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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 November, 2010
Guest Post–A Writer’s Guide to Social Media
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
by Jason Sanford
If you are an author, are there certain things you shouldn’t do to promote your writings using social media?
Please place this question in the proper context. We live in an interconnect world where social media is replacing the old-guard media decision makers. Instead of Walter Cronkite telling us “that’s the way it is,” a billion people now shout their views on how things really are. This mass opinion constantly ebbs and flows as it filters through our personal interactions and conversations. If several of your friends state on Facebook that a movie is good, you’re more likely to see it than if a TV ad proclaims it the best SF epic since “Battlefield Earth.” Sorry, couldn’t resist. As an author, I’d rather have a million people tweeting about my stories than have my fiction annointed by Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review.
The funny thing is that social media works in similar ways to how ideas and beliefs have been promoted throughout much of human history. People once learned from one another what was worth knowing and doing, and the best of these memes worked their way through the population like a unending game of telephone. It was only with the advent of mass communication technology like printing, radio, and TV that a select few became able to easily influence great numbers of people. But with social media those select few are now finding themselves increasingly drowned out. This doesn’t mean influential voices won’t rise up out of the social media and influence others. But this happens in a much more natural process than having a single news anchor declare “that’s the way it is.”
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Quick Updates for 2010-11-14
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
- The SFWA western regional business meeting is today from 10:00-11:00 am in the Hawthorne room at #orycon #
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Quick Updates for 2010-11-13
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
- @angelicshades When did you apply? We usually respond within 5 business days. Email me at vp@sfwa.org (Mary Robinette Kowal) #
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Quick Updates for 2010-11-12
Friday, November 12th, 2010
- The Cleopatra literary contest seeks to foster aspiring young women writers. Sponsored by SFWA member @stephaniedraven http://3.ly/X6xA #
- Congratulations to SFWA member @jimchines who signed a 2-book deal with DAW. http://is.gd/gX0K5 #
- @chasingray Congratulations! That's fantastic news. #
- Congratulations to SFWA member @AletheaKontis who sold her debut novel SUNDAY to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. http://3.ly/v5mF #
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“Where Two or Three” by Sheila Finch
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
“Where Two or Three” by Sheila Finch
Is Anybody Out There
Edited by Marty Halpern
Daw, May 2010
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Sunburst Awards Seek Videos
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Organizers of The Sunburst Awards, Canada’s only juried award for speculative fiction, are seeking short videos–or photographs with text–to promote awareness, as the group transitions from a privately funded venture to a non-profit. The goal is to raise the profile of Canadian Fiction. Not Canadian? Sunburst would love to hear from you too. To see some of the videos, head to The Sunburst Channel on YouTube. To find out more, visit The Sunburst Award For Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
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“Super sad true love story : a novel” by Gary Shteyngart
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
“Super sad true love story : a novel” by Gary Shteyngart
Random House, July 2010
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“The Native Star” by M. K. Hobson
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
“The Native Star” by M. K. Hobson
Spectra, August 2010
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Quick Updates for 2010-11-10
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
- SFWA member @paulskemp is Guest of Honor at UCon in Ann Arbor, MI this weekend (Nov 13-14). He says, "Attend or suffer a terrible curse!" #
- SFWA Mourns Longtime Member, Volunteer Glenn Lewis Gillette http://is.gd/gSkT6 #
- Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Sarah Frost with a sale to Analog. #
- Congratulations to SFWA member @jamietr who upgraded from Associate to Active with a sale to Analog. #
- Welcome back to SFWA Active member @tobiasbuckell, author of Halo: The Cole Protocol and Crystal Rain. http://is.gd/gSoyS #
- @tobiasbuckell We are very, very happy to have you back. #
- Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Kyle Aisteach with a sale to COSMOS. http://www.aisteach.com/ #
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SFWA Mourns Longtime Member,
Volunteer Glenn Lewis Gillette
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
by Steven H. Silver
Glenn Lewis Gillette (b.1946) died on Nov. 1 after a year-long battle with cancer.
Gillette published his first story, “Monster in the Waterhole,” in the June 1972 issue of Analog magazine, and followed up with two more stories over the next few years before taking a twenty-year hiatus. He began to publish again in 1996 and had many stories appear in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including Apex, M-Brane, and Bard & Sages Quarterly.
“I met Glenn on a number of occasions during my time at SFWA and always found him good and engaging company,” said John Scalzi, president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). “More than that, his On-line Update e-mails were the way that I felt connected to the organization–in a very real way Glenn was the face of SFWA for me. I know other members of the board have equally fond memories of him and a deep appreciation of the work he did for SFWA. With his passing I offer on behalf of the entire board our sympathy and commiseration to his loved ones, and an abiding thanks for the work he did for SFWA. He made a difference, and that’s no small thing.”
For many years, Gillette edited the SFWA E-newsletter and On-line Update, sending out information to the SFWA membership. In 2008, he coordinated the SFWA table in the dealer’s room at Denvention 3, that year’s Worldcon, ensuring that memberships and merchandise were available, as well as coordinating numerous autographings at the table. He was an active member of the Northern Colorado Writers Workshop.
Gillette graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1968. He commanded more than 100 enlisted men in the Philippines and served as commander for two student squadrons in Alaska before entering private industry in 1973. He is survived by his wife, Jeannie, four children, and a grandson.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) is a professional organization representing more than 1,700 authors, artists, and allied professionals in science fiction, fantasy and related genres. SFWA assists members in legal disputes with publishers, administers benevolent funds for authors facing medical or legal expenses and offers extensive educational and business resources to its members and genre writers in general. SFWA also sponsors the annual Nebula Awards, peer recognition for the best literary and dramatic works of speculative fiction. SFWA was founded in 1965 by the American science fiction author Damon Knight. Past and present members include Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffrey, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Andre Norton. Learn more at: www.sfwa.org
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