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Quick Updates for 2010-11-04

Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Trent Hergenrader with 3 short story sales. http://3.ly/vZ2N # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @laurenbeukes author of Moxyland & Zoo City. http://www.laurenbeukes.com/ # @AuthorGuy Volunteers can work harder than people with a job. It's hard to be professional if you aren't getting paid. in reply to AuthorGuy # […]

Quick Updates for 2010-11-03

To let folks know: SFWA member @andrew_burt is conducting an Ebook reader survey – http://bit.ly/bmn64Y # @jaymgates That way it's not opposite programming. Plus we offer free breakfast, coffee, and mimosas to make up for the hour. in reply to jaymgates # @catvalente @apexjason Totally not true. There's Liz Gorinsky at tor.com, Sheila Williams at […]

A Dispatch from the Norton Jury

The Norton jury is beginning its work of reviewing the field of young adult genre literature for 2010, and would like to invite authors to help us obtain your eligible works. The jury will add deserving but overlooked works to the ballot for SFWA’s Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Member […]

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund eReader Drawing

The Carl Brandon Society, an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fiction, will hold a prize drawing of five eReaders to benefit the Butler Scholarship, a fund that sends two emerging writers of color to the Clarion writers workshops annually. In keeping with the Society’s support of literature from and about people […]

Quick Updates for 2010-10-31

@ginger_clark It's on Nov 22 at Planet Hollywood. http://www.sfwa.org/2010/09/invitation-2010-new-york-reception/ in reply to Ginger_Clark # SFWA business meeting is in the Champaign room at 9am on Sat. Come early for food & mimosas. Members only. http://is.gd/gtlFd # SFWA business meeting is in the Champaign room at 9am. Come early for food & mimosas. Members only. http://is.gd/gtlFd […]

Quick Updates for 2010-10-29

Congratulations to SFWA member Cat Sparks who has been named fiction editor for Cosmos magazine. http://bit.ly/957nax # SFWA member @AletheaKontis children's book ALPHAOOPS is featured in USA TODAY. http://tinyurl.com/2g9gcxe #

Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware

Writer Beware gets a ton of email. Reports of schemes, scams, and fee-charging, of course, but also questions about agents’ and publishers’ reputations, questions about the researching/querying/submitting and requests to deny reality.