Quick Updates for 2009-10-02
Welcome to SFWA’s newest Affliate member, Jennifer Brozek. She is a submissions editor for Apex.
Nalo Hopkinson has a scholarship for the mentorships she is offering.
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-01
Agent Janet Reid has a list of questions to ask a prospective agent. SFWA’s newest Active member, Marie-Claude Bourque. Cory Doctorow Talks About the Future of the Novel. Fiction by SFWA member Kij Johnson. Happy Book Release day to Gail Carriger. Alethea Kontis sold a short story to Shroud Publishing. Laura Anne Gilman sold audio rights to Flesh and Fire to Tantor Audiobooks. Blog Talk Radio interviewed Brandon Sanderson….
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Leslie What nominated for Oregon Book Award
Leslie What, SFWA member, has been nominated for an Oregon Book Award for her story collection, Crazy Love! The Oregon
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Editors, check your slushpiles. There’s a plagiarist afoot.
If this were a case of a single plagiarized story, it would not be news.
A few days ago Shock Totem received a story called “Baboulas” by an author calling himself Richard Ridyard. John Boden, Assistant Editor of Shock Totem, read the story and immediately cried foul.
“This is plagiarism,” he said. “This is Stephen King’s ‘The Boogeyman’ from his Night Shift collection. Even the title is the same!” ‘Baboulas’ is the Greek word for ‘Boogeyman.’
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Quick Updates for September
Welcome new members, Sales, Videos of Google Book Settlement, Writers Digest seeks authors, and Nominate for Carl Brandon Awards.
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RIP: Mary Hunter Schaub, 1943-2009
Mary Hunter Schaub
(June 28, 1943 – September 25, 2009)
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SUNBURST AWARD ANNOUNCES 2009 WINNERS
The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2009 adult award is The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and the winner of its 2009 young adult award is Little Brother by SFWA member Cory Doctorow.
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RIP: Barbara Bova
Barbara Bova, literary agent and wife of Dr. Ben Bova, passed away Wednesday in Naples FL. Mrs. Bova had been fighting cancer.
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US Justice Dept. urges rejecting current Google Settlement
Today the US Justice Department’s team of lawyers urged U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin in New York to reject
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SFWA joins Open Book Alliance
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America has joined the Open Book Alliance, a coalition of librarians, legal scholars, authors, publishers and technology companies dedicated to countering the proposed Google Book Settlement.
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Quick Updates for 2009-08-21
Congratulations to Edward Willet for winning the Aurora Award for the best long-form work of science fiction or fantasy by a Canadian writer in English in 2008. Mike Resnick is the newest Writers of the Future judge Celebrate Mary Shelley’s birthday in Boston! Hear SFWA members Jennifer Pelland and Elaine Isaak read.
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WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2009 Award
The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction. Our congratulations to all the nominees, but we are particularly proud to see SFWA members K.D Wentworth, John Joseph Adams, Edmund R. Schubert, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, and James Maxey on the ballot.