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How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: When Your Audience Might Know More Than You Do
Using real-world diseases in a work of fiction has a large number of potential pitfalls. Here are a few tips about how to make your pestilential plot point a little more plausible.
Quick Updates for 2010-02-15
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Yasmine Galenorn and Marshall Payne!
Happy… what day is it?
Around the world people are celebrating February 14, 2010 as a special day. What, exactly, that special day is depends on who you are and what tradition you grew up in. It provides an excellent example of ways to use…
Quick Updates for 2010-02-14
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Julie Barrett, Daina Chaviano, Cory Doctorow, Allison Pang, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Cynthia Ward!
MyFreeRead.com: Not Quite What It Appears
Earlier this week, I received an email from a company called MyFreeRead.com, enticingly titled, “Authors: We Want Your e-Books & Articles!”
Last call for SFWA election candidates
The deadline for declaring your intent to run for office is Friday, February 12th. Currently the president, vice president, and Overseas Regional Director are unopposed races. No one has declared for Canadian Regional Director.
Remember Associate members can now nominate for the Nebulas
As the nomination period for the Nebula Awards winds to a close, please remind any Associate members you know that they can participate in the nomination process this year. Because of the January 2009 change to the Nebula rules,…
DOJ Weighs in on Amended Google Book Settlement
Last September, the US Justice Department urged the courts to reject the Google Book Settlement, citing concerns about class action, copyright, and anti-trust laws. The DOJ’s brief put the Settlement’s approval process on hold, and forced the parties back to…
How To Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Flatlines
I’m happy to announce a new feature on the SFWA blog, “How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: A writer’s guide to diseases and injuries, and how to use them effectively in fiction” written by Dr. Grasshopper.
RIP: SFWA Author Emeritus 1999 William Tenn
William Tenn
1920-2010
Quick Updates for 2010-02-06
Industry new and member news for Kalayna-Nicole Price, William Moore, Kasey Mackenzie, Douglas Hulick, Lia Habel, and N.K. Jemisin!
Amazon is restoring Macmillan “Buy Now” buttons
The New York Times is reporting that Amazon and Macmillan have come to an agreement, the details of which have not been made public. Amazon is reportedly in the process of restoring the “buy now” buttons to Macmillan books although…
Nebula Reminder — 10 days left to nominate
SFWA Active and Associate members, there are only 10 days left to nominate for the Nebula Awards. Why not spend the weekend reading some of the 260 free pieces of eligible fiction available in the members’ only Discussion Forum.
Are You a Published Author? Now You Can Tell the World!
Victoria Strauss takes a satirical view of the latest fad in attempts to separate authors from their money.
Dept. of Justice weighs in on Amended Settlement
Things look increasingly grim for the Google Books Settlement. The US Department of Justice echoes many of the problems SFWA raised with our objection (and cites our objection),
Hachette Book Group moves to Agency model
Galleycat reports on Hachette Book Group’s decision to move to the same type of agency model proposed by Macmillan. Below is the letter from their CEO, David Young. February 4, 2010 Dear Agent, At Hachette Book Group, we have been…
New comments from Macmilan CEO
Macmillan’s CEO John Sargent has made new comments about the Amazon and Macmillian.
The Importance of Style Sheets
A style sheet is a document the copyeditor prepares that lists the grammatical conventions, characters, places, unusual or made-up words, and the distinctive treatment of words (capitalization, hyphenation, favored spellings, etc.) within a particular text.
Quick Updates for 2010-02-04
Resources and member news for John Scalzi and Jennifer Brozek!
SFWA removes Amazon.com links from website
Due to Amazon.com’s removal of many of our authors’ books from its ordering system, we are removing Amazon.com links from our website. Our authors depend on people buying their books and since a significant percentage of them publish through Macmillan…
Dispatches from the Ebook Wars: Macmillan vs. Amazon
For some time, publishers and others have been concerned about Amazon’s policy of pricing ebooks at $9.99, regardless of the price tag publishers put on them. Many feel that Amazon’s discounted ebook pricing is an attempt to control and monopolize…
Quick Updates for 2010-02-01
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Tobias Buckell, Mary Robinette, Patrice Sarath and Kasey Mackenzie!
Amazon’s response to Macmillan
Conversation has swept through the internet, and science fiction and fantasy authors in particular, about Amazon’s decision to remove Macmillan titles from their stock after a disagreement about pricing.
Today, Amazon has posted a comment about their policy.
RIP: Kage Baker 1952-2010
Kage Baker
1952-2010