Quick Updates for 2010-11-05
Member News for Andrew Burt, Trent Hergenrader, Lauren Beukes, Juliette Wade, Felix Gilman, N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Genevieve Valentine, Yasmine Galenorn, Kevin Evans, Karen Evans and Catherynne Valente.
Archive for the ‘SFWA Blog’ Category
The Peter Lampack Agency Loses Suit Against Former Client
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Publishers Weekly reports that a New York Supreme Court judge has dismissed most claims in The Peter Lampack Agency’s suit against a former client, best selling mystery author Martha Grimes.
At the heart …
A Dispatch from the Norton Jury
The Norton jury is beginning its work of reviewing the field of young adult genre literature for 2010, and would like to invite authors to help us obtain your eligible works. The jury will add deserving but overlooked works to the ballot for SFWA’s Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Member […]
The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund eReader Drawing
The Carl Brandon Society, an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fiction, will hold a prize drawing of five eReaders to benefit the Butler Scholarship, a fund that sends two emerging writers of color to the Clarion writers workshops annually. In keeping with the Society’s support of literature from and about people […]
Quick Updates for 2010-11-01
Industry News and Member News for Cat Sparks, Alethea Kontis, and Allan Cole.
Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Writer Beware gets a ton of email. Reports of schemes, scams, and fee-charging, of course, but also questions about agents’ and publishers’ reputations, questions about the researching/querying/submitting and requests to deny reality.
Quick Updates for 2010-10-27
Industry News and Member News for Eljay Daly, Gail Carriger, Yasmine Galenorn, Jennifer Brozek, Maria Lima, Frank Catalano, and Aliette de Bodard.
Why Join SFWA?
Our mission is to inform, support, promote, defend and advocate for our member writers. Within that mission, there are two rationales which fall broadly into the personal and the societal: The personal These are few of the ways in which Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America can help you as an individual writer. We […]
Star Trek cited by Texas Supreme Court
The Texas Supreme Court when writing their opinion in Robinson v. Crown Cork and Seal cited Mr. Spock, effectively making him a legal authority for interpreting the Texas Constitution. Appropriately weighty principles guide our course. First, we recognize that police power draws from the credo that “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the […]
Quick Updates for 2010-10-25
Member News for Edward Willett, Holly Black, and Angel Leigh McCoy.
