Quick Updates for 2011-03-29
Part 4 and the conclusion of SFWA member @eugiefoster's story, "The Princess and the Golden Fish," is now out in the April issue of Cricket. #
Archive for 2011
Guest Post: Shorts vs. Novels—A View from the Trenches
The books I love most immerse me in a world utterly different from my own. Arrakis, Pern, Barrayar, Chalion… I crave deep information about these planets, and fortunately the author always delivered.
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 15 – Story Cycle Action & Trouble
We solve all sorts of problems on the first or second try in real life. We keep tension down. But with stories we don’t want to eliminate tension. We want to build it.
Quick Updates for 2011-03-26
Industry News and Member News for Thoraiya Dyer, Nancy Fulda, Sara Creasy, Anna D. Allen, and Matthew S. Rotundo.
Guest Post: Writing on the High Seas
For many it does feel like a kick in the gut when you see people refusing to pay for something you’ve invested anywhere from six whole months to years of your life to create.
Submission Guidelines to Beware of: Midwest Literary Magazine
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Midwest Literary Magazine (MLM) bills itself as “the quiet press.” Its online magazine publishes poetry, articles, and short fiction. Its mission: to “find and publish excellent authors of poetry, fiction a…
Quick Updates for 2011-03-25
@faerye @ecmyers Most of the nominees have their work available for member consideration here. http://is.gd/fk3B2e # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Thoraiya Dyer, author of "Breaking the Ice." (Cosmos, 2/11) #
Quick Updates for 2011-03-24
SFWA member Anna D. Allen's collection of "non-genre" stories, Mrs Hewitt's Barbeque, is now available-http://is.gd/B5CZpf # Congratulations to SFWA member @NancyFulda who has won the Jim Baen Memorial Award. #
How Not to Market Your Book
How not to promote your book: make up a faux publicity company (at whose supposedly professional website you are the only listed client), whip up a badly-written press release (don’t bother with grammarcheck), and spam everyone you can think of (including, unfortunately, Writer Beware).
Quick Updates for 2011-03-23
Locus Online News is reporting that Google Books Settlement has been rejected http://bit.ly/fM8XyO # @uriel1998 Yes. Also that it confused out-of-print with out-of-copyright. # @uriel1998 That's what we are here for. # SFWA member @SaraCreasy's novel Song of Scarabaeus is a finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best SF Novel http://t.co/03jGyAm #
