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Guest Post: A Writer’s Crash Guide to
Recent Social Media Changes—Facebook

By SFWA Admin / October 22, 2011

Honestly, it is difficult (although not impossible) to avoid strategies that don’t incorporate Facebook in some way, either through a personal account or through Facebook Pages, at least not for writers who have at least one novel published. Once you have fans, Facebook becomes logical since it has the largest user base, therefore making it much more convenient as a way for people to find you.

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Guest Post: When You Have a Chance to Meet an Editor, Say Hello!

By SFWA Admin / September 4, 2011

Whether you want to self-publish your novel or are trying to land a traditional publishing contract, it is in every author’s interest to make connections and talk with the editors in our field.

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Guest Post: Writers and Pellets

By SFWA Admin / August 29, 2011

Anything I can control, I pay close attention to. Contracts. Personal relationships. The words. Stories I want to tell.

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The Weird World of the VanderMeers, Part III

By SFWA Admin / August 17, 2011

The energy for my money is all with publishers like Small Beer, Dalkey Archive Press, Aqueduct Press, Coffeehouse Press, and places like that. Strong, committed independents willing to take a chance on great, hard-to-classify material.

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The Weird World of the VanderMeers: Part II

By SFWA Admin / August 16, 2011

The truth is working on an anthology is like an obsession to me, and the more difficult the execution of the idea or focus, the more I become locked in on it to the exclusion of all else.

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The Weird World of the VanderMeers, Part I

By SFWA Admin / August 15, 2011

I never imagined that my love of reading and editing would bring me to this point. I just wanted to share the stories that excite me with as many people as possible.

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Save the World with Science Fiction

By SFWA Admin / August 4, 2011

The Speculative Speakers Service at AboutSF.com provides information for educators and conference organizers who are looking for guest speakers. Members of SFWA, who’d like to talk about SF at schools, meetings, or conferences, are invited to register.

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The Results of My 100 Day Social Media Blackout

By SFWA Admin / July 19, 2011

When I decided to “go dark” on Twitter, Facebook and IMs for one hundred days, I wasn’t sure what effect it would have on my web presence.

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Guest Post: Kindle Starter Kit: A Mini-Handbook on Independent Publication

By SFWA Admin / June 20, 2011

Today, I’ll focus on kindle publishing, but the principles apply equally well to Nook, Smashwords, PubIt, and other distribution systems.

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Hunting Down the Value of Social Media

By SFWA Admin / May 16, 2011

Are Facebook, Twitter and IM having any effect on the quality or volume of my work? These questions, coupled with a very long list of goals I wanted to accomplish, plagued me like a broken plot.