Top Ten Gifts for Fantasy or Science Fiction Writers
To kick off the gift-giving season, here’s a list of Top Ten Gifts for Fantasy or Science Fiction Writers.
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Quick Updates for 2010-11-30
Member News for Lilith Saintcrow, Marjorie M. Liu, Jon Armstrong, and N. K. Jemisin.
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Fake Writing Jobs: RealWritingJobs.com
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
One of many reasons I enjoy Twitter is that it’s relatively free of the spam that clogs other modes of online discourse. Oh, there’s the occasional author Twitspam (writers: Twitspamming is not, I repeat, N…
News, The SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2010-11-28
Resources and Member News for Ferrett Steinmetz, David Levine, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Cassutt, Lou Antonelli, Eugie Foster, Hilari Bell, Anna Elliott, Eilis O’Neal, Jamie Todd Rubin, and Cherie Priest.
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Guest Post–Privacy, freedom, and making a living as a writer
My book has been pirated and shared already. I can’t stop that, and the methods necessary to create a pirate-free environment would transform the internet into something ugly and forbidding.
Nebula Awards, The SFWA Blog
Nebula Awards Interview: Cherie Priest by Marshall Payne
Cherie Priest was nominated for her novel Boneshaker. How long did it take you to write Boneshaker? When did you
Guest Post–Just Breathe: Rejuvenating Your Imagination
Sometimes we forget to breathe when it comes to our creativity. By which I mean we are so busy creating and interacting with the world that we forget to pause, to be silent, to be alone. The imagination, the spark of all creativity, is a renewable resource, but it is not an inexhaustible resource.
News, The SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2010-11-20
Member News for Seanan McGuire, David Levine, Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, Shauna Roberts, An Owomoyela, Brad R. Torgersen, Deborah Walker, and Amal El-Mohtar.
News, The SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2010-11-18
Industry News, Resources, and Member News for Glenn Lewis Gillette, Pamela Taylor, Sarah Frost, Kyle Aisteach, Ada Milenkovic Brown, Matthew Bennardo, Sunny Moraine, Jamie Todd Rubin, Tobias Buckell, Andrew Mayer, Lena Coakley, Gayle Ann Williams, Jim C. Hines, Alethea Kontis, Marjorie Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, Jay Lake, Ken Scholes, Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Chris McKitterick, Seanan McGuire, Matthew Kressel, Stephanie Draven, and Jim Freund.
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Guest Post–Work Like Hell: Lessons from the Pulp Jungle
Gruber was living on dreams and precious else during those lean, dangerous years. He played hide and seek with his landlord until he could scrounge his rent, reduced his food budget by eating “automat” soup (a meal made of the free ketchup and crackers available at the automat, stirred in a bowl, with the hot water for tea to taste), and dropping off manuscripts on foot to avoid any postal costs.
Nebula Awards, News, The SFWA Blog
SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Award Nomination period is open
SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Award® nomination period is open from November 15, 2010 to February 15, 2011 23:59 PST. Active and Associate
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Guest Post–A Writer’s Guide to Social Media
People once learned from one another what was worth knowing and doing, and the best of these memes worked their way through the population like a unending game of telephone. It was only with the advent of mass communication technology like printing, radio, and TV that a select few became able to easily influence great numbers of people. But with social media those select few are now finding themselves increasingly drowned out.