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Kathryn Cramer: Writer,blogger,editor

Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Writing beyond imagination

Writing beyond imagination

Sorry, no videos. Here’s a good start about her. Read on. From USA’s heartland: KAthryn Cramer…
Kathryn Cramer
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Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer

Born April 16, 1962 (1962-04-16) (age 47)
Bloomington, Indiana
Occupation editor
Nationality United States
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Hypertext fiction
Literary movement Hard science fiction

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Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction author, editor, and literary critic.

Contents [hide]
1 Life
2 Work
3 Bibliography
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Life
Cramer grew up in Seattle, and currently lives in Pleasantville, New York with her husband David G. Hartwell and their two children. She is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer.[1] She is a graduate of Columbia University, with degrees in mathematics and American studies.[2]

[edit] Work
Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and for several software companies,[3] including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group.[4] She co-founded The New York Review of Science Fiction in 1988 and was its co-editor until 1991 and again since 1996. It has been nominated (as of 2007) for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine every year of its existence, fifteen times under her co-editorship.[5]

Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s.[6] She was part of the Global Connection Project, a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, Google, and National Geographic using Google Earth and other tools following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.[7]

[edit] Bibliography
Anthologies
The Architecture of Fear[8] (1987) with Peter D. Pautz – winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
Spirits of Christmas (1989) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Fantasy, ISBN 0-81255-159-1
Walls of Fear (1990), Avon Books, ISBN 0-38070-789-6 – a World Fantasy Award nominee
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) with David G. Hartwell, ISBN 0-312-85509-5
The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) with David G. Hartwell, Orb books, ISBN 0-31287-636-X
The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Books, ISBN 0-76530-617-4
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988) with David G. Hartwell
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1994) with David G. Hartwell
Anthology Series
Year’s Best Fantasy 1 through 7 (2001–2007) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins 2001–2005, Tachyon Publications 2006–2007)
Year’s Best SF 7, Year’s Best SF 8, Year’s Best SF 9, Year’s Best SF 10, Year’s Best SF 11, Year’s Best SF 12, Year’s Best SF 13, Year’s Best SF 14 (2002–2009) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins)
Short Fiction
“Forbidden Knowledge” in Mathenauts,[9] ed. Rudy Rucker (1987)
“The End of Everything” in Asimov’s Science Fiction October 1990
In Small & Large Pieces by Kathryn Cramer, in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, No. 3, Eastgate Systems (1994). (a work of hypertext dark fantasy)
“Disextinction” in Nature Magazine (2001)
“Sandcastles: a Dystopia” in Nature Magazine (2005)
Essays
How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera with David G. Hartwell, SFRevu August 2003
Cramer has also written a number of essays published in the New York Review of Science Fiction. She is a contributor to the Encarta article on science fiction and wrote the chapter on hard science fiction for the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James.[10] Several of her essays have been reprinted, for example “Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow” (NYRSF August 1988) in Visions of Wonder, ed. Milton T. Wolf & David G. Hartwell (Tor 1996).

[edit] See also

Sandra Tsing Loh: Words on Fire Earn lotsa Bucks!

Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Stories to write by...?

Stories to write by...?


Bloggers can create quite a fuss. All this can also take controversy directly to the publications one writes for and the books one has published.

I’m often more quiet living in a desert “island” community. I rant with a few friends and talk to many customers. We are protected from the ravages of the urban centers and a larger world at large. Yes the computers and TV’s flare on occassion but sunsets calm the fires within.

However, the meek bookish writers might take a few notes from the antics of Sandra sing Loh. Her boldness and fire has created her a fast track career and noterity that allows her the freedom to excel and profit from her words. She speaks and her blogs create tons of traffic. Hmmm, does she Twitter?

How many aspiring writers long for the income she commands? SHe also keeps in the public’s face. Make a list of 5 aspects of her adventure that might feel comfortable for you to try to promote your work and earn some bucks at the same time. Please let me know what works for you!

Ah wouldn’t we all love millions of comments?
Tell me your secets to lots of blog traffic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Tsing_Loh
Biography
Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father[1] and a German mother. She was raised in Southern California.[2] Growing up in Malibu during the era when it did not have its own high school, she commuted along Pacific Coast Highway south to Santa Monica High School (located near that town’s “Dogtown” surf/skating area) in a yellow schoolbus with people like Christophe Pettus (founder of Blowfish) and actor Sean Penn. At “Samohi,” Loh was active in the school’s orchestra, where she played viola—and occasionally keyboard instruments as needed (most notably piano in “Petrushka,” and celesta in “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”).

Loh was also associated with the decidedly nonmusical group that called itself “The Olive Starlight Orchestra,” along with computer graphics experts Greg Turk and Eric Enderton, Rhythm and Hues co-founder Keith Goldfarb, physician/poet Jan Steckel, Academy of Motion Pictures activist (and fine-arts scanning pioneer) David Coons, law professor and activist Susan Crawford, and neuroscience-popularizer David Linden. Goldfarb, impressed with Loh’s intellect and ability to rally people around various causes, began a small coterie he referred to as “The Sandra Loh Fan Club,” or SLFC. Many of her friends and acquaintances simply called her “S’loh,” in much the same spirit that Eric Clapton earned the nickname “Slowhand” (though in Loh’s case it was the quickness of her mind that inspired the pun

Edgar Allen Poe: Drama and Horror: LIsten and heed…

Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Tell me your story  Photo by Mary MacIntyre

Tell me your story Photo by Mary MacIntyre

The dead still teach us beyond the grave. How easily we forget and neglect the power of their word, or fragmented pictures of what they endured and saw in their lives. Be us the writer today, it may behoove us to listen and reflect upon these words. Words, visions, and structure can provide each with a springboard for them to fly off into the ethers, that the jumper may experience or transcend what already has been demonstrated.

I am listening to a video about MArianne Moore whilst also listening to Annabel included here. I beg you to experiment. I included these two videos to speculate on what can be inspired from old scripts. Oh Raven come now share your secrets with me and any who will listen.

Write and capture our lives now in your song, and let the muses fill our verse with everlasting meaning. TRy this listening to two at once. Behold the metaphor dancing in our words. Write!
Edgar Allan Poe
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For the attorney general of Maryland, see Edgar Allan Poe (Maryland attorney general).
Edgar Allan Poe

1848 daguerreotype of Poe
Born January 19, 1809(1809-01-19)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died October 7, 1849 (aged 40)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Occupation Poet, short-story writer, editor, literary critic
Genres Horror fiction, crime fiction, detective fiction
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse(s) Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[2]

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; his parents died when he was young. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe parted ways with the Allans. Poe’s publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to “a Bostonian”.

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem “The Raven” to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.[3]

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such

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Annie Proulx at UNM Summer Sunset Series

Sunday, June 21st, 2009
in the distance sky still sings  photo by Mary MacIntyre

in the distance sky still sings photo by Mary MacIntyre

Missed getting this online early enough. However it reminded me of the deep and perplexing work that Ms. Proulx has accomplished. So let’s get some extra information below. I checked out some biographical information and found there are still more books by Aniie Proulx for me to read! Thus I am posting a second blog on her works. I was startled not to find more yourube videos about her.

Some how haven’t read her books yet? The psychological character development and excellent regional settings creates a profound narrative.

Annie Proulx at UNM Summer Sunset Series
Annie Proulx will present Coming Out of the Mountains, a lecture about life and writing. Prouix’s “The Shipping News” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Irish Times International Fiction Price. She has written two other novels and three collections of short stories. The lecture is FREE and open to all.
Lecture Saturday, June 20, 6pm
Zimmerman Library on UNM Campus
(505) 277-5627
Sixty Water Weaving Women at La Orilla Canal
This ritual performance place the afternoon of the Summer Solstice is intended to express and encourage gratitude and awareness of the water source that flows through the city - a constant presence to a life force that is rarely noticed. The performance will take place on the west side of the canal. Inspired by the tradition of women as water bearers, each woman carried her own pitcher in the ritual as a symbol of her personal commitment to guard and conserve this precious resource. The combined waters carried by these 60 women represent the collective impact of their individual commitment.
Special Event Sunday, June 21, 2:30pm Albuquerque Open Space, near the Visitor Center
6500 Coors Blvd. NW, Albuquerque
(505) 897-8831
cabq.gov/openspace
11th Annual

Yvonne Perry invites you to submit work

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Opportunity: Ready and waiting for you

Opportunity: Ready and waiting for you

http://writersinthesky.com/writing-newsletter.html

This will be short and sweet. Yvonne Perry’s Writers In the Sky Blog is widely read. Here’s a fun opportunity to share some work for many to see. Have fun…read on…and share!

It’s time to submit your book reviews, articles, poems, and announcements about anything related to writing, editing, publishing, and book promotion.

If you wish to contribute anything to Writers in the Sky Newsletter for July 2009, please review the guidelines on our Web site: http://writersinthesky.com/writing-newsletter.html.

Hurry, the deadline is June 24, 2009!

Yvonne Perry
Owner of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services

Power of the andecote: stories for radio or film

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

imagination circles and rocks

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imagination circles and rocks


It’s hard to beat these 2 videos. As writers want to expand their words from text to video or radio (audio) may switch around whaat you might want to say. The old bards found an easier transition, both my memorizing verse or old texts, and then by using song to tell their story.

Your well crafted script may lose its power when tranlated to audio. Sometimes you must imagine how the audience will hear what you want to say. Words then must create conversation and pictoral scenarios. Yes the audience must be able to immediately visualize what is transpiring.

Video provides more challenges. Will the person be comfortable relating verbal iniformation with image? Can the dialogue hold the viewers attention? Will the message empower the viewer?

Given these elements of text, the writer becomes consumed with the multiple inputs necessary to capture the audience’s imagine in very concise clips. How will you arrange image and audio to enhance your work?

If you are confident about procedures to address these issues, please feel free to comment her and we can start a dialogue.
Feel free to copy and share these thoughts. Also feel free to contact me about stories you would like to sahre.

Lydia Gil at National Latino Conference Albuquerque NM

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Lydia Gil
News writing workshop
This workshop will address the basics of cultural news reporting and book reviewing for
print and digital media. We will discuss how to find stories, identify markets, conduct
interviews, and get paid for your work.
Lydia Gil teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Denver.
She reports on cultural and literary news for the Hispanic News Services of EFE, and is
the author of Mimí’s Parranda/La parranda de Mimí, a bilingual children’s book (Arte
Público 2007).
Reyna Grande
Novel Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts of Novel Writing
Do you have a novel inside you waiting to emerge, but the idea of writing it seems
daunting? In this workshop, you will receive tips on how to start your novel and how to
keep the momentum going until the end. You will also learn the key craft points of novel
writing (plot, structure, point-of-view, setting, character, voice, etc.). There will be an
in-class writing exercise if time allows.
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Hopefully this is not a repeat. If it is, my apologies. The National Latino Writing COnference has many talented writers and faculty prepared to discuss important information and issues regarding publishing and writing for Latinos. I hope many educators also attend to learn more about their potential students. True writers never attend school and learn along the way to find their voice and style.

Don’t miss this packed full of information event. If you can’t attend, connect with faculty to see if videos and transcripts will be available.

Let Steph Penney tell you her story…or her books stories

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Look where others pass by, and riches will be yours

Look where others pass by, and riches will be yours

Photo by Mary MAcIntyre

This fine video can provide much insight for you as a writer. Actually as I love Canada, someday I may even read this mystery. Writing always challenges the writer. Penney mentions that sometimes imagination provides greater results than the research. I prefer knowing the landscape, cultures, so that I might visualize the richness of place as a landscape painter might. At that point my questions gallop forth to the adventture that emerges from place and feeling.

Everyone has their own method to get the work started. Once begun the process unfolds as mystically as the historical elements you seek to capture. Perhaps writing also creates a game of hide and seek. The characters give you glimpses of who they are and what will unravel as you move into their territory and mindset.

Characters too can take on a life of their own helping you can experience about their relationships to nature, otehr people, and even props. Your success rests on their development and believeability. Unfortunately the writer has greater competition than ever with all the elctronic media that makes a story easy to consume.

Alas sculpting with words provides better for exercise for each brain willing to engage in the adventure. May your words compel the reader to walk alongside you and drink of the magical word…

J.A. Jance From Poetry to Murder Mysteries

Thursday, May 21st, 2009


Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (born October 27, 1944) is an award-winning[citation needed] American author of mystery and horror novels. She writes at least three series of novels, centering on retired Seattle Police Department officer J. P. Beaumont, Arizona small-town sheriff Joanna Brady, and Diana Ladd Walker. The Beaumont and Brady series intersect in the novel Partner in Crime, which is both the 16th Beaumount mystery and the 10th Brady mystery.

Jance was born in South Dakota and raised in Bisbee, Arizona (the setting for her Joanna Brady series of novels). She is a graduate of the University of Arizona. Before becoming an author, she worked as a school librarian on a Native American reservation, as a teacher, and selling insurance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._A._Jance

Ah, the details of what happens after selling life insurance! I used to sell insurances. Your homework assignment is to find 20 helpful clues to how to expand your expertise from what you learn about J.A. Jance.

Ever been to Bisbee AZ? How big is it? How many writers live there? My real point is that no matter where you start, you can create a fantastic journey as a writer. Also could you learn skills to produce as many books as JA Jance? This takes a real love of writing and true discipline to get the job completed!

Let’s go explore another writer.

Interview with Robert Mirabal from Southwest…

Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Open to your visions  photo by: Mary MacIntyre

Open to your visions photo by: Mary MacIntyre

These videos are fantastic. If you can come to the booksigning, you can share the inspiration provided from this multi-talented performer.
Make sure to go to the end of this blog to see another video. Read more too from the previous blog.

If you cannot attend the opening, then get some of his music and books! They bothe are powerful! Enjoy.


Booksigning at: Thursday May 21st
Clear Light Book Gallery
Featuring
Cookbooks, Children’s, Native American, Hispanic, Southwest & Holistic Books,
Special Order Desk, Discount Books & Posters, Southwest Gift Items & Art, Holiday and Note Cards, Hispanic Retablos & Handmade Straw-Inland Crosses, CDs from Local Musicians & More
FREE COFFEE & COOKIES

• Bookstore offering over 2,000 titles— Native American, Hispanic and Southwest culture, children’s books, cookbooks, history and fiction books from over 250 local and regional publishers. A special order desk makes it possible to obtain any book in print.
Clear Light Book Gallery offers a wide selection of books, posters, cards and gift items. The books cover subjects from Native American, Hispanic and Southwestern culture, children’s books, cookbooks, history and fiction from over 250 local and regional publishers. A special order desk makes it possible to obtain any book in print.

• Poster gallery and gift shop featuring gifts with a Southwestern flair,
Hispanic retablos and handmade straw inlaid crosses from the local community, Huichol Indian art, mini-posters, greeting and note cards, and a wide variety of unique gift items. The Gallery also features fine art posters by well-known artists.
Clear Light Book Gallery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 to 4. Preview online.

• Ongoing special sales, events and book signings.
Check the announcement board in the front of the store. or Events online

• 20% off storewide spring specials on now!

Clear Light Book Gallery
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Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
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