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Quick Updates for 2010-03-05

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Resources

• An interview with Nebula nominee Kij Johnson. Tentacles! Sex! And insights into writing.
• Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop, a NASA funded workshop for writers, is accepting applications through 3/31.
• SFWA member Jim C. Hines has an interesting post and discussion about advances.
• SFWA member Jonathan Strahan talks about managing your digital assets.

Member News

• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Gord Sellar. Read one of his qualifying stories.
• Interview with SFWA member Mike Resnick.
• SFWA members: The direct link to ask your candidates questions is here.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Affiliate member, illustrator Apis Teicher.
• Watch SFWA member David D. Levine’s Ignite Portland (#ip8) talk on YouTube.

Industry News

• Victoria Strauss: Penguin experimenting with a book format for iPad.

Tags: Apis Teicher, David D. Levine, Gord Sellar, Jim C. Hines, jonathan strahan, Kij Johnson, mike resnick, twitter, victoria strauss
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Quick Updates for 2010-02-17

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Member News

• Congratulations to SFWA member Joanne Merriam who sold a short story to Per Contra.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member, Will McIntosh with 3 sales to Asimov’s!
• Congratulations to SFWA member Jennifer Brozek who has upgraded to Associate!
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Silvia Moreno-Garcia who qualified with “Seeds.”
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member, Alexey Pehov, with The Chronicles of Siala to Tor.
• The audio version of SFWA member David D. Levine’s story “Wind from a Dying Star” has been podcast on Escape Pod
• Happy book release day to SFWA member David B. Coe for The Dark Eyes’ War, book III of Blood of the Southlands

Tags: Alexey Pehov, David B. Coe, David D. Levine, Jennifer Brozek, Joanne Merriam, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, twitter, Will McIntosh
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Quick Updates for 2010-02-12

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Resources

• SFWA member David D. Levine has a good essay “How the Future Predicts Science Fiction” in the final issue of rhe Internet Review of Science Fiction.

Member News

• SFWA member David B. Coe has a new release out next week. Enter to win a signed copy.
• Q&A with SFWA member Kay Kenyon at Audible.com.
• SFWA member Michelle Knudsen’s fantasy novel The Dragon of Trelian is a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers selection.
• SFWA member Carrie Ryan’s paperback of her book, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, came out this week.

Tags: Carrie Ryan, David B. Coe, David D. Levine, Kay Kenyon, Michelle Knudsen, twitter
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Exploring Mars

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

SFWA member and Hugo-winner,  David D. Levine, is spending the next two weeks in a Mars Society Habitat as part of a project to study some of the very real difficulties in sending people to Mars. He promises to do a report for us when he returns, meanwhile you can follow along as he posts on the adventures of Crew 88.

On twitter he is tweeting for the mission as @MDRSupdates

He is also posting updates, with occasional pictures, on his blog and it’s already worth reading along. It should provide insight for some interesting world building.

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Quick Updates for 2009-12-26

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Member News

• Welcome to SFWA’s 1200th Active member Charlene Teglia author of “Wicked Hot!”
• SFWA member David D. Levine has been selected for Crew 88 of the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.

Industry News

• World Fantasy Awards 2010 Judges Named!

Tags: Charlene Teglia, David D. Levine, twitter
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Eleventh Annual Endeavour Award

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Portland – The eleventh annual Endeavour Award winner was announced November 27 at Oregon’s major science fiction convention, OryCon.

Portland writer and SFWA member David D. Levine won for his collection of short stories, “Space Magic,” published by Oregon publisher Wheatland Press.  The Award is accompanied by an honorarium of $1,000.00 and an engraved glass plaque.  Levine’s book is the first collection of stories to win the Award.

The other finalists were “Anathem” by Seattle, WA, writer Neal Stephenson; “Ill Met in the Arena” by Dave Duncan, who lives in Victoria, BC; “Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Stories” by Ranier, OR, writer Ken Scholes, and “A World Too Near” by Kay Kenyon, of Wenatchee, WA.

The Endeavour Award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book, either a novel or a single-author collection, created by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest.  All entries are read and scored by seven readers randomly selected from a panel of preliminary readers.  The five highest scoring books then go to three judges, who are all professional writers or editors.

The judges for the 2009 Award were Joe Haldeman, John Helfers, and Sarah Zettel.  Pyr Books editor Lou Anders presented the Award.

Award Eligibility for 2009

To be eligible for 2009’s Endeavour Award, a book — either a novel or a single-author collection — must have been published for the first time in English during 2008.  The majority of the book must have been written, and the book accepted for publication, while the author was living in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, or the Yukon.)  Deadline to enter books published during 2009 is February 15, 2010. Full information on entering the Award is available on the Endeavour Web site: www.osfci.org/endeavour.

The Endeavour Award is sponsored by Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

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