Tom Doherty, Terri Windling and the late Donald A. Wollheim are recipients of the 2010 Solstice Award, presented by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I’ve gotten a number of questions recently about the Nurmal Resources PUBLISH ME! contest, from authors who’ve been solicited via email to enter it. (What’s Nurmal Resources, you may ask? A new publisher….
Member News for Jennifer Brozek, Cherie Priest, and Vctoria Janssen!
Nebula and Hugo nominated author, Cherie Priest, discusses some of the aspects of authorial control over the publishing process.
Being paid for writing is the ultimate author’s dream. Today, guest blogger C. Hope Clark sheds light on an area of support that many writers don’t think of: Grants. There are plenty of them out there, if you know where…
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Paul Cornell, Saladin Ahmed, Gail Carriger, Felix Gilman, Seanan McGuire, and Lezli Robyn!
Member News for Tom Crosshill, Felicity Shoulders, and Scott Oden!
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Jay Lake, Jaye Wells, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Ari Marmell!
In a poll of the membership, the vast majority expressed a concern that SFWA was growing too quickly. A study group felt that the new website was partially to blame for this expansion and voiced nostalgia for the previous website….
Neal Barrett, Jr., author of The Hereafter Gang, named by the Washington Post as “one of the great American novels,” and Interstate Dreams, recognized as an award-winner by the Texas Institute of Letters, will be honored as Author Emeritus by…
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Michael A. Burstein, Kate Milford, and Livia Llewellyn!
SFWA Active members, tomorrow is the last day to vote for the Nebula Awards. You may do that online with the Nebula final ballot. Your vote must be received by Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 11:59pm PST in order to…
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Justin Bell, Carrie Vaughn, Cheryl Reifsnyder, and Saladin Ahmed!
What’s the average advance for a first novel? How long does it take the typical first novel to sell? Do most first novelists sell their books on their own, or through an agent? Will publishers and agents consider first novelists…
SFWA Active members, there are only 5 days left to vote for the Nebula Awards. Why not spend the weekend reading the Nebula Nominated Fiction available in the members’ only Discussion Forum. Your vote must be received by Tuesday, March…
Member News for Suzanne Johnson, Julie Washington, Costi Gurgu, and Tom Rodgers!
Our sister site, http://www.nebulaawards.com is hosting a series of interviews with the Nebula and Norton nominees. First up is an interview by Tehani Wessely of John Scalzi.
Here are several publishing-related items that caught Victoria Strauss’s eye over the past week.
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Mark C. Newton, Jim C. Hines, and Howard Jones!
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, Nnedi Okorafor, looks at the question, “What is African Science Fiction?”
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Because I don’t already have enough to do (ha!), I’ve just set up a Facebook page for Writer Beware. It’ll aggregate the content I’m posting around the Web–the blog posts here, my Twitterfeed,…
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Today: the second of two guest posts on content mills. In this article originally published at The WM Freelance Writers Connection, writer Angela Atkinson takes a more positive view of content mills, arguing…
Dr. Grasshopper explains how to construct believable doctor language for your invented diseases.
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Ken Altabef, Robert Mellette, Stephanie Dray, Euan Harvey, and Sherrilyn Kenyon!
