SFWA Presents: Get to Know…, curated by the Planetside Crew

• Our NetGalley Partnership Program
• Our In Memoriam Feature
• Our New Comics and Poetry Nebula Awards
• Our Career Mentorship Program
• more coming soon

 

PERMANENT SERIES

ROMANCING SFF, curated by the Romance Steering Committee and Planetside Crew

• Romantasy: An Old Genre with a New Name by Rosemary Jones
• “So, How’s Your Love Life?” and Other Questions to Ask Your Characters by Katherine Garcia Ley
• Romancing the Beast: Embracing Monstrousness in Romantic SFF by Victoria Janssen
• 5 Ways Fighting and Kissing Scenes Are the Same by Chelsea Mueller
• Why Romance Should Be Part of Your Worldbuilding by R. K. Thorne
• The Power of Romance by Jeffe Kennedy
• When Making the Connection Makes the Book by Claire Davon
• I See Romance…Everywhere! by Alexia Chantel

SAFETY DISPATCH, curated by the Safety Committee

• Don’t Get Hooked by Phishing and Scams
• How to Establish and Use a Pen Name
• Managing Newsletters
• Author Safety for Small Events
• Wh@t’$ th3 P@$$w0rd?
• How to Secure Your Author Website

THE COMICS PANEL, curated by the Comics Committee

• Why Crowdfund? by Madeleine Holly-Rosing
• Book Marketing: Comics vs. Novels by Russell Nohelty
• How to Pitch to a Comic Book Publisher by Kristen Simon
• Breaking Down a Sequential Page: A Close Reading for Comics Writers by A. A. Rubin
• Connecting with an Artist Is a Big Part of the Storytelling in Comics by Jessica Maison
• How to Write a Comic Script by Tim Susman
• Conjuring Images when Writing for Comics, Prose, and the Screen by Jessica Maison

THE INDIE FILES, curated by the Independent Authors Committee

• How to Pitch Your Book to Libraries So They See You as an Easy Win to Please Their Patrons by Kelly McClymer
  
• Continuous Marketing and Selling Costs by William C. Tracy
• I’m Selling Books, but Am I Making Money? by William C. Tracy
• Productivity That Fits You by Marie Andreas
• 5 Ways to Sell Your Books Directly: Is Using Direct Sales the Right New Channel for Your Books? by Kelly McClymer
• Measuring Your Success as an Author by Steven Radecki
• Wide For the Win 2 – Retail Promotions by John Wilker
• Making Use of Genre and Categories by Anthony W. Eichenlaub
• Book Descriptions by Scott King
• Author Tips and Tricks for Selling on Amazon by William C. Tracy
• Bringing Back the Weird to Indie Publishing by Rachel A. Rosen
• Writing Through Trauma by J. Scott Coatsworth
• Balancing the Indie Workload by Anthony W. Eichenlaub
• Yes, You Do Need an Editor by Colin Alexander
• How to Bring Your Indie Book to the Attention of a Librarian by Kelly McClymer
• Maximizing Your Sales for the Holidays by Scott King
• An Indie Approach to Series by Anthony W. Eichenlaub
• Is Your Book Cover Doing the Job or Does It Need to Be Fired? by Kelly McClymer
• Wide for the Win – Part 1 by John Wilker
• SFWA’s NetGalley Program and You by Jamie Lackey
• Advantages of Independent Publishing by Michael Edelson
• Make the Most of New Book Announcements by R J Theodore
• Listen Up! Self-Producing Audiobooks by Kim Fielding
• A Guide to SFWA StoryBundles by Sherrie Cronin
• Going Wide by J. Scott Coatsworth
• An Indie Author’s Primer on Editors by Kim Fielding
• For Your Consideration: How to Seek Out Self-Published Works You’ll Love by Anthony W. Eichenlaub

THE HISTORY FILES, curated by the History Committee

• Planets and Plastic: A History of the SFWA Trophies and Awards by Michael Armstrong
• A Brief History of SFWA: The First Nebula Awards by Michael Capobianco
• Jerry Pournelle: SFWA Historian by Michael Capobianco
• Preservation Guidance for Authors Planning to Donate Their Personal Papers to Archives by Monica Louzon
• A Brief History of SFWA: The Beginning (Part 2) by Michael Capobianco
• A Brief History of SFWA: The Beginning (Part 1) by Michael Capobianco

WORLDBUILDING, curated by the Planetside Crew

• Characterization and Worldbuilding Through Fight Scenes by Corrine A. Kumar
• Enriching Your Worldbuilding with Economics by Albert Zhang
• Enriching Characters and Sociopolitics with Digital Currencies by Libby Schultz
• Tie Up the Loose Ends: A Writer’s Guide to Sailor’s Knots By May Haddad
• Metaphysics & Matter: Should Elves Have Atoms? by Austin Conrad
• Nailing It Down: How to Portray Boxing Accurately in Your Fight Scenes by J. D. Harlock
• Speaking Common by Austin Conrad
• How to Make Your Next SFF Work’s Currency by John Dale Beety
• Choose Your Own Dr. Scientist Adventure by Jason P. Burnham
• Designing Your Fictional Spaceship by Jeremy Zentner
• Space Royals in Space Operas: How to Craft a Believable Monarchy by Jeremy Zentner
• Making Soft Magic Systems Work by M.K. Hutchins
• Climate Change and Antibiotic Resistance: Facts for Fiction by Jason P. Burnham
• Writing the Science Right by Gideon P. Smith
• Spec-Fic-Fu 2: Weapons! by Andrew K Hoe
• The Ecology of Worldbuilding by J. Dianne Dotson
• Nonviolence and the Hero’s Duel by Gabriel Ertsgaard
• Spec-Fic-Fu: How to Make Aliens and Robots Fight Better by Andrew Hoe
• How to Write Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters by Melanie Ashford
• “Cities That Think Like Planets”: On Writing Sustainable Cities in Science Fiction by Arkady Martine
• Fine Weather, Isn’t It? by Tochi Onyebuchi
• A Worldbuilding Guide to Crafting Diverse Cultures by Amelia Wiens
• The Other Final Frontier: Writing Ocean Settings by Victoria Zelvin
• The Art of Story as Worldbuilding by Nathan Nance
• The Jargon and Slang of the Fantastic by Ken Pelham
• Military Logistics for Fantasy Writers by Mollie M. Madden
• Words Out of Time: Building a Better World Through Etymology by Ken Pelham
• From the Inside Out: Worldbuilding Through Extrapolation by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
• Technology and Worldbuilding, Part Two by Kevin L. O’Brien
• Automation and Worldbuilding, Part One by Kevin L. O’Brien
• Writing Amputees by Diane Morrison
• Lunar Regolith Made on Earth/State of the Art: Science and Technology by Lauren Roux
• Worldbuilding with the Medieval Industrial Revolution, Part Three by Kevin L. O’Brien
• Worldbuilding with the Medieval Industrial Revolution, Part Two by Kevin L. O’Brien
• Worldbuilding with the Medieval Industrial Revolution by Kevin L. O’Brien
• Building Worlds by K. C. Norton
• Building the Disabled World by Sandra M. Odell
• Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions By Patricia C. Wrede (list of topics with sublinks)

 

LIMITED OR TOPICAL SERIES

Playtesting Game Narratives, a limited series curated by the Game Writing Committee

• Introduction to Game Writing and Playtesting by John Dale Beety
• Playtesting Narrative Content in Board Games by Will McDermott
• Playtesting Card Games by Marie Vibbert
• Playtesting TTRPG Stories by Austin Conrad
• QA and Storytelling in Video Games by John Ryan

Writing by Other Means, curated by the Planetside Crew

• Butt in the Chair: How Disability Changed My Writing Habits by Catherine Tavares
• Only as Good as Our Tools: Drafting by Hand and Fountain Pens by Carrie Finch
• Sudden: Writing on the Go by Eugen Bacon
• (Temporarily) Computer-Free Writing by N. R. M. Roshak
• Whoops, I Wrote a Story: How to Make App Addictions Work for Your Writing by Marie Croke
• Phoning It In: Finding Time to Write in Unexpected Places by Priya Chand

Writing from History, curated by the Planetside Crew

• Legacy of the Iron Curtain: Writing Ukrainian Fiction in a Post-Soviet World by A.D. Sui
• Decolonizing History in Brazilian SFF by Lívian Bonato
• History in Speculative Fiction: Repeat, Rhyme, or Echo? by Aaron H. Arm
• The Many Alt-Histories of World War II by Jeremy Zentner
• The Revolution Will Be Fantasized by Samuel Poots
• The Dangers of Writing on Someone Else’s Heartstrings by Marie Croke
• Using Archives to (Re)Write History by Anneke Schwob
• Writing Alt-History? Read the Sources by Austin Conrad

 

DEVELOPING SERIES

Perspectives in Translation, curated by the Planetside Crew

• Translation for Video Games: An Interview with Kristin Osani
• Translation vs. Adaptation: The Continuous Struggle for Optimal Ratio by Elena Kovalenko
• more coming soon

Volunteer Networks: The Heart of SFF, curated by the Planetside Crew

• Volunteers, Watch Out for Those Invisible Expectations! by Marie Croke
• more coming soon

SPECULATIVE POETICS, curated by the Planetside Crew

• Awards in Speculative Poetry: Ways (and Reasons) to Celebrate Excellent Writing by Brian U. Garrison
• more coming soon