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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 November, 2011
Quick Updates for 2011-11-04
Friday, November 4th, 2011
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Quick Updates for 2011-11-03
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Member News
- Welcome to new SFWA member D. Walters Grintalis!
- SFWA member Jennifer Brozek was interviewed for Another Passion.
- SFWA member Allan Cole has 50% OFF on audiobooks at Audible, including STEN, THE TIMURA TRILOGY, and THE FAR KINGOMS SERIES.
- Congratulations to SFWA member Felicity Shoulders who sold her 2nd novelette “Long Night on Redrock” to Asimov’s. Teaser here.
- SFWA member Nancy Kress‘s original novella of BEGGARS IN SPAIN, winner of both the Hugo & Nebula Awards is available as an ebook from Arc Manor. (Both Nook and Kindle formats.)
- SFWA member Ferrett Steinmetz‘s “Little House On The Prairie In Space” novella “Sauerkraut Station” is at Giganotosaurus.
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Beware Zombies: Franklin-Madison Literary Agency
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
I'm writing this in my local Panera, which is one of the few places where I can power my computer just now. Here in Massachusetts, we are still suffering through the after-effects of the massive Snowtober storm, and after four days I still don't have power at home. And it has been COLD. And my friends are in the same boat, so no shelter there.I feel like a hobo right now, migrating from place to place in search of warmth and electricity. This morning I was at the gym (hello, hot shower). When I've dawdled as long as possible over my second mug of Panera tea, I'll move on to the library at the University of Massachusetts. After that, home to my dark, chill house, which at noon was actually colder inside than out. It may be Thursday or Friday before power returns, but my fingers are crossed that when I get home tonight I'll see the porch light on. Wish me luck.
At any rate, this is a little late for Halloween--but today's post is about zombie literary agencies... agencies that die only to rise again and lurch out onto the Internet in search of writers' brains. More specifically, it's about one zombie agency, which is attempting to eat brains under two zombie identities.
A few weeks ago, I began getting questions about the Franklin-Madison Literary Agency. Never having heard the name before, I did some research. What I found rang warning bells. From the creepy image of what look like conjoined twins on the opening page, to the badly-written text, to the absence of any substantive information on the agency and its staff, Franklin-Madison offers an impressive collection of red flags.
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Guest Post: Should Writers Blog, and Why?
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
by Jim C. Hines
I’ve gotten into several different conversations lately, at conventions and online, about blogging. Specifically, is this something writers should do, and why?
The answer I hear most often is OMG YOU HAVE TO BLOG AND DO THE TWITTER AND FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE+ OR ELSE YOU’LL NEVER SELL ANY BOOKS!
I think that blogging can sometimes be an effective way of getting your name out there and selling books, but I don’t think it’s a requirement, and I don’t think promotion is the only consideration, or even the primary one.
Promotion: Discussions about blogging commonly open with things like:
- “Your publisher expects you to promote yourself online!”
- “Look at Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi!”
- “You can’t expect any help from publishers, so you’ve got to do it all yourself, so get blogging!”
I will mention my work from time to time, and yes, sometimes it is blatantly promotional: “My book just came out. Yay!” I try not to do that very often. Other times I’m just talking about the process: “I just started draft four of Libriomancer, and I’m freaking out!” The latter isn’t intended as promotion, but it does result in readers knowing about my next project, which is nice.
But if the only reason you’re blogging is for marketing/self-promotion, then you’re basically writing an infomercial. And I don’t know many people who deliberately tune in to infomercials… (more…)
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Quick Updates for 2011-11-01
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
- Welcome to new SFWA member @DWGrintalis! #
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