Quick Updates for 2011-05-12
@LAGilman The rules for posthumous wins would come into play. #
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Quick Updates for 2011-05-11
@katrinaarcher They are doing a voter packet this year. # Charles Waverly and the Deadly African Safari by SFWA member Anna D. Allen is now available http://is.gd/YAxmaY #
I Broke a News Story, and All I Got Was This Freaking T-Shirt
As readers of this blog know, I’m fascinated by the oddities that pop up at the fringes of the writing and publishing worlds. This qualifies as one of the odder things I’ve come across lately: T-Post.
Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Nnedi Okorafor
My characters always come first. You can’t have a plot if you don’t know who is going to move through it. Onyesonwu came to me way before her story did. The first scene I wrote was the first scene of the novel. No outline, no nothing. Just Onyesonwu at her father’s burial and some madness happens.
Guest Post: Writing Advice
You become a writer by writing. You learn by damaging your ego, and giving more of yourself than you take. By a thousand revelations, by millions of words you improve.
Quick Updates for 2011-05-08
Congratulations to SFWA member @BrandSanderson on his Whitney Award win for "The Way Of Kings." #
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 21 – Patterns for Presenting the Problem: Elements 4-5
If the main character is sympathetic and interesting, the reader will root for her and want to see what happens. If some of the particularities of the character and problem are surprising to the readers, it will generate more interest than if it’s something they’ve seen many times before.
Quick Updates for 2011-05-07
Interview with fashionpunk novelist & SFWA member @jon_armstrong. http://is.gd/nkzOTW # SFWA member @StinaLeicht is signing at Barnes & Noble in the Arboretum Austin tomorrow at 2pm. # @clundoff Welcome back! #
Pay to Play Anthologies
Vanity anthologies are a popular way for unscrupulous companies to make money on writers’ hunger for publication. By far the most common vanity anthology scheme is the free contest scheme, in which writers are enticed to enter poems or stories in a competition, and then pressured–though usually not required–to buy the anthologies in which their work appears.
Quick Updates for 2011-05-04
Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @DianeWhiteside, author of The Shadow Guard (Kensington, 2011) http://www.dianewhiteside.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, @NataniaBarron, with a sale to Bull Spec. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Thomas Mays, with a sale to Jim Baen's Universe # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Dave Gross, author […]
