Every book on how to be your own boss has instructions about when to give up your day job. Each one of these books has a particular rule of thumb. Some say you cannot quit your day job until you have three months’ salary in the bank.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
I semi-frequently get questions from people who want to know how to break into the publishing industry–not as writers, but as agents, editors, copy editors, publicists, designers, and so on. There are a nu…
2 week Taos Toolbox Master Class taught by SFWA members Walter Jon Williams & Nancy Kress is accepting applications. http://is.gd/i3Wcf # SFWA member @cmpriest‘s Dreadnought has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice award. http://bit.ly/f78ITE # Goodreads Choice nominees: SFWAns Charlie Stross, Connie Willis,@seananmcguire, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ann Aguirre, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller # Goodreads […]
2 week Taos Toolbox Master Class taught by SFWA members Walter Jon Williams & Nancy Kress is accepting applications. http://is.gd/i3Wcf # SFWA member @cmpriest‘s Dreadnought has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice award. http://bit.ly/f78ITE # Goodreads Choice nominees: SFWAns Charlie Stross, Connie Willis,@seananmcguire, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ann Aguirre, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller # Goodreads […]
Longtime SFWA member Cynthia Felice was appointed to the position of ombudsman by John Scalzi, president of SFWA, on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010.
Member News for Catherynne Valente, Cecilia tan, Seanan McGuire, Thea Harrison, Paul Cornell, Amanda Downum, Genevieve Valentine, and Jennifer Brozek
The Consumer Watchdog Conference will be webcast live–starting at 8:30 a.m. ET (5:30 a.m. PT) Wednesday. At 1:30, Michael Capobianco will participate on a panel discussing the internet’s impact on creative arts.
To kick off the gift-giving season, here’s a list of Top Ten Gifts for Fantasy or Science Fiction Writers.
Member News for Lilith Saintcrow, Marjorie M. Liu, Jon Armstrong, and N. K. Jemisin.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
One of many reasons I enjoy Twitter is that it’s relatively free of the spam that clogs other modes of online discourse. Oh, there’s the occasional author Twitspam (writers: Twitspamming is not, I repeat, N…
Blacksmith Wystan accidentally breaks off a sliver of Excalibur. It’s magic sends Wystan to present day England where he must fulfill his blood vow to reunite the piece with Excalibur or the rightful heir before the sword and its magic are lost.
Katherine Quevedo hails from Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her Pushcart and Rhysling nominated fiction and poetry appear in Nightmare Magazine, Asimov’s, Fireside Magazine, and elsewhere.
