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FEMSPEC: Speculative Black Women (7/30/03; Journal issue)

Call for Papers
"Speculative Black Women: Magic, Fantasy, and the Supernatural"

FEMSPEC, an "interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and
creative works in the realms of SF, fantasy, magical realism, myth, folklore
and other supernatural genres" is now accepting submissions for a special
issue on Black women's speculative fiction. In this special issue we will
offer a range of critical approaches to black women's speculative fiction,
film, other art forms, and black feminist theory. We envision the special
issue exploring a variety of writers, filmmakers, and other artists. We also
expect that critical essays will either take on a black feminist/womanist
analysis or provide a strong gender critique.

Possible topics may engage, although are not limited to: Matriarchies and
Patriarchies of the Future; Black feminist (re)visions of the world; black
witches; obeah women, root workers, and conjure women; gender dynamics;
representations of black womanhood; rethinking (her) story through fantasy;
and black women in Caribbean, African-American, or African folklore.

Possible essays might question: what it means for black women to create
speculative visions of the world; how do speculative creations draw on black
women's actual positions in the "real" world as women who experience varying
degrees of sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia; how do current black
women speculate, (re)write, (re)visit, and (re)envision history in ways that
connect them to black women's legacies of struggle; why now-when black women
have always emphasized speculation in their creative works-why is there now
a surge of interest in their works; and why, as we move forward into the
twenty-first century, is there a surge in fantastic representations of black
womanhood? Contributions focusing on the works of Octavia Butler, Tananarive
Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Tina McElroy-Ansa, Toni Morrison,
Gloria Naylor, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Jewelle Gomez, Julie Dash, and Kasi
Lemmons are particularly welcome. We also solicit original fiction, poetry
and artwork concerning the subject of this special issue. We are seeking
critical articles, reviews, artwork, poetry and fiction. Critical articles
should be 15 pages (MLA format), and short fiction should be no more than 15
pages. Book reviews should follow the FEMSPEC guidelines, which are
available at http://www.csuohio.edu/femspec. For further information or
queries, please contact the special issue guest editors:

Yolanda Hood (yhood@...) and Gwendolyn D. Pough (pough002@...).
Submissions marked "Speculative Black Women: Magic, Fantasy, and the
Supernatural" should be sent to:

FEMSPEC
Caddo Gap Press
3145 Geary Boulevard
PMB 275
San Francisco, CA 94118

Please submit four copies on which your name, address, and contact points do
not appear so that the submission may be read blind. All submissions should
conform to MLA standards, as found in the MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers, Fifth Edition (1999). MLA guidelines can also be found
on-line at: www.mla.org. Your submission should be accompanied by a separate
covering title page that includes author's name, title, genre, address,
phone, FAX and email. Any submission that does not come in with sufficient
copies will not be sent through the review process at our expense.

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2003

Tracey L. Minor
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Hi everyone,

It's great to be a member of this list! I am really
looking forward to the interesting discussions I know
we'll be having of some really good literature.

By way of introduction, from those of you I haven't
interacted with on the Sci-Fi Noir list, my name is
Jai Sen and I am the author of "Garlands of Moonlight"
(which, I'm proud to say, won a 2002 Xeric award), its
upcoming sequel "The Ghost of Silver Cliff," and "The
Golden Vine." The first two books are Malay ghost
stories retold in comic book format, and the last is
an alternate history of Alexander the Great. More
information on my books, for those who are interested,
is available on http://www.shotopress.com

All the best,

Jai

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1. name: wildflower*elf
2. location: New Orleans
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres:  sci fi, fantasy,
metaphysical
5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: terry brooks shannara
series,piers anthony's xanth series, incarnations of immortality
series, blue adept series, robert asprins' myth series, r.a. mc
avoy's "damiano" series, the borribles go for broke, celestine
prophecy, the oversoul seven trilogy by jane roberts, alice in
wonderland, fairy tales, wizard of oz
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: aside from his archaic
sexism, i love piers anthony. i haven't read to many new authors in
scifi or fantasy in years. i've been involved in spending most of my
time buying and reading metaphyiscal books.
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:  damiano the lute
playing wizard, the borribles, grundy golem, allanon the druid from
the shannara series,  gandalf, elves of all sorts, any type of
magical being
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:
can't think of any
9.   Topics of importance to you: not sure....i just like having
things in common with people so that there IS something to talk about
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: i didn't realize they were depicted....ha ha ha
11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: not enough people of color,
women as objects especailly sexual objects, no diverse sexuality
13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs
14.  Anything else you think is important: the artwork on a book is
very important to me and i hate when it's not consistant with what's
inside.  i generally read more fantasy than sci fi but i love both. i
intend on writing my own books one day.

Hey everyone!  I'm so glad that everyone is responding so
enthusiastically.  So far, in less than 24 hours since we announced
the list, we have over 30 members!--- 2 have even posted their
profiles.

Help us get to know you and meet others with similar interests by
posting your introduction at SciFiNoir@yahoogroups.com.  If you have
a web site or online work, let us know.  List your published works,
as well.

Use the list below as a guide to paste in the body of your message.
On the subject line, type the word "Intro:", your name and city.
Eg.  Tracey, Philadelpia.

After posting your profile, watch how many friends you will quickly
make!

1.   Name:
2.   Location:
3.   Nickname/ Alias:
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres:
5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books:
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors:
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:
9.   Topics of importance to you:
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction:
11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves:
13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs
14.  Anything else you think is important

I found this online the other day

Interviewed By: Wynn Yarbrough


WY: How does living in the Northwest affect your writing? We know of
Herbert, Le Guin, and other science fiction writers living in the area.

OB: I don't know that it affects my writing. I came up here for the
wonderful weather; it is cool and rainy most of the time. I was born in
Southern California, and though it was sunny and hot most of the time, I
never liked it. The heat, I mean. I like Southern California, if it rained
more. I think you are trying to create something there that doesn't exist. I
think people write or don't write. If writing is what you do, you are going
to do it wherever you are.

WY: You've said before that you credit your success to the nonacademic
programs-- the Open Door Program of the Screen Writers' Guild of America and
the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop?

OB: Clarion Science Fiction Workshop was the most helpful. At the time it
was in Clarion, Pennsylvania. Then it moved to Michigan State University in
East Lansing. And there is a Clarion Workshop in Seattle now.

Clarion, like the Screen Writers' Guild of America of the West Open Door
program, taught you to do what you wanted to do. They could teach and
correct what you were doing as opposed to what goes on in colleges, where
you get an English teacher, not a writing teacher.

WY: Did that launch you?

OB: No, almost everything is part of a writer's education. I sold a piece
while I was at Clarion, but I kept writing and reading. I even teach at
Clarion every now and then. It really isn't that nurturing; it is more like
a boot camp. During the six week program you really work. You really don't
sleep.

Read the rest at http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Inter.asp?interid=15

Tracey L. Minor, President
The Multicultural Advantage
Phone: 215-849-0946
E-mail:  tminor @multiculturaladvantage.com

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1.   Name: Ricky
2.   Location: Chicago
3.   Nickname/ Alias: various
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: cyber punk, steam punk,
classic sci-fi.
5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Stand on Zanzibar, Sheep Look
Up, Foundation Trilogy, River World
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Samuel Delany, John Brunner,
Phillip Jose Farmer, William Gibson
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: Blade
Runner
9.   Topics of importance to you: Near term future extrapolations,
alternate realities, technology
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: When there are any, they are often broad stereotypes or they
are black for no particular reason and without any distinguishing
characteristics
11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: Authors who don't even
understand current technology, so how could they possibly extrapolate.
13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs none
14.  Anything else you think is important


Once Again, Welcome to SciFiNoirLiterature!!!!

1.   Name: Jan
2.   Location: Tulsa
3.   Nickname/ Alias:
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: Science Fiction, some fantasy

5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Two of my first SF book I read when
around the age of 9 are still sentimental favorites,
       "The Involuntary Immortals" and " The Perfect Planet". Asimov's
Foundation Trilogy, Norton's "Wraith's of Time"

6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Anything by Andre Norton, Octavia
Butler (thanks to SciFiNoir), Asimov, McCaffrey
       Kate Saundby who is published in electronic format and is SUPERB

7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: Recently
obsessed over "The Matrix" but I can't go too long
       without seeing "Metropolis"

9.   Topics of importance to you: Ridding stories of ethnocentric,
misogynist elements
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative Fiction:
They aren't...at least in mainstream publications

11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: Ordinary writing, pedestrian
storytelling
13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs
14.  Anything else you think is important...Although traditional publishing
has failed to see the importance of ebooks, some of the very
       best in Speculative fiction is coming to us in electronic format.

Jan...who writes essays, but admires those who create other worlds
siriuswriter@...

Moondance, Celebrating Creative Women
http://moondance.org/

INTERVIEW with Tananarive Due

March  17, 2002

Q: You’ve created a world of immortals and magic blood in your books MY SOUL
TO KEEP (1997) and THE LIVING BLOOD (2001).  What inspired those books? Anyone
who first learned about you by reading THE BLACK ROSE (2000), your historical
novel about Madam C.J. Walker, was in for a big surprise when they read your
newest supernatural thriller, THE LIVING BLOOD.  Why would you write a
historical novel when you have been most well-known as a horror writer?

A: Actually, I like to think of myself as a writer, which means that I like to
express ideas in many different ways.  I was a newspaper reporter and columnist
for The Miami Herald for more than 10 years, I’ve written science fiction
short stories, I like to write novels about the supernatural, and I wrote a
historical novel.

But I have to admit, THE BLACK ROSE was a surprise even to me.  I was approached
by the Alex Haley Estate, since Mr. Haley had planned to write a novel about
Madam Walker before his death in 1992.  I had never considered writing a
historical novel, but of course I was incredibly flattered just to be asked –
and then Madam Walker’s life is such a testament to vision  and endurance, I
found that it inspired me. I couldn’t say no.

Q: How did you finally get published?

A: The year 1992 changed me.  It jolted me closer to my core, and I produced my
best work.  I lived in North Miami, and Hurricane Andrew swept through South
Florida that year, leaving devastation that is still hard for me to comprehend. 
My grandmother, parents and aunt all sustained damage to their homes.  Then,
soon afterward, my grandmother in Indianapolis died.  Within days, my mother’s
perfectly healthy Great Dane got a stomach torsion and died suddenly.  My
college love dumped me. I thought life had suddenly turned mean, and I was
petrified this was only the beginning.

Then, in the course of a newspaper story, I had the opportunity to do a
telephone interview with Anne Rice, who was promoting her novel Tale of the Body
Thief.  I didn’t tell her I was an aspiring novelist, but I did try to ask her
questions I thought would benefit me as a writer.  (Now I notice other reporters
doing the same thing to me!)  I asked her how she responded to criticism that
was she was “wasting her talents” writing about vampires, because I needed
to address my fear that I would not be respected if I wrote about the
supernatural.

She scoffed.  “That used to bother me, but not anymore,” she said.  She told
me that her books are taught in university courses, and that writing about the
supernatural freed her from worry about being labeled as a “commercial”
versus a “literary” writer.

That was all I needed. Within weeks, I began writing THE BETWEEN, as if it had
been somewhere in the wings, waiting for me to shine a flashlight on it.  I
decided to bare myself in that story – which is about a man who believes the
Unknown is chasing him in his sleep, and he doesn’t know which world he will
find when he wakes up one morning to the next.  That was the way I felt that
year, when nothing was solid beneath my feet.  I felt as if I could no longer
take anything for granted, so I created a character, Hilton, who was literally
being chased by the Unknown.  My character had to face my fears and conquer
them.

Q: Are your characters really different versions of you?

A: I’m sure there’s a little of me in nearly all of my characters, but only
a few are directly like me: Hilton was living through my fears of mortality, and
the protagonist in MY SOUL TO KEEP, Jessica, was a lot like me.  I tried to
recreate my naivete, I gave her my job (although, I have to admit, she was much
further along in her journalism career than I ever got!), and I gave her my
tendency to overlook flaws in my romantic partners that I didn’t want to see. 
Jessica was the way I’d seen myself as a woman in my mid-twenties.

Q: I heard there’s a movie version of MY SOUL TO KEEP in the works, directed
by Blair Underwood.  Is he going to star in it, too?

A: Absolutely!  I tend to imagine actors playing parts when I’m writing. 
I’m writing a novel now where Angela Bassett is the lead character, at least
in my imagination.  In MY SOUL TO KEEP, I imagined David as Blair Underwood. 
That’s actually how our film deal came about.  Blair worked on a video with a
former co-worker of mine, and I asked my friend if he would be willing to send
Blair a copy of MY SOUL TO KEEP.  Only weeks later, Blair himself was on the
phone trying to option it for film.  I couldn’t believe it.

Q: Was that the first time you’d had a film option?

A: Actually, no – THE BETWEEN was optioned when it first came out, and then MY
SOUL TO KEEP had an option with Samuel Goldwyn Productions before Blair optioned
it.  I thought I was dreaming when the film folks first started calling.

Q: Have your feelings about Hollywood changed?

A: Well, I had to shake myself out of that dreamlike state.  Blair has done much
more than anyone else because he’s actually already shot some of his footage,
so I’m very optimistic about MY SOUL TO KEEP.  Mostly, Hollywood has taught me
the value of patience.  You have to think of it as a tree you’ve planted, and
trees take a long time to grow, if they grow at all.

Q: When will the MY SOUL TO KEEP movie come out?

A: Look for it sometime later this year.  In the mean time, Blair will be
co-starring opposite Julia Roberts in the Steven Soderbergh film FULL FRONTAL,
which will open in August. Soderbergh is the director of TRAFFIC and OCEAN’S
ELEVEN, incidentally, so I expect that movie to do well and bring Blair
attention that will help MY SOUL TO KEEP.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: I’m just finishing another book that’s very different from my previous
ones – it’s a family civil rights memoir entitled FREEDOM IN THE FAMILY, and
I co-authored it with my mother, Patricia Stephens Due.  One World/Ballantine
will publish it in January of 2003.  Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever been
more excited to be writing a book. This is the book I’ve known I would write
my entire life.

Q: What is FREEDOM IN THE FAMILY about?

A: My mother is writing about her experiences as a young person in college and
getting swept into the civil rights movement of the 1960s, what that was like. 
All my life, she’s wanted to tell the stories of the people she knew who
sacrificed so much during that time.   There were so many people who had
emotional problems as a result, post-traumatic stress problems and family
problems, and they ended up in institutions, committed suicide, and lost friends
– both blacks and whites. They bore a great burden for all of us.

My chapters are about what it was like growing up in the “integration”
generation, in mostly-white neighborhoods and schools, and how events like
Miami’s 1980 riots affected my own views about race as the child of civil
rights activists.  My sisters and I went to NAACP conventions every year, and we
knew the lyrics to freedom songs better than the lyrics to Christmas carols.

Q: What did your mother do in the 1960s?

A: My mother and her sister, Priscilla Stephens Kruize, were among five students
who spent 49 days in jail in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1960 for sitting-in at a
Woolworth lunch counter.  They served their sentence rather than paying a fee,
and they became the first “jail-in” as part of the student sit-in movement. 
Their courage in remaining in jail helped galvanize the other students
throughout the South, and throughout the country, who were working toward civil
rights in the 1960s.  They got a telegram from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Q: What’s it like to write a book with your mother?

A: It’s fascinating.  More than anything, I know that the years my mother and
I have spent researching FREEDOM IN THE FAMILY will always stand out in my
memory as some of the finest times we’ve ever had.  I’m blessed to have this
opportunity to learn about myself, my history and my family.  I’ve decided
everyone needs to write a book about their family, even if they never publish
it.  It’s a fascinating, healing journey.  There’s so much to learn!

Q: What will you write after FREEDOM IN THE FAMILY?

A: Well, I have a two-book contract with Pocket Books, which published THE
LIVING BLOOD.  The first, THE GOOD HOUSE, will be a supernatural suspense novel
set in a woodsy area of the Pacific Northwest.  It’s a haunted house novel, of
sorts, and I’m having great fun writing it.  After that, I’ll probably
revisit the world of my immortals.

Q: MY SOUL TO KEEP was published in 1997, and THE LIVING BLOOD didn’t come out
until 2001.  Why do you wait so long between books about the immortals?

A: Some of that is accident – THE LIVING BLOOD was delayed a bit because I had
to finish THE BLACK ROSE first.  But the primary reason is that I feel an
obligation to write good books, and my imagination doesn’t work as an
assembly-line.  There are early drafts of THE LIVING BLOOD I wouldn’t dare
show to anyone.  I think there’s a myth about writers that what we do is
somehow easy, that either you “have it” or you don’t – and the truth is
that writing is just plain hard work.  Yes, it’s fun to get sucked into my own
world, and it’s definitely fun to play “pretend” with all these figments
of my imagination, but the writing process itself is trial and error, writing
and rewriting.  Each book I write feels harder than the last, which I consider a
good thing.  I would never want it to feel like it was easy.  And if I had to
rush, I really believe I’d stand in the way of the part of me that is trying
to grow and learn.  I can’t revisit my immortals until I know where they are
and what they’re doing, and that will take some time. When Fana, David and
Jessica are ready, they’ll show me something marvelous. My hope, of course, is
that readers believe it’s worth the wait.

Q: You’re married to another writer, novelist Steven Barnes.  How did you
meet, and what’s it like being married to another writer?

A: Steve and I have a great story: We met in 1997, at a writers’ conference at
Clark Atlanta University entitled “The African-American Fantastic Imagination:
Explorations in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.”  It was a remarkable
event – Octavia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Jewelle Gomez and Steve were all
there.  I was so honored just to be invited.  I knew Octavia’s work, and I’d
seen an episode of “The Outer Limits” television series Steve had written,
“A Stitch in Time.”  It stars Amanda Plummer, she won an Emmy for it, and
it’s amazing.  I felt dazzled that weekend.  Then, it turned out that Steve
was the most remarkable man I’d ever met.  He was thinking much the same thing
about me.  We were doomed from the start.

It’s hard to describe how wonderful it is to share my life with another
writer.  We understand each other in some very core ways that make life a lot
easier.  We often throw story ideas around just for fun, second-guessing the
screenwriters in the movies we’re watching.  And we read each other’s work,
of course.  He was a tremendous help to me in organizing my thoughts when I was
writing THE LIVING BLOOD, and I know I was a tremendous help to him while he was
writing what I consider his masterpiece, a book called LION’S BLOOD, which
Warner/Aspect published in February.

Q: What is LION’S BLOOD about?

A: It’s an adventure and coming-of-age-story between a slave and young master,
set in the South of the 1860s, but with one twist: In the world of LION’S
BLOOD, the Americas were  colonized by Islamic Africans bringing European
slaves.  It’s a great book!  It has already been mentioned in The New York
Times, and he got a blurb from Charles Johnson, who wrote MIDDLE PASSAGE.

Q: Do you two ever feel like you’re competing?

A: Absolutely not.  We knew the pitfalls of this kind of relationship when we
began – we could be two actors or two singers trying to create a relationship,
and there are examples of those failures everywhere.  We knew we had to keep our
egos out of the relationship, to cheer each other on.  If something good happens
to me, Steve is thrilled; and if something good happens to him, I’m thrilled. 
We have a joint checking account, so it’s all good.

Q: You’re from Miami, but you live in a tiny town called Longview, Washington.
Why?

A: My husband’s daughter, Nicki, lives in Longview with her mother.  Steve is
committed to being an Everyday Dad until she graduates from high school in a
couple more years, and Nicki has embraced me as her stepmother.  One of the very
beautiful things about writing is that it can be done anywhere.  I do miss my
parents terribly, and I miss the diversity of Miami, but my life feels very full
and good right now.  I know I’m where I’m supposed to be.

--
Said

"Vivre pour la RDC, mourir pour la RDC"...


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However, many of you have no interest in film and TV adaptations or
interpretations of speculative fiction.

Are TV and film good mediums for speculative fiction or are they
doing harm to these genres?

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Hello,

Introducing myself:

My name is Elbert Lewis, Jr. and I write military style science
fiction. At least my first novel "The Dawn of MAN" turned out that
way. It was recently published and is available for purchase and
discussion. The protagonist is a black man and the badest brotha in
the universe. I wrote it that way. I'll be a bold brotha and let you
all know that the first chapter is available on my website:
www.elbertlewisjr.com.

That is the last bit of selfpromotion...I promise.

Have any of you read "The Regiment" by John Dalmas? That is one of my
favorite books. The black men in the book are awesome. I've read it
at least four times in the last ten years.

I hope to hear from you soon.

E.L.

Thank you, Tracey.

Proud to be a member of this group!

Maurice Jennings



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1.   Name: Cecil Washington

2.   Location: Maryland

3.   Nickname/ Alias: "Gloria's Boy" (just older relatives call me
that, not other people, as in, "You Gloria's boy ain't you? Anthony?
No, wait, Cecil. You the youngest, right?"), Creative Brother

4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: cyberpunk, cyberthug (my own
creation), dystopia, Fantasy, vampires

5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Octavia Butler's books,
Dhalgren, Sword of Shannara

6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Butler, Delaney, Mosley,
Due

7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: Gunn, Paris (one of my
characters), Belial (another one of mine), Lauren Olamina

8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:
Lord of the Rings

9.   Topics of importance to you: making money as a writer of
speculative fiction, book promotion, the craft of writing, story
selling, idea generation, do politics belong in SF? humor and
SF/F---how to make it happen, how to write horror.

10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: Black people are usually viewed as sidekicks or "me too"
characters. Asians and Hispanic characters usually act white. Rarely
any Native American characters, and rarely any characters from the
South.

11.  Your own published works, if any:

a) self-published Badlands, An Underground Science Fiction Novel (ISBN
0-7596-6258-4) in 2001.
b) Alien Erotica is due out in 2003. Published by RbanWrtr LLC.

12.  Your web site:

a) professional: http://www.cecilwashington.com
b) personal: http://creativebrother.freehosting.net

13.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves:

a) too many rules and yet too little variety in stories published
b) people who don't mind learning about a fictional alien culture yet
know little about other real life cultures in the real world
c) people who are afraid of new or unknown authors, yet complain about
  why they don't see anything different
d) that a story can actually be considered "too male" if the
protagonist is not a woman, and therefore rejected on that basis alone
e) that famous people can get away with selling what I consider to be
"pre-writing" as a short story. If it has no plot, no beginning,
middle and end, nay bit of structure, no protagonist, then how is it a
story?
f) that black male writers do not network like black female writers
do. Brothers, we can learn from the sisters in that regard.

14.  Memberships in science fiction clubs:

a) moderator and founder of
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blackscifihorrorfantasyclub
b) Afrofuturism, ScifiNoir

15.  Anything else you think is important:

a) While on the one hand, I wonder why there are not more ghetto
fabulous characters and stories in speculative fiction, I am also
afraid that if we write a lot of stories like that, eventually, those
stories will take over black speculative fiction.
b) Does anyone else think that Omar Tyree's writing is the Harry
Potter for smoove black people? Note: I meant to write "smoove", not
"smooth".

Dans un e-mail dat� du 15/10/02 17:12:29 Romance Daylight Time,
SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com a �crit :


> 1.   Name: GC Barrett
> 2.   Location:  France
> 3.   Nickname/ Alias:  Jane
> 4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: Fantasy, Sci Fi
> 5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Dune, Mind of my Mind, Dhalgren,
> Sheep Look Up, Eye of the Queen, The Gods Themselves, Grass, Raising the
> Stones, Floating Worlds, Mote in God's Eye, Dreaming Jewels, More than
> Human,Foundation Stories, Sime/Gen series
> 6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Octavia Butler, Sherri Tepper
> 7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: I generally don't have
> favorite characters, just favorite stories.
> 8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: Lord of
> the Rings
> 9.   Topics of importance to you:
> 10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
> Fiction: Not enough, but I am working on that.
> 11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves:
> 13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs
> 14.  Anything else you think is important
>



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Hi Elbert:


Welcome to to SciFiNoir_Lit.  Congradulations on publishing your first
novel.  I went to your website and checked out your sketchs.  Does your book
contain your artwork as well?

Tracey L. Minor
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From: Elbert Lewis, Jr. [mailto:elbertlewisjr@...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:24 AM
To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SciFiNoir_Lit] New Member and Sci-Fi Author


Hello,

Introducing myself:

My name is Elbert Lewis, Jr. and I write military style science
fiction. At least my first novel "The Dawn of MAN" turned out that
way. It was recently published and is available for purchase and
discussion. The protagonist is a black man and the badest brotha in
the universe. I wrote it that way. I'll be a bold brotha and let you
all know that the first chapter is available on my website:
www.elbertlewisjr.com.

That is the last bit of selfpromotion...I promise.

Have any of you read "The Regiment" by John Dalmas? That is one of my
favorite books. The black men in the book are awesome. I've read it
at least four times in the last ten years.

I hope to hear from you soon.

E.L.


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Ricky:

It's so good to see friends from BDPA and SciFiNoir TV & Film give this
group a chance too.  I have trouble with authors that don't take time to
understand technology as well.  if it does not at least sound credible, I
have trouble connecting to the entire story.  Must be because we are
techies.

Welcome to ScifiNoir Literature!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ricky C. Penick [mailto:rcpenick@...]
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:38 PM
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Subject: [SciFiNoir_Lit] Intro Ricky Chicago



1.   Name: Ricky
2.   Location: Chicago
3.   Nickname/ Alias: various
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: cyber punk, steam punk,
classic sci-fi.
5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Stand on Zanzibar, Sheep Look
Up, Foundation Trilogy, River World
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Samuel Delany, John Brunner,
Phillip Jose Farmer, William Gibson
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: Blade
Runner
9.   Topics of importance to you: Near term future extrapolations,
alternate realities, technology
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: When there are any, they are often broad stereotypes or they
are black for no particular reason and without any distinguishing
characteristics
11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: Authors who don't even
understand current technology, so how could they possibly extrapolate.
13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs none
14.  Anything else you think is important


Once Again, Welcome to SciFiNoirLiterature!!!!




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Hey Wildflower.

i'm glad your followed us over from SciFiNoir TV & Film.  Gandalf is one of
my favorite characters as well.  Do you like sword and sorceror books and
stories?

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To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SciFiNoir_Lit] Intro: wildflower*elf - New Orleans


1. name: wildflower*elf
2. location: New Orleans
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres:  sci fi, fantasy,
metaphysical
5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: terry brooks shannara
series,piers anthony's xanth series, incarnations of immortality
series, blue adept series, robert asprins' myth series, r.a. mc
avoy's "damiano" series, the borribles go for broke, celestine
prophecy, the oversoul seven trilogy by jane roberts, alice in
wonderland, fairy tales, wizard of oz
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: aside from his archaic
sexism, i love piers anthony. i haven't read to many new authors in
scifi or fantasy in years. i've been involved in spending most of my
time buying and reading metaphyiscal books.
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:  damiano the lute
playing wizard, the borribles, grundy golem, allanon the druid from
the shannara series,  gandalf, elves of all sorts, any type of
magical being
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:
can't think of any
9.   Topics of importance to you: not sure....i just like having
things in common with people so that there IS something to talk about
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: i didn't realize they were depicted....ha ha ha
11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: not enough people of color,
women as objects especailly sexual objects, no diverse sexuality
13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs
14.  Anything else you think is important: the artwork on a book is
very important to me and i hate when it's not consistant with what's
inside.  i generally read more fantasy than sci fi but i love both. i
intend on writing my own books one day.


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1.   Name: Maurice C. Jennings

2.   Location: Hartford, Connecticut

3.   Nickname/ Alias: Reece

4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres:

5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: All of Octavia Butler's books, and
since I just ordered Cecil Washington's "Badlands", I may add that after I read
it.

6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: I'm not familiar with lots of
authors, though I'm open to suggestion.  I want to buy some books that are
recommended and/or discussed here.  I've spent too many years wondering where
the heck the books by other than white authors are.  I've been reading SF since
the '50s, but until I met our moderator and became a member of Sci-Fi Noir, I
had NO exposure to black authors out here.

7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: This is very wierd, but when I was
about 10 (1957), I distinctly remember reading the Sunday comics at my aunt's
apartment in Harlem, NY.  Dick Tracy was wearing his infamous TV-wrist
communicator, and that stuck in my head.  That's when the "what-ifs"  got me
interested in Science Fiction, or better yet, Speculative Fiction.  Other than
that...Lessee...The central characters in Ms. Butler's "Parable" books, and the
sister who could change shapes in the books with Doro.  Don't make me go and dig
up the names!  I believe Atanyu, or something close...?

8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:  None
off-hand.  But it COULD have been "Starship Troopers" if the movie had come
anywhere near sticking to the plot of the book.  I have to give Heinlein his
props, because the starship pilots were women, and I remember him writing that
their reflexes and senses made them better pilots than men...something to that
effect.  And I also remember him saying right at the end of the book who was
telling the story...!!!

9.   Topics of importance to you:  Getting younger people of color interested in
reading instead of killing things in video games.  Too many minds, too much
mental rot and atrophy...Reading in general, and reading stories and books by
other then white writers in particular.

10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative Fiction: I
remember when I first saw "Uhura" in Star Trek.  Looking back, it never occurred
to me that our folks weren't represented in future depictions.  The sinister
nature of that struck me when Ms. Nichols appeared on-screen.  Even though she
was a futuristic stereotype of what men see as women's roles, it was a start...

11.  Your own published works, if any: None.

12.  Your web site: You really don't want to go there!

13.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: I'll make a list as time goes by. 
I've read some really insightful opinions by other list members about the
shortcomings, and their SFPPs...

14.  Memberships in science fiction clubs: None.

15.  Anything else you think is important:


Once Again, Welcome to SciFiNoirLiterature!!!!





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Fair Maiden, It had been in the back of my mind that someone should
do this. The prize goes to those who "Do" not those who just "think
about it"!!! God bless on this venture! Count me it!!!


Carl


rogpower

1.   Name: Geoffrey
2.   Location: Pittsburgh
3.   Nickname/ Alias: Bishop
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: cyberpunk, classic fantasy,
contemporary fantasy, sci fi
5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Lackey, The Heralds of
Valdemar series; Cherryh, Downbelow Station et al, Foreigner series;
Snowcrash; Wheel of Time series
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Mercerdes Lackey, CJ
Cherryh, Octavia Butler, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: I
can't think of any right now
9.   Topics of importance to you: The construction/replication of
minority identity within the speculative fiction genre, the assult on
contemporary systems of differentiation that often occurs in spec
fic, the logocentrism of systems of magic in many fantasy worlds,
social commentary by minority authors in spec fic.
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: That depends, many mainstream examples of spec fic replicate
(or ignore) current social norms in their work (Eddings, Gibson,
Brooks, Jordan).  While other authors actively explore/confront such
issues (Butler, Le Guin, Lackey, Cherryh).
11.  Your own published works, if any:
12.  Your web site:
13.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: Inconsistant systems of
logic.  You can come up with any system that you want to for your
world, just make it internally consistant.
14.  Memberships in science fiction clubs:
15.  Anything else you think is important:  I am a third year PhD
student in Literary and Cultural studies, so I have two approaches to
Speculative Fiction.  There are times when I speak to spec fic that I
like to read, and there are times when I speak to spec fic that I
work with.  Sorry (in advance) for any confusion this may cause in
discussion.

Welcome Bishop:

Are you nicknamed for the same Bishop in exosquad?  if not what is
the story behind your nickname?

--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@y..., "teacuptempest2002" <gglover@a...> wrote:
> 1.   Name: Geoffrey
> 2.   Location: Pittsburgh
> 3.   Nickname/ Alias: Bishop
> 4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: cyberpunk, classic
fantasy,
> contemporary fantasy, sci fi
> 5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Lackey, The Heralds of
> Valdemar series; Cherryh, Downbelow Station et al, Foreigner
series;
> Snowcrash; Wheel of Time series
> 6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Mercerdes Lackey, CJ
> Cherryh, Octavia Butler, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan
> 7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:
> 8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:
I
> can't think of any right now
> 9.   Topics of importance to you: The construction/replication of
> minority identity within the speculative fiction genre, the assult
on
> contemporary systems of differentiation that often occurs in spec
> fic, the logocentrism of systems of magic in many fantasy worlds,
> social commentary by minority authors in spec fic.
> 10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
> Fiction: That depends, many mainstream examples of spec fic
replicate
> (or ignore) current social norms in their work (Eddings, Gibson,
> Brooks, Jordan).  While other authors actively explore/confront
such
> issues (Butler, Le Guin, Lackey, Cherryh).
> 11.  Your own published works, if any:
> 12.  Your web site:
> 13.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: Inconsistant systems of
> logic.  You can come up with any system that you want to for your
> world, just make it internally consistant.
> 14.  Memberships in science fiction clubs:
> 15.  Anything else you think is important:  I am a third year PhD
> student in Literary and Cultural studies, so I have two approaches
to
> Speculative Fiction.  There are times when I speak to spec fic that
I
> like to read, and there are times when I speak to spec fic that I
> work with.  Sorry (in advance) for any confusion this may cause in
> discussion.

Hi Jai:

Its so good to see writers and fans come together on this list.  You've been
holding out on us. Congradulations on the Xeric award!  I'm glad that
graphic novelsare gaining so much ground.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:31 PM
To: Literature SciFiNoir
Subject: [SciFiNoir_Lit] Intro Jai Sen, author of "Garlands of
Moonlight"




-----Original Message-----
From: Shoto Press [mailto:shotopress@...]
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:57 PM
To: SciFiNoir_Lit Moderator
Subject: Re: Welcome to SciFiNoir_Lit


Hi everyone,

It's great to be a member of this list! I am really
looking forward to the interesting discussions I know
we'll be having of some really good literature.

By way of introduction, from those of you I haven't
interacted with on the Sci-Fi Noir list, my name is
Jai Sen and I am the author of "Garlands of Moonlight"
(which, I'm proud to say, won a 2002 Xeric award), its
upcoming sequel "The Ghost of Silver Cliff," and "The
Golden Vine." The first two books are Malay ghost
stories retold in comic book format, and the last is
an alternate history of Alexander the Great. More
information on my books, for those who are interested,
is available on http://www.shotopress.com

All the best,

Jai

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1.   Name: Chantal
2.   Location:  Boston
3.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: Fantasy,
"soft" sf, short stories, dystopia, time-travel,
classics
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: A Fine and
Private Place, Perdido Street Station, Dancers at the
End of Time, Tamsin, Childhood's End, War With the
Newts, Riddle-Master Trilogy, The Anubis Gates, The
Master and Margarita, Watership Down, The Handmaid's
Tale, Animal Farm, The Dragon and the George, The
Dragon Knight, The Lathe of Heaven, Neuromancer
5.   Favorite Short Story Authors:  Jeff VanderMeer,
Lucius Shepard, James Blaylock, Paul DiFilippo, Kelly
Link, Harlan Ellison
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors:  China
Mieville, Michael Moorcock, Peter S. Beagle, Patricia
McKillip, Tim Powers, Gordon Dickson, Tanith Lee,
Ursula Leguin
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:  Jherek
and Amelia from Dancers at the End of Time
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV
Adaptation of a Book:  Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes
9.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in
Speculative Fiction:  Non-existent, in the background,
or stereotyped
10.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves:  bad
writing, poor characterization, long-winded series,
lack of diverse races and cultures, few writers of
color in the mainstream
11.  Memberships in science fiction clubs: Please
check out Original_Fantasy at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/original_fantasy/.  We
discuss fantasy that is original, intelligent and
imaginative.  Books are nominated by group members and
voted on in a poll. Our current book-of-the month is
'Obernewtyn' by Isobelle Carmody and next month we
will read 'Ash: A Secret History' by Mary Gentle.  We
also periodically read and discuss short stories by a
variety of writers.  Hope you will join us!
12.  Anything else you think is important:  As you can
see, my list is sadly lacking any writers of color.
By being a part of this list, I'm hoping to remedy
that deficiency.  Thanks for inviting me here, Tracey!




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I've read Mosley's outstanding Easy Rawlins mysteries and 'Always
Outnumbered/Always Outgunned.'  Is his sci-fi as good?

Hi, Cecil. :)

*-Chantal-*

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> 6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Butler, Delaney, Mosley,
> Due

Hi everyone,

I'm so glad we now have this way to connect! Please
find below my intro info:

1.   Name: Gwendolyn D. Pough

2.   Location: Minneapolis, MN

3.   Nickname/ Alias: none

4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: I love
science fiction, horror, magical realism, anything
that has time travel or parallel universes, or
anything that deals with the ancestors watching over
us and guiding our lives

5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: I love
Tananarive Due's My Soul To Keep, Octavia Butler's
entire Patternist series, and Nalo Hopkinson's Brown
Girl in the Ring

6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: I am really
feeling Tananarive Due's writing right now. I love her
writing. She's an excellent story teller. I really
love her novels: My Soul to Keep, The Between, and The
Living Blood. But, I also love Nalo Hopkinson and
adore Octavia Butler. And my all time favorite writer
would probably fall under the magical realism genre,
and that is Sandra Jackson-Opoku. If you have not read
The R4iver Where Blood is Born, you really must.

7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: That
would have to be Tan-Tan the Robber Queen from Nalo
Hopkinson's second novel Midnight Robber

8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV
Adaptation of a Book: None yet

9.   Topics of importance to you: Validating the work
of women writers of color

10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in
Speculative Fiction: Most recently, I tend toi only
read people of color, so I can't really answer this.

11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: What's up
with the whole "con" culture. I attended WisCon and
Diversicon this year and it was interesting to say the
least. I really felt out of place as a person of
color..

13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs:None

14.  Anything else you think is important: I'm just
glad you thought of this list serve. Thanks!

Techies we are. That is for sure.



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Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:03 AM
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Ricky:

It's so good to see friends from BDPA and SciFiNoir TV & Film give this
group a chance too.  I have trouble with authors that don't take time to
understand technology as well.  if it does not at least sound credible,
I
have trouble connecting to the entire story.  Must be because we are
techies.

Welcome to ScifiNoir Literature!

Tracey L. Minor
Email:  tracey@...
Speculative Fiction Discussion Groups for People of Color
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From: Ricky C. Penick [mailto:rcpenick@...]
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:38 PM
To: SciFiNoir_lit@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SciFiNoir_Lit] Intro Ricky Chicago



1.   Name: Ricky
2.   Location: Chicago
3.   Nickname/ Alias: various
4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: cyber punk, steam punk,
classic sci-fi.
5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Stand on Zanzibar, Sheep Look
Up, Foundation Trilogy, River World
6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Samuel Delany, John Brunner,
Phillip Jose Farmer, William Gibson
7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters:
8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: Blade
Runner
9.   Topics of importance to you: Near term future extrapolations,
alternate realities, technology
10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: When there are any, they are often broad stereotypes or they
are black for no particular reason and without any distinguishing
characteristics
11.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: Authors who don't even
understand current technology, so how could they possibly extrapolate.
13.  Memberships in science fiction clubs none
14.  Anything else you think is important


Once Again, Welcome to SciFiNoirLiterature!!!!




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Carl/ Rogpower:

I'm glad you still call me Fair maiden.  I'm glad you have joined.
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From: rogpower [mailto:rogpower@...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:19 PM
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Subject: [SciFiNoir_Lit] Great Idea!!!


Fair Maiden, It had been in the back of my mind that someone should
do this. The prize goes to those who "Do" not those who just "think
about it"!!! God bless on this venture! Count me it!!!


Carl


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Hey Creative Brother. It has been a while. Any short stories lately?

I too am a big fan of Dhalgren, which I reread last year. The very
mention of it seems to stir controversy.

I am, of course, looking forward to your next book.



-----Original Message-----
From: cecilwashington [mailto:cecilwashington@...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:55 AM
To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SciFiNoir_Lit] Cecil Washington --- member & author



1.   Name: Cecil Washington

2.   Location: Maryland

3.   Nickname/ Alias: "Gloria's Boy" (just older relatives call me
that, not other people, as in, "You Gloria's boy ain't you? Anthony?
No, wait, Cecil. You the youngest, right?"), Creative Brother

4.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: cyberpunk, cyberthug (my own
creation), dystopia, Fantasy, vampires

5.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: Octavia Butler's books,
Dhalgren, Sword of Shannara

6.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Butler, Delaney, Mosley,
Due

7.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: Gunn, Paris (one of my
characters), Belial (another one of mine), Lauren Olamina

8.   Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:
Lord of the Rings

9.   Topics of importance to you: making money as a writer of
speculative fiction, book promotion, the craft of writing, story
selling, idea generation, do politics belong in SF? humor and
SF/F---how to make it happen, how to write horror.

10.  Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: Black people are usually viewed as sidekicks or "me too"
characters. Asians and Hispanic characters usually act white. Rarely
any Native American characters, and rarely any characters from the
South.

11.  Your own published works, if any:

a) self-published Badlands, An Underground Science Fiction Novel (ISBN
0-7596-6258-4) in 2001.
b) Alien Erotica is due out in 2003. Published by RbanWrtr LLC.

12.  Your web site:

a) professional: http://www.cecilwashington.com
b) personal: http://creativebrother.freehosting.net

13.  Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves:

a) too many rules and yet too little variety in stories published
b) people who don't mind learning about a fictional alien culture yet
know little about other real life cultures in the real world
c) people who are afraid of new or unknown authors, yet complain about
why they don't see anything different
d) that a story can actually be considered "too male" if the
protagonist is not a woman, and therefore rejected on that basis alone
e) that famous people can get away with selling what I consider to be
"pre-writing" as a short story. If it has no plot, no beginning,
middle and end, nay bit of structure, no protagonist, then how is it a
story?
f) that black male writers do not network like black female writers
do. Brothers, we can learn from the sisters in that regard.

14.  Memberships in science fiction clubs:

a) moderator and founder of
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blackscifihorrorfantasyclub
b) Afrofuturism, ScifiNoir

15.  Anything else you think is important:

a) While on the one hand, I wonder why there are not more ghetto
fabulous characters and stories in speculative fiction, I am also
afraid that if we write a lot of stories like that, eventually, those
stories will take over black speculative fiction.
b) Does anyone else think that Omar Tyree's writing is the Harry
Potter for smoove black people? Note: I meant to write "smoove", not
"smooth".






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> Its so good to see writers and fans come together on
> this list.  You've been
> holding out on us. Congradulations on the Xeric
> award!  I'm glad that
> graphic novelsare gaining so much ground.

Hi Tracey,

I have been holding out--things have been really busy
while I work on these books, so I haven't had a chance
to post an update in Sci-Fi Noir for a while! But you
can count on lots of news from Shoto Press coming
soon.

Jai


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