What REALLY Sold in 2016?
Maybe that stubborn determination to find an agent and get picked up by a NY publisher so that your book ends up in Barnes and Noble isn’t really worth the (huge) effort.
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SFWA Statement on Magazines and the Monetization of Writers
In the past year SFWA has seen several examples of magazines contemplating monetizing the writers submitting work to them for publication.
Advice On Landing a Genre TV Lit Agent
For those interested in breaking into genre television writing, an agent is paramount. They are the gatekeepers into a very exclusive world with a limited number of buyers. Here are some useful tips to garner representation.
How to Know When You Are Done Revising
by Cat Rambo
One question comes up more than any other when I teach writing: how do I know when a piece is ready for submission?
SFWA Market Report for January
Welcome to 2017 and SFWA’s latest pro-rate Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any market in the report below does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA.
Mike Mearls of Dungeons & Dragons: Documenting Imaginary Worlds
A designer must consider far more boring details than a writer. Game writing is all about the big ideas in a game and how they fit together. That requires detail to ensure everything meshes, but a world or character can tap into a gamer’s imagination to fill in the details.
2017 Odyssey Writing Workshop Announced
This summer’s workshop runs from JUNE 5 to JULY 14, 2017. Class meets for over four hours each day, five days a week, for both workshopping and lectures.
Writing for Intellectual Properties
by Laura Kemmerer
Writing for the intellectual properties we’ve all come to know and love so much is both possible and can be a huge asset to your authorial career. But it’s best to cover the basics first.
GIFCON seeks Papers & Creative Works
Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (www.gifcon.org) has issued an invitation to authors and artists to submit papers and creative works.
Why Five?
by Dennis Mathis
A new hyper-detailed neurological atlas identifies 862 different structures making up the human brain. What are the odds that only five of them are about detecting reality?
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