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I don't know much about the regional work, but the "contact regions" where the colonists had their greatest influence -- Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu -- have always been spec-fic hotspots.

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The spec-fic scene is actually a series of scenes since India has some 18 state-recognized languages.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Anil Menon 2009

Yes, it will vary, but by and large we know that screen writers make more money than a spec-fic writer because there is a much bigger number of people who are willing to go see that movie than there are will buy a spec-fic book.

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At the same time, there simply aren't enough desi spec-fic writers.

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So you really can't compare "pro" rates from one type to the other, and the pro rates for spec-fic is abysmal compared to other areas.

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You can demand all you want, but the editor isn't going to pay the same for a spec-fic short that they will for an travel article.

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While the spec-fic and komiks are still segregated from their foreign counterparts, here at least the komiks are separated from the prose books and displayed prominently on their own shelf.

Bookstore Raid: National Bookstore and Fully Booked (Powerplant) « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009

And I can read French and I have some contacts in the French spec-fic and publishing worlds and I know some people here who are willing to translate (at least a short story) for love.

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Notables are “Marvin Gaye” (whose parents had no inkling there was a black soul singer by the same name – and thus my rather geeky scientist has had to live with the fall out of that!) and Dirk Hartog (my hard nosed spec-fic detective).

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However, the blatant bias of research journals towards science rather than fiction eventually led him to switch careers from software R&D to spec-fic.

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