Quick Updates for 2011-01-06

Quick Updates -- istock

Member News

  • Welcome to SFWA’s newest Affliate member Lia Keyes Co-editor, Flying Pen Press.
  • Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Mari Ness. Read one of her qualifying stories at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Congratulations to SFWA member Jim Hines who sold his story “Epilogue” to Jennifer Brozek for the DAW anthology HUMAN FOR A DAY.
  • SFWA member David Levine sold short story “Into the Nth Dimension” to anthology HUMAN FOR A DAY.
  • Wonderful interview with SFWA member Michael Chabon about his “wrecked” novel FOUNTAIN CITY here.
  • SFWA member Yasmine Galenorn has a contest on her blog through noon tomorrow for 2 copies of HARVEST HUNTING.
  • Happy release day to SFWA member Stephanie Dray‘s historical fantasy LILY OF THE NILE: A NOVEL OF CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER.

Industry News

  • SFWA qualifying market Strange Horizons has raised their payrate to .07 per word. More information here.
  • SFWA member Ellen Datlow issues a call for Submissions for The Best Horror of the Year volume Four (2011).