Leah Bobet - Fiction and other white lies
Links

Profiles and Pages

My Writertopia profile, probably in need of update.

My Twitter, for that sporadic hit of quotidiana.

My Ravelry profile, chronicling my secret life as a knitter.

My Amazon tag community, which is useful for finding anthologies containing my fiction and poetry.

Writers' Resources

The Online Writing Workshop for Fantasy and Science Fiction. This is a pay workshop (a modest $49 US a year), but you do get the first month free and it's more than worth the price. Great advice, great resources, and an invaluable community of fun, intelligent people. (N.B.: As of November 2007 I'm the Support person here, and this becomes a bit conflict of interest. But I wrote this blurb years before I worked there. So it stands.)

Critters Workshop, a free online workshop that works on a different system. I frequented this one too in my first two years writing.

Ralan Conley's Webstravaganza, the website of writer Ralan Conley and the best market listing on the web.

The Black Hole, a great way to track those errant submissions and guess when things may arrive, so you don't have to bite your nails for up to 9 months at a time.

SFWA, the Science Fiction Writers' Association. Lots of info here on a multitude of topics; makes good reading.

The Canadian SF Works Database, a good place to stand up and be recognized if you're Canadian and writing speculative fiction.

Writers

Elizabeth Bear

Amanda Downum

Sarah Jane Elliott

Karin Lowachee

Sarah Monette

Jaime Lee Moyer

David Nickle

Jana Paniccia

Karina Sumner-Smith

Amber Van Dyk

Peter Watts

(dis)Organizations

Shadow Unit, a TV series in prose, to which I have the privilege of contributing alongside Elizabeth Bear, Holly Black, Emma Bull, Amanda Downum, and Sarah Monette.

Bakka-Phoenix Books, Canada's oldest SFF bookstore, where I worked for four years and occasionally still moonlight.

Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, an online speculative fiction quarterly. I'm the editor and publisher here.

University of Toronto, the alma mater.

The Toronto Public Space Committee Guerilla Gardeners, clandestinely greening the city one planting at a time.

Fancies

Paperblanks Notebooks, a perennial source of materialist lust.

Fountain Pen Hospital, likewise.

Teavana. Does what it says on the box. Mmm.

Elise Matthesen, who makes sparkly jewelery.

Moonsnail Soapworks, handmade soaps and bath products from PEI.

Little Bee Art beeswax candles. Mmm, fire.

Sock Dreams. It's a Thing.

Causes

Support Amnesty International

Habitat for Humanity

Streetknit, helping keep the homeless warm this winter.




 
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