Guest Post: How to Roast a Novel
I’m in the throes of revision right now. It’s not a happy place necessarily, or an easy place. The process is difficult, painstaking and sometimes a pain in the butt.
SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2011-07-17
Congratulations to SFWA's newest qualifying short fiction market Lightspeed Magazine (@lightspeedmag). http://is.gd/mnljp9 #
Lightspeed Magazine is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
Today the board of directors of SFWA voted to add Lightspeed Magazine to the list of SFWA qualifying markets. Just celebrating its first year online, this imprint of Prime Books is a 2011 Hugo Award nominee. Edited by John Joseph Adams, the magazine features science-fiction short stories and non-fiction. They have published SFWA authors such as Nancy Kress, Bruce […]
Quick Updates for 2011-07-15
Report to members regarding Night Shade Books probationary period. http://is.gd/UOEGvu # Lake People and Other Speculative Tales by SFWA member Anna D. Allen is free thru July http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/67199 #
Report to members regarding Night Shade Books Probationary period
Dear Members, Last year, the SFWA board of directors voted to place Night Shade Books on probation for a period of one year. Night Shade Books responded by agreeing to work with SFWA to address the issues that our members had with their business. During the past year, Night Shade Books has been cooperative and […]
Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Launch Pad, a week-long workshop in astronomy, is underway in Laramie, Wyoming.
Video Pick of the Week: Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
The inimitable Kurt Vonnegut offers a chalkboard lecture: “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Announced
Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House has won the Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year, and Geoffrey A. Landis’s “The Sultan of the Clouds” has won the Sturgeon Award for the best short science fiction of the year.
Finalists for the 10th Annual Sunburst Award Announced
The jury for the tenth annual Sunburst Awards has announced the short-lists for 2011.
Publishing Beyond the Grave
Fellow authors, do you have a loved one who was a writer too, but sadly passed over into the Great Beyond with their poems or prose unpublished?
