Quick Updates for 2012-07-17

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Member News

  • SFWA member Allan Cole is having Allan’s 50% July E-Book Sale. All formats. Go to Smashwords and paste in SSSW50 At Checkout.
  • SFWA member Cindy Pon has a guest post on distraction no. 99: here.
  • Nice review of TEMPEST’S FURY by SFWA member Nicole Peeler on Bibliopunkk.
  • DailySF story “Reading Time” by SFWA member Beth Cato is published in Persian at Farhikhtegan! Illustrated & all.
  • “Requiem in the Key of Prose” by SFWA member Jake Kerr is now up on the Lightspeed Magazine.
  • The latest issue of Apex features stories by SFWA members Ken Liu, Kij Johnson, Sarah Monette, and others.
  • SFWA member Brit Mandelo reviews member Charles Stross‘s newest book, THE APOCALYPSE CODEX at Tor.com
  • STALKING THE OTHERS by SFWA member Jess Haines now available here.
  • EMPIRE STATE by SWFA member Adam Christopher is one of the Financial Times best books of 2012 so far!
  • SFWA member Matthew Johnson‘s story “The Afflicted” is out in the July/August F&SF.
  • Hillarious post from Sean Markey about the perils of farm fresh produce. “Starbucks Thinks I’m A Drug Dealer”.
  • SFWA Member Gregory Norman Bossert has sold his novelette “The Telling” to Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Tina Connolly of Toasted Cake reads of SFWA member Ken Liu‘s story, “Golden Years in the Paleozoic”.
  • SF Signal Podcast #136 SFWA member Myke Cole interviews Anthology Editors John Joseph Adams and James Lowder. You can listen to it here.
  • SFWA member Alex Dally MacFarlane will edit reprint SF anthology ALIENS: RECENT ENCOUNTERS (Prime Books).
  • “113 Feet” by Josh Roseman appeared in Escape Pod #315 on 6/28.
  • Roundup of new OCEAN STORIES anthology with a horror tale by SFWA member Mike Allen & Charles M. Saplak “Strange Wisdoms of the Dead” here.
  • “Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints” parts 1 & 2 by SFWA member Alex Dally MacFarlane are at Strange Horizons here and here.
  • SFWA member Cory Doctorow is the guest of honor at Westercon 67 in Salt Lake City, July 2014.
  • SFWA member Michael R. Underwood‘s novel GEEKOMANCY is now available from Pocket Star via all eBook retailers.
  • SFWA member/past Nebula finalist Mike Allen has launched a Kickstarter for anthology CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 4.
  • A transcript of #sffwrtcht interview with SFWA member Deb Coates is here.
  • SFWA member Beth Bernobich‘s new novel, QUEEN’S HUNT is now available.
  • News from SFWA member Sharon Lee here: Releasing all 15 Liaden novels as audio books is only part of it …
  • The next Seattle-area SFWA reading is Thursday July 19, with Louise Marley, Isaac Marion, and Rhiannon Held.
  • SFWA member Edward Willett‘s two-act SF comedy Circle the Crops will be produced in Weyburn, Sask., next summer for the city’s centennial.