Lisa Server Migration Update There are some glitches; we’re still fastening buttons on the tiny little hamster jackets. We hope to be up soon but we aren’t sure yet and will keep everyone posted. We really appreciate your patience, and our volunteer Unix guy, Scott Hawkins. Contact Points *AW IRC Chat* AW’s amazing chat mods and … Read more
Monday Night the 8th of January AW Will Be Turned OFF at 10PM Seattle WA, US Time. We plan to turn AW back ON on Sunday January 14th, before Noon Seattle Time. Please Don’t Keep Checking to See If We’re Back We love you guys too, but every time you refresh you’re slowing things down. … Read more
Inspired by National Fountain Pen day, we’ve created a new forum at the Absolute Write Water Cooler. Analog Tools is about those non-digital, non-computer tools we writers love to use, including fountain pen, other pens, pencils, paper, and typewriters. Today is the sixth annual Fountain Pen Day, celebrated every year on the first Friday of … Read more
Elizabeth Bonesteel is the author of Breach of Containment, just out from HarperCollins. Breach of Containment is the third book in her Central Corps SF trilogy (The Cold Between, Remnants of Trust, and Breach of Containment). Did you have a playlist for Breach of Containment? (I usually ask writers this question, but you are the … Read more
By Alice Loweecey In a perfect world, self-publishing would come with a bottle of wine per book. I picture a shining, fluffy cloud appearing above my desk. With an ethereal sound of angelic voices it would open and a chilled bottle of Chenin blanc would come to rest next to my keyboard. Still waiting for … Read more
This is the first day of Banned Books week. It’s a celebration of the right to read. Books are constantly challenged in the context of the right to read them, the right to sell them, the right for teachers and libraries to include specific books in their curricula and libraries. Book challenges and book bans take … Read more
SPENCER ELLSWORTH’s short fiction has previously appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Tor.com. He is the author of the Starfire Trilogy, which begins with Starfire: A Red Peace. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three children and works as a teacher/administrator at a small tribal college on a Native … Read more
Melinda Snodgrass is the author of many SF novels, including the Circuit and Edge series. She also writes for and is the co-editor with George R. R. Martin of the Wild Cards series. She served as the story editor for Star Trek: The Next Generation, and wrote several episodes for ST:NG and other shows. An … Read more
The July session of Camp NaNoWritMo is about to start. Like the April NaNoWriMo Camp, Camp in July is an opportunity to work on projects with word count goals between 30 and 1,000,000. Writers can work on any project they’d like, including new novel drafts, revision, poetry, scripts, and short stories. A lot of writers … Read more
Baker of brownies and tormenter of characters, Alice Loweecey recently celebrated her thirtieth year outside the convent. She grew up watching Hammer horror films and Scooby-Doo mysteries, which explains a whole lot. When she’s not creating trouble for her sleuth Giulia Driscoll or inspiring nightmares as her alter-ego Kate Morgan, she can be found growing … Read more
