• Congratulations to Donald Mead who has upgraded from Associate to Active with sales to Writers of the Future and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Kevin J. Anderson will be editing BLOOD LITE 2 for Pocket Books and Horror Writers Association.
• Paul Levinson conducted a podcast interview with former SFWA president Robert J. Sawyer about the new tv series, Flash Forward, based on his novel.

Canadian hard-SF writer Robert J. Sawyer has won the Nebula, Hugo, John W. Campbell Memorial, Aurora, and Seiun awards, all for year’s best novel.

The show, created by The Dark Knight co-writer David S. Goyer, explores the aftermath of a two-minute, 17-second, blackout experienced by the whole of humanity.

Besides the car wrecks, botched surgeries and bruised bodies resulting from 6.8 billion earthlings losing motor function simultaneously, Episode 1 (which includes a cameo from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane) sets up two overarching questions: a) What the hell happened? And b) During the global blackout, each human experienced a “memory” of events that happen six months in the future. Can they, or should they, try to change destiny?

Fans of the book will be in for a surprise, since there are evidently a lot of changes in store. David S. Goyer, the creator of the show says, “It would be pretty stupid to build a hit TV series that has a mystery you could solve by going to a bookstore.”