Anthology News

Look for Fairwood members Renee Stern and Rhiannon Held in two new anthologies!


 

Gears and Levers 3, a steampunk anthology edited by Phyllis Irene Radford, includes 14 stories from Rhiannon Louve, David Boop, Renee Stern and others.

 
We hope you'll enjoy Renee's entry, "Backs to the Wall," featuring Mother Jones, Pinkertons and coal-mining automatons.

Published by Sky Warrior Books, the anthology is available from Amazon, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble.







 

And Rhiannon takes a break from werewolves with a story about dryads appearing in the anthology Urban Green Man from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy.


Featuring an introduction by Charles de Lint, the anthology contains Rhiannon's story "Green Apples" and 30 other tales dealing with renewal surrounding the mythology of the Green Man.


Urban Green Man is available as a trade paperback and, coming soon, as an e-book. http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/urbangreenman/ugm-catalog.html

TARNISHED Signing

The release date for member Rhiannon Held's urban fantasy novel TARNISHED is fast approaching on May 21! If you're interested in hearing her read and/or getting a copy signed, she has two appearances in the Seattle area:

Tuesday, May 21, 7 pm, University Bookstore, Seattle
Thursday, May 30, 7 pm, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, Seattle

We hope to see some of you there!

Counting Down

Get your manuscripts ready for the writers' workshop at Norwescon 36 next March!  Our submissions deadline is just over a week away, at midnight on Sunday, Dec. 2.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to have your fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories and novel excerpts critiqued by professional writers and editors.  Our guidelines are available at http://www.norwescon.org/program/writers-workshop/

 

Writers' Workshop Guidelines Now Available

We are pleased to announce that the guidelines for the writers' workshop at Norwescon 36 on March 28-31, 2013, are now available!  If you participated in our recent workshops at Westercon or Norwescon, or inquired about them, you should already have received a notice.  If not, please visit the Norwescon site: http://www.norwescon.org/program/writers-workshop/

Here are the basics:

• In most circumstances we accept 2 pieces from any one person, only one of which may be a novel excerpt, and neither of which may be more than 10,000 words.
• Submissions will be critiqued in private, live sessions at Norwescon in 2013.  Most sessions use 4 critquers who are professional guests at the convention (almost always professionally published genre writers).
• We have certain requirements for submissions, including that you use proper manuscript format (and we WILL critique your format), send a cover letter, and that all stories be completed.
• Our deadline is VERY EARLY: December 2, 2012.  So if you'd like to submit, get hopping!  We set the deadline as late as we can each year and are not able to accept late submissions.
• We fill all the slots we can handle every year, so if you want to participate, we encourage to you to submit as early as possible.

Don't worry if you haven't been to a critique before, or if you don't feel that your work is perfect.  Writers at all levels are welcome to submit to the workshop! 

Crossroads B&N SILVER Signing!

Fairwood writer Rhiannon Held is holding a reading and signing of her novel Silver coming up on Saturday,  August 18. It's her last one in the Seattle area for now, so spread the word and don't miss out!

Crossroads Mall Barnes & Noble in Bellevue
Saturday, August 18, 2-4 pm
Event link

Everyone welcome!

Westercon Writers Workshop -- Update

We are pleased to announce that all manuscripts and workshop schedules for Westercon 65 Workshop participants have been distributed.  Thanks much to participants and volunteers who've already confirmed receipt of their materials.  If you submitted to or volunteered for the workshop and have NOT received your manuscript(s) and/or workshop schedule, please contact us at fairwoodwriters@gmail.com.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of space, we will not be hosting our regular social at Westercon.

If you missed this workshop and would like to be on our mailing list to be notified when we send out guidelines for our annual workshop at Norwescon, please contact us.  And remember, it's never too early to finish a manuscript for the workshop!  So if you don't have one yet, why not sit down and work on something right now...?

Rhiannon Held's SILVER now out in trade paperback!

Congratulations to Rhiannon on the publication of her first novel, SILVER!

To say we're delighted for Rhiannon is a total understatement. We love Silver and we're sure you will, too, so go out and order yourself a copy or--better yet--pop by one of Rhiannon's reading & signing events to meet her yourself.

• June 5, 7 pm, University Bookstore, Seattle 
• June 11, 7 pm, Powell’s Cedar Hills Crossing, Beaverton, Oregon 
• June 24, 2 pm, Village Books, Bellingham, Washington 
• June 27, 7 pm, Third Place Books, Seattle 
• June 29, 5 pm, Hastings, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 

Check out Rhiannon's blog for updates.

CONGRATULATIONS, RHIANNON!