My GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field, is posted! Plus a Comments post, for ideas, suggestions, etc. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n... www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/c...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Not Paying Editors Limits Range of Editorial Voices by Scott H. Andrews (Here is a text version of the Guest of Honor speech Scott (me!) gave at World Fantasy 2024, Oct. 20, saying that indie editors not taking pay is limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. I...

I've posted my GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. It's a call for discussion how to change that, like devising pay standards for editors. Comments in second post. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Not Paying Editors Limits Range of Editorial Voices by Scott H. Andrews (Here is a text version of the Guest of Honor speech Scott (me!) gave at World Fantasy 2024, Oct. 20, saying that indie editors not taking pay is limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. I...

My GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field, is posted! Plus a Comments post, for ideas, suggestions, etc. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n... www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/c...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Not Paying Editors Limits Range of Editorial Voices by Scott H. Andrews (Here is a text version of the Guest of Honor speech Scott (me!) gave at World Fantasy 2024, Oct. 20, saying that indie editors not taking pay is limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. I...

I've posted my GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. It's a call for discussion how to change that, like devising pay standards for editors. 1/2 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n...

A wonderful reading from @wlbolm.bsky.social at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social #worldfantasy2024

BTW, Editor GOH Scott H. Andrews @bcsmagazine.bsky.social had some great thoughts on indie zine pay for editors in his GOH address. I hope he'll post them somewhere for a wider audience. #worldfantasy2024

Well, that's it for World Fantasy 2024. Had a blast, met some great people, especially from Codex, and still impressed by the mad karaoke skills us nerds have. Now to get across the border before the Buffalo Bills game lets out... #worldfantasy2024

...and the last award, Best Novel, goes to The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) #worldfantasy2024

Best Novella award goes to “Half the House Is Haunted”, Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn) #worldfantasy2024

Best Short Fiction award goes to “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2) #worldfantasy2024

Best Anthology award goes to The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)...told you all I wasn't going to win 😉
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Best Collection Award goes to No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow). Way to go @premeemohamed.com!!!
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Best Artist Award goes to Audrey Benjaminsen
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Special Award – Professional goes to Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus
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Special Award – Non-Professional goes to Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny #worldfantasy2024

Lifetime achievement awards to Ginjer Buchanan and Jo Fletcher. #worldfantasy2024

It begins. Right now, those of us in the cheap seats are grading the table manners of those finishing up the banquet. Step up your game, Table 4! #worldfantasy2024

Brevity Is the Soul of Wit (ie: short fiction) panel with @jennahanchey.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, @gregoryawilson.com, @stormhumbert.bsky.social & @kateheartfield.com at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social #worldfantasy2024

Fantasy Inspired by Real-World History with P. Djéli Clark, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, Jeff Ford, Heather Graham, and EC Ambrose at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social. Yes, I go to all the (packed!) history panels. I have two history degrees. Back off 😉 #worldfantasy2024

Fantastic reading by @kateheartfield.com at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social that juxtaposed a scene from a translation of the Völsunga saga with a passage from Kate's book, The Valkyrie, that interpreted the same scene for modern readers. Such a great idea for a reading! #worldfantasy2024

There's Kissing in This Book? (aka Romantasy) panel at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social #worldfantasy2024

World Fantasy has been great for me and I wish we could just add in mandatory nap time in the afternoon. #worldfantasy2024

GOH Feature panel for P. Djéli Clark, hosted by @therisingtithes.bsky.social at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social #worldfantasy2024

Short Fiction Editing as an Artform panel (with a group of panelists too big for the room and a room too small for the audience 😉) with Rich Horton, @arleysorg.bsky.social, @teresempierre.bsky.social, @kercoby.bsky.social & @bcsmagazine.bsky.social at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social #worldfantasy2024

Speculative Poetry panel with @teresempierre.bsky.social @lynnesargent.bsky.social and @therisingtithes.bsky.social at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social #worldfantasy2024

Tonight! I'll be signing copies of NEXT OF KIN, my space opera retelling of the biblical story of Ruth. After an asteroid destroys her home, a widowed daughter-in-law travels w/ her mother-in-law to return w/ her to her in-laws home across the galaxy. #worldfantasy2024 @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social

Black Fantasy and Horror panel at @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social #worldfantasy2024

Scenes from day one of #worldfantasy2024

a gray cat wearing glasses is reading a book Alt: a gray cat wearing glasses is reading a book

#worldfantasy2024 I'm reading at 1pm, come see me!

Hey #worldfantasy2024 attendees! I'm doing a reading at 4:30pm and I have chocolate!

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