Only 11 days left to nominate for the Nebula Awards
SFWA Active and Associate members, there are only 11 days left to nominate for the Nebula Awards. Why not spend […]
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Renovation Reminder: Rate Change Approaching
On March 1, 2011, membership rate changes for Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, will go into effect.
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Alert for Poets: Oprah Wants You (But You May Not Want Oprah)
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Oprah. The mere mention of her name sets writers’ (and let’s face it, publishers’) hearts aflutter. Oprah, maker of best sellers. Oprah, whose most offhand endorsement can generate massive sales.
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Quick Updates for 2011-02-03
Member News for Madeleine Robins and Jennifer Brozek.
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Guest Post: Fantasy Writer’s Use of History
Since Morris’s time, many fantasy writers have created fictional worlds using history as their foundations. Each writer has had to decide just how much history to use. I mean, and this is where it gets fascinating, where does one stop?
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Update on Strategic Book Publishing / Writers Literary Agency / Robert Fletcher
Many of you may already be familiar with the names in the title of this post. If you’re not, have a look at this Alert on the Writer Beware website, and at my September 2009 post about the Florida Attorney General’s civil lawsuit against Fletcher, his companies, and some of his business associates for deceptive business practices.
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Call for candidates for SFWA board of directors
As we prepare to make our recommendations for the Nebula Awards ballot, SFWAns everywhere are no doubt pondering that annual
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Conditions for Suspense: Part 7 – Character draws 1-4
In my last two posts I discussed the fact that readers are not going to hope and fear for a character unless that character raises their sympathy and sense of deservingness. But is that enough? Do readers stick around if the characters are utterly boring?
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Quick Updates for 2011-01-29
Member News for Eugie Foster, Tobias Buckell, Eric James Stone, David Levine, and Allan Cole.
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Tidbits
New language in the termination provision of the Harper’s boilerplate gives them the right to cancel a contract if “Author’s conduct evidences a lack of due regard for public conventions and morals, or if Author commits a crime or any other act that will tend to bring Author into serious contempt, and such behavior would materially damage the Work’s reputation or sales.”
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Guest Post: The Greatest Challenge Agents Will Face
The unpublished often believe that agents exist because of the publishing funnel, and to be sure, that has helped cement agents’ central importance to the publishing business. But what really enables agents to exist is the fact that up until recently, every deal, big or small, was up for negotiation–the size of the advance, the terms of the contract, the rights up for discussion.