Guest Post: Really, Your Outline Does Not Have to Be Perfect
An outline is a roadmap. It helps you decide the overall shape of the novel. It does not lock you into that structure if you stumble upon something interesting.
SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2012-07-04
Nice review of Tempest's Fury by SFWA member @NicolePeeler http://t.co/gwEoyhAS… # @DailySF story "Reading Time" by SFWA member @BethCato is published in Persian at Farhikhtegan! Illustrated & all. http://t.co/KXoZooZq… # "Requiem in the Key of Prose" by SFWA member @jakedfw is now up on the @lightspeedmag website. http://t.co/OFDDukRE # the latest Apex features stories by […]
Quick Updates for 2012-07-03
SFWA member @cindypon is giving away a *signed* paperback of SILVER PHOENIX with her Turning Point—enter here: http://t.co/BAOAnOvM #
Rights vs. Copyright
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
You may have noticed that there were no posts last week. Apologies! I’ve got a humongous workload, and have had to cut myself off from the web almost entirely in order to deal with it.
I thought I…
Andre Norton Award Jury Announced
The 2012 Andre Norton Award committee has been chosen, and will begin accepting books for consideration. Any young adult/middle grade prose or graphic novel first published in English in 2012 is eligible.
Guest Post: Presenting the Cultural Imperialism Bingo Card
If you think colonialism is dead… think again. Globalisation has indeed made the world smaller–furthering the dominance of the West over the developing world, shrinking and devaluing local cultures, and uniformising everything to Western values and Western ways of life
Quick Updates for 2012-07-02
SFWA member @alcole123 is having Allan's 50% July E-Book Sale. All formats. Go to http://t.co/SNDNXGSo. Paste In SSSW50 At Checkout. # @cathshaffer That's fine. It might have been due to the power outages on the east cost. Hopefully not. in reply to cathshaffer #
Quick Updates for 2012-06-30
@mariannedyson @michaelcapobian There's no reason that you can't start a discussion in the SFWA forums. in reply to mariannedyson #
Finalists for the Sunburst Award Announced
The Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic are presented annually to Canadian writers with a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous year.
More Money-Wasting "Opportunities" For Writers
Following on my last post about how authors can waste money on promotional strategies, here are some more cash-sucking “opportunities.”
