Upcoming Writer’s Workshops in Nova Scotia

Internationally published author and teacher, Nina Munteanu, gives several workshop courses on writing in Nova Scotia winter of 2010. Workshop courses include:
October 14th to November 18th:
“How to Write and Publish Science Fiction“. What is Science Fiction? What isn’t it? What’s involved in writing SF and how do you get it published? Internationally published SF author, blogger and [...]

We proudly introduce our new co-author… Nina Munteanu

Nina MunteanuClimate of Our Future is very pleased and excited to announce that Nina Munteanu will be making regular contributions to our blog.Nina Munteanu is an internationally published author and ecologist with over twenty-five years experience working as an environmental scientist in North America. She has published over fifty scientific papers and reports and is a frequent speaker at scientific conferences where she discusses environmental issues and new methods of study. Nina’s award-winn

How to Write A Great Sex Scene

  Suite101 is one of those websites that gets everyone to write for them for free and then tries to pay them for their large traffic contributions with royalties for miniscule ad sales. Fortunately, though, many of the writers rise above their position on the internet ladder and churn out excellent pieces. One recent addition to the lineup is “How to Write A Sex Scene,” and it’s quite interesting… Writer Nina Munteanu hits five keys points in her article and, curiously enough, they w

Home is Where the Heart Is

You are environment; and environment is you —Nina Munteanu In a recent Scientific American Mind article, entitled ” Building Around the Mind ” Emily Anthes recounts the story of how prizewinning biologist Jonas Salk came up with the polio vaccine in the 1950s. According to Anthes, Salk’s progress was slow in his dark basement laboratory in Pittsburg, so he decided to travel to Assisi, Italy, to clear his head. Amid his ambles within the cloistered courtyards and elegant columns of a 13th Cen

Busted by Bundoran!

Hee hee! Bundoran Press, the wonderful SF&F publisher in Prince George, British Columbia, has just put the above photo of me on the main page of their website. It was taken November 10, 2007, at Sentry Box, Calgary’s great science-fiction store. The book I’m looking at is the terrific anthology The Best of Neo-Opsis, culling the top work from one of Canada’s major SF magazines, including stories by Suzanne Church (who’s in my writers’ group), Darwin’s Paradox author Nina Munteanu, and

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