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Podcast: Google Book Settlement at WFC

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

At World Fantasy there was a one-hour panel on the Google Book Settlement with Russell Davis, Karen Wester Newton, Charles Petit, Jay Lake, Christopher Kastensmidt, and Dan Gamber moderating. Though all agreed that the panel was too short it covered some good ground.

Sorry you missed it? Not to fear, Rick Kleffel’s Agony Column has the full podcast of it.

Here’s what the website/little book had to say about this (death) panel:

“The Google Books Settlement has caused worldwide controversy and will have a marked effect on every author and publisher. Hear various viewpoints on this issue.”

It’s sort of like saying, “Well, you can throw this match in that pool of gasoline, but there might be some side effects.”

Animated does not do this panel justice. So, let me say, up front, that, whatever they’re paying Russell Davis for being the Prez of Sifwa (Science Fiction Writers of America): It ain’t enough. It ain’t nearly enough. That guy is a rockin’ firebrand, folks and if you doubt my words, well …

Click through to read the rest of his review of the panel or follow this link to the MP3 of the full panel.

Tags: c.e. petit, Christopher Kastensmidt, Dan Gamber, Google Book Settlement, Jay Lake, Karen Wester Newton, podcast, Russell Davis
Posted in Copyright Education, News, SFWA Blog | 2 Comments »

Quick Updates for September

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Member News

• Welcome to SFWA’s new Associate members, Keffy R. M. Kehrli,Linda J Daly, Ben Fransisco, Mary Lowd, and Mercedes M. Yardley
• Welcome to SFWA’s new Active members, Deborah LeBlanc,  Gail Selinger, Robin Usher, Jon Sprunk, Carolyn Dunn, and A.W. Hill
• Congratulations to Stacia Kane who has sold audio rights to the first three Downside books, to Blackstone Audio.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviewed Gail Carringer for Amazon
• Congratulations to Jay Lake. Audible.com acquired audio rights to his novel, Green.
• Congratulations to William Shunn who sold his SF story “Care and Feeding of Your Piano” to Hugo Award winning fanzine Electric Velocipede.
• Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman is Bookpage’s Fantasy Pick of the Month. The review says ‘a delightful discovery,’ ’skillful,’ and ‘first-class’

Industry News

• Short Fiction by Writers of Color (September)
• Videos of last week’s House Judiciary Committee’s Google Books Settlement hearing now up at Open Book Alliance site.
• Writers Digest Books is actively seeking authors on very specific how-to topics.
• There’s still time to nominate works for 2008 Carl Brandon Awards.

Under normal circumstances, I would post these daily, but I was moving in September and got behind. –MRK

Tags: A. W. Hill, ben fransisco, carolyn dunn, deborah leblanc, gail selinger, Jay Lake, jon sprunk, keffy r.m. kehrli, laura anne gilman, linda j daly, mary lowd, mercedes m. yardley, new members, robin usher, twitter, william shunn
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Quick Updates for 2009-08-20

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

• Research Tool: An online archive of vintage tools
  
• Market Update: If you’ve submitted to Strange Horizons from a gmail address, they’ve been having problems with responses vanishing.  Jed Hartman has an update.
  
• Market Update: Asimov’s, Analog, Hitchcock’s, & Ellery Queen have moved to new offices.  Their new address for submissions is:

267 Broadway
4th Floor
New York, NY 10007

Member News

• Congratulations to Yasmine Galenorn who just signed two new titles, Night Huntress and Bone Magic, with Tantor Audio.
• Congratulations to N. K. Jemisin for her short story sale “The Dancers’ War” to Circlet Press (erotica) for a forthcoming anthology.
• Jay Lake’s story “Skinhorse Goes to Mars” is live at EscapePod – (Rated R)

Tags: Jay Lake, market listings, n. k. jemisin, strange horizons, twitter, yasmine galenorn
Posted in Press Book, SFWA Blog | 2 Comments »

Green by Jay Lake

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Green by Jay Lake,
Tor, June 2009

Tags: green, Jay Lake, lake
Posted in Nebula Suggested Reading, Novels | Comments Off