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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 July, 2010

Quick Updates for 2010-07-07

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

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Quick Updates for 2010-07-06

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

  • SFWA Member Harry Connolly is pleased to announce that German rights to his novel CHILD OF FIRE have been sold to Otherworld Verlag. #
  • SFWA member @MaryRobinette has released a sample chapter of SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY. http://bit.ly/aZaGqc #shadesmh #
  • SFWA member @matociquala is running a short poll on the ages of SF writers. http://3.ly/fcEq #
  • Congratulations to SFWA member @MFJ72, who just sold his story "Long Pig" to Daily Science Fiction. #
  • Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Christopher Howard. Read his qualifying story @fantasymagazine. http://is.gd/dgk2w #
  • Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Tyler Franck, writing as James S.A. Corey w/Daniel Abraham. 1st book Leviathan Wakes (Orbit 2011) #
  • @ironnoir Not yet. As one of the qualifications, a market needs to publish consistently for one year. in reply to ironnoir #
  • SFWA member @samhenderson123's story "The Red Bride" is up at Strange Horizons. http://is.gd/dgGyW #

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Quick Updates for 2010-07-05

Monday, July 5th, 2010

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Member News

  • Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Jen Hilton, author of “The Visitor” in Dragon Magazine.
  • Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Ryan Harvey with a sale to Writers of the Future.

Resources

  • World Literature Today’s current issue celebrates science fiction, with exclusive content on the companion website!

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Quick Updates for 2010-07-03

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

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Member News

  • Congratulations to SFWA member Yasmine Galenorn who had a new release come out yesterday: Night Myst.
  • SFWA member Nnedi Okorafor has a Reading Guide for her novel WHO FEARS DEATH on the Penguin website.
  • SFWA member Mary Robinette Kowal’s Science Fiction story “A Type of Favor” is online at Sharable.net.
  • Congratulations! SFWA member Jennifer Brozek won an Origins award for her work on “The Big Damn Heroes Handbook” Serenity RPG supplement.
  • SFWA member Jennifer Brozek‘s finance book, THE LITTLE FINANCE BOOK THAT COULD, has been released.
  • Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Liane Merciel, The River Kings’ Road.
  • Interview with SFWA member Cat Rambo and editor of Fantasy magazine, at Redstone SF.
  • Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member, Steven Saus, with a sale to the anthology Hungry For Your Love.

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SFWA Email Service Changing

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

On July 1, we changed the backend email service for emails ending in ‘@sfwa.org’. Any email that no longer matches up with an account should already end up in my inbox but if you have sent an email and haven’t received a response or it was returned to you, please send it to me at webmaster@sfwa.org and I’ll make sure it gets to the right person.

Thank you for your patience.

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Quick Updates for 2010-07-02

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

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A moment of appreciation for Paul Melko

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

As Scalzi has already said, Russell and Michael have been phenomenal and highly visible. Paul Melko has been quiet, efficient and always there when I needed him. He’s put in three years as the South Central regional director in addition to time with Griefcom and maintaining his own writing career. His voice on the board has been one of reason and often saw the way through to a compromise. I have very, very much enjoyed serving with him and he deserves SFWA’s hearty thanks.

As much as I’ll miss having him on the board, my fondest wish now is that he have the time to work on more fiction. May I suggest that one way to thank Paul for services rendered to SFWA is to explore his writing, both his novel Singularity’s Ring as well as his short fiction.

Yours,

Mary Robinette Kowal

Vice President, SFWA

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A Moment of Appreciation for Russell and Michael

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

My dear fellow SFWAns:

As of 12:00 this morning, I became the President of SFWA, thanks to those of you who voted for me in the last election. Also newly joining me on the board are Bob Howe as Secretary, Lee Martindale as South/Central Regional Director and Sean Williams as Overseas Director. Mary Robinette Kowal moves into the Vice-President position after having served as Secretary for two terms. Amy Sterling-Casil, Bud Sparhawk and Jim Fiscus continue in their positions as Treasurer, Eastern Regional Director and Western Regional Director, respectively. It’s an honor to be working with them and I know each of us will do our best to help SFWA be useful for its members (i.e., you).

I’ll have many opportunities to speak to you over the coming year, and I look forward to doing that. For my first official communication, however, what I would like to do is take a moment to put a spotlight on our departing President, Russell Davis, as well as our departing Vice President, Michael Capobianco, and to offer my applause to the both of them for the work that they’ve done for SFWA over the last two years.

First, I believe that it is difficult to overestimate the importance of having Russell as President of SFWA in these last two years. Russell came in at a critical time in our organization’s history, when the organization had faced serious challenges internally and externally. He chose to confront these challenges head on, and worked to provide our organization with the infrastructure that will be critical to its success in the future. In particular, Russell and his board have done the hard but necessary work to reincorporate SFWA in California and to craft a revised set of bylaws that will give our organization the tools it needs moving forward. This is an absolutely critical achievement, and Russell deserves all of our thanks for shepherding this process.

On a personal note I have gotten to know Russell well over the last couple of years, and have admired his forthrightness and sense of commitment in the role of President, and in the transition between our administrations have benefited from his advice and knowledge. I fully intend to continue to use Russell as a resource and sounding board moving forward — that is, after he’s had a little time to decompress.

Over the last couple of years I have also been fortunate to get to know Michael Capobianco. Simply put, Michael is a walking, talking repository of SFWA knowledge and history, and I have been in awe of the information he keeps in his head about our organization. But more than that, Michael has embodied the ideal of service to SFWA — acting as an adviser to Russell after his own presidential tenure, and then in the last year stepping in to serve as Vice-President. In my dealings with Michael over the last few years, I have found him to be thoughtful, kind and a considered voice in often inconsiderate times. He has both my admiration and my thanks.

While I and the new SFWA board will face our own sets of issues and challenges in the coming year, I know for certain that our jobs would be harder if not for the work done by Russell, Michael and the outgoing board. They have done well by and for SFWA, and have earned both their rest from the day-to-day administration of our organization, and my sincerest appreciation for jobs well done. Thank you, Russell, Capo.

Also departing the board at this time is Paul Melko, who has ably served as South/Central Regional Director. Vice President Mary Robinette Kowal has put together a few words on his service, and that post will follow this one. Thanks, Paul, for all your hard work.

John Scalzi

President, SFWA

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Quick Updates for 2010-07-01

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

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The Case Against Reading Fees

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware

I never thought I'd be re-visiting the issue of literary agents charging reading fees. After all, the problems inherent in the charging of reading fees are recognized by all four literary agents' professional trade groups (the USA's AAR,  Australia's ALAA, and New Zealand's NZALA prohibit them outright to members; the UK's AAA allows them only if the client or prospective client is first informed in writing). And "never pay a reading fee to a literary agent" is one of the few pieces of anti-scam wisdom that has passed into the collective consciousness. Even if they aren't aware of other scams and schemes, most new writers know that reading fees aren't kosher. But one of the most surprising things--to me, anyway--to come out of last week's vigorous twiscussion of how agents should be paid (see the #agentpay hashtag) is the proposal that agents should once again charge reading fees. See, for instance, this blog post by writer Nadia Lee. Several commenters on my blog post last week also suggested a return to reading fees; similar suggestions are scattered in the comments of other blog posts about #agentpay (including Colleen Lindsay's partial roundup of these posts). The idea has even been put forward by some agents; see this pair of posts by Robert Brown and Sharene Martin of Wylie-Merrick Literary (though I have to say I have trouble taking seriously Sharene's suggestion that expecting agents to operate within ethical guidelines is equivalent to racial profiling). Here are four arguments in favor of reading fees, and why, in my opinion, three of them don't hold up. (more...)

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