An Approach for Shifting the Setting in an Alternate Retelling
By J.D. Harlock Four years ago, I started writing speculative fiction professionally to modest success. I owe my entire career […]
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SAFETY DISPATCH: How to Establish and Use a Pen Name
by the SFWA Safety Committee Have you ever considered writing under a pen name? Some authors use pseudonyms to separate
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THE INDIE FILES: Wide For the Win 2 – Retail Promotions
by John Wilker In my previous post on going Wide for the Win, I gave an overview of an author’s
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In Memoriam: Michael F. Flynn
Michael F. Flynn (20 December 1947–30 September 2023), who also wrote as Rowland Shew, was a prolific writer of science
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Designing Your Fictional Spaceship
by Jeremy Zentner Spaceships have been iconic in science fiction ever since Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: H. Paul Honsinger
SFWA’s In Memoriams are meant to memorialize writers through celebrating their literary legacies. Sometimes, as in this case, we do
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The LGBTQ+ Speculative Experience: Part 3
(Kind of like the Star Trek Experience—lots of diversity that some accept, some fight, and others never see) by Elle
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THE INDIE FILES: Making Use of Genre and Categories
by Anthony W. Eichenlaub Genre: A marketing construct. Its only purpose is to get books into the hands of people
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Publishing Taught Me Launches with an Intern Search
We are delighted to announce that SFWA has received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to
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Anatomy of a Tabletop Adventure
By Austin Conrad Writing in the genre of tabletop games has a lot of similarities to fiction writing when it