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Thanks for being a subscriber to the Reach Your Apex newsletter. Our first post for March is about standing out in the slush pile by avoiding a top reason for rejection.
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Before we get into the post, don't miss your exclusive discount for our next live workshop, "Use Your Imagination, Or Someone Else Will Use It For You." You'll develop your own method for consistently producing unique ideas to stand out in the slush pile. Use coupon code: USEYOUR10 at checkout to take $10 off tuition.
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And now for today's post!
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Award-winning author, Premee Mohamed, shares a science-backed technique for beating ADHD-driven procrastination. "Brains are ridiculous... I don't know who designed these things."
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Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author whose work spans novels, novellas, short fiction, and criticism.
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Her fiction has earned recognition from the Hugo, Locus, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards, and she has served as Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library..
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Even if you've never written horror or don't think you're a horror fan, award-winning author KC Grifant's going to convince you to give it a try. See why.
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KC Grifant is an award-winning Southern Californian author who writes speculative stories in the horror, fantasy, sci-fi and weird west genres. She authored the award-winning supernatural western Monster Gunslinger series and Shrouded Horror: Tales of the Uncanny.
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She is editor or co-editor of multiple anthologies (including Women of the Weird West, Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales, and Of Terrors and Tombstones), as well as creator of Weird West Fiction, a website that showcases diverse weird west authors.
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In addition, she is a published short story writer, with dozens of tales appearing in podcasts, magazines and Stoker-nominated anthologies, including: PseudoPod, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Matter Magazine, Sley House Presents, the British SF Association’s Fission Magazine, Tales to Terrify, the Lovecraft eZine; Musings of the Muse; Dancing in the Shadows—A Tribute to Anne Rice; the Stoker-nominated Chromophobia; the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror, and many others.
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She teaches genre and short story workshops and has been a moderator, panelist or speaker at dozens of conferences and events. In 2016, she co-founded the Horror Writers Association San Diego Chapter, an organization that helps to promote the horror genre and co-chaired its flagship international event, StokerCon, in 2024. She is also a member of numerous writing organizations and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association mentor. Aside from constructing imaginary worlds, she works as an award-winning science communicator and tries to keep up with two small wildlings.
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