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Viking ZX


Author of Science-Fiction and Fantasy novels! Oh, and some fanfiction from time to time.

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  • Today
    No Being a Better Writer Today – Have the Full LTUE 2025 Write-up Instead

    Hey guys, sorry for the late post. I ended up sleeping really late to catch up on lost sleep from the LTUE symposium. Also, since I was at that symposium delivering live panels similar to Being a Better Writer, there was no time to write the usual Being a Better Writer.

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  • Sunday
    LTUE 20215 Write-Up: Day Three

    Whew! I am beat.

    I mean it. Three days of con will wear even the most energetic out. Especially when you’re putting a lot of energy into the con itself. I only had one panel today, in the morning, and with little sleep, but I put as much into it as I could anyway. And then attended a bunch of other panels. Ready for the recap? Because here we go!

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  • Saturday
    LTUE 2025 Write-Up: Day Two

    I know, I know. This post is even later than yesterday’s. But day two was, for me, a much longer day on account of the mass signing event at the end, which went extremely well, and frankly I am beat.

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  • Friday
    LTUE 2025 Write-Up: Day One

    Hello readers! Sorry for the lateness of this post, and the fact that I’m going to try and keep it a little succinct. Simply put I am beat after the first day of LTUE. Mostly my knee, since I did a lot of walking today and that knee is a bit of a troublemaker. I’ve popped an ibuprofen and iced it, so hopefully after a nice night of rest it’s ready to go again tomorrow.

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Sep
5th
2016

The Dragon Awards · 4:45pm Sep 5th, 2016

In case you missed it, yesterday the winners of the Dragon Awards were announced and awarded.

What are the Dragon Awards? They’re a set of awards given out by Dragon Con, a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Gaming con with over 70,000+ attendees—a pretty significant number compared to other cons out there. Still not heard of them? That’s fair. After all, this was their first year.

Yes, up until now Dragon Con has never had an award. But seeing the absolute meltdown going on over at the Hugo Awards over the last few years (where a tiny, frankly dying con has entrenched itself into the SJW blogsphere in an effort to save itself, insulting a rejecting anyone who didn't agree with their narrative and taking steps to make sure only the “proper” people were involved, voting, and nominated), and hearing the cry from that same group of “Don’t like it? Go find a different award!” Dragon Con stepped up.

The result? An award that can both take nominations for and be voted on by anyone—anyone—with an e-mail address and an interest in the subject matter. For a con that is attended by over 70,000 people annually. Compared to the Hugo’s paltry attendance (most years below 5,000, actually) and rules and regulations that restrict voters to those who can pay a fee (and now, with recent changes, follow more stringent requirements), Dragon Con seems like a breath of fresh air.

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Comments ( 3 )

That's pretty cool.

This stuff from the Hugos people is so silly and childish. It's the sort of thing you'd expect to find in a parody. Kinda like that infamous Chick tract Dark Dungeons. (The movie made to mock Dark Dungeons, by the way, did so by playing things entirely straight.)

Neat. Only problem I see is publicity being a significant factor in votes, possibly over quality. Because ye gods, quality and popularity unfortunately too often do not correlate.

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