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Posted 22 days ago

Copyright is a familiar concept, but not so much Rights.

There’s a difference.

Rights are the terms under which you agree to contract/sell your story. Knowing which Rights you’ve currently signed away and for how long allows you sell a story more that once

A retired newspaper journalist explained it to my Non Fiction class years ago with his example of selling the one story to 12+ p…

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Soft Focus

Posted 3 months ago

This month the Limelight Forum is dimming the lights, shaking our bottles of nail polish and serving strawberry daiquiries in honour of Guest Host Anne Brumley , joining us to discuss what it’s like living with a successful romance writer.

We’re also interested in hearing your thoughts on writing and reading romance (we’re sure you do, even if you’re not), and fascinated by the dividing li…

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Promotion: Winged Dreams

Posted 3 months ago

Available in both print and ebook format is an anthology of short stories and poems of a sci fi/fantasy nature from the always delightful Sharon Partington aka elandryn

Winged Dreams

Sharon guest judged the Zodiac13 competition.

Sci Fi Master Class

Posted 4 months ago

Keeper of Dreams

By Orson Scott Card

Excerpted from the forward in Keeper of Dreams

What’s the inducement for an established writer to return to the short
story market? While it’s true that short stories require less typing
than novels, they don’t take much less in the way of development. That
is, to get any story ready to be written,...

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Wriiten and Read in the Stars

Posted 4 months ago

A collection of short stories based on astrological themes? Of course! Read the results of the Short Story Group’s Zodiac13 competition and congratulations again to MickyMc for his winning entry.


Scorpio MickyMc’s Scorpio...

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Unleashed who?

Posted 5 months ago

Many Bubble incarnations ago there was a Short Story Competition resulting in a book called Unleashed ... even a launch:




But then what happened?

If you were at the launch, bought or borrowed the book, were a FINALIST or just enjoy stories, visit the Limelight Forum...

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Turning up the Lights - March

Posted 5 months ago

Limelight Forum is back!

Wednesday, March 26 2008, the Forum lights up to talk about sci fi conventions, particularly swancon 2008 held over the Easter long weekend in Perth, Western Australia.



Swancon also includes the Ditmar awards; the nominations were dominated by the Last Short Story crew as a group and indivi…

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