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Month: January 2019

Writing Studio!

January 30, 2019Nalin Leave a Comment

I’ve been accepted to an advanced fiction studio at The Muse Writing Center down in Norfolk! While I’ve attended many one-off writing classes and workshops, this will be the first time I will be a part of an ongoing fiction… Continue Reading →

Writing, Updates writing process, red soil, writer group, the muse, classes, studio

Recap of MarsCon 2019, Saturday

January 20, 2019Nalin Leave a Comment
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series MarsCon 2019

Most of my Saturday at the con was taken up by meetings for RavenCon programming (in particular the new Science Track, for which I am very excited!). However I did get a chance to browse the dealer floor, the art… Continue Reading →

Events hard sf, self-publishing, MarsCon, fiction studio, small press, near-future, ravencon, publishing, cons

Recap of MarsCon 2019, Friday

January 18, 2019Nalin Leave a Comment
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series MarsCon 2019

I’m a little embarrassed to say that I missed MarsCon the first year I was living here in Virginia. I saw the name come up on a list of area conventions, and assumed it was a technical and semi-technical con… Continue Reading →

Events war, military, moral conflict, panels, MarsCon, characters, cons

Review of “Splintered Suns” by Michael Cobley

January 10, 2019Nalin Leave a Comment

Despite the high praise on the back cover and intriguing premise, this novel left me feeling kinda meh. The worldbuilding and the plot were at least interesting enough that I wanted to keep going for awhile, and I did manage… Continue Reading →

Reviews space opera, humanity's fire, scifi, worldbuilding
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