Philippine Genre Stories Calls for Christmas-Themed Fiction
I’m afraid I’m running a bit late on updating the blogroll, but I hope next weekend will leave me more time for that…
I’m a few days late spreading the word about this too – an event like this is best announced as early as possible!
Philippine Genre Stories is planning a Christmas theme for its December 2007 issue, and is looking for contributors. Excerpted from their official announcement:
Send us a Christmas-themed genre story for the 2007 Yuletide season. Consider it a challenge to write a horror, crime, suspense, humor, fantasy, alternate-history, sci-fi, speculative, ghost, romance, or mystery tale around the Yuletide season. Just to put some additional seed to thought: how would you weave the usual traditions we see, hear, and experience around Christmas into a genre story? You can use the holiday setting and place a crime in a department store at the height of Christmas rush for a detective story, for example, or you can even turn this on its head and place the crime in Santa’s workshop (“Ho Ho…Hey! Who stole all the toys?”) where the Detective who has to solve it is some diminutive, smart-aleck elf, or perhaps some sentient P.I. doll. Or how about: what would zombies eat for noche buena?
Time to start thinking Christmas, and start working on your submission/s for this special issue!
PS: Added a favicon: the Philippine flag, in honor of Philippine Independence Day. My younger sister, the artist, said the scrolling text is tacky. But I’m kind of getting used to it, so unless I find a compelling number of objections, I’m keeping it :P
So… does the favicon scrolling text disturb you? Does it make your day? Is it just “okay”? Speak your mind!
i wouldn’t have notice the favicon scrolling text until a long while would you not have mention it, since i’m using a rss reader to read the posts, and the scrolling icon seems to work only on the main/index page, and not the individual post page.
though i noticed you put on an icon some days ago, since in my rss reader your blog has the philippine flag icon just before its name. also, the scrolling doesn’t seem to work in IE6, i only see it in firefox.
it doesn’t disturb me. i find it cool! i don’t remember seeing a site with a scrolling icon before. so it’s kind of unique too XD
ahahah thanks – i’m sort of glad it doesn’t show up in RSS readers. that might be extra annoying XD
it’s ok if it doesn’t work on IE, i think. the flag is the one thing i really want to have up there, even if it’s static.
…actually yeah, i have never seen a site with a scrolling icon before. i thought perhaps that was an indication that people don’t like scrolling icons :P i just found the code for this randomly while googling up “favicon,” and thought it was shiny. so i’m glad you thought it was cool!