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Quick Updates for 2011-03-25

@faerye @ecmyers Most of the nominees have their work available for member consideration here. http://is.gd/fk3B2e # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Thoraiya Dyer, author of "Breaking the Ice." (Cosmos, 2/11) #

Quick Updates for 2011-03-24

SFWA member Anna D. Allen's collection of "non-genre" stories, Mrs Hewitt's Barbeque, is now available-http://is.gd/B5CZpf # Congratulations to SFWA member @NancyFulda who has won the Jim Baen Memorial Award. #

How Not to Market Your Book

How not to promote your book: make up a faux publicity company (at whose supposedly professional website you are the only listed client), whip up a badly-written press release (don’t bother with grammarcheck), and spam everyone you can think of (including, unfortunately, Writer Beware).

Quick Updates for 2011-03-23

Locus Online News is reporting that Google Books Settlement has been rejected http://bit.ly/fM8XyO # @uriel1998 Yes. Also that it confused out-of-print with out-of-copyright. # @uriel1998 That's what we are here for. # SFWA member @SaraCreasy's novel Song of Scarabaeus is a finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best SF Novel http://t.co/03jGyAm #

Judge Rejects Google Book Settlement

A US District Judge has rejected an agreement between Google and some members of the book industry. If the deal had been accepted Google would have put millions of additional books online, in most cases, without the author’s permission.

Quick Updates for 2011-03-21

Remember: The Nebula ballot closes in 10 days on 3/30 at 11:59pm PDT http://is.gd/5Wg1iB Read stories here: http://is.gd/fk3B2e # Night Shade Books is conducting an eBook Giveaway for SFWA member @StinaLeicht's "Of Blood and Honey." http://bit.ly/hZljsA # A new One Minute Weird Tales by David R Hughes, with video, audio, and tentacles by SFWA member […]