Quick Updates for 2010-12-12
SFWA member @Keffy's story "Advertising at the End of the World" is this week's Escape Pod episode. http://bit.ly/heFWnw # Welcome […]
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December 2010
Nebula Awards, The SFWA Blog
Nebula Awards Interview: Rachel Swirsky by Larry Nolen
Rachel Swirsky was nominated for her novelette “A Memory of Wind”. Instead of asking that tired question of why you
News, The SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2010-12-11
Resources and Member News for Laurie Tom, Stephen Blackmoore, Anne Nesbet, David Levine, N. K. Jemisin, Seanan McGuire, Catherynne Valente, Ted Kosmotka, and Allan Cole.
News, The SFWA Blog, Workshops and Critique GroupsOdyssey Writing Workshop Announces
Odyssey Writing Workshop Announces
Its 16th Summer Session
Since its founding in 1996, Odyssey has become one of the most respected workshops in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing community. Odyssey is for developing writers whose work is approaching publication quality and for published writers who want to improve their work. The six-week workshop combines advanced lectures, exercises, extensive writing, and in-depth feedback on student manuscripts.
The SFWA Blog, Writer Beware
The 2011 Indie Publishing Contest
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
I’ve been getting questions about a brand-new writers’ contest: the 2011 Indie Publishing Contest, sponsored by (among others) the San Francisco Writers Conference.
Write, Win AND Publish!
New ‘Indie Pub…
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Quick Updates for 2010-12-10
SFWA member @nkjemisin is on the air now for Hour of the Wolf. WBAI 99.5 FM # Excellent post by
Building a Career, News, The SFWA Blog
Amazon.com now offering BookScan to Authors
Amazon.com is now offering BookScan information to authors enrolled in their Author Central program. For authors, previously one had to
The SFWA Blog
Guest Post–Information Wants to Be Free
The truth of “information wants to be free” is obvious to anyone who works in informatics. But it’s ignored time and again. It’s ignored by record companies trying to prevent music downloads, by startups trying to enforce embargoes on tech news, by the US government trying to share secrets with thousands of people and yet somehow not by the world at large.
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Quick Updates for 2010-12-09
Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Laurie Tom (@writerrat), with a sale to WotF XXVI. http://laurietom.blogspot.com/ # @HanaMoonfire I'm trying
The SFWA Blog
Guest Post–An Interstitial Moment: Metaphor
I want to talk for just an Interstitial Moment about metaphor, and these thoughts come to you compliments of Faerie Con where hundreds of folk, some quite young, some middle aged, and some old enough to know better have been dressing for days in rather suggestive costumes–bustiers, codpieces, artfully placed flowers and leaves, painting themselves green or gold or other landscape colors.