Archive for the ‘SFWA Blog’ Category

Quick Updates for 2010-06-13

Resources, Industry News, and Member News for N. K. Jemisin, Jenn Bennett, Marianne de Pierres, Alexandra Duncan, Steven L. Wilson, René Walling, Vera Nazarian, Jeri Smith-Ready, Genevieve Valentine, Christie Yant, and Jon Sprunk!

Social Media and Your (Lack of) Privacy

The year is 2010. The internet has passed the infant stage and has grown into a young adult that still hasn’t quite gotten the “rules” down yet. Much of internet law is still in its infancy, in part because the legal system hasn’t been able to keep up with the rapid changes in technology. Words like “piracy,” “identity theft” and “copyright” are just three examples of that…

Hay House Establishes Publishing Service Division

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last year, giant publishing services firm Author Solutions Inc. contracted with two major commercial publishers to create publishing service (a.k.a. self-publishing, a.k.a. vanity publishing) divisions: West Bow Press for Thomas Nelson, and DellArte Press (formerly Harlequin Horizons) for Harlequin. ASI also, at some earlier point, set up a […]