Announcements and Errata

Announcements and Errata

2011 Holiday Logo Design Contest!

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If the title doesn’t entice you, then maybe this will: The lovely folks at ooShirts, a Bay Area independent shirt company, has offered a few t-shirts to us for The World in the Satin Bag and The Skiffy and Fanty Show.  Rather than shoving our logos on the shirts and enjoying them by ourselves, we thought we’d give folks a shot at a t-shirt of their own! Here’s how it will work: We want a new logo design for The World in the Satin Bag and The Skiffy and Fanty Show that reflects the content or feel of the sites in some way.  Roughly translated, that means we have no clear rules whatsoever, in part because we are artistically handicapped.  The designs should look nice (obviously) and it should have something to do with the sites, but we are more interested in seeing what you come up with than bogging down the artistic process with rules and rigid desires. These will break down into two contests:  one for The World in the Satin Bag and one for The Skiffy and Fanty Show.  And you can enter both. What you get if you win: The two winning logos will receive a t-shirt with their winning logo on the front. Free books — winners will receive a $10 gift certificate to their preferred online bookstore AND a choice of a selection of books to be announced later. A bio and thanks in the About sections of both sites (because you’re awesome and we love you) The Rules: High quality images (so that we can adjust, shrink, and move the images without worrying about all those shrinkage issues) Images must be submitted by 11:59 PM on January 8th, 2011 to skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com.  The winner will be announced the following week. Original work only. By submitting your images to this contest, you are not giving us ownership of your stuff.  You grant us the right to show the logo and use it on our website and materials we purchase only for ourselves (i.e., business cards, shirts for us to wear at conventions, etc., but not stuff we buy for friends and the like).  Any sale of your logo by us will have to be agreed upon at another time.  If you want to donate the logo(s) to us, that would be awesome, but we’re not in the business of taking work from people without compensation unless they’ve offered it.  Should we become interested in selling the shirts with your logo, we’ll contact you to talk about royalties. A little about ooShirts: While I’d love to reproduce their story here, I think you’d better read it for yourself.  They’ve got a great story behind them, and a great company philosophy.  We wish them the best of success (not because they’re a Cali company, because we’re totally not that biased…). Have it it, logo designers!

Podcast Updates

Dear UK Publishers and Authors: We Want You…Bad!

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We’ve recently added two lovely people who live in the UK to our team, and they’re interested in reviewing SF/F/H (or related) books from UK folks! (under the same guidelines listed for the podcast, of course.  Read those here.). If you’re a UK publisher or author, big or small, and you’ve got a book coming out that you’d like to see reviewed, send an email to skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com!  We’ll forward the information to our UK correspondents and see if they want to review it (then we’ll give you their address). So…what have you got for us? P.S.:  The only downside is that they do not own e-readers at the moment.  Print books only (hence why we’re focusing on publishers in the U.K. in this post).

Question of the Week

? of the Week: The Next Doctor (Who)?

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Blastr has listed 11 actors they believe would make great Doctors in the Doctor Who feature film set to come out…sometime in the future. But what we want to know is this: Which actor or actress do you think should play the Doctor in the movie?  And why? Let us know in the comments!

Announcements and Errata

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

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It’s the big turkey day here in the United States of America (or the big tofu day, depending on your diet), which means at least 50% of us will sit down with our annoying in-laws, the creepy uncle from seminary school, the weird twin cousins who always pick their noses at the table, the father who drinks himself into a stupor while watching football, and the mother who will eventually have a nervous breakdown after her fifth glass of wine. Needless to say, Thanksgiving is one of those “fun” holidays. But no Thanksgiving would be complete without saying thanks!  So thank you all for listening to our show, reading our blog, and telling your friends about us.  We really appreciate it!  Without you, this should would be little more than two geeks babbling about stuff. So…thanks!  May you have a wonderful dinner, wherever you are! P.S.:  Monday’s episode will be a doozy…we’re reviewing Modelland by Tyra Banks.  Trust me…it’s awful.

Podcast Updates

Join the Crew: We Want Contributors and Souls

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show is changing.  Sorta.  We’ll keep doing the things you all love — interviewing amazing authors, discussing news and topics of interest to the SF/F/H community, and reviewing crappy movies (and books) selected (usually) by you — but we also want to expand. That’s where all of you come in.  We’re looking to expand our content by adding contributors.  What are we looking for? Reviewers We get a too many books for Jen and I to read, and that makes us feel bad.  Really.  That’s why we want to add some reviewers for the show.  If you’re interested in getting a free book in exchange for a review, send us an email!  So far, we’ve got one taker, but there are plenty more books to be read! We’re also interested in movie reviews.  If you’re a nut for SF/F/H movies and want to review them here, we want you like a rodent wants a piece of cheese. Contributors Jen is running for President and I’m trying to get a PhD. so I can wear suits and bother undergraduates for the rest of my life.  That means, with all our other online and real-life engagements, Jen and I can’t fill up this blog the way we’d like.  And when it comes right down to it, we shouldn’t.  You learn a lot about what we think by listening to the show.  We want new voices.  New ideas.  New humorous reviews based on the book cover.  New ?s of the Week.  And even new features altogether.  If you’ve got an idea, or if you’d like to occasionally blog about major things happening in the SF/F/H community, let us know.  All it takes is your soul, two gallons of Red Stripe, and a pack of gum.  See?  We’re not that demanding… Guest Posts (from authors, filmmakers, etc.) We’re interested in guest posts for two reasons:  1) we can’t read or review everything we get in the “mail,” and 2) we think it’s a wonderful thing to hear what authors have to say about their interactions with the genre.  As such, we’re interested in guest posts on all kinds of genre-related subjects.  See the Contact page for more information on that. Those three things don’t really cover the range of possibilities — so if you have an idea and want to contribute it to this site, send us an email at skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com. Thanks for reading and listening!  Here’s to a very interesting month-ish of 2011.

Question of the Week

? of the Week: SF/F TV Netflix Should Bring Back?

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The folks at Netflix are putting their hands in the production box and trying to bring back some favorite shows like Arrested Development.  But as Gamma Squad notes: You know what, Netflix? There’s no SF in that mix; let us help you out. They’ve listed Firefly, Reaper, Pushing Daisies, and Justice League Unlimited.  That’s an interesting list, but what we want to know is this: If Netflix could bring back any science fiction or fantasy television show, live action or animated, which one should they bring back and why? Me?  I’d love to see Firefly come back, but I’m smart enough to know that a reboot in any form would be disastrous.  How do you bring back a show when half the lovable characters are dead or changed for the good?  I don’t know.  I want a reboot so bad, but it will probably never happen… But there are other shows I’d love to see come back.  It would be amazing to have someone reboot Space: Above and Beyond.  Don’t start where they left off, but redo the entire concept a la Battlestar Galactica.  Why?  Because the show had so much potential when FOX produced it way back in the day.  It was one of the few shows I’ve ever seen that took seriously the idea of an interstellar war.  But it was flawed beyond reason.  The series had a lot of bad writing, some mediocre acting, and undeveloped plot points (the conflicts between humanity proper and the two versions of synthetic life could have been developed with more fervor). So that’s what I would like to see get a reboot.  For now.  In a week, my mind might change… Now it’s your turn!

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