Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: Visions: Short Fantasy & SF

  • Gone Scopping:
    Keeping the Oral Tradition Alive @ KGB

    If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time reading screens. When it comes to accessibility, the digital format is hard to beat. But is it the best format for sharing stories? I recall an article at CNN.com in which a writer lamented the loss of print: “I miss the edges – physical and psychological. I…

  • The Portal Closes: Looking Back @ GenCon

    Imagine 50,000 people packed into a single indoor space. Now add a 20-foot tall Cthulhu (made entirely of balloons), a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (in a top hat, no less), armies of warriors and monsters, and a roster of top sf and fantasy writers. Yes, it got crowded. But that’s GenCon. Never mind that the…

  • Report from the KGB

    From the outside it looks like a redbrick townhouse, with only a small sign above the door to let us know we’ve arrived at the KGB Bar – the place that both New York Magazine and the Village Voice have named the best literary venue in New York. The doors are likewise unremarkable, opening to…

  • The Next Big Thing (Part 2)

    If you read my previous post, you know that my good friend Alice Henderson has tagged me in The Next Big Thing blog-hop, and now it’s my turn to respond. Here we go! What is the working title of your book? Right now it’s titled Vortex, although there is a good chance the title will…

  • Everything you want to know about writing … and then some.

       Any questions? Lots of presenters conclude with that phrase. I’m different. I like to start with it. The strategy may not be as harebrained as it sounds. I’ll explain. I’ve just returned from my biannual residency in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University, where I always open my presentations by passing out index…

  • Airships and Sherlock Holmes

    The master sleuth and Master of the World. What’s not to love? The World Fantasy Convention has just released its program schedule for 2011, one that offers an impressive blend of topics centering on this year’s theme: Sailing the Seas of Imagination. At the con, I’ll be joining a discussion about airships and reading from my latest Sherlock Holmes…