Quick Updates for 2010-02-24
Resources and Member News for Yasmine Galenorn, Joanne Merriam, Michele Lang Palter, and Gregory Norman Bossert!
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Another Vanity Award: The 2010 Creative Spirit Awards
Is it irony or coincidence that, only a few days after blogging about vanity awards, I should be spammed by one?
Perhaps you have, too. It’s an outfit calling itself the 2010 Creative Spirit Awards.
How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Joss Whedon, I’m calling you out.
Dr. Grasshopper explains the medical improbabilities and impossibilities in Dollhouse. The concern isn’t just bad science, it’s also that real people might become afraid of medical procedures due to the misinformation.
Quick Updates for 2010-02-23
Nice coverage of China Miéville's and @cmpriest's reactions to their Nebula nominations, in the Guardian. http://is.gd/8Wjer # Congratulations to SFWA member @YasmineGalenorn. Nominated for a '09 PEARL in Urban Fantasy for Demon Mistress! http://3.ly/dVA2 # SFWA member @joannemerriam's Alzheimer's/vampire story went live at Strange Horizons today: http://is.gd/8WSwT # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Michele […]
2009 Nebula Finalist fiction for SFWA members
If you are a SFWA member, did you know that almost all of the nominees for the Nebulas are posted in the members-only Discussion Forums? That’s right. You could download and read anything from “Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela,” by Saladin Ahmed (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Books, Jul09) to The City & The […]
Beware of Fake Awards
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Here’s a story that, for sheer weight of irony, I wish like anything I’d been the one to break. But author and publisher Michael N. Marcus beat me to it, in a recent post on his Book Making blog. Everyone loves an award, right? Awards acknowledge excellence and […]
Quick Updates for 2010-02-22
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Laura Anne Gilman, Sonia Helbig and Christopher Barzak!
Quick Updates for 2010-02-21
Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Sonia Helbig, a WotF XXIV Winner. http://soniahelbig.livejournal.com/ #
Quick Updates for 2010-02-20
Not long now… How are you all doing this morning? # Does anyone have predictions? A hint. There's a nominee with a definite article in the title. # @CherylMorgan I am giving nothing away! But you might be right. in reply to CherylMorgan # Hint number 2: Six of the nominated stories are novellas. # […]
2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot
SFWA is proud to announce the nominees for the 2009 Nebula Awards.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet the evening of May 15 at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront, just 20 minutes from the Kennedy Space Center in Fla. Other awards to be presented are the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Science Fiction or Fantasy for Young Adults, the Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting and the Solstice Award for outstanding contribution to the field.
