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William Tenn
1920-2010
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I’m happy to announce a new feature on the SFWA blog, “How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: A writer’s guide to diseases and injuries, and how to use them effectively in fiction” written by Dr. Grasshopper.
Tags: Dr. Grasshopper, How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends, medicine, Science-fiction, world building
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William Tenn
1920-2010
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Industry new and member news for Kalayna-Nicole Price, William Moore, Kasey Mackenzie, Douglas Hulick, Lia Habel, and N.K. Jemisin!
Tags: Douglas Hulick, Kalayna-Nicole Price, Kasey Mackenzie, Lia Habel, n. k. jemisin, twitter, William Moore
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The New York Times is reporting that Amazon and Macmillan have come to an agreement, the details of which have not been made public. Amazon is reportedly in the process of restoring the “buy now” buttons to Macmillan books although not all titles have been restored yet.
Tags: Amazon, Macmillan
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SFWA Active and Associate members, there are only 10 days left to nominate for the Nebula Awards. Why not spend the weekend reading some of the 260 free pieces of eligible fiction available in the members’ only Discussion Forum.
Tags: Nebula, Nebula Award
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Victoria Strauss takes a satirical view of the latest fad in attempts to separate authors from their money.
Tags: Writer Beware
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Things look increasingly grim for the Google Books Settlement. The US Department of Justice echoes many of the problems SFWA raised with our objection (and cites our objection),
Tags: Google Book Settlement, Michael Capobianco
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Galleycat reports on Hachette Book Group’s decision to move to the same type of agency model proposed by Macmillan. Below is the letter from their CEO, David Young.
February 4, 2010
Dear Agent,
At Hachette Book Group, we have been considering a new pricing model for some time, and have decided to transition to selling our e-books through [...]
Tags: Hachette, Macmillan
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Macmillan’s CEO John Sargent has made new comments about the Amazon and Macmillian.
Tags: Amazon, Macmillan
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A style sheet is a document the copyeditor prepares that lists the grammatical conventions, characters, places, unusual or made-up words, and the distinctive treatment of words (capitalization, hyphenation, favored spellings, etc.) within a particular text.
Tags: copyediting, copyeditors, Deanna Hoak, stylesheets
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