scop (noun): Old English – bard, minstrel, storyteller
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This Week at AFM
This week, filmmakers from around the world are heading to Santa Monica to attend the American Film Market. According to their official website, “AFM is the premier film acquisition, development, and networking event where more than $1 Billion in distribution and film financing deals are closed each year on completed films and those in every…
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Into the Gray: Rediscovering Richard Connell
Titled A Little Gray Book of Grisly Tales and published by Borderlands Press as part of their well-regarded Little Book Series, this compact edition reprints Connell’s aforementioned classic along with five lesser-known tales that fall into a gray zone–somewhere in the shadow of horror, mystery, and satire.
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An Interview with Sheldon Higdon
Halloween is coming, and to help get us in the mood, Sheldon Higdon’s Middle-Grade novel The Eerie Brothers and the Witches of Autumn is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookseller. New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry calls it “a fun, freaky, and frightening novel,” and if Sheldon’s previous works…
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An Interview with Michael Libling
Ever wondered if murder is a genetic? Michael Libling has, and the result is a serial-killer novel unlike any you have read.
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AI: The Future is Now
Sometime in the 21st century, human actors and writers will become obsolete. Movies, television shows, and even stage plays will be performed by automatons, created from scans of the world’s top human performers, and controlled by programs that have replaced human writers and directors.
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Same Site, New Design
Last week I attended the Confluence science fiction convention in Pittsburgh. I had a terrific time, and I hope to cover the event in more detail soon. But for now, I’d like to consider a point some of the folks were discussing there: Namely, the way digital advancements affect the lives of sf writers. Case…