Resources

• Laura Anne Gilman: New blog post: Nebula Award nomination: It Really Is An Honor!
• The Guardian asked 28 writers for their 10 Rules of Writing Fiction.

Member News

• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member, Sonia Helbig, a Writers of the Future XXIV Winner.
• Nebula novel nominee Christopher Barzak talks about the journey his writing career has taken.

Resources

Agent Janet Reid has a good list of questions to ask a prospective agent.

Member News

• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member, Marie-Claude Bourque and her book Ancient Whispers.
• In an interview at io9, Cory Doctorow Talks About the Future of the Novel, Including His Own
• The October issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by SFWA member Kij Johnson.
• Happy Book Release day to Gail Carriger whose novel hit the stores today.
• Congratulations to Alethea Kontis who sold her short story “Diary of a Ghost’s Mistress” to Shroud Publishing.
• Check out the interview with Tim Pratt as one of “21 Authors to Keep an Eye On”
• Congratulations to Laura Anne Gilman who has sold audio rights to to Tantor Audiobooks.
• Blog Talk Radio interviewed Brandon Sanderson
• The Barnes and Nobel Book Club features by Paolo Bacigalupi saying it’s “nothing short of an instant dystopian classic.”

Industry News

• Sourcebooks announces new YA imprint.
• Lawsuit against Scribd challenges copyright filtering technology intended to protect against infringement.

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