My name is Sally, and I’m an SF-aholic.

My name is Sally, and I’m an SF-aholic.
Hi Sally.
You want my story? (The story of me or the stories I write? Today it’s me.) I got my first taste of SF when I was just a child: the sweet, tangy flavors of Walter Farley’s The Island Stallion, a charming and quite stirring (for an 8 [...]

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Original Source Material

Science Fiction author, Tobias Buckell wrote a series of articles intended to educate new writers called, Getting Past Being Joe Blow NeoPro. If you write, no matter what your genre, you should listen or read them. I have the audio version on my iPod and listen to them on a regular basis [...]

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How will we swear in The Future?

Over the course of four manuscripts, I discovered that my natural genre is science fiction romance–sort of space-going international thrillers with a happy-ending romance thrown in. Hey, romance is consistently more than half of mass market paperbacks sold; I’m not completely stupid.
So here’s the weird thing: I’ve entered contests, I’ve sent out manuscripts for cold [...]

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Space Westerns

I like Westerns. I always watch a good Western when I come across it on TV. Recently, I even read my first Louis L’Amour book – Fallon. I intend to read more Westerns in the coming months. In fact, it could become my number one genre choice in 2009. There [...]

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Organizing 101

Last year I decided to move to Scrivener the fantastic novel writing program for Macs only. Since all of my writing happens on my MacBook, that decision was a good one. I have been writing my third novel in Scrivener this year and I have to say, its been great. So good [...]

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