Quick Updates for 2011-12-15
The Assassin's Tear, a collection of short stories from SFWA member Karen Azinger, is now published on Amazon. #
SFWA Blog
Guest Post: How I Went From Writing
2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
When I told people at ConCarolinas that I’d gone from writing 2k to 10k per day, I got a huge response. Everyone wanted to know how I’d done it, and I finally got so sick of telling the same story over and over again that I decided to write it down here.
Pearson Education Extends Scope of Permissions Licenses
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.
Nebula Awards Interview: Pearl North
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.
Quick Updates for 2011-12-11
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 #
Subject: Hello from your Publicist
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.
Quick Updates for 2011-12-09
"Beyond Binary: Genderqueer & Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction" edited by SFWA member @britmandelo. TOC announced: http://t.co/6vJRU8pg #
The Fine Print of Amazon’s New KDP Select Program
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.
Quick Updates for 2011-12-08
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! #
NIU Libraries acquires papers of Fred Saberhagen
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.
