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Scott Sigler Announces Fan Video Contest Winner!

As we mentioned previously, Scott Sigler has been hosting a video contest to promote his new book, Ancestor. Well, the votes are in and Scott has decided. Cue the drumroll!

And the Grand Prize winner is…

Anne Rice’s Big Announcement

For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to “belong” to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten …years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.

On Wednesday, July 28, shortly after 1:30pm, Anne Rice made the above announcement on her Facebook page. The internet immediately went to work by agreeing or disagreeing and, many times, misinterpreting her words completely.

CC Aftermath: Author Photos

Comic Con 2010 had a lot to offer. Yesterday I posted pictures taken from an empty sales floor; today I am posting pictures of authors doing author-type things. From interviewing, to signing, to chatting, to playing pool, authors have a great deal of promotional work to do on their own. Here is some of that captured in 2D!

Del Toro to Helm “At The Mountains of Madness”

Deadline New York is reporting that Guillermo del Toro’s next directorial venture will be a 3-D adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of cosmic horror, At the Mountains of Madness.
Rumors of del Toro’s involvement have been floating around for years, but this is the first solid confirmation from the director that he’s really planning [...]

Trailer: Sucker Punch

suckerpunch-blondie Zach Snyder gave us 300, which was a fairly adequate adaptation of Frank Miller’s masterpiece. I know a great many people love it but I wasn’t entirely convinced at its end. Then Snyder gave us Watchmen, which is certainly one of the hardest graphic novels to adapt ever, and he semi-pulled it off. I wasn’t thrilled with it but I enjoyed it more than most people, probably because that graphic novel has always been a study for me and I understand the story’s limitations and strengths.

Now Snyder is about to bring us Sucker Punch.

CC Aftermath: Walking the Floor

The con goer has really no chance to stop and gawk at the coolness that is on the convention floor. I’m sure some of the booths probably cost several hundred thousand dollars to create, if not more. You would never know it though, because the entire time you are too busy worrying about navigating the hordes of people.

Here are some cool pictures I took before the floor opened!

New Releases 7/27/10

Here are the latest sci-fi/fantasy releases!
Hardcover
The War That Came Early: West and East by Harry Turtledove
Waking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld, Book 11) by Kelley Armstrong
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
The Reluctant Mage (Fisherman’s Children) by Karen Miller
The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel by Rick Moody
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Clementine [...]

Interview: Marjorie M. Liu & Kelley Armstrong

liu-wild Marjorie M. Liu and Kelley Armstrong have joined forced on today’s new release day! They conducted an email interview with one another, where each responded to the other about how their characters relate to family and how they learn to trust after the difficult times they have had in the past.