Guest Blog Post: Beware of Pay-To-Play TV Talk Shows
This guest post by author and essayist Kim Brittingham addresses an issue I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about lately: pay-to-play TV talk shows.
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SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is proud to announce the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards. The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C.. Other awards to […]
Quick Updates for 2011-02-22
Industry News and Member News for Tobias Buckell, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Jeffry Dwight, Blake Charlton, Allan Cole, and Catherynne Valente.
The Borders Bankruptcy
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
The publishing news of the week–maybe of the year–is the collapse of Borders, the USA’s second largest bookstore chain.
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 10 – Clarity, the first principle of plot
Character and problem by themselves don’t go anywhere. You still have to build reader tension to a sharp point. So how do you do that?
Guest Post: Writing and Mortality
Writing is a risky career choice and one that doesn’t always yield a lot of concrete reward or social approval. But if one pretends it’s not a choice, then one doesn’t have to worry about those things, or at least not in the same way.
Quick Updates for 2011-02-17
Industry News and Member News for Gregory Norman Bossert.
Quick Updates for 2011-02-16
Member News for Nalo Hopkinson, Ferrett Steinmetz, Jennifer Brozek, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Ellen Kushner, and Karen Sandler.
Nebula Nominations close tomorrow, February 15.
SFWA Active and Associate members, tomorrow, February 15, is the last day to nominate for the Nebula Awards. There are some of the 389 free pieces of eligible fiction available in the members’ only Discussion Forum for your consideration. Make sure you go to the Nebula nomination ballot today or tomorrow to nominate your five favorites […]
A Valentine’s Day Guest Post: Tentacle Sex
Doesn’t everyone just love cephalopods? I find them to be a fascinating example of a body plan radically different from our own, the closest thing to a truly alien large metazoan on our planet.
