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How to Write SF

Hot off the presses from ReAnimus Press! 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.)

Free Books

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Book Recommendation

I wholeheartedly think you'll like this book ("Biff America" - humor) and want to recommend it to you.

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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Spam, spam, spam spam

Spam, spam, spam spam

Note: The following ONLY applies to sending me "personal" messages -- it does NOT apply to critiques, manuscripts, or any of the other routine critters mail. Send those as usual.

I hate to do this, but I get, literally, about a thousand spams a day. Every day. Yes, we're talking hundreds of thousands a year. (I've had my addresses for 25+ years. :-) Not all in the Critters box, but that gets tons itself. However, I have my own custom anti-spam software, which is about 99.9% accurate for me (or I'd go insane), but it does misfile a real message as spam every now and then. Hence the solution below. :-)

So, if you want to send me a personal note about something, a special request, comment, etc., and don't want your message shunted off to the spam box :-), put the code word

Nospam: Lazarus Long in the BODY of your message to critters@critique.org. This will bypass my spam filter and I'll get to see your note. This code word will change as soon as it shows up in any spam :-), so check your weekly email for the link to the page with the current code word (if spammers find this page, I'll move it).

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