The SFWA Blog

Back in college, when I first set out to be a professional author, the biggest question I wanted answered upfront […]

When I first qualified for SFWA, it had been going through yet another kerfuffle—which one almost certainly doesn’t matter; they

It happens that I’m writing this blog in an airport, on my way home from a con where I moderated

When I heard that the SFWA blog editors were asking members to write about their experiences with SFWA, my first

I joined SFWA for the same reason I have joined other professional organizations over the course of my career—it’s important

Right about now, many of you are wishing that you never had to deal with about half of SFWA ever

  I first heard about SFWA in my senior year of college, through the Columbia University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS).

In April 1995, I was a barely wet-behind-the-ears writer of science fiction. My first story was scheduled to appear in