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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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In Memoriam: Joel Rosenberg (1954-2011)
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
Joel Rosenberg (b.1954) died on the evening of June 2, a day after suffering a respiratory depression that caused a heart attack, anoxic brain damage and major organ failure.
Rosenberg’s first published short story was “Like the Gentle Rains” in IASFM in 1982. A year later, he published The Sleeping Dragon, the first novel in his long-running “Guardians of the Flame” series, in which college students found themselves in a world apparently based on a fantasy role-playing game. Rosenberg revisited that theme with his “Keepers of the Hidden Ways,” which transported characters from the modern world into one based on Norse mythology. His other fantasy series included two “D’Shai” novels and two novels in the “Mordred’s Heirs” series.
In addition to fantasy, Rosenberg also wrote science fiction and mysteries. He set four novels in his Thousand Worlds universe, two of which dealt with the Metzadan Mercenary Corps, a group of Jewish mercenaries in a science fictional setting. While his “D’Shai” books were fantasy-mystery hybrids, his two “Sparky Hemingway” novels were straight mysteries.
After a burglary attempt, Rosenberg became interested in guns rights and became a licensed instructor in Minneapolis. He also wrote books on guns rights in Minnesota and Missouri.
Rosenberg is survived by his wife, Felicia Herman, and their two daughters, Judith and Rachel.
On a personal note, Joel was the first person I met at the first science fiction convention I attended. I had exchanged some letters with him about his Guardian of the Flame books (and Mark Twain) and had decided to attend Windycon to have the chance to meet him. Not knowing anything about conventions, I arrived, figured out a panel he would be on, and sat in the front row. I planned to approach him after the panel and introduce myself. While people were still filing in, a big bear of a man planted himself in front of me and asked, “Are you Steven Silver?” It was Joel, on the look out for me. To this day, I’m grateful for his warm welcome into our community. It provided me an excellent reason to stay.
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Quick Updates for 2011-06-02
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
- @DebNemeth @AuthorGuy SFWA has accepted epub and POD as qualifying material for years. #
- SFWA member Leah Cypess's second fantasy novel, NIGHTSPELL, releases today from HarperCollins. And it got a starred review from Kirkus! #
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Quick Updates for 2011-06-01
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
- @ghostfinder It includes a sub to The Bulletin. #
- @ghostfinder I'm not sure. Drop a line to office@sfwa.org to check. #
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