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Guest Post: Craft and Art
by Theodora Goss
When I teach writing, I teach craft. Art goes beyond craft, and has to do with what a writer, as an individual, brings…
Guest Post: Why You Don’t Want to Apply to Clarion West/Clarion UCSD.
by Helena Bell
The application season for Clarion West and other Clarion (UCSD) has begun. I’ve already seen posts on twitter from past alums encouraging…
Guest Post: Alpha Workshop: Anthologies and Opportunities
Dragons in your pickle jar. Devils at the diner. Sentient space ships named for epic poetry. All these and more inhabit the pages of the…
Tools for Writers: Stellarium
Ever wonder what the sky looked like in 1006 CE, when a supernova could be seen during the day? What dates did full moons illuminate…
Tools for Writers: Shelfari
Shelfari is, like GoodReads and LibraryThing, another social book cataloging website. Online book retailer AbeBooks owns a large percentage of the company. Users catalog the…
Story Surgeon: An App For Copyright Infringement
Here at Writer Beware, we love the weird stuff–the nutty, fring-y, even, dare I say, totally freaking insane things that are always cropping up at…
Opening a Vein: Agent Artery
Last week a literary agent contacted me on Twitter. “Ever heard of these folks?” she asked. “They’ve been spamming us all day.”
The link she gave…
In Memoriam: Neal Barrett, Jr.
Neal Barrett, Jr. (b.1929) died on January 12. Barrett was named SFWA Author Emeritus at the 2010 Nebula Award Weekend in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Geoffrey A. Landis to Receive 2014 Robert A. Heinlein Award
Geoffrey A. Landis, science fiction author and scientist working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is the 2014 winner of the Robert A….
2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced
The judges of the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce…
Scribd’s New Ebook Subscription Service: Partnering with Publishers, Profiting from Piracy
I was contemplating what to write for my first Writer Beware blog post, when a subject popped up out of the blue, packed with…
Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers accepting applications
Anyone who grew up yearning to become a writer knows it’s hard to do it alone. The Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers provides an…
Year in Review: Writer Beware’s Top Blog Posts of 2013
Every January, I look back over this blog and pick out what I think were the most useful, interesting, and/or important posts of the previous…
2014 Prometheus Hall Of Fame Award Finalists
For more than three decades, the Prometheus Awards have recognized outstanding works of science fiction and fantasy that stress the importance of liberty as the…
Who Reads Science Fiction?
Surveys have become my friend, and provided me with an answer to a very important question: who reads science fiction?
Tools for Authors: Goodreads
Goodreads is the largest reader community site in the world, with over thirteen million members. Users can track their reading, find or make book…
Happy Holidays!
Writer Beware is taking time off for the holidays. Unless there’s some especially major publishing news, look for us to be back after January…
Guest Post: What Heroes Eat: Cooking the Books with Saladin Ahmed
While fighting and magic are central to the action in many of Saladin Ahmed’s stories, he never makes the mistake of letting his characters go…
News of the Weird: Quill Shift Literary Agency
So…if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I love the crazy stuff, the little nuggets of publishing weirdness that I run across…
SFWA at Midwinter ALA
As mentioned earlier this year, SFWA will have a table at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits, January 24-28, 2014, in Philadelphia, PA. Participation in this…
Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers 103: Five Markets to Consider (and Two Databases to Bookmark)
by Caren Gussoff Note: Part One appears here: Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers 101. Part Two appears here: Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers…
Crowdfunded Anthologies: Concerns For Writers
Anthologies, once a staple of genre publishing, have become a rarity at major publishing houses over the past couple of decades.
Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers 102: Is it Literary?
by Caren Gussoff Note: Part One appears here: Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers 101 This may seem totally obvious, but is actually worth a…
SFWA Announces Special Bulletin Issue
In June, the SFWA Board announced the suspension of the SFWA Bulletin, allowing time to update our official publication’s distribution, content, and process. Over the…