http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:56:29 -0700 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:35:47 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m11d14-Bride-of-Tranquility-review?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Bride of Tranquility cover art by Brad W. Foster In the small town of Tranquility, Arkansas, located in the Ozarks, a lot of the residents all tend to have special powers: veterinarian Rachel Thorne can mentally speak with animals;  Average Jo... Fantasy Books aliens novel comics convention art authors Manor Haunt Tracy Morris Brad Foster Ghost Murder Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:35:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m11d14-Bride-of-Tranquility-review?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d31-Halloween-poems?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Photo © 2009, Ethan Nahté For Halloween (a.k.a. Samhain) I have decided to share three all-ages friendly horror poems. Hope you enjoy them & happy haunting.“Death Rides by a Comanche Moon” Upon the darkened prairie a Co... Horror Books Vampire moon poetry Nahté Ethan Comanche Rose Manor Haunt Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:34:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d31-Halloween-poems?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Things-not-to-do-when-submitting-for-anthologies?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner P.N. Elrod moderating a panel @ ConDFW 2009 (Photo © 2009, Ethan Nahté) Writers, both new and veterans, sometimes tend to either forget or ignore the fact that there are rules to submitting their stories, regardless of the genre. This mo... Books Martin publisher convention authors Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:35:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Things-not-to-do-when-submitting-for-anthologies?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d28-Does-horror-equal-gore?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner "Rawhead & Bloodybones" (© 2009, David Martinez) for the cover of Devil's Den & Other Macabre Thoughts by Ethan Nahté It’s that time of the year when scary little hobgoblins are ringing your doorbell and nasty l... Horror Books Vampire Dracula Frankenstein Stoker pulp King environment writing novel create authors October story Poe Barker Stevenson Machen Lovecraft gore Jacob Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:16:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d28-Does-horror-equal-gore?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d13-Blood-of-the-Bean-event?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Faust's promotional poster for Blood of the Bean event. Austin, TX author Gabrielle Faust is at it once again with her scary mad marketing and PR skills. She has gathered a clawful of indie horror authors to do a live reading of original scary stori... Horror Speculative Books Signing Werewolf Wedel Faust Gabrielle writing novel authors coffee Austin reading October story Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:16:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m10d13-Blood-of-the-Bean-event?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m9d29-Witch-Way-to-the-Mall?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Cover art by Tom Kidd It's not surprise that as mankind encroaches upon the territory of nature and beasts, running them out of their homes, that before long civilization would encroach upon the supernatural. In the first of a three book series, edi... Horror Fantasy Werewolf animal Friesner Stirling Wentworth Turtledove Baen Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:52:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m9d29-Witch-Way-to-the-Mall?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m9d14-FenCon-VI?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Artist Guest of Honor Kurt Miller's original art for FenCon VI. FenCon VI, the sixth annual con(vention) put on by the Dallas Future Society, is coming this weekend. Not sure what FenCon is or means? Here it is in a space capsule: "Fen" is... Science Fiction Horror Fantasy Speculative Books Signing Angeline Hawkes Fulbright Werewolf Wedel space aliens planet universe writing novel comics publisher create convention filk Bujold Ubrich Star Trek art Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:54:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m9d14-FenCon-VI?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Creating-interesting-characters?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook in the stage version circa 1906. Whether you are creating a hero/heroine, villain/villainess or an anti-hero, there should be more thought than “what’s a cool name” and the character’s vital ... Character create Barrie Peter Pan Hook Capt Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:51:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Creating-interesting-characters?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d25-Death-of-a-legend--Mr-Donald-M-Grant?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Donald M. Grant, Robert Weinberg & Glenn Lord @ the World SF Con in Kansas City, 1976 (photo from Robert Weinberg's collection) As if the news of guitar legend Les Paul recent passing wasn’t enough to shake the music world, now the Sci-Fi,... Donald Grant Weinberg Glenn Lord publisher Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:55:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d25-Death-of-a-legend--Mr-Donald-M-Grant?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d21-Writing-and-ownership-why-Superman-has-abandoned-us?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Publicity shot of the late Christopher Reeve as SupermanIn the most recent battle with DC Comics, part of the huge conglomerate known as Time Warner, taking on the estate of Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, it seems that the courts have split th... DC comics Superman kryptonite Luthor Siegel Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:51:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d21-Writing-and-ownership-why-Superman-has-abandoned-us?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d10-The-importance-of-a-locale-in-your-story?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner This image provided by NASA shows an artist's conception of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite that splashed into the ocean near Antarctica in February 2009 (AP Photo/NASA) When developing and creating your short story, novel or screenplay, s... Science Fiction Horror Fantasy space environment planet universe writing novel Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:20:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m8d10-The-importance-of-a-locale-in-your-story?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d30-40-years-since-the-moon-landing--but-do-aliens-exist?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Cover art created by Darrell Osborn. (Image courtesy of Stephanie Osborn) Did aliens or our own government bring down the space shuttle? This “fictional” book may have the answers. NASA, Apollo 11 and the space shuttle program have been ... Science Fiction Speculative Books X-Files Burnout space moon Stephanie Osborn aliens Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:19:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d30-40-years-since-the-moon-landing--but-do-aliens-exist?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d25-Batman-The-fear-and-psychology-of-the-unknown-Part-3?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Binky the Fruit Bat. (Image courtesy of Bat World Sanctuary) As the '70s danced its way into the "Me" generation, the decade ended with a bite as author Martin Cruz Smith delivered his book Nightwing, which became a movie about killer vamp... Horror Books Vampire Bats Dark Shadows Lugosi Rice X-Files Burton Pratchett Steakley Martin Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:52:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d25-Batman-The-fear-and-psychology-of-the-unknown-Part-3?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Vampires-vs-Werewolves-fundraising-event?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Wolf & Bat Conservation Fundraising Event @ Eerie Books in Wylie, TX, July 18, 2009 Odds are that most of you have seen vampires and werewolves battling it out in a movie, whether it be the current Underworld series or the old Frankenstein ... Eerie Books Signing Angeline Vampire Bats Dracula Werewolf Wedel Faust Steve Gabrielle animal Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:55:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Vampires-vs-Werewolves-fundraising-event?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Batman-The-fear-and-psychology-of-the-unknown-Part-2?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner The penny-dreadful cover for Varney the Vampyre. To begin part 2 of this series let me first make a correction. It was stated in part 1 that author John Polidori wrote Varney The Vampyre when, in fact, he wrote The Vampyre, a Tale (1819) and Varney ... Vampire Bats Dracula Stoker Dark Shadows Lugosi Hammer Rice Lestat King Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:15:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Batman-The-fear-and-psychology-of-the-unknown-Part-2?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d3-Batman-The-fear-and-psychology-of-the-unknown-Part-1?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Christian Bale as Batman in a scene from, The Dark Knight. (AP Photo/Warner Bros.) Portions of this article were part of an unpublished piece written in 2005. The purpose for reprinting this article with addendums and updates is due to the fact that... Horror Vampire Bats Dracula Frankenstein Stoker pulp Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:04:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m7d3-Batman-The-fear-and-psychology-of-the-unknown-Part-1?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m6d28-Celebrate-the-4th-of-July--Angeline-Hawkes-book-signing?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Authors Chris Fulbright & Angeline Hawkes, ConDFW 2009 Author Angeline Hawkes may not be a name among female horror authors that is as well known as Anne Rice or Laurell K. Hamilton, but the Dallas-based mother and homemaker has been writing sto... Horror Eerie Books Signing Angeline Hawkes Fulbright Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:40:53 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m6d28-Celebrate-the-4th-of-July--Angeline-Hawkes-book-signing?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m6d24-Classifying-the-genre-of-speculative-fiction?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner Photo by Dd-b, taken at the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City, MO. Speculative (spec) fiction was a term first believed to be used by sci-fi author Robert A Heinlein (b. July 7, 1907; d. May 8, 1988) in an editorial he wrote for t... Science Fiction Horror Fantasy Speculative Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:53:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14922-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner~y2009m6d24-Classifying-the-genre-of-speculative-fiction?cid=exrss-Dallas-Speculative-Fiction-Examiner