Organizers of The Sunburst Awards, Canada’s only juried award for speculative fiction, are seeking short videos–or photographs with text–to promote awareness, as the group transitions from a privately funded venture to a non-profit. The goal is to raise the profile of Canadian Fiction. Not Canadian? Sunburst would love to hear from you too. To see […]
SFWA member @paulskemp is Guest of Honor at UCon in Ann Arbor, MI this weekend (Nov 13-14). He says, "Attend or suffer a terrible curse!" # SFWA Mourns Longtime Member, Volunteer Glenn Lewis Gillette http://is.gd/gSkT6 # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Sarah Frost with a sale to Analog. # Congratulations to SFWA member @jamietr […]
Glenn Lewis Gillette (b.1946) died on Nov. 1 after a year-long battle with cancer.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
As I’ve discussed before on this blog, one of the many changes currently rocking the publishing industry is a general blurring of lines, a mixing and melding of formerly sharply separate categories and func…
SFWA member @mattkressel reports that the KGB Raffle was a success. Thanks for your generous support! http://bit.ly/cyed7I # Congratulation to SFWA member @seananmcguire, whose novel FEED is one of PW's Best Books of 2010! # SFWA member Chris McKitterick (@mckitterick) had a blast at launch of his debut novel TRANSCENDENCE: http://is.gd/gQxT9 # SFWA member @jimchines […]
Renovation is delighted to announce an open competition for the design of the 2011 Hugo Award base. The Convention is soliciting artists and designers from around the world to come up with a base that is worthy of the Hugo Award and which reflects the convention’s theme of the New Frontiers and/or the region of Reno, Nevada and the North-Western United States.
Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Pamela Taylor. Read her qualifying story @ApexBookCompany http://3.ly/y4UQ #
The Odyssey Writing Workshop, one of the most respected programs for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, is offering three online writing classes this winter. Each class is focused on a particular element of fiction writing and is designed for writers at a particular skill level, from beginners to professional writers.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Many of the writers who contact me with Writer Beware-type questions seem to be convinced that the process of getting published is equivalent to a crap shoot. There are enormous numbers of people trying to …
Member News for Andrew Burt, Trent Hergenrader, Lauren Beukes, Juliette Wade, Felix Gilman, N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Genevieve Valentine, Yasmine Galenorn, Kevin Evans, Karen Evans and Catherynne Valente.
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.
Brian Pinkerton is the author of The Perfect Stranger, The Nirvana Effect & The Gemini Experiment. Publishers Weekly praises his tech thrillers, “Fans of stories centered on the conflict between the virtual and the real will find plenty to enjoy.”
