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French-born Aliette de Bodard writes SF and fantasy in English–her second language. Her work has appeared in Interzone and other professional venues.

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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.

Results from the 2010 Nebula Awards (presented 2011).

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Archive for February, 2010

MyFreeRead.com: Not Quite What It Appears

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Earlier this week, I received an email from a company called MyFreeRead.com, enticingly titled, "Authors: We Want Your e-Books & Articles!"
Dear Authors, We want your e-books -- and we'll pay you for them!! * e-Books * Newsletters * Excerpts from books * Self-Published Articles Now, there's a new idea... actually get paid for writing your e-books and articles! We're launching a brand new website, where visitors can download free e-books on everything from running a business to fixing a car... and WE PAY OUR AUTHORS US $0.20 every time an e-book is successfully downloaded!
Gee, 20 cents a download--who could resist? Me, for one. I might have written this off as just one more random spam--but then I began hearing from writers who'd gotten the very same email offer. The volume of questions began to suggest a sizeable spam campaign, which always gets my Writer Beware radar twitching. (more...)

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Quick Updates for 2010-02-12

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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Member News

  • SFWA member David B. Coe has a new release out next week. Enter to win a signed copy.
  • Q&A with SFWA member Kay Kenyon at Audible.com.
  • SFWA member Michelle Knudsen‘s fantasy novel The Dragon of Trelian is a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers selection.
  • SFWA member Carrie Ryan‘s paperback of her book, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, came out this week.

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Last call for SFWA election candidates

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The deadline for declaring your intent to run for office is Friday, February 12th. If you are an Active SFWA member and wish to run, please send your platform to the Election Committee Chair, Lawrence Schoen at lawrence@klingonguy.com by Friday, February 12th. Currently the president, vice president, and Overseas Regional Director are unopposed races. No one has declared for Canadian Regional Director.

The following candidates have declared.

Members may ask the candidates questions in the 2010 Elections Discussion Area online.

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Quick Updates for 2010-02-11

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

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Remember Associate members can now nominate for the Nebulas

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

As the nomination period for the Nebula Awards winds to a close, please remind any Associate members you know that they can participate in the nomination process this year.  Because of the January 2009 change to the Nebula rules, both Active and Associate members may nominate now although only Active members will be able to vote on the final ballot.

Remember, nominations for the Nebula Awards close on February 15th.

Head over to the Nebula nomination ballot and nominate your five favorites in each category.
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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Member News

  • Congratulations to SFWA member Cat Rambo who has just signed with agent (& member) Ginger Clark.

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DOJ Weighs in on Amended Google Book Settlement

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware

Last September, the US Justice Department urged the courts to reject the Google Book Settlement, citing concerns about class action, copyright, and anti-trust laws. The DOJ's brief put the Settlement's approval process on hold, and forced the parties back to the negotiating table--resulting, in November, in the filing of an Amended Settlement. New deadlines were set for authors and for the filing of objections, and the Fairness Hearing (to determine if the Settlement will stand) was postponed to February 18, 2010. On Thursday, in a statement of interest filed with U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin in New York, the DOJ indicated that, while it continues to believe that the Settlement could provide a major public good, and acknowledges that the Amended Settlement Agreement includes "substantial" changes, it's still not satisfied. (The filing can be seen here.) The DOJ's strongly-stated concerns fall into the same areas it highlighted in its previous filing. (more...)

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Quick Updates for 2010-02-09

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

  • Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Shannon Phillips who qualified with "The Lady of Roch Shan" #

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