Won't mean much to most of you, but for baseball fans and former San Diegans among you, Tony Gwynn has passed away. Only 54 years old. Fuck cancer.

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Much of San Diego will be in some degree of mourning.

I'm performing/running a series of interviews on a Gawker sub-blog on how fandom affects people who aren't necessarily your run of the mill fan. My first subject, appropriately enough, is CFerg. His will probably run in 4-6 instalments, and here is the first one. They will all be tagged with meta fandom interviews to see everything done to date at any time.

Oh, I know b.org may (already has) come up in some of them, but I'm just calling it a "fandom oriented site" and leaving it at that.

I hope to include representation from writers, actors, "BN"Fs, directors/showrunners, and Kristin just suggested an entertainment blogger, so if there's anyone you know who might be appropriate (I'd love to get my hands on a PA), holla in Natter.

Thanks for your time/interest.

My company is looking for an experienced Python developer to work on 3 to 6-month contract. The pay is 50-$75 per hour, depending on experience. If you are interested, or know someone who is, email me at robin@premieredigital.net.

Part 2 of the Colin Fandom Experience is up here: [link] Thanks to Amy for proofing and helping me clarify friend-code.

Each article in Colin and Fandom links to the next of the series of five. Hope you enjoy and find informative.

New MTV Show Finding Carter - has Alexis Denisof as the main character's father. (I tell you, I've seen the promo for it many times during Teen Wolf - and never saw A.D.)

It debuts tonight (I think.)

So who wants a book?

I fell in love with Kelly Thompson's book Storykiller, just like I did with her first book, The Girl Who Would Be King. They're both clever feminist takes on superheroes.

I first bought the kindle version (which you can currently get for free at the above Amazon link) and then when Thompson made the limited edition hardcover Kickstarter edition available in her online store, I bought that as well. Except she mailed me a review copy by mistake. She's gonna send me a signed and numbered version, but she's letting me keep the review copy.

It's a very nice hardcover edition that has lots of artwork by different artists (it's a prose book) . She asked me to give it to a school or library or a friend to help spread the word about it. So I'm making it available to folks here. I'm thinking if more than one person wants to read it and doesn't want the free kindle edition, folks can share it by sending it to someone else when they're done reading it. And then the last person can maybe donate it to a school or a library? (Chicago public libraries no longer accept book donations.) Or if no one wants it, can someone suggest a school or library where it would be appreciated?

Contact me at my profile addy or in Natter if you want to discuss....

Also, here's a nice post she wrote for The Mary Sue: Without Buffy Summers There Is No Tessa Battle | The Mary Sue

A new second-world fantasy story is up at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

In addition to the ludicrously specific types of poems and essays it publishes, the online literary journal Radius: Poetry From the Center to the Edge, has begun seeking short fiction.

But as is usually the case, our needs are very specific:

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• We’re looking for a particular breed of pulpy speculative and genre fiction: sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, mystery, noir, action-adventure. Basically, all the stuff your mother and Harold Bloom told you not to read.

• We’re looking for easily identifiable protagonists or group of protagonists: If it’s a character you can see in multiple stories, whose exploits readers might be interested in following in multiple adventures, then he or she is someone we might like to get to know. In short, we’re looking for a modern day Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Doc Sampson and Batman. We’re looking for iconic new action heroes for the 21st Century that are both fantastic and reflect the world outside our window.

• And speaking of the world outside your window: We’re looking for stories set on contemporary Earth. No fantasy lands or alien worlds, no historical fiction or stories set in the far-flung future. We have no real issue with those sorts of stories. They’re just not what we’re looking for.

• Lastly, and this is a big one: we like to serialize stories over several weeks, so stories have to be able to b e broken down comfortably into multiple parts. We understand this isn’t common practice these days. If we like your story, though, we’re more than happy to work with you to identify develop

• Oh, and one more thing: Radius is committed to diversity. and has a particular interest in stories from groups that might be underrepresented in genre fiction.

Our pilot program features stores by Gary Phillips, Jeffrey DeRego, DeMarco-Barrett and myself.

For more information, visit Radius online at [link] and visit its submissions guidelines at [link]