Web Serial Toolbox: everything you need to start a fiction serial
This is the handout for my Web Serial Toolbox workshop, which I’m teaching today at Readercon at 6pm. I’m posting it here as a reference document fo...
Author: ctan
Spellbinding is launched! Write a poem, win an autographed copy!
It’s launch day for Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University! This collection of short stories include seven by me–two never before published a...
Win a copy of Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University from Cecilia Tan!
This giveaway is over now! But you can still enter the poetry contest until July 17 to win a copy here: https://www.ceciliatan.com/archives/2427/ Only four days...
Now Live: Golden Flogger Award Finalists List
I just got word from Doctor Charley with the books that made the finalist list in the Golden Flogger Awards and am excited to share them here! I see several of ...
I went chasing the aurora… and caught it!
Last night we went seeking the wonders of the world. And we found them. I had read on Twitter early in the evening that a “geomagnetic storm” was go...
Food porn: Strawberry basil balsamic pie recipe
A delicious summer pie: strawberry basil pie with balsamic vinegar! It’s farm share season again, and so it’s time once again here in New England to...
Cover reveal & excerpt! Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University
First time in paperback! I’m so excited to bring you the brand new cover design for SPELLBINDING, the anthology of stories set in my Magic University univ...
Slow Satisfaction is a finalist in the Passionate Plume Awards!
Oh my goodness, just got the fabulous news that SLOW SATISFACTION, the culmination of the Struck by Lightning Trilogy, is a finalist in the Passionate Plume Awa...
We Need Diverse Books! Panel discussion recap BEA15
I was so glad I got to catch one of the We Need Diverse Books panels at this year’s BookExpo America. I am a fast typist so I am able to capture a lot of ...
Digital Branding for Authors at BEA15
One of the cool things about BookExpo America is that there are seminars aimed at authors, publishers, and so on. For the past few years there has been a whole ...