Tag: Writers
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Writers and Agents, Queer Sci-Fi, and more!
‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels (NY Times) “I like to pretend that I’m the most attention deficit disordered person I’m ever going to meet,” Prose said. “I’m very conscious of keeping the reader’s interest. And I’m easily bored — I’m easily bored by books, I hate to say. And so…
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Authors’ websites, horror fiction, and more…
A Beginner’s Guide to Chinese Science Fiction (BookRiot) Chinese science fiction is a diverse, undeniably unique type of sci-fi. And it contributes to the worldliness of the genre as a whole, one whose strengths rest in societal critique and philosophy. How can we only have societal critiques from the West? We need global perspectives to…
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Challenges Facing Chinese Literature, Sci-Fi in the Trump Era…
Chinese literature still facing challenges reaching broader audience overseas (Global Times) While China boasts a good amount of best-selling authors, only a few of them have managed to make any headway in English-speaking countries. Besides Mai, Galaxy Award and Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin and Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan, there are not many…
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Latinx Heroines, Spanish Graphic Novels, and Nigerian Millennials…
5 Things I Learned About Publishing an #OwnVoices Book with a Latinx Herione (Bustle) As a Latinx author and journalist who has been privileged enough to be born in the United States, get an education, and grow up in a safe suburban neighborhood, I feel as though it is my responsibility to put Latinx characters in…