Writer Beware: Tidbits
Here are several publishing-related items that caught Victoria Strauss’s eye over the past week.
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Quick Updates for 2010-03-19
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Mark C. Newton, Jim C. Hines, and Howard Jones!
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Can you define African Science Fiction?
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, Nnedi Okorafor, looks at the question, “What is African Science Fiction?”
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Writer Beware is on Facebook
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Because I don’t already have enough to do (ha!), I’ve just set up
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Guest Blog Post: Content Mills–Just A Stepping Stone in Your Career
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Today: the second of two guest posts on content mills. In this article
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How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: How To Talk Doctor! Lesson 1
Dr. Grasshopper explains how to construct believable doctor language for your invented diseases.
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Quick Updates for 2010-03-13
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Ken Altabef, Robert Mellette, Stephanie Dray, Euan Harvey, and Sherrilyn Kenyon!
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Guest Blog Post: Content Mills–Why Aspiring Writers Should Avoid Them
A content mill, if you aren’t familiar with the term, is a website that aggregates huge numbers of articles on a constantly-updated basis, written by freelancers who are paid by page views or ad clicks rather than wages or fees.
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Keith Stokes, Vonda N. McIntyre honored with Service to SFWA Award
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) will honor Vonda N. McIntyre and Keith Stokes with SFWA Service Awards for 2010 during the Nebula Awards® Weekend May 13-16 in Coco Beach, Fla.
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Where Is International SF?
It’s tempting to label this essay as “Third World Science Fiction” but why limit it to the third world? One of the most pleasant surprises the Internet has brought about is the discovery that you’re not alone, especially when it comes to Science Fiction and its related genres (fantasy, interstitial fiction, slipstream, speculative fiction, etc.).
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Hugo nomination deadline is March 13
While SFWA members are considering the final ballot for the Nebula awards, don’t forget that there’s another deadline in the field. The deadline for sending in your Hugo Awards nomination ballot is Saturday, March 13, 2010 23:59 PST
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Guest Blog Post: The Scam of Private Label Rights Articles
Today, Smashwords founder Mark Coker guest blogs about “private label rights” services, which make it possible for anyone to “author” their own ebooks or to populate blogs by putting together chunks of content from the service’s database. The result: scads of badly-formatted, poor-quality ebooks and blogs, which are often used by SEO scammers to confuse Google Search results.