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Nebula Awards Weekend
The Forty-Seventh Nebula Awards Weekend will be held Thursday through Sunday, May 17 to May 20, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, near Reagan National Airport.
We honor Connie Willis as our Grand Master!
To register, click on “Registration” in the menu to the immediate left. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Register” button.
Tours, workshops and panels are available for registered attendees (the number of people who can be accommodated on the tours and workshops is limited.) Active and Associate SFWA members may nominate works, until February 15th, for the awards to be presented at the May 19th Nebula Awards Weekend Banquet. Hour long interviews and readings will be recorded by Jim Freund for his Hour of the Wolf radio show broadcast on WBAI (99.5FM) in New York City.
Jon Williams is our Toastmaster (he will also conduct a half-day Writers Workshop on Friday morning.) Mike Fincke is our Keynote Speaker.
The Mass Autographing Session on Friday, May 18th will be followed by a reception to honor the nominees and other honorees.
You don’t have to be a nominee, a member of SFWA, or even a writer to participate in the weekend. Registration for the 2012 Nebula Awards Weekend is open now. The cost for the Nebula Awards Banquet is $75.00 per person. The cost to register is $50.00 for a SFWA Member and $60.00 for a non-SFWA Member until February 29, 2012. Rates for registration will be higher as the date of the event draws closer.
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Archive for February, 2010
Reading Aloud: Cross-gender Voices
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Cross-gender voices are a tricky business. Even if you can really do a convincing cross-gender voice–and I know folks who can–the fact is that in a live reading, the audience knows that there’s only one person doing all the voices. There are two ways cross-gender voices can throw people out of listening. It’s really bad, and embarrassing, or it’s really good and shocking that a female voice is coming out of a man’s mouth. Either way, the listener drops the story for a moment.
This is like a turn of phrase that’s really stunning in a story. You stop reading for a moment and think, “Wow, that’s lovely.” That may be true, but the story has stopped, right there. Same thing with voicing. Any time you make the listener stop to think, you’ve injured your story.
The point of doing different voices is to make it clear who is speaking–it’s not to make it sound like there are fifty people sharing the stage with you. If you really want it to sound like there are completely different people, hire some actors. (more…)
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Quick Updates for 2010-02-28
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
- @gregbossert Yes, it is. Good to see you here. in reply to gregbossert #
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Quick Updates for 2010-02-26
Friday, February 26th, 2010
- @tcrosshill Hurrah! Congratulations! in reply to tcrosshill #
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One Week Only Sale on Slipstream Title
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
In celebration of Sue Lange’s upcoming appearance at the Author and a Movie event in Lansdowne, PA (Philly area), her ebook collection of previously published slipstream stories, Uncategorized, is on sale for $.99 at Smashwords. Sale ends Sunday midnight. Formats available include: pdf, mobi, epub, javascript, html, etc. Purchase the book
here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7776 (Use coupon code XG49C for the discount).
For the Author and a Movie event: Honoring the grand tradition of “Opening Attractions,” independent movie house Cinema 16:9 (35 N. Lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, PA) moviegoers will be treated to a one-time-only performance of a musical reading by local author Sue Lange. The material will be taken from her brilliant collection of critically praised sci-fi and slipstream short stories titled “Uncategorized.” (BookViewCafe.com; 2009)
Multi-talented and accomplished musician Gary M. Celima will be providing guitar and vocal music before and after the reading, and even at some points during the reading.
The event will include a screening of the two-time Cannes award-winning, POLICE, ADJECTIVE: “One of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year and a double prize winner at Cannes, POLICE, ADJECTIVE is the new whip-smart, dryly funny comedy from Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST).”
Tickets for this event are $10 if reserved ahead of time (484-461-7676); $20 at the door.
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Carlson’s Plague Year takes France
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The international bestselling novel Plague Year invaded France this week with the first title in Jeff Carlson’s trilogy of sci fi thrillers selling for a “solid” advance to Bibliotheque Interdite, described by literary agent Cameron McClure as “a young but dynamic publishing house that works with Games Workshop. They are growing and becoming more and more important in the fiction market.”
Bibliotheque Interdite has specialized in game tie-in Warhammer novels with great success. This summer, their new Eclipse line will debut with other media-friendly titles such as the Deathstalker books by Frank Frazetta, Steve Savile’s Silver, R.E. Howard’s Conan, and Carlson’s Plague Year, which deals with the accidental release of a nanotechnology prototype that devours all warm-blooded lifeforms below elevations of 10,000 feet.
Here in the U.S., the second novel in Carlson’s trilogy, Plague War, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, while the third title, Plague Zone, was Ace/Penguin’s lead paperback for December 2009 and received front-of-store displays in Barnes & Noble and other chains.
To date, the Plague Year novels have also sold in Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Spain, where “La Plaga” quickly became a bestseller as Minotauro’s lead hardcover for September 2008.
Readers can find free excerpts of the trilogy on Carlson’s web site at www.jverse.com along with tour dates, videos, contests, and more, including a trivia challenge in which winners will be allowed to name a character after themselves or a friend in one of his upcoming novels.
Plague Zone
Jeff Carlson
Ace Books/Penguin Group
November 24, 2009
ISBN 0441017991
Plague War
Jeff Carlson
Ace Books/Penguin Group
July 29, 2008
ISBN 0441016170Plague Year
Jeff Carlson
Ace Books/Penguin Group
July 31, 2007
ISBN 044101514X
Online fiction by Jeff Carlson
Jeff Carlson is a Member of SFWA
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Steven Popkes on Book View Café
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
On Monday, February 22, Book View Café welcomed Steven Popkes as its newest member. Popkes is best known for his short stories. The Color Winter was a finalist for the Nebula Award. His most recent story, The Secret Lives of Fairy Tales, is in the January/February issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He has also published two novels: Caliban Landing (Congdon and Weed,1988) and Slow Lightning (Tor, 1991).
Both deal with the complexities of alien contact.
For his debut, Popkes is offering his ghost story, Tom Kelley’s Ghost.
Visit Popke’s bookshelf at BookViewCafe.com:
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/The-Steven-Popkes-Bookshelf/
Watch for Steven Popke’s stories at http://www.bookviewcafe.com.
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Quick Updates for 2010-02-25
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
- Added "Finch" to the members-only area. We now have all the Nebula nominate novels available for consideration. http://is.gd/93fM5 #
- RT @LAGilman: Aiming not at readers, but pirates-for-profit: Publishers win legal block over file-sharer http://3.ly/5dtN #
- Happy release day, to SFWA member @dianarowland for "Blood of the Demon" http://bit.ly/cCQPU5 #
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Quick Updates for 2010-02-24
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
- RT @cindypon: just got the latest @sfwa magazine and article by @nancyholder featuring me and @eugeneson among other ucsd alumni #
- RT @SFXMagazine Walter Koenig's son Andrew is missing in Vancouver. Full details of the appeal to find him http://www.walterkoenigsite.com/ #
- RT @jayewells: Great article in the Huff Post about the new world for authors: a must if you're a writer! http://bit.ly/aJ4v51 #
- Just added @cmpriest's "Boneshaker" and Ted Kosmatka's Divining Light" to the finalist fiction for SFWA members. http://is.gd/92CP3 #
- RT @JonathanStrahan: 17 day remaining to nominate for the Hugos! #
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Quick Updates for 2010-02-24
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Resources
- Article in the Huffington Post about the new world for authors!
Member News
- Congratulations to SFWA member Yasmine Galenorn who was nominated for a 2009 PEARL in Urban Fantasy for Demon Mistress!
- SFWA member Joanne Merriam‘s Alzheimer’s/vampire story went live at Strange Horizons today:
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Michele Lang Palter, author of Lady Lazurus.
- Congratulations to Gregory Norman Bossert who upgraded to Active membership with a sale to Asimov’s!
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Another Vanity Award: The 2010 Creative Spirit Awards
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
The 2010 Creative Spirit Awards™ Celebrating the Creative Spirit in Books, Film, and Music!The March 1st Early Bird Deadline is approaching fast! If you haven’t already submitted, we invite you to submit today!
It's every Author, Musician and Filmmaker’s desire to generate notoriety, credibility and buzz about their work, and winning this significant award is the vehicle in which to make your creation stand out as the exemplary work it is. To further help winners achieve this recognition, following the close of the competition, press releases with information on the Creative Spirit Award™ Winners will be sent to key book sellers, film and music distributors, and other sales and marketing entities. Being a Creative Spirit Award™ winner will inspire confidence in buyers, distributors, readers and prospective clients that Creative Spirit Award™ winning productions are of high quality and worthy of their attention. The Creative Spirit Awards™ celebrate the individual artist as well as their work through a panel of judges who have excelled in their respective fields. As such, awards are only presented to those filmmakers, musicians and authors who create fresh, standout, and exemplary creations in their field. Each work is judged solely on its own merits and not in competition with other submissions. The Creative Spirit Awards™ honors its winners with Platinum, Gold, or Silver Awards.Googling "Creative Spirit Awards" reveals that many blogs and websites have posted this announcement, some with approving commentary. But a visit to the Creative Spirit website turns up a number of red flags. (more...)
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