Archive for 2011

Quick Updates for 2011-05-14

You can read excerpts from Locus's interview with SFWA member @daviddlevine at http://tinyurl.com/45y737b # SFWA member @alcole123 STEN IN HOLLYWOOD: THE NEXT TO THE LAST MISADVENTURE http://tinyurl.com/5wqzfmg #

Nebula Awards Weekend: Mass Book Signing

Forty authors will sign their books at the Nebula Awards Weekend, Friday, May 20, 2011 from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Washington Hilton at 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.–located four blocks from the Dupont Circle Metro Station (use the Q Street exit).

Quick Updates for 2011-05-11

@katrinaarcher They are doing a voter packet this year. # Charles Waverly and the Deadly African Safari by SFWA member Anna D. Allen is now available http://is.gd/YAxmaY #

Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Nnedi Okorafor

My characters always come first. You can’t have a plot if you don’t know who is going to move through it. Onyesonwu came to me way before her story did. The first scene I wrote was the first scene of the novel. No outline, no nothing. Just Onyesonwu at her father’s burial and some madness happens.

Guest Post: Writing Advice

You become a writer by writing. You learn by damaging your ego, and giving more of yourself than you take. By a thousand revelations, by millions of words you improve.

Quick Updates for 2011-05-07

Interview with fashionpunk novelist & SFWA member @jon_armstrong. http://is.gd/nkzOTW # SFWA member @StinaLeicht is signing at Barnes & Noble in the Arboretum Austin tomorrow at 2pm. # @clundoff Welcome back! #