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Remember Associate members can now nominate for the Nebulas

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

As the nomination period for the Nebula Awards winds to a close, please remind any Associate members you know that they can participate in the nomination process this year.  Because of the January 2009 change to the Nebula rules, both Active and Associate members may nominate now although only Active members will be able to vote on the final ballot.

Remember, nominations for the Nebula Awards close on February 15th.

Head over to the Nebula nomination ballot and nominate your five favorites in each category.
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Nebula Reminder — 10 days left to nominate

Friday, February 5th, 2010

SFWA Active and Associate members, there are only 10 days left to nominate for the Nebula Awards.  Why not spend the weekend reading some of the 260 free pieces of eligible fiction available in the members’ only Discussion Forum.

Then, hop over to the Nebula nomination ballot and nominate your five favorites in each category.
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Announcing SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Awards® Weekend, May 13-16

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Chestertown, MD — Each year SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, presents the prestigious Nebula Awards® for the year’s best literary and dramatic works of speculative fiction. This year SFWA’s Nebula Awards® Weekend will be Thursday, May 13 through Sunday, May 16 in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on Cape Canaveral. 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, 2010.

The Nebulas will be held at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront, just 20 minutes from the Kennedy Space Center. The Friday launch of the shuttle Atlantis will be visible from the beach right outside the hotel. There will also be special tours of the Kennedy Space Center available to Nebula attendees as well as various panels and workshops of interest to the sf/f community.

The Nebula Awards® Banquet will be Saturday night, May 15. Nebula Awards will be given for best short story, novelette, novella, and novel. The Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Science Fiction or Fantasy for Young Adults will also be presented. Renowned author Joe Haldeman will be honored as the Damon Knight Memorial Grandmaster, celebrating a career of extraordinary achievement in the field. Other awards to be presented include the Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting and the Solstice Award for outstanding contribution to the field.

The 2010 Nebula Weekend is open to all. Members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America receive a discount. Early registration is recommended as space is limited and prices will go up on Monday April 5.

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New Nebula Awards Commissioner

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Good Afternoon,

I’m very pleased to announce that SFWA has a new Nebula Awards Commissioner (NAC). Madeleine Robins has agreed to take on this role, and see us through the first year under the new rules.

Madeleine Robins is the author of nine novels, including THE STONE WAR, POINT OF HONOUR, and PETTY TREASON: a double-handful of SF and fantasy novels, has worked in both book and comic book publishing, and has been a SFWA member for an unbecoming number of decades.  In addition to her tenure as Czarina of the Service to SFWA Committee in the ’90s, she was Secretary of SFWA in 2001.  She has a hard time resisting volunteer activities. She is a founding member of Book View Cafe, an e-fiction writers’ collaborative, and is hard at work on yet another damned book.

I’d like to thank Madeleine for coming on board, and also especially want to note the extraordinary effort given to SFWA by the outgoing NAC, Brook West. Brook has given outstanding service to SFWA and the Nebula Awards for many years, and is deserving of our deepest thanks.

Cheers,

Russell Davis

President

SFWA, Inc.

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Interview: Johanna Sinisalo

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Could you share with us a bit about yourself? Your background and life in Finland?

I’m fiftyish, a full-time writer since 1997 (before that I worked in advertising, as a copywriter/executive and a shareholder of the agency; I left to follow my muse). I have an university education, majored in literature and drama, and I also had side studies in journalism and social psychology. I’m living with a soul mate, have an adult daughter with a life of her own, and I’m a very keen mountain hiker – I have hiked, among other routes all over the world, half of the Appalachian Trail in USA in 2007. 

I live in a town called Tampere, which is big by Finnish standards, having about 200 000 inhabitants, and it is very beautifully situated between two large lakes, surrounded with forest land.

Your novelette “Baby Doll,” which was recently on the final Nebula Award ballot, concerns the sexuality of prepubescent children who are forced to grow up too soon. I found it relevant to modern life with its emphasis on sexuality and exploitation. What compelled you to write this story?

Everyone who keeps one’s eyes open can see how the adult world has infiltrated the world of children. I have seen eight-year-old girls who wear clothing that, in earlier years, would signal “Hi, sailor!”

I’m not a prude – I know that playing an adult is a very important phase in childhood – but somehow I find it very disturbing that parents do allow their children to be mini-adults at the age when kids themselves do not really realize what kind of signals they’re sending around. 

I had observed that phenomenon for quite a time, but what compelled me to do the actual story was when I was asked to write a short story for a crime fiction anthology. The brief was: combine crime with sexuality and/or eroticism. I did not want to write the obvious passion crime story or the story of erotic blackmail etc., and I gave the brief a lot of thinking time – and then I saw Repo Man, in which the petty criminal, when finally caught, said “I blame the society.” And I thought: hell, what if I wrote a crime story where the society really was the guilty party? The society – and the media? The peer pressure? And so “Baby Doll” was born.

(Read the rest of this interview at NebulaAwards.com)

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