Guest Blog Post: Beware of Pay-To-Play TV Talk Shows
This guest post by author and essayist Kim Brittingham addresses an issue I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about lately: pay-to-play TV talk shows.
This guest post by author and essayist Kim Brittingham addresses an issue I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about lately: pay-to-play TV talk shows.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is proud to announce the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards. The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C.. Other awards to […]
Industry News and Member News for Tobias Buckell, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Jeffry Dwight, Blake Charlton, Allan Cole, and Catherynne Valente.
@johnjosephadams On Tuesday. There is a preview of the list of nominees in the SFWA forums. #
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
The publishing news of the week–maybe of the year–is the collapse of Borders, the USA’s second largest bookstore chain.
The deadline for claiming the Google Books Settlement cash payment has been extended to 1 year after/if the settlement is approved. # There is a SFWA Regional Meeting at #Radcon at 10 am today in Sage. #
Character and problem by themselves don’t go anywhere. You still have to build reader tension to a sharp point. So how do you do that?
SFWA member @blakecharlton's novelette "Endosymbiont" is on Escape Pod. http://bit.ly/hVpjaI # SFWA member @alcole123 asks HOW MANY AGENTS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW A WRITER? New Hollywood MisAdventure: http://is.gd/YgVRhD # SFWA member @catvalente announces her candidacy for Eastern Regional Director of SFWA. # @cathshaffer You are in the South/Central region. Lee Martindale is the S/C […]
SFWA member @tobiasbuckell was on the front cover of the Bluffton News last week: http://bit.ly/dLohiq # SFWA member @keffy's story "The Ghost of a Girl Who Never Lived" tied for third in the InterGalactic Awards: http://6.ly/fbb # PHANTAS, a speculative poetry collection by SFWA member Jeffry Dwight is available now from Curiosities. #
Writing is a risky career choice and one that doesn’t always yield a lot of concrete reward or social approval. But if one pretends it’s not a choice, then one doesn’t have to worry about those things, or at least not in the same way.