lynda@hcr.UUCP (Lynda Williams) (04/17/89)
Personally, I'd like to see ont.sf-lovers focus on people, events and works connected with Ontario, or Canada perhaps if that's too limiting. There is the broader news group available for universal matters. This could include local conventions, where to get good books, Canadian authors, and (here's my personal bias) possibly act as a forum for would-be sci-fi writers to share information. The Bunch of Seven board, based in TO, is excellent for this sort of thing but unavailable to me for $ reasons at the moment. I suspect the same is true for many others not living in TO.
rae@alias.uucp (Reid Ellis) (04/20/89)
Two friends of mine are involved in 'making' books -- one is an artist, and the other a fantasy writer [but one day she might get into science fiction, I don't know]. The artist has managed to be published three times by Anik Press. Meanwhile, the writer has submitted her story billions of times and has yet to be published, even thought the second book is almost finished [it's a long wait while editors read your first work, I guess :)]. It *seems* that the artist was published much more quickly than the writer, so I would ask -- is this generally true? I haven't read any of the writer's work yet [she won't let me until it's published :)] so I can't comment on the relative quality of the two of them -- besides, I value my life! And how would you compare visual art with written art? Still rambling.. Reid