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Quick Updates for 2010-12-11
Resources and Member News for Laurie Tom, Stephen Blackmoore, Anne Nesbet, David Levine, N. K. Jemisin, Seanan McGuire, Catherynne Valente, Ted Kosmotka, and Allan Cole.
Odyssey Writing Workshop Announces
Its 16th Summer Session
Since its founding in 1996, Odyssey has become one of the most respected workshops in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing community. Odyssey is for developing writers whose work is approaching publication quality and for published writers who…
The 2011 Indie Publishing Contest
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
I’ve been getting questions about a brand-new writers’ contest: the 2011 Indie Publishing Contest, sponsored by (among others) the San Francisco Writers Conference.
Write, Win AND Publish!
New ‘Indie Pub…
Amazon.com now offering BookScan to Authors
Amazon.com is now offering BookScan information to authors enrolled in their Author Central program. For authors, previously one had to subscribe to BookScan or to get their sales numbers through their agents or publishers. Amazon says: We’re happy to announce…
Guest Post–Information Wants to Be Free
The truth of “information wants to be free” is obvious to anyone who works in informatics. But it’s ignored time and again. It’s ignored by record companies trying to prevent music downloads, by startups trying to enforce embargoes on tech…
Guest Post–An Interstitial Moment: Metaphor
I want to talk for just an Interstitial Moment about metaphor, and these thoughts come to you compliments of Faerie Con where hundreds of folk, some quite young, some middle aged, and some old enough to know better have been…
Quick Updates for 2010-12-07
Member News for Lou Antonelli, Matthew Johnson, Marcella Burnard, Jeremy Robinson, Mike Shevdon, and Lee Konstantinou.
Interview–Minister Faust:
Writing is not a performance art
When we write, it’s easy to get carried away, to fall in love with our own endless descriptions of whatever we personally think is amazing: sunsets, flowers, action, aliens, guns, food, sex, shoes…. But when you read your work aloud…
Quick Updates for 2010-12-05
Member News for Tina Connolly, Cindy Pon, and David Brin.
Quick Updates for 2010-12-04
Resources and Member News for Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, David Anthony Durham, John Kessel, Kij Johnson, Paul Park, Nancy Kress, L. Timmel Duchamp, Charlie Stross, Andrew Burt, and Allan Cole.
Guest Post–The Freelancer’s Survival Guide:
When to Give Up Your Day Job
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…
How Not to Launch a Career in Publishing
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…
SFWA Announces New Ombudsman
Longtime SFWA member Cynthia Felice was appointed to the position of ombudsman by John Scalzi, president of SFWA, on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010.
Quick Updates for 2010-12-01
Member News for Catherynne Valente, Cecilia tan, Seanan McGuire, Thea Harrison, Paul Cornell, Amanda Downum, Genevieve Valentine, and Jennifer Brozek
Consumer Watchdog Conference with Michael Capobianco
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.
Top Ten Gifts for Fantasy or Science Fiction Writers
To kick off the gift-giving season, here’s a list of Top Ten Gifts for Fantasy or Science Fiction Writers.
Quick Updates for 2010-11-30
Member News for Lilith Saintcrow, Marjorie M. Liu, Jon Armstrong, and N. K. Jemisin.
Fake Writing Jobs: RealWritingJobs.com
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,…
Quick Updates for 2010-11-28
Resources and Member News for Ferrett Steinmetz, David Levine, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Cassutt, Lou Antonelli, Eugie Foster, Hilari Bell, Anna Elliott, Eilis O’Neal, Jamie Todd Rubin, and Cherie Priest.
Guest Post–Privacy, freedom, and making a living as a writer
My book has been pirated and shared already. I can’t stop that, and the methods necessary to create a pirate-free environment would transform the internet into something ugly and forbidding.
Nebula Awards Interview: Cherie Priest by Marshall Payne
Cherie Priest was nominated for her novel Boneshaker. How long did it take you to write Boneshaker? When did you first get the idea? Could you tell us about the writing process? All in all, I guess it took about…
Guest Post–Just Breathe: Rejuvenating Your Imagination
Sometimes we forget to breathe when it comes to our creativity. By which I mean we are so busy creating and interacting with the world that we forget to pause, to be silent, to be alone. The imagination, the spark…
Quick Updates for 2010-11-20
Member News for Seanan McGuire, David Levine, Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, Shauna Roberts, An Owomoyela, Brad R. Torgersen, Deborah Walker, and Amal El-Mohtar.
Quick Updates for 2010-11-18
Industry News, Resources, and Member News for Glenn Lewis Gillette, Pamela Taylor, Sarah Frost, Kyle Aisteach, Ada Milenkovic Brown, Matthew Bennardo, Sunny Moraine, Jamie Todd Rubin, Tobias Buckell, Andrew Mayer, Lena Coakley, Gayle Ann Williams, Jim C. Hines, Alethea Kontis,…