For a full list of this year's finalists and winners, go to the LOCUS website at:
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2012/06/lo
LOCUS, founded by the late great Charles Brown, is the trade magazine of science fiction and fantasy, and has been the bible for me and a lot of other professional writers for decades. Their annual awards poll draws more votes than the Hugo and Nebula Awards combined.
A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is the fifth volume in A SONG OF ICE & FIRE to be nominated as the year's best fantasy by the readers of LOCUS, and the fourth to win. What can I say? Those LOCUS readers have really good taste.
Thanks to the good folks at LOCUS, and to everyone who voted, whether it was for me or for one of my excellent fellow nominees.
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I was wondering if you could expand on having your works (in partial form or shorter stories) being submitted and featured in magazines such as Locus and Asimov's.
Is it the process that interests you?
ASIMOV'S is a fiction magazine. The process is simple. You send in the manuscript with a cover letter and a stamped, self-addressed envelope (or SSAE) for the return of the ms, should they reject it. Then you hope. (I was about to say, "then you sacrifice a virgin," but someone might have taken me seriously). They buy it or they don't. There is often a wait of some length.
LOCUS is a newszine. Completely different. They don't buy freelance material.
If I'm mistaken, some of your stuff appeared in Asimov's. How much experience or renown do they usually look for, aside from the actual content?
I am sure they welcome experience and renown, but mostly they are just looking for good stories. The magazines are the place where new writers make their mark.
Hoisting a jar in celebration. :)
A Bran chapter has just been assigned as reading for my MFA homework, FYI:
The Tarot of Creativity: Poetry, Fiction, Pop Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction
A talk on ways of using traditions of divination as creative writing inspiration. In T.S. Eliot’s small modernist epic poem The Waste Land he used Tarot archetypes early in the poem as a way of prefiguring the characters and destinies who would appear later. William Lindsay Gresham's classic Noir novel, Nightmare Alley, also uses the Tarot as a way of figuring forth his characters as manifestations of universal archetypes. All of this probably goes back to early literary interest in esoterica by William Butler Yeats, as a member of The Order of the Golden Dawn, and to Carl Jung’s interest (and later William Campbell's) in the Tarot's major arcana as a manifestation of archetypal characters and of the self-developmental journey of the hero. I would argue that such interest in manifested today by a range of literary writers, from Italo Calvio to George R.R. Martin. The talk will discuss a range of literary uses of the Tarot and culminate in Tarot-based writing exercises for folks of all genres. The presentation will be considered a trial run to gauge interest in a special topics class (multi-genre) on Tarot-inspired writing.
Required Reading:
T.S. Eliot, Selections from The Waste Land
William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
Italo Calvino, Selection from The Castle of Crossed Destinies
George R.R. Martin, Chapter 8: Bran, from A Game of Thrones
Charles Williams, Selection from The Greater Trumps
Sallie Nichols, Selections from Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey
Anyway, your books are great and I'll be the first in line when you come back to Portugal :D
What a great writer you are, please continue !
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Sandor lives!!!
Good luck this season. Well, except a couple games. ;)
In an age of disposable literature, fluff, kitch and formulaic novels and sagas, I am glad that I can still find works of great quality and originality as yours.
"A Song Of Ice And Fire" is soo vivid and graphic, soo endearing, engrossing and profound at the same time, not only because your imagination and originality, but because at its heart it is a story of us, of the human condition, a story by us for us, and that translates in any language, culture, religion and whatever other artificial markers we use to define and indentify ourselves with.
I love your the novels, because in them I can see myself with my own positive aspects, as well as flaws and shortcomings, no matter how uncomfortable or painful!
For that I thank you always! Congrats on winning the Locus award, I hope many more follow!
And if not, is there a way for me to meet and greet with you somewhere else? I am willing to travel to America.
Congratulations on your Award!
/Victor
Or next year, to worldcon in San Antonio.
Or failing that, the 2014 worldcon in London.
I'm always at worldcon.
I look forward to meet you in London George! I think you will find me an interesting person when we meet in 2 years!
What date is Worldcon by the way?
2013 is San Antonio, Texas.