Frank K. Kelly
1914-2010
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Bruce Cordell, James P. Hogan, John Joseph Adams, Ann K. Schwader, Arinn Cirulis, Edward M. Lerner, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justin Achilli, Norman Spinrad, Gareth L Powell, and Holly Black!
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Polenth Blake, Nathaniel Williams, David Forbes, Mark Teppo, Alethea Kontis, David Macinnis Gill, and John Scalzi!
RIP James P. Hogan
1940 – 2010
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Paolo Bacigalupi, James Morrow, Glenn Lewis Gillette, Kendall Evans, Samantha Henderson, Jane Yolen, Naomi Kritzer, and Caren Gussoff!
Dear SFWA members: This week, we became aware of three recent instances of Night Shade Books acting against the contractual and legal interest of authors, specifically by not reporting royalties when contractually specified or reporting them inaccurately and/or distributing books…
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Jen Hilton and Ryan Harvey!
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Yasmine Galenorn, Nnedi Okorafor, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jennifer Brozek, Liane Merciel, Cat Rambo, and Steven Saus!
On July 1, we changed the backend email service for emails ending in ‘@sfwa.org’. Any email that no longer matches up with an account should already end up in my inbox but if you have sent an email and haven’t…
As Scalzi has already said, Russell and Michael have been phenomenal and highly visible. Paul Melko has been quiet, efficient and always there when I needed him. He’s put in three years as the South Central regional director in addition…
My dear fellow SFWAns: As of 12:00 this morning, I became the President of SFWA, thanks to those of you who voted for me in the last election. Also newly joining me on the board are Bob Howe as Secretary,…
I never thought I’d be re-visiting the issue of literary agents charging reading fees. After all, the problems inherent in the charging of reading fees are recognized by all four literary agents’ profession…
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Jason Andrew, Christopher McKitterick, Cory Doctorow, Alyx Dellamonica, Charles de Lint, Kevin David Anderson, Larry Ferrill, Alan J. Porter, Hilary Goldstein, and Brennan Harvey!
SFWA members Charles de Lint, A.M. Dellamonica, and Cory Doctorow are nominated for the Sunburst Award. Congratulations to them and to the other nominees.
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
1948-2010
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Jennifer Pelland, Robert Jeschonek, Greg Bossert, J.L. Anderson, David D. Levine, and Rowena Cory Lindquist!
A fascinating discussion began today on Twitter (as of this writing, it’s still going on–check it out under the #agentpay hashtag), kicked off by agent Colleen Lindsay, who asked, “How would publishing change if agenting moved from commission-based payment to…
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Beth Revis, Vonda N. McIntyre, Matthew Kressel, and Colleen Gleason!
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for N. K. Jemisin, Jenn Bennett, Marianne de Pierres, Alexandra Duncan, Steven L. Wilson, René Walling, Vera Nazarian, Jeri Smith-Ready, Genevieve Valentine, Christie Yant, and Jon Sprunk!
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Harry Connolly, Julia Karr, Eric James Stone, and Cat Rambo!
The year is 2010. The internet has passed the infant stage and has grown into a young adult that still hasn’t quite gotten the “rules” down yet. Much of internet law is still in its infancy, in part because the…
Jerry Emerson Loomis
1933-2010
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Alaya Johnson, Glenn Lewis Gillette, Paolo Bacigalupi, Catherynne Valente, and Jacey Bedford!
Today the board of directors of SFWA voted to add the publisher Prime Books to the list of SFWA qualifying markets.
