NASA Month: NASA for Writers

All this month, I'm NASA! This means every weekday in March will feature a new post about NASA, and I'm hosting a giant giveaway in order to encourage people to spread the NASA love. For more information on the giveaway, check out this post.

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NASA for Writers

Today, I want to spread the news about a very cool workshop specifically for writers. The Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop is, according to the official website, "an education/public outreach effort supplementing Mike Brotherton’s space-based astronomical research. Our primary goal is to teach writers, editors, and those with audiences of all types about modern science, specifically astronomy, and in turn reach their audiences."

I've spoken to several authors who've participated in the workshop in the past, and everyone's really loved it. The workshop this year will be in Laramie, Wyoming (imagine the clear night skies for this!) and will feature Christian Ready as the guest lecturer.

If you're a writer--or anyone else who has the ability to reach a wider audience and can spread the information on good sciences further--please consider applying to this excellent program.

And if you need more convincing, check out these author's experiences:

• Alma Alexander's posts about Launch Pad 2008 (very well organized; I highly recommend this one!)
• Rachel Swirsky live-blogged her 2010 experience for Tor.com 
• David Levine did the same for his 2008 experience.
• And Jeff Vandermeer did a series of posts on his experience here.

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This post is a part of the month-long celebration of NASA I'm hosting on my blog. In order to encourage people to celebrate NASA, I'm also hosting a giveaway!

One grand prize winner will receive all the books in the recent Breathless Reads tour, as well as ARCs of two anthologies and a signed Breathless Reads poster:

As well as swag from NASA, courtesy of Kate @ Ex Libris:

To celebrate NASA creatively: you could blog about why you like NASA, you could reach out to an astronaut for an interview, you could make space fan art, you could sing a song about NASA, you do a vlog, you make a list of all the ways NASA rocks...any of this counts! Just celebrate NASA in some awesome way, post it online, and include the link in the Rafflecopter. I even set that part of the entry open for multiple entries, so you could blog and vlog and Facebook and tumblr and Pinterest about NASA and they all count. The only requirements: post a link back to this contest, and put the full URL of the site in the Rafflecopter. Full details here.

To enter: be sure to read the full rules and terms of the contest here. Then fill out the Rafflecopter below:

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