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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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SFWA annual business meeting
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America will hold this year’s annual business meeting on Saturday, October 30th, at the 2010 World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, OH.
Room: To be announced
Schedule:
- 8:30-9:00am Light continental breakfast
- 9:00-10:00am Business meeting
(Note: The business meeting was scheduled so as not to conflict with regular WFC programming.)
Click here to RSVP for the SFWA Business meeting.
RSVPing will allow us to let you know the room and send you the agenda ahead of time. Please do help us encourage members to attend the business meeting. We need 31 active members to have a quorum.
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Tags: SFWA business meeting, World Fantasy
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Would That It Were is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Today the board of directors of SFWA voted to add the magazine Would That It Were retroactively to the list of SFWA qualifying markets. When Would That It Were began publishing in 2000, online magazines were in their infancy. The market criteria at SFWA was geared toward print magazines and at the time there was some disagreement about how to measure circulation.
While the magazine is no longer publishing, in belated recognition that it met SFWA’s minimum standards for professional publication, the board has added Would That It Were to the list of qualifying short fiction markets. Any stories which were sold there between 2000 and 2006 when it ceased publication are now considered qualifying sales.
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Quick Updates for 2010-10-16
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Member News
- SFWA member Dan Wells‘s novels I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER and MR. MONSTER have been nominated as 2011 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers.
- SFWA member Catherynne M. Valente will read in her hometown of Portland Maine at Longfellow Books on November 18th.
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Helen Lowe, author of THE HEIR OF THE NIGHT (Eos, 2010).
- SFWA member Allan Cole presents TWO AMERICAN WEREWOLVES IN BRIGHTON – new Hollywood Misadventure at his blog.
- Per Contra just published SFWA member Joanne Merriam‘s literary short “Toy Boy.”
Tags: Allan Cole, Catherynne M. Valente, Dan Wells, Helen Lowe, Joanne Merriam, twitter
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Quick Updates for 2010-10-15
Friday, October 15th, 2010
Member News
- SFWA member Paul S. Kemp has signed with agent Bob Mecoy to represent his work (especially and particularly his new sword and sorcery novel).
- SFWA member Lou Antonelli will sign his Texas-themed collection “Fantastic Texas” Sat, Oct. 16 in Tyler, Texas. More information here.
Tags: Lou Antonelli, Paul S. Kemp, twitter
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Quick Updates for 2010-10-14
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Member News
- Congratulations to SFWA member Paolo Bacigalupi whose YA novel SHIP BREAKER is a National Book Award finalist.
- SFWA member Lynn Flewelling is interviewed by Josh Lanyon.
Tags: Lynn Flewelling, Paolo Bacigalupi, twitter
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Quick Updates for 2010-10-13
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Member News
- Louis Wu’s first adventure wasn’t Ringworld. SFWA members Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner announce BETRAYER OF WORLDS.
- Happy Release Day to SFWA members Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and their novel BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS.
- Happy Release Day to SFWA member Sarah Beth Durst and her novel ENCHANTED IVY. You can read the first chapter here.
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Scott Lininger. Read his qualifying story “Love Bound” at Flash Fiction Online.
- SFWA member Jennifer Brozek has been promoted to assistant editor at Apex Publications.
Tags: edward m. lerner, Jennifer Brozek, Kami Garcia, larry niven, Margaret Stohl, Sarah Beth Durst, Scott Lininger, twitter
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Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner announce Betrayer of Worlds
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner announce Betrayer of Worlds
The Fleet of Worlds saga continues …
Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have — just barely — survived.
They’ve stumbled from one crisis to the next: the rebellion of their human slaves, the relentless questing of the species of Known Space, the spectacular rise of the starfishlike Gw’oth, the onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Catastrophe looms again as past crises return — and converge. Who can possibly save the Fleet of Worlds from its greatest peril yet?
The Ringworld was not Louis Wu’s first epic adventure.
BETRAYER OF WORLDS
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
Tor Books
ISBN 0765326086
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner are members of SFWA
http://www.larryniven.org
http://www.sfwa.org/members/lerner/
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Quick Updates for 2010-10-12
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Member News
- Interview with SFWA member Gail Carriger at The Gothic Imagination.
- Podcast If You’re Just Joining Us interviews SFWA member Mary Robinette Kowal here.
- SFWA member John Joseph Adams signs “The Living Dead 2″ with Steve Barnes, Amelia Beamer and John Skipp at Dark Delicacies Saturday, October 16 at 2:00 p.m.
- SFWA member Paul Jessup interviews SFWA member James Enge. Clowns and werewolves are discussed.
- Giveaway by Trelaina for the 3 books from the Downside Ghosts series by SFWA member Stacia Kane.
- SFWA member Cinda Williams Chima answers questions on Goodreads.
- Interview with SFWA member Sarah Beth Durst, author of ENCHANTED IVY by The Book Butterfly.
Resources
- SFWA member David B. Coe has a good post about A Few Common Writing Problems up at Magical Words.
Tags: Amelia Beamer, Cinda Williams Chima, Gail Carriger, James Enge, John Joseph Adams, John Skipp, Mary Robinette Kowal, Paul Jessup, Sarah Beth Durst, Stacia Kane, Steve Barnes, twitter
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Book View Café Publishes Benefit Anthology for Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Book View Café has launched their benefit anthology, BREAKING WAVES. All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.Posted in Press Book | Comments Off
Alert: Website with Copyrighted works (in Spanish)
Monday, October 11th, 2010
SFWA members with Spanish language editions may want to check out this Web site:
Which is offering quite a large number of books for download. We’ve verified that the site is offering what looks like homemade OCR’d versions of some of our members books plus many additional SF and Fantasy titles.
If you find your own books there you may wish to notify your Spanish language publishers to let their lawyers handle the messy details.
Additionally, Megaupload (the file upload site which housed the OCR of our members’ files) has a page for reporting copyright abuse:
http://www.megaupload.com/?c=abuse
Follow the directions there.
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