Quick Updates for 2009-12-14
Industry News and Member News for K. C. Ball and Greg Mellor!
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Hunting for a Literary Agent
Article by Chuck Rothman on (almost) everything you need to know about agents, including how to avoid scams.
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-12
Resources, Industry News, and Member News from Jim C. Hines, Henry Melton, and Richard Curtis!
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-11
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Yasmine Galenorn, Jennifer Brozek, Laura Anne Gilman, and Sherrilyn Kenyon!
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Hudson Audio Publishing
Victoria Strauss examines Hudson Audio Publishing.
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How I Fell in Love with Paranormal Romance
What attracted me to paranormal romance? It’s the blending of everything that is the best in science fiction and fantasy with the best of romance.
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Nielsen folds Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews
Today, Nielsen Business Media announced that it is shutting down Kirkus reviews.
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New SFWA bylaws draft posted for review by members
Today, Russell Davis has posted the most recent iteration of the new draft bylaws for SFWA, the review of the membership. Please log in to to the Discussion Forums to download a copy of the draft and give us your feedback.
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You Can Take It With You
Interstellar space travel. We dream about it. We write about it. Science fiction writers have come up with all manners of interstellar travel, ranging from multigenerational arks, to wormhole generating warp drives that can spit you across the galaxy in a blink of an eye. As wondrous and amazing as all these approaches may be, most suffer from a very fundamental problem.
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Eleventh Annual Endeavour Award
The eleventh annual Endeavour Award winner was announced November 27 at Oregon’s major science fiction convention, OryCon.
Portland writer and SFWA member David D. Levine won for his collection of short stories, “Space Magic,” published by Oregon publisher Wheatland Press.
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-09
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Angel McCoy, Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, James Patrick Kelly, Aliette de Bodard, Kami Garcia, and Margaret Stohl
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How sociolinguistics can help you!
As you put your world together, ask yourself how your people divide themselves up. Is it by town? By side of town (other side of the tracks, etc.)? Is it by larger geographical region? Is it by profession? By upper and lower class?