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Happy 2009!
Welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the The Underground e-zine. Like Marine
One flew dramatically away today with President Bush, there will be no more bi-
monthly PDF newsletters. The country’s future rests with The Underground’s
new quarterly e-zine format (joke).
Today’s Inauguration of President Obama stands as the most memorable in my
lifetime. Until now, Sunday Night Football was the only thing I’ve seen simulcast
on the Web. Until now an Inaugural ceremony with interactive Twitter and
Facebook sidebar comments from my writer friends was cyberpunk.
Not anymore.
What we witnessed was, I believe, the second most historic Inauguration. George
Washington will always be number one. An African-American in the Oval Office is
something most in this country did not expect to see in our lifetimes. Regardless
of politics, that the United States has accomplished such a thing is noble. With all
our culture’s problems, such a feat gives hope.
And now on to the news of this issue of The Underground . . .
For those who’ve been off-the-grid, I’m now writing full-time as a manuscript
critiquer for thefinishers.biz and lining up some new promo-ops: Lost Genre Guild
Podcasting, and 2009’s tour featuring convention author-panels. The Lost Genre
Guild rocketed into the New Year with a Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Blog Tour that stirred some great exposure and direction.
This month's issue also features two interviews with some happenin’ people:
Variance Publishing's Jeremy Robinson, and Leaps of Faith editor Karina Fabian.
Kiwi Christian sci-fi novelist, Grace Bridges, looks back at her coast-to-coast tour
of the USA.
Don’t forget to sign-up for the Catholic Writers Guild Online Conference, which is
free and welcomes non-Catholics. Three Lost Genre Guild members are
presenting workshops. Online is cool—no nuns with rulers. Heh.
Frank Creed
Welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the The Underground e-zine. Like Marine
One flew dramatically away today with President Bush, there will be no more bi-
monthly PDF newsletters. The country’s future rests with The Underground’s
new quarterly e-zine format (joke).
Today’s Inauguration of President Obama stands as the most memorable in my
lifetime. Until now, Sunday Night Football was the only thing I’ve seen simulcast
on the Web. Until now an Inaugural ceremony with interactive Twitter and
Facebook sidebar comments from my writer friends was cyberpunk.
Not anymore.
What we witnessed was, I believe, the second most historic Inauguration. George
Washington will always be number one. An African-American in the Oval Office is
something most in this country did not expect to see in our lifetimes. Regardless
of politics, that the United States has accomplished such a thing is noble. With all
our culture’s problems, such a feat gives hope.
And now on to the news of this issue of The Underground . . .
For those who’ve been off-the-grid, I’m now writing full-time as a manuscript
critiquer for thefinishers.biz and lining up some new promo-ops: Lost Genre Guild
Podcasting, and 2009’s tour featuring convention author-panels. The Lost Genre
Guild rocketed into the New Year with a Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Blog Tour that stirred some great exposure and direction.
This month's issue also features two interviews with some happenin’ people:
Variance Publishing's Jeremy Robinson, and Leaps of Faith editor Karina Fabian.
Kiwi Christian sci-fi novelist, Grace Bridges, looks back at her coast-to-coast tour
of the USA.
Don’t forget to sign-up for the Catholic Writers Guild Online Conference, which is
free and welcomes non-Catholics. Three Lost Genre Guild members are
presenting workshops. Online is cool—no nuns with rulers. Heh.
Frank Creed
A Frank Word or Two
Poll: Your Opinion Please.
- do you Twitter?
- news in spec-fic
Poll: Your Opinion Please.
- does advertising play
a role in what books
you buy?
- action beats and
nose-picking
- Grace Bridges reports
on her trans-U.S.A.
tour
- Marcher Lord Press's
initial offerings - reviews courtesy of
Armchair Reviews,
Grace Bridges, Eric
Wilson
- Cynthia MacKinnon
speaks out on review-
writing
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