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New entry Dec 07
Critter Notices
P&E Has a New Caretaker!
I'm very happy to announce that P&E has been handed off to a new caretaker! Check out the site for news and such. Hurrah!
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
[It's Freebie Friday in the Critters Store...]Critters is 23!
Yes, 23 years ago Critters was born. Wow! Thanks so much to all of you, who've made it such a resounding success!
Critters no longer accepting European Union members :(
It's with a heavy heart that I have to announce Critters can no longer accept people in the European Union as members. This is a result of the "GDPR" privacy laws going into effect. I'm a big fan of privacy, and applaud the general idea behind the GDPR, but the way it's implemented forces me to close the door to EU writers. [read more why...]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
Manuscripts 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 22-May-2019 (Crits due 29-May-2019):
F AllWorlds Asunder, Chapters Twenty-Three to Twenty-Five [mpc] Joel E. Roosa -#28461
F That's Not Kosher Jeff Cates -#28462
SF Tree Hugger Joel Schroeder -#28463
F The Thing Next Door Douglas Kolacki -#28464
F Curselifter Renan Bernardo -#28465
F The Devil Ships Up to Boston Jim Marino -#28466
SF Justice For All Joe Belarge -#28467
F Last of Kin, Chapters 1-2 Jamie M. Boyd -#28468
SF Changelings: Insurrection, Chapters 5-8 Liam Corley -#28469
F Into the Forest Into the Sea, Prologue and Chapters 1-3 Christina Atkins -#28470
Week of 29-May-2019 (Crits due 5-Jun-2019):
SF The Z Team - The Package Chris DeSantis
SF Rust _Chapters 1-2_ Mark DeVries
H The Roofer Dustin
SF Inflammatory Robot Pete Koziar
F Obsidian Vengeance, Chapters 1-2 Heather McDonald
SF Mission to Clarity Richard Zwicker
SF Fabrication David Rossiaky
SF Throwback part 1 of 2 Joe Feehan
SF Third Law Rick Moyer
SF Alone in the Cold Tim Stevens
SF The Silicon Lawyer Eric D Littlefield
F Rescuing the Enemy, Chapter 20 Jeff Naylor
H Animal Apocalypse Jodie Cowan
SF MUSTANG BETTIE Paul Werner
Week of 5-Jun-2019 (Crits due 12-Jun-2019):
SF The Adventures of Asterbuggy John Griffin
SF Wolfwitch, chapter 1 Zackary H. Gentry
SF Babelfish and Time in a Bottle _two revisions_ Amy Hammack Turner
SF First Day Adriana Gomes
H Life in a Chair Maurice Humphrey
F High School Reunion Carl Alves
SF Escape from Old Aris Ethan Smith
SF Dog Years Andrew Giffin
F Outremer, Chapter 1 Rob Palmer
F A Captain's Fate Anthony Gibbs
SF Stellar Cruises, Chapter 1, Draft 3 Elena Zimmerman
F Maiden in the Moonlight, Chapters 3-4 Michael Bondies
F Hidden Beauty Ch 1-5 Michelle Henrie
Week of 12-Jun-2019 (Crits due 19-Jun-2019):
SF Barnstar's Day Off Ife J. Ibitayo
F The Sun of the North, Chapter 1 Tristan T. Chynoweth
F A Breaking of Magic, Chapter 3 Kerry Cathers
SF The Boy Who Wanted to Go to the Moon Steve Donnelly
F The Rysing Dying Sun, Sydney Chapter 1 Anthony White
H Redcoats Russell Dorn
F The Bykownik Rift, Chapter 1 Jessica Zebuhr
F Woven In Time Shirley Forrest Nomakeo
SF Splash of Color Henry McFarland
SF The Universal Directory of Dangerous Places Elise Kim
SF By the Will of the Gods Charles Q. Choi
SF The Nexus Effect Kyle Walker
H My Mother, In the Dark Kate Genellie
F Hidden Knight: A Novel of a Bear Leanna Zimmerman
Week of 19-Jun-2019 (Crits due 26-Jun-2019):
F AllWorlds Asunder, Chapters Twenty-Six to Twenty-Eight Joel E. Roosa
SF The Abduction Chronicles: Blue Lake Event Part Two, Chapters 7-10The DB Gibb
H Take the Mic Amanda Hard
H Scan For Threats Madison Estes
SF Xaromar Chris Turner
H The Gold Digger Steve Levandoski
SF Simple Machines T.M. Heckman
F Sigurd Jeff Stewart
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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]"):
F AllWorlds Asunder, Chapters Twenty-Nine to Thirty-Two Joel E. Roosa [26-Jun-2019]
H The Science of Garbolgy Jodie Cowan [5-Jun-2019]
F Into the Forest Into the Sea, Chapters 4-6 Christina Atkins [29-May-2019]
SF Changelings: Insurrection, Chapters 9-11 Liam Corley [29-May-2019]
SF Crack in the Sky Eric D Littlefield [5-Jun-2019]
F Inconclusive Bets Renan Bernardo [29-May-2019]
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Held until participation ratio improves (then out that week):
SF Vector X, Prologue and Chapter 1 Angela Rose [17-Apr-2019]
SF End Man Alex Austin [24-Apr-2019]
SF Life After Maggie, Chapter One Andrew Colwell [24-Apr-2019]
F Forest of Dragons, Chapters 1-2 Maya Vanderpool [01-May-2019]
F Hypearthia-Tales of Hyperia and Earth: "Dawn of Chaos Book One" Chapter One W. P. Kelley [08-May-2019]
SF Datapocalypse Chris Keast [08-May-2019]
F Death of a Hero, Chapter 1 Alex Geffner-Mihlsten [15-May-2019]
F Cup of CLues Mari Mitchell [15-May-2019]
SF Rehab for the Paranormally Disturbed, Chapters 1-6 Jonathan Robbins [22-May-2019]
SF Yin Yang Ch.1-3 Flavio Avila [22-May-2019]
SF The Little Bang Theory Steve Patschke [22-May-2019]
SF The Abduction Chronicles: Blue Lake Event Part 2, Chap 5-6 DB Gibb [22-May-2019]
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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.]