Writer Beware has learned that Pearson Education, a major education services company (and the parent company of trade publisher Penguin), is currently requesting vastly extended licenses for copyrighted text and images that it has received permission from rightsholders to include in its print textbooks and other publications.
Gender issues are an abiding interest of mine. I’m fascinated with how gender is constructed and how different people negotiate the spaces in between societal definitions, or morph them to fit their own reality.
DAW anthology HUMAN FOR A DAY is out w/ stories by SFWAns @eugiefoster, @jay_lake, @jimchines, @daviddlevine, @JodyLynnNye, @LaResnick, etc. # Human for a Day, edited by SFWA member Jennifer Brozek, is on The Big Idea. http://t.co/Fg6HJBLC #
Today, when the dominant form of communication is email, it’s easy to go through your publicity campaign without ever hearing your publicist’s voice. This would be a mistake.
"Beyond Binary: Genderqueer & Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction" edited by SFWA member @britmandelo. TOC announced: http://t.co/6vJRU8pg #
KDP Select goes much farther: it makes Amazon, in effect, your publisher while your book is included in the program, and potentially has an impact on other work you are or are planning to publish.
SFWA member @ferretthimself sold his story “In The Unlikely Event,” his preboarding spaceflight monologue, to Daily Science Fiction. # THE FLAME PRIEST, the second book of The Silk & Steel Saga by Karen Azinger, an SFWA member, is now published on Amazon and Barnes&Noble! #
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has acquired the first installment of the papers of Chicago-born author Fred Saberhagen, a best-selling science fiction writer whose works broke new ground in the genre.
It seems clear that Luserke is active again–even if only sporadically. Given how few reminders of his perfidy survive on the Internet, I and Writer Beware feel it’s important for writers and artist to be aware of his history of financial and intellectual property theft.
In my opinion the best way to learn to write stories is to write them as well as you can and then take them apart again, and since I am still learning to write, I’m an admitted workshop junkie.
A millennium ago, Mikael tried to confess his love to Adecca and trapped them in eternal sleep instead. Now Adecca wakes in a steam-powered future bereft of magic and must discover why—and what Mikael’s feelings mean for their friendship.
Jean Marie Ward writes about all things weird, wonderful and downright peculiar in her hometown of Washington, DC. Sometimes she writes fiction. It makes a lot more sense than the facts. Her web site is JeanMarieWard.com.
