Seton Hill Writers News for January 2010

In no particular order...

#1: Seton Hill Alum and Mentor Nalo Hopkinson was interviewed by Nick Liptak in The Book Bench section of The New Yorker online. She discusses her books and her fabric designs.

She is also the Guest of Honor for the 31st Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, which will take place March 17-21, 2010, at the Orlando Airport Marriott, Orlando, Florida.

#2: Seton Hill Humanities Chair and Mentor Michael A. Arnzen and Alum Michael Mehalek became members of Pennwriters.

#3: An article about Seton Hill Mentor Anne Harris's alter-ego Jessica Freely is up at The Advocate.

#4: New York Times Bestselling Author and Seton Hill Mentor Tobias S. Buckell is the Guest of Honor at Context in Columbus, OH, this year: August 27 - 29, 2010.

#5: Seton Hill Alums Matt Duvall and Natalie Duvall offer tips on "How to Get Your Heroine Out of a Headlock" and other fight scene scenarios at Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal.

More Seton Hill Writers Updates

#1: Fire Study, the third novel by Maria V. Snyder made the New York Times Best Sellers List for trade paperbacks.

#2: James Morrow's latest novel is out. He is currently touring with The Philosopher's Apprentice.

#3: Toby Buckell's second novel Ragamuffin is in the Fantasybookspot March Madness Tournament. Voting ends March 15 for Round 2.

#4: Monica Spence has a new website at http://monicaspence.web.officelive.com/default.aspx.

#5: Kimberley A. Opatka-Metzgar has a new project called Emma's Wetlands Adventures.

#6: Nalo Hoplinson's story "Soul Case" made it into Year's Best Fantasy 8 edited by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell.


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More Seton Hill Writers News

#1: Two Seton Hill Writers made it to the final ballot for the Nebulas. Congratulations to Tobias Buckell, author of Ragamuffin and Nalo Hopkinson, author The New Moon's Arms.

#2: Michael Mehalek has a new flash story Tissue of Biblical Proportions up at The Write Way.

#3: Maria V. Snyder has posted her appearance schedule for the release of the third book in the Study Series, Fire Study.

#4: Congratulations to the 2006-2007 staff of Eye Contact, the literary-art magazine of Seton Hill University. They won a an ASPA Award for the Fall '06 - Spring '07 issue. Contributors included: Michael A. Arnzen, Jessica Braccio, Dante Ciolfi, Amanda Cochran, Lisa Cooper, Michael B. Diezmos, Melissa James Doll, Laura Fleming, Siena Frank, Shu-Hsin Kao, Karissa J. Kilgore, Marie Manski, Jason Jack Miller, Erin Mitchell, Rochelle Moore, Kim Pennesi, Adrea Peters, Juliann Picklo, Stephan Puff, Moira Richardson, Mike Rubino, Nora Thompson, and Erin Waite


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Seton Hill Writers Update

#1: Kaye Dacus at Write Place, Write Time interviews Maria V. Snyder about how she ended each book in her Study series.

#2: E. A. Whitt has a new blog series called NAME THAT NOVEL. Every Monday she posts the opening of a book, every Friday a last line (not from the same book), and readers can guess the novel in which they are found.

#3: Nalo Hopkinson will be one of the distinguished faculty teaching at the University of Toronto Summer Writing School - July 9-13, 2007.


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HEIDI'S PICK SIX - Nalo Hopkinson

HEIDI'S PICK SIX with Nalo Hopkinson is up at ambasadora.

HEIDI'S PICK SIX

Tomorrow begins the HEIDI'S PICK SIX blog series over at ambasadora where I present fifteen questions or prompts to dozens of authors, but they can only respond to six.

You'll get to see which questions they answered and what they had to say.

Here's the line up for this week:

MONDAY - Nalo Hopkinson / SF

WEDNESDAY - Scott A. Johnson / Horror

FRIDAY - Penny Dawn / Romance and Erotica

Tell your friends! ;)


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