-Jul-2017]
F Cloud Cats: Chapters 1-3 Dawn Sciabica [26-Jul-2017]
F Serpent's Wing parts 1-3 Ester Agishtein [26-Jul-2017]
SF The Circle, Chapters 3 & 4 Shay Cormack [26-Jul-2017]
F A mothers love Brendan Melia [02-Aug-2017]
SF The Fallout Kingdom Brandon J. Mills [16-Aug-2017]
F The Academy Chapters 1-3 Sangeun Lee [23-Aug-2017]
H A Meal On Me Stephanie Musarra [23-Aug-2017]
F Sirith Unedited Chapters 1-3 Ricky Nix [30-Aug-2017]
F book of warlen chapters 1-4 O.J. young [30-Aug-2017]
F The Broken King- A Hero's Journey, Chapters 1-17 Joseph A. Alexander [06-Sep-2017]
H Bicorne Blues Stephanie Musarra [06-Sep-2017]
SF Beyond Undead Charles Patton [13-Sep-2017]
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>> Note 1: Held manuscripts are removed after four weeks on hold and
>> must be resubmitted.
>> Note 2: It is the *author's* responsibility to notify Aburt when
>> they have brought up their critique count and want their ms. sent out.
[Click here to see the queue including archival data from 1995.]