McIntyre is being honored for her many years of maintaining SFWA member websites and other sections of the original SFWA website on a volunteer basis, as well as numerous other volunteer activities. Stokes is being honored for his service on multiple committees, as well as managing SFWA news alerts, ensuring organization membership is kept up to date with developments in SFWA and the publishing industry.

McIntyre sold her first short story in 1969 and published her first novel, The Exile Waiting, in 1975. Her 1978 novel Dreamsnake won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and her 1997 novel, The Moon and the Sun, won the Nebula Award.  She organized the first incarnation of Clarion West Writers Workshop (1971-1973), has taught at numerous other workshops and served as the Evans Chair Scholar at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Wash., in 2000. McIntyre is a founding member of Book View Café, an authors’ co-op distributing its members’ work in electronic form. She is a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she volunteers.

Stokes, a freelance photographer and travel writer, operates his own travel web sites www.kansastravel.org and www.mightymac.org. His genre publishing credits includes the SFWA Bulletin, Locus and File 770. Stokes helped found the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (which was latter incorporated into the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle) and was chairman of the SFFHoF from 1996-2001. In addition to chairing and holding various staff and committee positions at regional and national science fiction conventions, he currently serves as secretary and treasurer of First Fandom and is president of the Dawn Patrol, a loose organization of more than 300 science fiction, space and aviation enthusiasts from throughout the United States and Canada.

This is the tenth time that the SFWA Service Award has been presented. Previous recipients were Victoria Strauss, Chuq Von Rospach, Sheila Finch, Robin Wayne Bailey, George Zebrowski and Pamela Sargent (joint), Michael Capobianco and Ann Crispin (joint), Kevin O’Donnell, Jr., Brook West and Julia West (joint) and Melisa Michaels and Graham P. Collins (joint).

Prior to 2000, the award was a surprise announcement at the Nebula Awards banquet, but in recent years the recipients have been announced in advance.

The 2010 Nebula Awards® Weekend will be held in Coco Beach, Fla., May 13-16.  The date was chosen to coincide with the scheduled launching of the Shuttle Atlantis on Friday, May 14. The Nebula Awards will be presented at a banquet on Saturday evening, May 15.  Joe Haldeman will be honored as the next Damon Knight Grand Master. For more information, visit www.nebulawards.com.

About SFWA

Founded in 1965 by the late Damon Knight, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America brings together the most successful and daring writers of speculative fiction throughout the world.

Since its inception, SFWA® has grown in numbers and influence until it is now widely recognized as one of the most effective non-profit writers’ organizations in existence, boasting a membership of approximately 1,500 science fiction and fantasy writers as well as artists, editors and allied professionals.  Each year the organization presents the prestigious Nebula Awards® for the year’s best literary and dramatic works of speculative fiction.

March 1st, 2010; Los Angeles, CA – Today the Lambda Literary Foundation announced the launch of a new online webzine and blog community for LGBTQ writers and readers. The new Lambda Literary webzine will aggregate the best links from LGBTQ and mainstream book news websites and newspapers, feature provocative interviews, under-reported stories, and thoughtful, of-the-moment book reviews and nurture a social community that comments, critiques, links back, twitters, blogs, and interacts both online and in person.

“We’re here; we’re queer; we read. And on March 1st, we’ll be even more visible to the world and to each other.” says Lambda Literary Foundation board member Nicola Griffith. “We’re a community that loves books. We need books. All kinds of books: yaoi and high lit, graphic novels and celebrity tell-alls, heart-wrenching memoir and YA fantasy. We read to save our lives. We write, we edit. We publish, distribute, review, sell, advertise, lend, and buy. And Lambda Literary will now be home for the whole of the brilliantly diverse community that creates and supports our literature.”

“Our goal is to celebrate the successes and triumphs of our book community,” says Lambda Literary Foundation Web Producer Antonio Gonzalez. “All of it: the L, the G, the B, and the T. But of course we still want to have fun with it.”

Lambda Literary Foundation Executive Director Tony Valenzuela agrees. “Not enough queer readers know about the breadth of LGBT books available, both classic and contemporary in every genre imaginable. It’s our job at Lambda Literary to let them know.”

A core team (Griffith in Seattle, Gonzalez in New York, Valenzuela in Los Angeles, and Karina Meléndez, webdev wizard and designer, in British Columbia) built a six-figure website on a four-figure budget.

“We’ve never met,” says Griffith. “We speak different languages (in more ways than one). But we made this website happen, soup to nuts, in six weeks. We built it with love and care and attention–and not much sleep–because it matters.”

Meléndez is passionate on the subject. “Gabriel Celaya wrote that ‘poetry is a weapon loaded with future.’ When I was a teenager, Nicola Griffith’s books gave me exactly what I needed to stay alive in a highly toxic and homophobic environment. I think it is unlikely that news about Ammonite would have reached me in Mexico had the novel not won a Lambda Award in 1993. Sixteen years later, when Nicola told me, ‘I want people to know that, no matter who or where they are, there’s a book for them,’ I had no choice but to participate in making the vision of a website for all of us a reality.”

Some of the stories the new webzine will be launching with:

• Cheryl Morgan asks the soul-searching question, “Is There, or Should There Be, Such a Thing as Trans Literature?”
• As part of an ongoing Adaptation series, Stephen Rydman takes Tom Ford to task for old-school gay suicidal ideation in A Single Man, and asks: is the film more autobiography than adaptation?
• Susan Stinson ponders what happens when lesbian writers venture into forbidden territory. It’s okay for lesbians to write about lesbians–but can a lesbian really write about 18th century Calvinist minister, Jonathan Edwards? Stinson thinks she can
• Ten experts give ten quotes on the state of queer teen lit.  Young adult fiction with LGBTQ characters and themes is huge in ‘mainstream’ YA circles. We asked ten writers to give us the skinny.

Lambda Literary Foundation’s new webzine can be found at lambdaliterary.org.

About Lambda Literary Foundation
The Lambda Literary Foundation nurtures, celebrates, and preserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers. LLF’s programs include: the Lambda Literary Awards, the Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, and our website, www.LambdaLiterary.org.

here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7776 (Use coupon code XG49C  for the discount).

For the Author and a Movie event: Honoring the grand tradition of “Opening Attractions,” independent movie house Cinema 16:9 (35 N. Lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, PA) moviegoers will be treated to a one-time-only performance of a musical reading by local author Sue Lange. The material will be taken from her brilliant collection of critically praised sci-fi and slipstream short stories titled “Uncategorized.” (BookViewCafe.com; 2009)

 Multi-talented and accomplished musician Gary M. Celima will be providing guitar and vocal music before and after the reading, and even at some points during the reading.

 The event will include a screening of the two-time Cannes award-winning, POLICE, ADJECTIVE: “One of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year and a double prize winner at Cannes, POLICE, ADJECTIVE is the new whip-smart, dryly funny comedy from Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST).”

 Tickets for this event are $10 if reserved ahead of time (484-461-7676); $20 at the door.

Bibliotheque Interdite has specialized in game tie-in Warhammer novels with great success.  This summer, their new Eclipse line will debut with other media-friendly titles such as the Deathstalker books by Frank Frazetta, Steve Savile’s Silver, R.E. Howard’s Conan, and Carlson’s Plague Year, which deals with the accidental release of a nanotechnology prototype that devours all warm-blooded lifeforms below elevations of 10,000 feet.  

Here in the U.S., the second novel in Carlson’s trilogy, Plague War, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, while the third title, Plague Zone, was Ace/Penguin’s lead paperback for December 2009 and received front-of-store displays in Barnes & Noble and other chains.

To date, the Plague Year novels have also sold in Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Spain, where “La Plaga” quickly became a bestseller as Minotauro’s lead hardcover for September 2008.  

Readers can find free excerpts of the trilogy on Carlson’s web site at www.jverse.com along with tour dates, videos, contests, and more, including a trivia challenge in which winners will be allowed to name a character after themselves or a friend in one of his upcoming novels.

 Plague Zone

Jeff Carlson

Ace Books/Penguin Group

November 24, 2009

ISBN 0441017991

Plague War
Jeff Carlson
Ace Books/Penguin Group
July 29, 2008
ISBN 0441016170Plague Year
Jeff Carlson
Ace Books/Penguin Group
July 31, 2007
ISBN 044101514X

Online fiction by Jeff Carlson

Jeff Carlson is a Member of SFWA

Both deal with the complexities of alien contact.

For his debut, Popkes is offering his ghost story, Tom Kelley’s Ghost.

Visit Popke’s bookshelf at BookViewCafe.com:

http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/The-Steven-Popkes-Bookshelf/

 Watch for Steven Popke’s stories at http://www.bookviewcafe.com.

Further information:

2010: A Space Oddity

http://www.facebook.com/pages/2010-A-Space-Oddity/182194367285

Lou Anders: http://louanders.blogspot.com/

Peg Duthie: http://www.nashpanache.com/

Jack McDevitt: http://jackmcdevitt.com/default.aspx

David Kopaska-Merkel: http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/

Joanne Merriam: http://www.joannemerriam.com

The ebook consists of classic and favorite science fiction stories by Book View Cafe authors, never before gathered in a single collection.

Contributors include: Vonda N. McIntyre, Brenda W. Clough, Katharine Kerr, Judith Tarr, P.R. Frost, Pati Nagle, Madeleine Robins, Nancy Jane Moore, Sarah Zettel, Amy Sterling Casil, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Jennifer Stevenson, and Sylvia Kelso.

 The book is ready to read on the Kindle, Sony eReader, B&N Nook, iPhone and most ebook readers and cell phone apps.

Available formats include PDF, EPUB, MOBI, .prc, .lit, .lrf

 For a chance to win a free copy, visit the SFSignal contest page:

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/02/giveaway-rocket-boy-and-the-geek-girls/

Jedediah Berry has been named the winner of this year’s William L. Crawford Award for his first novel The Manual of Detection.

The award, presented annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, is designated for a new fantasy writer whose first book appeared the previous year. This year’s conference will be March 17-21 in Orlando, FL.

Mansfield Park and Mummies:
Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarianhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00359FEUYA hilarious “comedy of monsters and manners!”This stylish and clever parody of the Austen classic Manfield Park, comes complete with “scholarly” Footnotes that harangue the reader, amazing Appendices, hilarious Regency era fake blurbs from ladies and gentlemen, illustrations (by the author), a genuine romantic sub-plot that involves an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who takes on the form of a sexy Regency gentleman… and of course the mummies!

Kindle Edition
E-Book Retail Price: $9.99

Oh, and there’s a vampire, a werewolf or two, and an unspeakable monstrosity known only as the Brighton Duck!

Official Mummies Website:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00359FEUYNorilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 250 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women’s fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

http://www.norilana.com/mpam.htmGet Your Kindle E-Book Here:

 ”Smashwords is taking a truly dynamic approach to ebooks,” said Book View Café Project Manager Sarah Zettel. “From the beginning, BVC has promised readers the books they want, when they want them. Smashwords’ commitment to delivering multi-format ebooks to a wide variety of major retail outlets and mobile smart phone platforms will help us keep that promise.”

 A unique online venture, the authors of Book View Café are all veterans of the publishing world, having worked with some of the most famous print publishers including Penguin Books, St. Martin’s Press, Tor Books, and Simon and Schuster.  Book View Café will make the majority of their current ebooks available through Smashwords’ bookstore, affiliates, and retail distribution partners.

This will include titles by award-winning and bestselling authors such as Sarah Zettel, Sylvia Kelso, Steven Harper, Pati Nagle, and Chris Dolley.

 Smashwords currently publishes and distributes over 6,500 original ebooks from 3,000 independent authors and 100 small independent publishers. The service launched in May 2008 with a focus on self-published authors, and then in May 2009 expanded its offerings to support publishers as well. Smashwords distribution relationships with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Kobo (formerly

ShortCovers) will ensure BVC titles are available for online reading to a worldwide audience, across both  dedicated ebook reading devices and mobile smart phones.

 ”We’re pleased to work with Book View Café to help connect their authors with the rapidly expanding audience of ebook readers,” said Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords.  “Book View authors join a growing roster of professionally published Smashwords authors who are leveraging the power of ebooks to publish and distribute their out-of-print, reverted rights and unpublished works as ebooks.”

 In addition to its authors’ personal offerings, Book View Café will contribute their newly formed Book View Press titles, ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS, an anthology of rare and classic science fiction stories and THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY, an all-new steampunk collection, to the Smashwords catalog. A fantasy anthology, DRAGON LORDS AND WARRIOR WOMEN, and a book on writing and the publishing industry are being planned for release in early 2010, and will be made available through Smashwords.

 All Book View Café content is DRM-free at the Book View Café web site http://bookviewcafe.com as well as at Smashwords (http://smashwords.com).

 About Smashwords, Inc.

Launched in 2008, Smashwords operates an ebook publishing and distribution platform serving authors, publishers, readers and retailers.

Smashwords makes it free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to instantly publish and distribute a multi-format ebook.

Smashwords puts authors and publishers in full control over the pricing, sampling and distribution of their works. Authors and publishers receive up to 85 percent of the net proceeds from sales of their works. Smashwords has distribution relationships with leading online retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony, and leading mobile e-reading apps such as Stanza, Kobo, Ereader, Aldiko and Word-Player, spanning all major mobile platforms including Android and iPhone.  Smashwords is based in Los Gatos, California, and can be reached on the web at http://www.smashwords.com/. Visit the official Smashwords blog at http://blog.smashwords.com/.

For frequent Smashwords updates, follow Smashwords’ founder, Mark Coker, on Twitter at http://twitter.com/markcoker

 About Book View Cafe

BOOK VIEW CAFE came together in 2008 around a group of authors with a simple aim: to use the Internet to bring their work directly to their readers. It was already clear that a revolution was coming to the publishing industry and these authors wanted to help shape its course.

 Drawing on a collective century’s worth of experience in the publishing industry, the authors created an online space where readers can browse and discover new authors and titles alongside current favorites. Aware that the Internet demands variety, the site features fresh fiction every day on the front page, a feat made possible by the extensive list of material available to over thirty professional authors.

 Since its launch, Book View Café has experienced a steady growth in readers and in author-members.

The Cafe now receives over 700,000 hits every month. The author blog has also seen increasing popularity since its launch, drawing a further eight to nine thousand hits per month.  You can visit the website at www.bookviewcafe.com.