Einblatt! August 2008 Calendar Street store. Join Elizabeth, Lance, Locals and ex-locals in 2008 Locus Poll: and Richard for their final day at Neil Gaiman won Best Novelette for "The g Sat, Aug 2, 2PM. Minn-StF Meeting. DreamHaven. FFI: 612-823-6161 Witch's Headstone" and Kij Johnson was Irene & Scott Raun's, 3928 11th Ave #27 in that category with "The Evolution of S, Mpls. Smoking outside, dogs. FFI: Advance Warning Trickster Stories..."; Emma Bull was #4 [email protected], Fantasy Novel for Territory and Barth Minn-StF Meetings: Sept 6, TBA; Sept [email protected], 612-822-0451 Anderson was #39 short story for 20, Linda Lounsbury’s. "Clockmaker's Requiem." à Sat, Aug 9. MISFITS Ice Cream Social. FFI: http://www.misift.org Dead Over Heels by MaryJanice Davidson Announcements was "runner-up" (e.g. #6) tp bestseller on à Tues, Aug 12, 6:45PM. Twin Cities Author Tom Disch, grew up in Minnesota the June LOCUS list; Lois McMcaster Speculative Fiction Writers Network. before moving to New York city around Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Passage was Defending your protagonist’s actions 1960, & who published some sf/f stories #6 hc on the Barnes and Noble/B. Dalton and personality. Davannis, 310 with MN settings, died on July 4th. list in same issue. White Bear Ave, St Paul. FFI: http://scifiwriting.meetup.com/2 Davidson's The Seraph of Sorrow (with Birthdays: Anthony Alongi) now a March Ace pb. à Sat, Aug 16, 10AM. Dreamhaven Bujold's omnibus Miles, Mutants and Moving Party, Part 2. 912 W. Lake 2: Charles Anderson, M. Renata Fossett; Microbes scheduled for November pb St. Move shelving, books, & misc. 3: Curtis Hoffmann, Reed Waller; 4: reprint from Baen; The Vorkosigan Drinks & lunch provided. All help Marianne Hageman; 5: Beth Colsher, Companion ed. Lillian Stewart Carl and deeply appreciated. Gerry Wassenaar; 6: Curtis Gibson, Martin H. Greenberg, Dec hc from Baen. Ericka Johnson; 7: Terry A. Garey; 8: g Sat, Aug 16, 2PM. Minicon Meeting. Ginger Emgott; 9: Bob Berlien, Karen The Republic of Thieves (Bantam Spectra Followed closely by the Minn-StF hc) by Scott Lynch now March 2009. Lynch Schaffer, Kevin Stahl; 10: Deb Schouten; st Meeting at this same location. 11: Nate Bucklin; 12: Margaret Eastman; has an article in the 1 issue of Spectra Matt+Kelly Strait's, 1631 Selby Ave 13: Lori Schaefer; 15: Caryl Eschweiler; Pulse magazine (Spring/Summer 2008). #1. FFI: 651-644-1812. 16: Nancy Klock, Joyce Maetta Odum, Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil g Sat, Aug 16, 2PM. Minn-StF Tony Von Krag; 17: Mitch Pockrandt; 18: Gaiman by Hank Wagner et al, hc from St. Meeting. Matt+Kelly Strait's, 1631 Judie Cilcain; 19: Sally Morem; 22: Sara Martin's scheduled for November. Logan, Elise Matthesen, Will Shetterly; Selby Ave #1. FFI: 651-644-1812. Adam Stemple, Steward of Song, 24: Jerry Stearns; 31: Jacque Marshall à Sun, Aug 17, 12N. Twin Cities scheduled for December Tor pb reprint. Speculative Fiction Writers Network. Publishing News Emma Bull's Territory scheduled for Building Irresistible Plots. Lunds January Tor pb reprint. Market (Uptown), Mpls. FFI: Ruth Berman's poem "Orpheus Gives http://scifiwriting.meetup.com/2 Directions to Orphics" from Tales of the P.C. Hodgell hc omnibus The Godstalker Unanticipated 28 has been reprinted (as a Chronicles due from Baen in January. à Sun, Aug 17, 2PM. SF Writer’s "long list" Rhysling Award candidate for this Workshop. Lunds Market (Uptown), year) in the 2008 Rhysling Anthology, ed. "Tate Hallaway" (Lyda Morehouse), Romancing the Dead, was offered in hc Mpls. FFI: Drew Morse (SFPA tp, 2008) edition in June by the SFBC. http://scifiwriting.meetup.com/2 Alan DeNiro sold novel Total Oblivion, More or Less to Bantam Spectra. Local Publishers: Dreamhaven Books: g Thurs, Aug 21, 11:59PM. Einblatt! Strange Roads by Peter S. Beagle Deadline. Note: This is a week Ex-local Carolyn Ives Gilman has lead (chapbook collection), now out; Bethany earlier than my usual deadline! story, "Arkfall," in the September Magazine House: The Enclave, by Haren Hancock à Sun, Aug 24, 2-5PM. Ladies Sewing Of Fantasy And Science Fiction. (tp), due March; Llewellyn (all tp): reprints of all four Laura Faria Stolarz "color" series Circle. Mary Jo, 4037 Dupont Ave S, Neil Gaiman has an essay on YA fiction in now out; new titles Into the Wildwood by Mpls. FFI: 612-823-0980, the July Locus. Gillian Summers, Dead Girl Walking by [email protected] The late John Berkey has an essay in Paint Linda Joy Singleton; Lament: The Faerie à Mon, Aug 25, 6:30PM. Haddayr Or Pixel: The Digital Divide (Nonstop Press Queen's Deception by Stolarz, scheduled Copley-Woods reads. Dreamhaven tp, 2008, ed. Jane Frank) June, September, October. Books, 912 W Lake St, Mpls. A Ex-local Kij Johnson's story "The Evolution pb=mass market paperback. hc=hardcover. Speculations Readings Series, a co- of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of tp=trade paperback nf=nonfiction. production of SF Minnesota & North Park After the Change" was coll=collection. anth=anthology. r=reissue Intermedia Arts. FFI: Eric Heideman, nominated for the Sturgeon Award; she [email protected], 612-721- withdrew it as one of the Award judges. 5959 Conventions A manuscript short short story by Neil Aug 1-3. Diversicon 16, Mpls. GoH: Anne à Tues, Aug 26, 7PM. Retrofits Writers Gaiman, written for a Waterstones UK Frasier (Pre-reg deadline: July 14) Group. Lunds Market (Uptown), bookstore charity auction, brought in £1300. http://www.diversicon.org/ Mpls. FFI: The Sharing Knife: Passage by Lois th http://scifiwriting.meetup.com/2 Aug 6-10. Denvention 3, 66 World Con. McMaster Bujold was #4 hc bestseller on GoHs: Lois McMaster Bujold, Rick à Thurs, Aug 28, Last day to shop at the July LOCUS list and #8 on the Sternbach, Tom Whitmore, Wil McCarthy, DreamHaven's 912 West Lake Borders/Walden list in the same issue. Kathy Mar. FFI: www.denvention3.org/ Oct 17-19. Convivial 3, Bloomington, MN. (Pre-reg deadline: July 31) Artists and Writers: Get your art and $35 to Sept 17, $45 ATD, children 5 & www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Home thoughts in print in Stipple-Apa, small-and- under free. http://www.mnstf.org/convivial3/ cozy general-interest publication. FFI: Jeanne Mealy 651-771-7226 Oct 31-Nov 2. Icon 33, Coralville, IA. GoH: Ongoing Information Tanya Huff, Richard Klemensen. Board of Directors: Kevin Austin, Lisa Einblatt is posted on Usenet groups http://www.iowa-icon.com/ Freitag, Dean Gahlon, Scott Raun & Matt rec.arts.sf.fandom, rec.arts.sf.announce and mn.sf// Einblatt from July 95 to date is Nov 14-16. WindyCon 35, Lombard, IL. 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