Quick Updates for 2011-08-03
You can now hear SFWA member @daviddlevine's story "Zauberschrift" on the PodCastle podcast http://bit.ly/qwCaM2 #
SFWA Blog
Solicitation Alerts:
JustFiction! Edition and DIP Publishing House
Direct contact from a publisher or agent should always be treated with caution, until research can determine whether the company or individual is reputable.
Guest Post: Finding Your Voice
Write a lot. This is almost all I need to say, as nothing else matters without the constant practice of writing a lot. Write blog posts and letters, booklets and diatribes, letters to the editor and book reviews, love poems and short stories, novellas and manifestos. The sheer mass of your writing becomes the raw matter from which to chisel your voice.
Quick Updates for 2011-07-30
SFWA member @jenniferbrozek has been promoted to managing editor of Black Room Publications. http://bit.ly/o6TdcH #
Quick Updates for 2011-07-29
New anthology End of an Aeon includes stories by SFWA members @stillsostrange @eugiefoster @daviddlevine and more! http://bit.ly/l19FyR #
Gulliver Travel Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) has announced that proposals for the Gulliver Travel Research Grant are being accepted from July 1st 2011 until September 30th 2011.
The Cruelest Hoax
There’s been some Internet buzz over the past few days about an apparent scam in which an unknown individual, posing as agent Jodi Reamer of uber-agency Writers House, targeted an unsuspecting author with a fake representation offer, followed by a fake high-advance contract offer from a major publishing house, all in the space of a few hours.
Video Pick of the Week: End of an Era
Winning a foothold on other worlds whispers in our ears that we’re more than Picts or Serbs or Tongans: We’re humans. ~Carl Sagan, A Pale Blue Dot.
Quick Updates for 2011-07-26
@wnwagner It counts as a half-credit for each author. #
Guest Post: The Death of Fiction as Mind Movie
An interesting book or movie is one that cannot be taken apart and compartmentalized like that. If it can be summed up in a two sentence elevator pitch, then it does not have room to breathe.
