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New entry Dec 07
Critter Notices
P&E Has a New Caretaker!
I'm very happy to announce that P&E has been handed off to a new caretaker! Check out the site for news and such. Hurrah!
Interviewed!
I'm being interviewed live on public radio for Critters 20th birthday. For those who want to listen, it's on the 10am (Mountain time) show on Thursday, 11/19/16, on Colorado Public Radio - www.cpr.org has streaming on the site or it's 90.1 FM in the Denver area. [Interview is done, you can listen on the site]
Free Web Sites
Free web sites for authors (and others) are available at www.nyx.net.
ReAnimus Acquires Advent!
ReAnimus Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of the legendary Advent Publishers! Advent is now a subsidiary of ReAnimus Press, and we will continue to publish Advent's titles under the Advent name. Advent was founded in 1956 by Earl Kemp and others, and has published the likes of James Blish, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and many others. Advent's high quality titles have won and been finalists for several Hugo Awards, such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Heinlein's Children. Watch this space for ebook and print editions of all of Advent's current titles!
Network speeding up
I'm switching the connection over to a new, shiny 10X faster network because of all the load. There might be bits of downtime as your boxes learn new addresses and things. Should be brief. Let me know of any prolonged outages you see.
Preditors & Editors Changeover
With the very sad passing of Dave Kuzminski, who ran P&E, I've taken over the P&E duties. Lots of what I hope are improvements; check it out at pred-ed.com.
Critters Server is Dying has been Replaced
See important details here in my blog. Let me know if you find anything that isn't working right. (Manuscripts are now available for this week, FYI.)
Book Recommendation
THE SIGIL TRILOGY:
The universe is dying from within...
"Great stuff... Really enjoyed it." — SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock
Announcing ReAnimus Press
If you need help making ebooks from manuscripts or print copies—or finding great stuff to read—look no further! An ebook publisher started by your very own Critter Captain. (And with a 12% Affiliate program.) [More]
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News
Critters is 23!
Yes, 23 years ago Critters was born. Wow! Thanks so much to all of you, who've made it such a resounding success!
Critters no longer accepting European Union members :(
It's with a heavy heart that I have to announce Critters can no longer accept people in the European Union as members. This is a result of the "GDPR" privacy laws going into effect. I'm a big fan of privacy, and applaud the general idea behind the GDPR, but the way it's implemented forces me to close the door to EU writers. [read more why...]Books from Critters!
Check out Books by Critters for books by your fellow Critterfolk, as well as my list of recommended books for writers.
How to Write SF
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells by Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor. (This is one of the books your ol' Critter Captain learned from himself, and I highly recommend it.)
(Also via Amazon)
Space Travel for SF Writers
Hot off the presses from ReAnimus Press! Space Travel - A Science Fiction Writer's Guide— An indispensible tool for all SF writers that explains the science you need to help you make your fiction plausible. (Also via Amazon)
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The Critters Queue
Manuscripts themselves are here.
Queue of manuscripts out or to be sent (dates are estimated,
depending on number of mss. sent out, which depends on number of
members; probabalistically, the end of the queue is usually about
a month away):
Title Author
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Week of 12-Jun-2019 (Crits due 19-Jun-2019):
SF Special Breakfast, Chapters 1-2 [mpc] Cameron Bright -#28499
SF The Boy Who Wanted to Go to the Moon Steve Donnelly -#28500
SF Splash of Color Henry McFarland -#28501
F A Breaking of Magic, Chapter 3 Kerry Cathers -#28502
F Hidden Knight: A Novel of a Bear Leanna Zimmerman -#28503
F The Bykownik Rift, Chapter 1 Jessica Zebuhr -#28504
F The Rysing Dying Sun, Sydney Chapter 1 Anthony White -#28505
F The Sun of the North, Chapter 1 Tristan T. Chynoweth -#28506
H My Mother, In the Dark Kate Genellie -#28507
H Redcoats Russell Dorn -#28508
SF Barnstar's Day Off Ife J. Ibitayo -#28509
SF By the Will of the Gods Charles Q. Choi -#28510
SF The Nexus Effect Kyle Walker -#28511
SF The Universal Directory of Dangerous Places Elise Kim -#28512
Week of 19-Jun-2019 (Crits due 26-Jun-2019):
SF The Abduction Chronicles: Blue Lake Event Part Two, Chapters 7-10The DB Gibb
H Take the Mic Amanda Hard
H Scan For Threats Madison Estes
SF Xaromar Chris Turner
H The Gold Digger Steve Levandoski
SF Simple Machines T.M. Heckman
F Sigurd Jeff Stewart
SF SlingStar Myth, Chapter 1 Donna Dion
SF Semper Fidelis: We are Rome George Nakashidze
F Sparks and Matches Ch 1-4 Kate Zimmerman
SF A Love Letter From Space Gavin Parmar
SF Power and Blood Javier Sobrado
F Vague Hex_chapter one, book 2_ michelle
Week of 26-Jun-2019 (Crits due 3-Jul-2019):
SF Poison Chapter 1 _RFDR_ Stephen Secor
SF Changelings: Insurrection, Chapters 9-11 Liam Corley
F Curselifter Renan Bernardo
F Paper Hero Jim Marino
F Day of the Inventions, 1 April 1933 Douglas Kolacki
SF Tree Hugger Joel Schroeder
SF Lost Tomorrows Seain Dunne
F The Tale of the Witch Sisters Mariko Duknic
SF AI Books Robert Harpold
F Escaping Rondella William Nalley
F Boy Meets El Camino C. Q. March
F AllWorlds Asunder, Chapters Twenty-Nine to Thirty-Two Joel E. Roosa
H The Science of Garbolgy Jodie Cowan
Week of 3-Jul-2019 (Crits due 10-Jul-2019):
SF Crack in the Sky Eric D Littlefield
SF Rescuing the Enemy, Chapter 22 Jeff Naylor
SF Rollback Amit Gupta
SF The Final Judgement-Chapter 1-You Live You Die Stacey .S. Rivers
F Adlaid Dunlop Ran to the Mill Jay Gabriel
H The Moon is a Friend for the Lonesome Andrew Giffin
F Destiny 101 Erwin Chege
SF Merka, Part 1, Chapter 1 Pamela Najar-Simpson
F The Maiden Voyage of Tiberius Maximilian Kathryn Freeland
SF The Strange Case of Hollywood Crop Circles Jeff Cates
SF Insect Apocalypse April Weeks
H Midnight Spook Jnoh Doer
SF The Killridge Karnals of Sigma-7 Ethan Smith
F Path-ology Mike DeDominicis
F The Finest Trick of the Devil Emma Mann
F Cats with Swords Redux + More Chapters Zachary Nardolillo
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(Note, if the last week above looks abnormally large, it probably
needs me to add a new week, a task I do manually when I get around
to it. Future critique dates are approximate and subject to change.)
Symbols:
[@] - Pro [SFWA/HWA] author
[*] - Extra week(s) for holidays/aburt-out-of-town.
[mpc] - Most Product Critter Award winner
[!] - Special non-Wednesday dates because Critter Captain will be out of town
[ERROR!] - This means there is a problem and your manuscript will NOT be
sent out - Contact the Critter Captain ASAP if you see this by your name.
Waiting to enter Queue (Will enter at end of queue on "[date]"):
F Inconclusive Bets Renan Bernardo [3-Jul-2019]
SF The Final Judgement-Chapter 1 Stacey .S. Rivers [10-Jul-2019]
SF Night Train to Nogales Jay Gabriel [10-Jul-2019]
SF The Dying Sun: Chapter 2 Noah AnthonyW [19-Jun-2019]
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Held until participation ratio improves (then out that week):
SF Vector X, Prologue and Chapter 1 Angela Rose [17-Apr-2019]
SF End Man Alex Austin [24-Apr-2019]
SF Life After Maggie, Chapter One Andrew Colwell [24-Apr-2019]
F Forest of Dragons, Chapters 1-2 Maya Vanderpool [01-May-2019]
F Hypearthia-Tales of Hyperia and Earth: "Dawn of Chaos Book One" Chapter One W. P. Kelley [08-May-2019]
SF Datapocalypse Chris Keast [08-May-2019]
F Death of a Hero, Chapter 1 Alex Geffner-Mihlsten [15-May-2019]
F Cup of CLues Mari Mitchell [15-May-2019]
SF Rehab for the Paranormally Disturbed, Chapters 1-6 Jonathan Robbins [22-May-2019]
SF Yin Yang Ch.1-3 Flavio Avila [22-May-2019]
SF The Little Bang Theory Steve Patschke [22-May-2019]
SF The Abduction Chronicles: Blue Lake Event Part 2, Chap 5-6 DB Gibb [22-May-2019]
F Obsidian Vengeance, Chapters 1-2 Heather McDonald [29-May-2019]
SF MUSTANG BETTIE Paul Werner [29-May-2019]
SF Wolfwitch, chapter 1 Zackary H. Gentry [05-Jun-2019]
F A Captain's Fate Anthony Gibbs [05-Jun-2019]
F Maiden in the Moonlight, Chapters 3-4 Michael Bondies [05-Jun-2019]
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>> Note 1: Held manuscripts are removed after four weeks on hold and
>> must be resubmitted.
>> Note 2: It is the *author's* responsibility to notify Aburt when
>> they have brought up their critique count and want their ms. sent out.
[Click here to see the queue including archival data from 1995.]