Now there’s a goal: become so famous a writer that hawt alt-girls write dirty tribute songs about you. And this is a picture of Mr. Ray Bradbury’s reaction to watching the video:

NEW! Scroll down to the bottom of the page for an update! Nothing could even come close to touching the Oxford English Dictionary in the world of English dictionaries. Until now. Meet Wordnik. It’s still in beta, and it’s only a few days old. But I see the future of the dictionary, and it is [...]

Just got word of this excellent blog: Mira’s List. It’s an excellent collection of links to grants, fellowships, and residencies available to artists of every stripe, including writers. Just today I saw the Howard Fellowships in Fiction and Poetry, a $25,000 award for early to mid-career writers. Sweet! Seeing this page also reminds me that, it [...]

Thanks to Lisa Gold’s research blog, I’ve found what I think is the best, most fully-functional and most-likely-to-succeed research helper I’ve ever encountered. It’s a plugin to your Firefox browser called Zotero. Way too many features to list, but basically: saves, archives and organizes anything you can research from the web, from everyday pages to [...]

Courtesy of Boing Boing (is there anything they can’t do?), here is a link to a fabulous freelance researcher and writer: Lisa Gold. She’s got some pretty fantastic credits to her name, including doing research for Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. And personally, already her site has paid off in research gold for me, thanks to [...]

Strange Horizons is far and away the best speculative fiction magazine on the web. They are a non-profit that proves a volunteer-driven enterprise can generate consistently professional results. And speaking of professional, they honor writers by paying them professional rates; they are an SWFA-recognized professional speculative fiction market. I am not privy to their budget, [...]