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5 Resources for Managing Disasters
Emergencies can happen, outside and within, and you may find yourself in need of assistance ASAP
Quick Updates for 2010-09-02
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Lou Antonelli, Greg Bossert, M.K. Hobson, Sean Williams, and Mary Robinette Kowal!
Guest post–Leave the Vomit In or, Learning to Trust Your Voice
An important part of developing as a writer is learning when to trust your voice, and how to tell the difference between trusting your vision and being stubborn about something that doesn’t work.
Guest post–Escape, Resonance, and Recovery: Traversing the Values of Fantasy
A few years back, I was hit with an emotional blow so fierce that it stunned every aspect of my life. I was numb, in a state of confusion, and alone. The details are private, but my recovery answered for…
Interview with SFWA member L. Timmel Duchamp
With the release of her five book Marq’ssan Cycle, beginning in 2005, L. Timmel DuChamp has gained a reputation for fierce, uncompromisingly feminist writing of the same kind that has marked her short story appearances in places such as Asimov’s…
5 Resources on Grammar
We use language every day. It’s our tool, our medium, our art. However, even the most experienced and confident writer runs into an occasional grammatical snag (lie or lay?).
The Writing Parent
When I consider trying to maintain my writing and care for human children, my head boggles. Others have done it, wresting time and space while caring for family. I decided to ask a small panel of talented writers and fellow…
Quick Updates for 2010-08-19
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Jackie Kessler and Adam-Troy Castro!
5 Resources for Tracking Your To-do Lists
If your current scrap of paper/sticky note/repeating-to-self to-do list system isn’t hacking it, you may be interested in checking out one of these 5 free task management tools.
Guest post–Science Fiction and the Post-Cold War
While a great deal has been written about Cold War culture, very little has been written about post-Cold War culture as such, science fiction included. Part of it may be the lack of really significant, defining movements or innovations, at…
Quick Updates for 2010-08-14
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Jennifer Brozek, K.M._Ruiz, and Anne Harris!
Bowker Manuscript Submissions
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
A few of life’s inevitabilities:
Death.
Taxes.
Writers’ quest to find a way around the submission process.
There’s nothing you can do about death. Taxes are pretty non-negotiable as well, unless you’…
Guest post–Revitalizing Creativity in Your Private Booklife
Sometimes, no matter your best efforts, you’ll find yourself stuck in a rut, bored with your work and yourself. At such times, here are a few techniques that may nudge or jolt you out of that mood.
Quick Updates for 2010-08-12
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Wendy Wagner, Wendy S. Delmater, Michelle Marquardt, Kevin David Anderson, Charlene Teglia, and Paolo Bacigalupi!
5 Resources to Assist Your Research (Pants Not Required)
For those no-pants days when you need help finding information and Google/Wikipedia isn’t cutting it, you’ll want to know about these 5 free resources to help you with research.
Quick Updates for 2010-08-08
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Steven Gould!
Guest post–The Pillars of Your Public Booklife: What Do You Find Most Important?
More than two thousand years ago, the strategist Sun Tzu wrote that the warrior skilled in indirect warfare is as inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, as unending as rivers and streams, and passes away only to return like the four…
Quick Updates for 2010-08-05
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Mary Robinette Kowal, Jeannie Holmes, Laura Anne Gilman, Edward M. Lerner, Brad Beaulieu, and Blake Charlton!
5 Resources on Tracking Submissions
Need a new system or simply need to get your submissions organized in the first place? Check out these 5 resources that can help you keep on submitting, sans stress.
Renovation Increases Attending Membership Rates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2010 Reno – On October 1, 2010, the following membership rate changes for Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, will go into effect: Full adult attending membership rates will increase from $160 to $180….
Quick Updates for 2010-08-01
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Jerry Gordon and Jim C. Hines!
5 Resources on the Public Domain
Determining when work passes into the public domain is tricky. There are resources online that can help.
Sample DMCA generator for authors
This sample DMCA form generates an email which authors may use as a model when sending a DMCA notice to a site infringing upon their copyrighted material.
Guest post–Revolution #9: Thoughts on Electronic Publishing Vs. “Traditional” Print Publishing
by Cat Rambo 1. Any debate about the current struggle between electronic and traditional print publishing begins with this fact: no one thinks that online publishing will not eventually overtake the traditional, hold-in-your-hand, made-of-dead-trees model. While you may well continue…