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I AM AN ANALOG AWARD FINALIST, AGAIN!

By Rosemary Claire Smith on March 10, 2017 | Edit ZOMG! Look! My novelette, “The Next Frontier,” is a finalist for the AnLab Readers’ Award! It was published in the July/August, 2021 issue of Analog.

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MID-WINTER BLUES AND SUMMER FROLICS

With the recent cold snap and pandemic seemingly everywhere, I’ve been huddling indoors making plans for all the places I maybe could visit when warmer weather hits. I’m mostly planning trips around science fiction and

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MY 2021 YEAR IN REVIEW

I’m pleased to announce that I had a couple of stories and several articles published in 2021: The Next Frontier: an alternate-history novelette about the 1960s space race in the July/August issue of Analog (link

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NEW STORY IDEA

I’m beginning to think new story ideas are a way to procrastinate on other works in progress. This is the second time in two months that getting bogged down in a complicated, research-intensive piece has

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SMALL DOSES OF TERROR

There’s nothing better than a short, sharp slice of flash fiction to get the mind working. 99 Tiny Terrors is an anthology that the reader can dip into for something deliciously dangerous in a short

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SIX WAYS TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL FOSSIL DAY

October 13 is National Fossil Day, according to the U.S. National Park Service. It’s an under-celebrated event, IMO. Want to join the fun? Here’s how: Put together a dinosaur Halloween costume. I mean really, who

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GETTING AN IDEA FOR WRITING

Ideas for stories come easily to me. However, not all writers and would-be writers can say the same. If you struggle to come up with ideas, or perhaps ideas you think are good enough to

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