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  HUGO-NOMINATED BOOK ON FEMINIST PIONEERS OF SF WRITING + EDITING, SEXIST BACKLASH THAT ENDED FEMINIST GOLDEN AGE OF SF, AND HOW WOMEN CHANGED SF EVEN WHILE DENIED THEIR PLACE IN THE CANON   Science fiction has always been a male-dominated literary genre, right? All about steel braziers on submissive women serving—and servicing—Euro-American alpha males on a colonial power trip in space? Where all the authors and editors were men and women were allowed in only to tidy the office and deliver sandwiches and backrubs? Guess again. According to my guests Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp and their new book Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women Of Science Fiction, when it comes to women, the accepted history of SF is all wrong. Lisa Yaszek is Professor and Associate Chair in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, and past president of the Science Fiction Research Association. Her areas of expertise include science fiction, cultu...

Top Cow President, Tumble Creek Publisher, Midnight Tiger creator, and the MadTwiins Davis Brothers talk breaking in and staying in comics While comic books pay creators nowhere near what most professionals get in movies, television, or video games, countless comic books fans yearn to be creators and spend years honing their skills, creating characters and stories, and sometimes even publishing entire works online or in print. SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE ON iTUNES SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE ON STITCHER For a determined, highly-skilled, and lucky few, the result is getting hired by the major publishers or long-term success as an independent backed by crowdfunding, great sales, or both. To stay determined and rack up skills, one needs a strategy, and that’s where our guests come in, who comment on how to do the job, and how to get the job. Matt Hawkins, president and chief operating officer at Top Cow productions, discusses: The must-own books on how to cre...

INDIE NEW MEDIA FILM-MAKER EXPLAINS EXCITEMENT, RESTRICTIONS + MEANING OF HIS MISSION DeWayne Copeland is a new-media indie filmmaker who embodies the Marcus Garvey ethic of “do for self.” With co-creator and series writer-director Scott F Evans , Copeland and their agile team launched CV Nation in 2012, and have produced a first season of six episodes and a second season of four. The CV in CV Nation means “costumed vigilantes,” because the show is about superheroes and villains fighting for dominance in a world in which paranormal powers are merely expensive but highly dangerous commodities. The series is a breakthrough not only for its indie aesthetics and production, but because it’s largely about superheroes and villains of African descent .  Copeland and Evans didn’t wait around for someone else to do what they and so many others had been craving for years—they just did it themselves. DeWayne Copeland is a remarkable artist, and a down-to-eart...

Emilio Ortega Aldrich worked his way up from production assistant to write tie-in Arrow comics for DC and an episode of the hit CW superhero action series Arrow . That’s where he met Oscar Balderrama , who’s written an Arrow tie-in novel and the forthcoming Arrow graphic novel; he’s also been a script coordinator for the series. Both of them spoke on the Arrow screenwriter panel at Eagle Con on May 15, 2015, where they discussed: The path to writing for a Hollywood series The significance of not just who you know, but who knows you The job descriptions of writers’ assistant, script coordinator, and showrunner To what degree these writers needed to know the DC universe in general and Green Arrow in particular to write for Arrow How screenwriters on a television show work as a team under the leadership of a showrunner How writers working in collaboration can garner an individual “written by” credit, which is the top glory for a writer, and the top pay The shocking secr...