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Hunting for a Literary Agent
Article by Chuck Rothman on (almost) everything you need to know about agents, including how to avoid scams.
Quick Updates for 2009-12-12
Resources, Industry News, and Member News from Jim C. Hines, Henry Melton, and Richard Curtis!
Quick Updates for 2009-12-11
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Yasmine Galenorn, Jennifer Brozek, Laura Anne Gilman, and Sherrilyn Kenyon!
Hudson Audio Publishing
Victoria Strauss examines Hudson Audio Publishing.
How I Fell in Love with Paranormal Romance
What attracted me to paranormal romance? It’s the blending of everything that is the best in science fiction and fantasy with the best of romance.
Nielsen folds Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews
Today, Nielsen Business Media announced that it is shutting down Kirkus reviews.
New SFWA bylaws draft posted for review by members
Today, Russell Davis has posted the most recent iteration of the new draft bylaws for SFWA, the review of the membership. Please log in to to the Discussion Forums to download a copy of the draft and give us your…
You Can Take It With You
Interstellar space travel. We dream about it. We write about it. Science fiction writers have come up with all manners of interstellar travel, ranging from multigenerational arks, to wormhole generating warp drives that can spit you across the galaxy in…
Eleventh Annual Endeavour Award
The eleventh annual Endeavour Award winner was announced November 27 at Oregon’s major science fiction convention, OryCon.
Portland writer and SFWA member David D. Levine won for his collection of short stories, “Space Magic,” published by Oregon publisher Wheatland Press.
Quick Updates for 2009-12-09
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Angel McCoy, Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, James Patrick Kelly, Aliette de Bodard, Kami Garcia, and Margaret Stohl
How sociolinguistics can help you!
As you put your world together, ask yourself how your people divide themselves up. Is it by town? By side of town (other side of the tracks, etc.)? Is it by larger geographical region? Is it by profession? By upper…
Hugo Awards Administrator discusses amended rules
Vincent Docherty, WSFS Division Head for the 2010 Worldcon, Aussiecon 4, and Administrator for the Hugo Awards discusses the amended Hugo rules. Specifically, he answers the question “Will blogs and websites be eligible in the Best Fanzine and Best Semiprozine…
Quick Updates for 2009-12-08
@rosefox @nnedi The short name is a handy thing. in reply to rosefox # RT @victoriastrauss: The Atlantic will sell short fiction on the Kindle http://tinyurl.com/yal468g # RT @Pyr_Books: Huge Acquisitions Round Up: News about 14 novels acquired for Pyr:…
Quick Updates for 2009-12-08
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Paolo Bacigalupi, Alex Bledsoe, Aliette de Bodard, and Cindy Pon
Research Tool: A brief intro to furniture history
When writing there will come a moment when you have to deal with furniture. If it’s historical fantasy, steampunk or timetravel you’ll face the question of finding something that is period correct. What did people sit on in…
Quick Updates for 2009-12-07
Resources, Industry News, and news on members Dave Creek, Stacia Kane, and Terry Bisson
Author Solutions CEO Responds to Harlequin/Nelson Flap
Kevin Weiss, President and CEO of Author Solutions Inc., has issued a video statement addressing the responses by RWA, SFWA, MWA, and NINC to ASI’s recent partnerships with commercial publishers in launching pay-to-publish divisions.
Quick Updates for 2009-12-06
Resources, Member News, and Industry News
RIP: Don Congdon 1918-2009
Don Congdon
1918-2009
Quick Updates for 2009-12-04
Resources, Member News, and Industry News for 2009-12-04
MWA delists Harlequin and all its imprints
The Board of Mystery Writers of America voted unanimously on Wednesday to remove Harlequin and all of its imprints from their list of Approved Publishers, effective immediately. Harlequin remains in violation of their rules regarding the relationship between a traditional…
Transracial Writing for the Sincere
If you want to go beyond the level of just assigning different skin tones and heritages to random characters, you’re going to have to do some research. Because yes, all people are the same, but they’re also quite different. For…
Google Settlement, Supplemental Notice
The Google Books Settlement has released a Supplemental Notice that has a summary of the changes between the original version and the 2.0. It is only six pages long and worth looking over, though it is not comprehensive.
Blurred Distinctions: Vanity Publishing vs. Self-Publishing
Of the many issues highlighted by the recent launch of pay-to-publish divisions by two major commercial publishers (Harlequin Enterprises’ DellArte Press–nee Harlequin Horizons–and Thomas Nelson’s West Bow Press), one of the most interesting, to me, is how blurred the distinction…