BooklifeNow.com, a website that serves as support for and a supplement to Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer by author Jeff VanderMeer, is proud to announce a new website rebranding and content management team that aims to keep current with changing trends in the writer’s market, as well as increase reader engagement and grow the reader base.
SFWA member @ClanKorval is pleased to announce the sale of 2 sequels to her 2010 Maine fantasy, Carousel Tides, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen. # SFWA member @paolobacigalupi's THE DROWNED CITIES previews the 1st 11 chapters on Kindle http://t.co/SYbizO7q & Nook. http://t.co/Nc4GSVqO #
The Libertarian Futurist Society has issued a press release announcing the finalists for this year’s Prometheus Awards, which will be presented during the 70th World Science Fiction Convention over Labor Day weekend in Chicago.
The nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards have been announced.
SFWA member @eugiefoster sold short story "Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me" to anthology WHEN THE VILLAIN COMES HOME. #
Smaller Than an Atom & Larger Than a Universe: Frontiers of Space Time and Thought. By SFWA member Edward M. Lerner. http://t.co/k0lPVlFQ #
I’ve used up a lot of column space on this blog warning about the risks of submitting to small presses, especially brand new small presses. In my opinion, this is currently the most dangerous area for writers–not so much because there are a lot of scams (though there are quite a few) but because so many small presses are undercapitalized, run by inexperienced people, have deluded goals and aspirations, or all three.
I’ll Know I’ve Made it as a Writer When . . .
. . . I have my first hissy hit about my first copyedit. (Only robots speak without contractions! “Me and LJ” is how my character would say it NOT “LJ and I” because my character is not the FREAKING QUEEN OF FREAKING ENGLAND!)
What’s Smaller Than an Atom … And Larger Than a Universe? This Book. Edward M. Lerner is pleased to announce the release of Frontiers of Space, Time, and Thought: Essays and Stories on The Big Questions This new collection brings together more than a dozen of Lerner’s most engaging short stories. He takes the reader […]
The way to become a published writer is to write (and to submit what you write). Seems obvious, yet so many would-be writers produce that one story or novel and then rework it endlessly, or submit a story or three, get rejected once (or a hundred times), and decide to give up.
This sweeping urban fantasy explores what it means to be human in a world where humanity itself may be optional, where ancient gods run pawn shops, and where the difference between monster and hero often depends on which side of the story you’re telling.
A veteran award-winning author of 20 thrilling young adult and middle grade metaphysical adventures–including The Translucent Boy series–Tom Hoffman received a B.S. in psychology from Georgetown University and has lived in Alaska since 1972.
