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News
[It's Freebie Friday in the Critters Store...]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.
Free Web Sites
Free web sites for authors (and others) are available at www.nyx.net.
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.)
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"...if you're at all concerned about story openings, you'd be nuts not to read what Qualkinbush has to say." —Wil McCarthy, author of BLOOM and THE COLLAPSIUM
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The Critters Queue
Submission files 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 16-Apr-2014 (Crits due 23-Apr-2014):
F The Clandestine Chapter 10 [mpc] Darla Jackson -#23564
F Lottchen P.E. Zimmerman -#23565
F Beast Coast Chapter 1 Rob Gilliam -#23566
F Warlock Chronicles: Lady Silver, Ch. 1-2 Bobbie Felder -#23567
F Shrouded Goddess, Chapter 10 Patricia Moussatche -#23568
SF Oldskin [@] Megan Hutchins -#23569
SF Gotta Have That Look Chris Kenworthy -#23570
SF The Boarding Donna Burt -#23571
SF Antwerp Clem Taylor -#23572
SF Aquarius Rising: Blood Tide Brian Burt -#23573
SF Long Live the Future Brigade Madison Culler -#23574
SF The Telomere Blues Carlos Mano -#23575
SF The Dark Fissure, Chapters 1-2 Clancy Weeks -#23576
SF Remember Colleen Laughlin -#23577
F Salome's Hair Kati Ayers -#23578
SF Aurora and Tithonus Reed Corrigan -#23579
SF Dreamthief Paul Thompson -#23580
F The Climb Steven Saunders -#23581
Week of 23-Apr-2014 (Crits due 30-Apr-2014):
SF Tom's Folly Adrian Deasley
SF Waking Up Is Hard to Do Steven Thomas Howell
F A Girl in Trouble is a Temporary Thing Elke Blackstone
F Where the Magic Lives Jeffrey Hall
SF Dahkshina di Moher's Possibility Array Fiona Howland-Rose
SF The Higgs Power Plant Juan Hernandez
SF Wrong Cat Christian Roberts
F Sarimanok Feather Annaliese Lemmon
F Charade Kamaria S. Vaught
SF What She Remembered, Chap. 1-2 Deborah Kaminski
F Veil of Shadows, Prologue Bethany M. Cusick
SF Homeland Alisa Williams
SF Lucky Kyle Kenyon
F Aquarius chapter 1-11 Maya
SF The Ink Android Jen Finelli
SF On the mutated Island of Britain, Sybil Butterfield met an Undead Biker Gang and Vice-Versa Peter Huston
F By the Lake of Swans Connor Moran
SF First Clones---a working title---chapters 3-4 Bobbie Falin
F The Empress Brow, Chapter 6 Meaghan Nichols
Week of 30-Apr-2014 (Crits due 7-May-2014):
F Anima, Chapters 0-3 Mulyadi Cahyono
SF Spark Into Fire Matt Dovey
H The Not, Chapter 32 A. R. Braun
SF From Frying Pan to Freezer Brian Cady
SF 3039 Tom Lin
SF Red Mountain, Chapter 1 William Webb
SF Testing the Equalisers Ian Creasey
F Avenging Nicholas Robert Harpold
SF A Pinch in the Fabric Larry Rachman
H The Clootie Tree, Chapter 1 Andrew Richardson
F East of the Sun and West of the Moon Eugenia Triantafyllou
SF Service Alex Bottle
SF To Watch the Storms Jonathan Byrne
F The Complete Handbook of Royal Etiquette: Dragons, Kidnapping and Consumption By Aoife Farley
SF Nail Salons Will Kill You Kristin Pothast
SF Space Station Venture: Chapter 23 Kathy London
SF Gorgeous Orange Marie Ming
SF Remotely Out of Control Charles Hand
SF The Mechanoid Cries Within v3 Brock T.I. Penner
H Beautiful Bloody Duckling, Chapter 1 Kelly Calabrese
Week of 7-May-2014 (Crits due 14-May-2014):
SF Nothing to See Here Arthur M. Doweyko
H A Life on the Rocks Nicholas Stella
SF Touching Flames Adria Lysay
SF The Garden and the Little Eaters L Chan
F Ogres at Alcatraz Isle Judith Boyer
SF Phantom Limb Billy H. Peery
SF Into the Blue Marty Bonus
SF Mayhem at Manville Michael Andre-Driussi
SF A Dangerous Philosophy David G. Turner
F Euphoria Milk seeks advice keith Gell
SF Tsi of God Martin
SF Resurrection Day Jaroslav Makarov
SF Children Of Sadness Ch. 2 Fertessa Scott
F Faith Lise Dubeau
SF The Last Song Champion - 11 Tony Farnden
H Endurance CJ Friend
SF Procreation Through Productivity Fred Obermeyer
SF Square Chickens Charlene Hansom
SF The Boy Who Would Fly Adam vanLangenberg
SF Defender: Return of the Harkers - Chapter 4 Eric J. Juneau
H Guard the Park Matthew Weber
SF The Refuse Hunter's Daughter Will Milner
SF Whatever Happened to Dr. Swerdlow? Mike Flinchum
SF The Rust Bucket Jennifer Mitchell
SF Immunity Aaron Gallagher
SF The Scunthorpe Redemption Emma Baillie
F Wild Skins Heather Cale
SF The Shadowed Forest Rati Mehrotra
F Beyond Ragnarok, Chapter 2 Carl Alves
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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]"):
YA Enchanter RFDR E. B. Pike [?]
M The Shot Zimbalist L. Odhams [?]
M The Shot Zimbalist L. Odhams [?]
L The Six Samurai Chapters 1-3 John Endris [?]
F Our Father, Chapter 1 Brandon Byes [?]
SF Terra Prime: Fall of a Federation [?]
SF Rats in Space [?]
F Dollhouse of the He, Chart [?]
L Violin Playing Robot Chrissie Wranja [?]
SF Defender: Return of the Harkers - Chapter 5 Eric J. Juneau [14-May-2014]
SF Bob, Michah, and Alice: Untested Love Peter Huston [30-Apr-2014]
SF And Miles to Go Clancy Weeks [23-Apr-2014]
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Held until participation ratio improves (then out that week):
F The Do-Over Daniel A. Willis [12-Feb-2014]
F Striking Chains, Ch.2-3 Kris Schnee [26-Feb-2014]
SF Insignificance At A Distance Philip Stetson [26-Feb-2014]
H Small Treasures Neil Murrell [05-Mar-2014]
F The Black Tail, Chapters 2-3 Bee-Lee See [05-Mar-2014]
F Elmjack The Legend, Chapters 1-6 Daryl Gray [05-Mar-2014]
SF Five Z.M. Quynh [12-Mar-2014]
F The Diocese of the Dog Alyssa A. Motylinski [12-Mar-2014]
SF Subway Hero 2.0 Theo Gerken [12-Mar-2014]
H Hand of Satan Gabrial Soh [19-Mar-2014]
F Outrun The Competion Ed Bang [19-Mar-2014]
F Werewolf Investigations: Capital Kidnap Mel Corbett [26-Mar-2014]
F HighRunner, Chapters 1-4 Joy L. Gibson [26-Mar-2014]
F The Absolute Chapter One The Game of Life Steve Crews [09-Apr-2014]
F Connor, Savior of Damsels in Distress Rebecca Sivils [16-Apr-2014]
H Catgut Alex Harrison [16-Apr-2014]
F How to make them scream Hugo Guérin [16-Apr-2014]
SF The Gods That Punish - Chapter 1 Edward Paul [16-Apr-2014]
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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.]