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July 1 Awards in Speculative Poetry: Ways (and Reasons) to Celebrate Excellent Writing
June 24 SFWA Presents: Get to Know…Our NetGalley Partnership Program
June 17 Why Crowdfund?
June 11 SFWA Market Report For June
June 10 Book Marketing: Comics vs. Novels
June 3 Planets and Plastic: A History of the SFWA Trophies and Awards
May 27 A Brief History of SFWA: The First Nebula Awards
May 20 How to Pitch to a Comic Book Publisher
May 14 SFWA Market Report For May
May 13 Breaking Down a Sequential Page: A Close Reading for Comics Writers
May 12 In Memoriam: Heather Osborne
May 6 Connecting with an Artist Is a Big Part of the Storytelling in Comics
April 29 How to Write a Comic Script
April 22 Watch Those Contract Clauses! Clarification for MustRead, Inc. on Unusual Rights Inclusions
April 22 Conjuring Images when Writing for Comics, Prose, and the Screen
April 15 Taking Humor Writing Seriously
April 11 SFWA Market Report For April
April 8 Butt in the Chair: How Disability Changed My Writing Habits
April 1 How to Navigate the Publishing Industry with Social Anxiety
March 25 Successfully Talking to the Press About Your Art: Plot It, Don’t Pants It!
March 18 Jerry Pournelle: SFWA Historian
March 17 SFWA Market Report For March
March 11 SFWA Presents: Get to Know…Our In Memoriam Feature
March 4 Legacy of the Iron Curtain: Writing Ukrainian Fiction in a Post-Soviet World
February 25 Romantasy: An Old Genre with a New Name
February 18 SFWA Presents: Get to Know…Our New Comics and Poetry Nebula Awards
February 11 SFWA Presents: Get to Know…Our Career Mentorship Program
February 5 SFWA Market Report For February
February 4 Volunteers, Watch Out for Those Invisible Expectations!
January 28 Decolonizing History in Brazilian SFF
January 28 In Memoriam: Laurel Amberdine
January 21 Preservation Guidance for Authors Planning to Donate Their Personal Papers to Archives
January 20 SFWA Market Report For January
January 14 Characterization and Worldbuilding Through Fight Scenes
January 7 Enriching Your Worldbuilding with Economics

December 31 What Should I Pitch to The SFWA Blog?
December 24 The Professional Editor/Writer Relationship
December 17 History in Speculative Fiction: Repeat, Rhyme, or Echo?
December 12 SFWA Market Report For December
December 10 Translation for Video Games: An Interview with Kristin Osani
December 3 Translation vs. Adaptation: The Continuous Struggle for Optimal Ratio
November 26 Enriching Characters and Sociopolitics with Digital Currencies
November 19 The Many Alt-Histories of World War II
November 12 Only as Good as Our Tools: Drafting by Hand and Fountain Pens
November 5 The Revolution Will Be Fantasized
November 4 SFWA Market Report For November
October 29 The Dangers of Writing on Someone Else’s Heartstrings
October 22 Using Archives to (Re)Write History
October 15 Writing Alt-History? Read the Primary Sources
October 8 Sudden: Writing on the Go
October 7 SFWA Market Report For October
October 1 QA and Storytelling in Video Games
September 26 In Memoriam: Janet Morris
September 24 Playtesting TTRPG Stories
September 17 Playtesting Card Games
September 10 Playtesting Narrative Content in Board Games
September 6 Quark – A SFWA Public Digest
September 4 The Inexorable Growth of BIPOC in Publishing
September 4 SFWA Market Report For September
September 3 Introduction to Game Writing and Playtesting
August 27 The Past Is Not as Rosy as You’ve Been Led to Believe
August 20 Game Writing with Text Adventure Games
August 19 In Memoriam: M. J. Engh
August 13 (Temporarily) Computer-Free Writing
August 7 Dance the Exotic Dance for Me!
August 6 A Brief History of SFWA: The Beginning (Part 2)
August 2 SFWA Market Report For August
July 30 A Brief History of SFWA: The Beginning (Part 1)
July 23 Whoops, I Wrote a Story: How to Make App Addictions Work for Your Writing
July 16 Discovery Writing Through Gaming
July 9 Phoning It In: Finding Time to Write in Unexpected Places
July 5 SFWA Market Report For July
July 3 The Ballad of the Slush Reader: What I’ve Learned (And What I Want to Know) about Reading Slush
July 2 The Poet’s Toolbox: Three Strategies for a Vivid Prose Voice
June 25 Gamifying Your Writing Goals
June 25 In Memoriam: John Maddox Roberts
June 18 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Top Tips from THE INDIE FILES
June 11 How to Rewrite a Story for a Different Call
June 5 Culture: Moving Beyond Set Dressing
June 4 Perceiving the Wind: Finding Magic in the Mundane
June 3 SFWA Market Report For May/June
May 31 In Memoriam: Caitlin Thomas
May 28 Character Development Lessons From Video Games
May 21 THE INDIE FILES: How to Pitch Your Book to Libraries So They See You as an Easy Win to Please Their Patrons
May 14 Inspiration Point: How Can Narrative-Driven RPGs Help Write Better Fiction?
May 7 New to Your Public Persona? Handling the Non-Writing Parts of Being an Author
May 1 Yes, We Need Diverse Books, But We Also Need Diverse Reviewers–Still*
April 30 Tie Up the Loose Ends: A Writer’s Guide to Sailor’s Knots
April 26 In Memoriam: Jubilee Cho
April 23 Writing SFF With Paper and Pen Spurs Memory and Creativity
April 16 THE INDIE FILES: Continuous Marketing and Selling Costs
April 9 Trusting Your Voice as an ESL Writer
April 5 In Memoriam: James A. Moore
April 4 In Memoriam: Vernor Vinge
April 4 SFWA Market Report – April 2024
April 3 Working with Your Career’s “Track Changes”: Advice from One BIPOC Editor
April 2 SFWA Publishing Taught Me Anthology Announces Full Roster of Contributors!
April 2 What Is Sensitivity Reading?
March 29 SFWA Matching Donations Up to 10K for Locus Magazine
March 26 Metaphysics & Matter: Should Elves Have Atoms?
March 19 THE INDIE FILES: I’m Selling Books, but Am I Making Money?
March 12 Nailing It Down: How to Portray Boxing Accurately in Your Fight Scenes
March 7 SFWA Awards 2024 Givers Fund Grants!
March 7 In Memoriam: Steve Miller
March 6 Take Editing Humor Seriously. Please.
March 5 SFWA Market Report – March 2024
March 5 Speaking Common
February 27 How to Fix Your Ornithopter: The Unlikely Publishing History of Dune
February 20 THE INDIE FILES: Why Indie Writers Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Reach Out to the Big Names
February 13 How to Make Your Next SFF Work’s Currency
February 12 Jim Hosek Named the 2024 Service to SFWA Award Recipient
February 7 Inside the Fiction Editor’s Mind: Does the Writer’s Identity Matter?
February 6 Using Poetry to Enhance Your Writing
February 5 SFWA Market Report – February 2024
January 30 Publishing Taught Me Accepting Pitches for Four Essays
January 30 Sourcing Art on a Budget
January 24 In Memoriam: Howard Waldrop
January 23 SAFETY DISPATCH: Don’t Get Hooked by Phishing and Scams
January 23 In Memoriam: Tom Purdom
January 16 THE INDIE FILES: Productivity That Fits You
January 9 The LGBTQ+ Speculative Experience: Part 4
January 3 SFWA Market Report – January 2024
January 2 How Writing Challenges Made Me a Better Writer

December 26 Sharing the Spotlight: 6 Tips for Collaborative Storytelling
December 19 THE INDIE FILES: 5 Ways to Sell Your Books Directly
December 12 Choose Your Own Dr. Scientist Adventure
December 5 SFWA Market Report – December 2023
December 5 Cooperative Publishing: Writers Taking Charge of Their Publishing Careers
November 28 Overcoming the Rejection Machine: Why a Positivity Read Should Be Part of Your Publishing Journey
November 21 THE INDIE FILES: Measuring Your Success as an Author
November 14 Art Direction on a Budget
November 7 Making the Most of Your Con Budget
November 3 SFWA Comments on AI to US Copyright Office
November 1 SFWA Market Report – November 2023
October 31 In Memoriam: Sherrie R. Cronin
October 31 An Approach for Shifting the Setting in an Alternate Retelling
October 24 SAFETY DISPATCH: How to Establish and Use a Pen Name
October 17 THE INDIE FILES: Wide For the Win 2 – Retail Promotions
October 11 In Memoriam: Michael F. Flynn
October 10 Designing Your Fictional Spaceship
October 6 In Memoriam: H. Paul Honsinger
October 3 SFWA Market Report – October 2023
September 26 The LGBTQ+ Speculative Experience: Part 3
September 19 THE INDIE FILES: Making Use of Genre and Categories
September 12 Anatomy of a Tabletop Adventure
September 3 SFWA Market Report – September 2023
August 29 Work-for-Hire in Short Fiction: An Overview
August 22 Using Sensory Triggers to Prime Your Brain for Writing
August 21 SFWA Adds Poetry and Translation As Qualifying Works for Membership
August 15 THE INDIE FILES: Book Descriptions
August 8 SFWA Market Report – August 2023
August 8 The Gamemaster’s Guide to Short Story Plot
July 31 What I Learned Cowriting A Novella
July 27 SAFETY DISPATCH: Managing Newsletters
July 18 Space Royals in Space Operas: How to Craft a Believable Monarchy
July 11 The LGBTQ+ Speculative Experience: Part 2
July 3 SFWA Market Report – July 2023
June 27 Negotiating Your Short Fiction Contracts
June 21 In Memoriam: Nick Wood
June 21 SAFETY DISPATCH: Author Safety for Small Events
June 6 How the Real-Life STEM Astrophysicist Keeps the Star Trek Universe Real–and Really Awesome
June 2 SFWA Market Report – June 2023
May 30 2023–2024 SFWA Board & Referendum Results
May 30 What Does Slavic Fantasy Even Mean?
May 23 Romancing the B Story
May 17 THE INDIE FILES: Author Tips and Tricks for Selling on Amazon
May 11 The LGBTQ+ Speculative Experience
May 4 SFWA Market Report – May 2023
May 4 The Future of the SFWA Nebula Conference & In-Person Nebula Scholarships Now Available
May 2 It’s All About Momentum: Writing Effectively and Productively Amidst a Busy Life
April 25 Collaboration Tips For Comic Writers
April 19 THE INDIE FILES: Bringing Back the Weird to Indie Publishing
April 13 SAFETY DISPATCH: Wh@t’$ th3 P@$$w0rd?
April 8 In Memoriam: Rachel Pollack
April 6 SFWA Market Report – April 2023
April 4 Tighten Up Your Writing
March 28 “And What’s So Fantastic About It?!”: How To Write Fantastic Noir
March 22 THE INDIE FILES: Writing Through Trauma
March 7 Belying The Belly Dancer: Misconceptions of Raqs Sharqi That Need to Be Corrected In Your Writing
March 6 SFWA Market Report – March 2023
February 28 In Space, There’s Actually Lots to Hear: Science Fiction Audio Drama
February 21 Diamond in the Rough: How to Shine in the Slush Pile
February 15 THE INDIE FILES: Balancing the Indie Workload
February 9 SAFETY DISPATCH: How to Secure Your Author Website
February 2 SFWA Market Report – February 2023
January 31 Making Soft Magic Systems Work
January 24 You’re Quite a Character: How to Craft Interesting Minor Characters in Spec-Fic
January 18 THE INDIE FILES: Yes, You Do Need an Editor
January 12 In Memoriam: David Sherman
January 7 In Memoriam: Suzy McKee Charnas
January 6 SFWA Market Report – January 2023
January 3 Climate Change and Antibiotic Resistance: Facts for Fiction

December 27 Social Media Strategy for Writers
December 21 THE INDIE FILES: How to Bring Your Indie Book to the Attention of a Librarian
December 6 A Brief History of Persian Sci-Fi
December 5 SFWA Market Report – December 2022
November 29 Writing the Science Right
November 16 THE INDIE FILES: Maximizing Your Sales for the Holidays
November 2 SFWA Market Report – November 2022
November 1 Spec-Fic-Fu 2: Weapons!
October 31 Climate Fiction: Adaptation to a New Literary Landscape Panel
October 25 The Ecology of Worldbuilding
October 22 THE INDIE FILES: An Indie Approach to Series
October 14 ROMANCING SFF: “So, How’s Your Love Life?” and Other Questions to Ask Your Characters
October 5 SFWA Market Report – October 2022
October 4 Imagination Without Images: Aphantasia and SFF Readers and Writers
September 29 Tips and Tricks For Writing Audio Drama
September 21 THE INDIE FILES: Is Your Book Cover Doing the Job or Does It Need to Be Fired?
September 15 ROMANCING SFF: Romancing the Beast – Embracing Monstrousness in Romantic SFF
September 14 New Resources on Safety for the SFF Community
September 6 Stop Multitasking
September 3 SFWA Market Report – September 2022
September 1 Givers Fund Grant Application Deadline: Oct 1, 2022!
August 31 Engaging Educational Markets with Genre Fiction
August 26 THE INDIE FILES: Wide for the Win – Part 1
August 24 New StoryBundle “Renegades of Tomorrow” Now Available!
August 2 SFWA Market Report – August 2022
August 2 Transparency in Slush: The Wizard Behind the Curtain
July 22 Announcing the SFWA Romance Committee!
July 20 In Memoriam: Herbert W. Franke
July 20 In Memoriam: Eric Flint
July 20 THE INDIE FILES: SFWA’s NetGalley Program and You
July 14 ROMANCING SFF: 5 Ways Fighting and Kissing Scenes Are the Same
July 6 SFWA Market Report – July 2022
July 5 Indigeneity in SFF Gaming: The Ongoing Need for Respectful, Native-Centered Storytelling
June 28 Tired Disability Tropes In SFF: Do Better
June 22 THE INDIE FILES: Advantages of Independent Publishing
June 16 ROMANCING SFF: Why Romance Should Be Part of Your Worldbuilding
June 7 Numinous Fantasy
June 3 SFWA Market Report – June 2022
June 1 Preliminary Observations From An Incomplete History of African SFF
May 18 THE INDIE FILES: Make the Most of New Book Announcements
May 16 In Memoriam: Patricia A. McKillip
May 12 ROMANCING SFF: The Power of Romance
May 10 SFWA Fantasy StoryBundle Submissions Call Now Open
May 10 Reimagining Conflict
May 4 THE INDIE FILES: Listen Up! Self-Producing Audiobooks
May 3 SFWA Market Report—May 2022
April 19 Treading on Embers
April 14 ROMANCING SFF: When Making the Connection Makes the Book
April 12 I Feel Funny: Humor Writing Tips for Novelists
April 5 Finding Focus in the Metaverse
April 2 SFWA Market Report—April 2022
March 29 The Exophonic Writer’s Journey
March 28 In Memoriam: Bill Johnson
March 23 THE INDIE FILES: A Guide to SFWA StoryBundles
March 22 Finding Me: Towards Self-Actualization in Writing
March 15 10 Hands-On Tips For Writing Flash Fiction
March 10 ROMANCING SCI-FI & FANTASY: I See Romance…Everywhere!
March 8 Story Salvage: Finding the Opportunity in Failure
March 4 SFWA Market Report—March 2022
March 1 Two Essential Questions to Ask As You Self-Edit
February 16 THE INDIE FILES: Going Wide
February 15 In Memoriam: Tom Dupree
February 14 Sidequesting: An Antidote to “I Should Be Writing”
February 5 SFWA Names the 2022 Givers Fund Grants Recipients!
February 2 SFWA Market Report—February 2022
January 28 THE INDIE FILES: An Indie Author’s Primer on Editors
January 20 In Memoriam: J. Brian Clarke
January 20 In Memoriam: Ron Goulart
January 20 In Memoriam: Dave Wolverton
January 20 In Memoriam: John Joseph Miller
January 18 The Do’s and Don’ts of Asking for Reviews
January 11 Active Reading to Step Up Your Writing
January 6 SFWA Market Report—January 2022
January 3 Optimism is the New Bleak: How to Write with Hope

December 30 Breaking Into Publishing Isn’t Easy, but if You’re Not in America, It’s Even Harder
December 28 What Speculative Fiction Writers Can Learn from the Origins and Evolution of the Wuxia Genre
December 27 Developing Games and Developing as a Parent
December 24 On Writing Narratives, Questioning Standards, and Oral Traditions in Storytelling
December 22 THE INDIE FILES: For Your Consideration: How to Seek Out Self-Published Works You’ll Love
December 21 Colin Coyle to Receive Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award
December 20 Graphic Novel Production Schedules Are Too Short—and the Publishing Industry Should Care About It
December 17 Managing A Creator’s Public Profile and Navigating Audience Entitlement
December 15 The SFWA Signing Schedule at DisCon III
December 15 In Memoriam: Anne Rice
December 14 Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
December 13 Activist SFF Isn’t Just About Good Intentions
December 10 Black Joy and Afrofuturism for Young Readers
December 9 With Great Power
December 3 SFWA Market Report—December 2021
December 2 Creating Character Arcs in Games Writing
November 29 Why Writing Second Person POV Appeals To Marginalized Writers
November 23 On Trauma-Informed Writing
November 9 SFWA Market Report—November 2021
November 2 Sci-Fi Has a Cure Problem
October 19 Level Up: Think Like a Teacher
October 14 Special Double Issue #216 of The Bulletin Now Available!
October 13 “Magic and Mayhem” Fantasy StoryBundle Now Available!
October 5 SFF Writing for White Goblins: Decolonising your Defaults
October 4 SFWA Market Report—October 2021
October 3 Call for Submissions: SFWA “Rogues of the Future” StoryBundles
September 6 SFWA Market Report—September 2021
August 24 Short Fiction Rejection Letters: Best practices and expectations
August 20 USPS Stamp Honors Ursula K. Le Guin
August 10 Unusual Governments to Take Inspiration From
August 3 SFWA Market Report—August 2021
July 27 In Memoriam: Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
July 27 Cyberpunk: Writing for Tomorrow
July 20 In Memoriam: William F. Nolan
July 13 Neurodiversity and the Business of Writing, Part 2: ND Difficulties in Publishing
July 9 SFWA Market Report For July
June 29 Nonviolence and the Hero’s Duel
June 3 SFWA Market Report For June
June 1 What Technology Can’t SF Writers Live Without?
May 25 Author Advances: An Update for Your Expectations
May 11 Neurodiversity and the Business of Writing, Part 1: #OwnVoices and Neurodiversity
May 10 SFWA Market Report For May
April 27 Using Comic Scripts to Outline Your Fiction
April 26 2021 Officer Election Results
April 20 Spec-Fic-Fu: How to Make Aliens and Robots Fight Better
April 13 Short Stories as an End Goal
April 8 SFWA Market Report For April
March 23 How to Write Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters
March 16 What Communities Can Do
March 9 Institutions Are the AIs Your Mother Warned You About
March 5 SFWA Market Report For March
March 2 Storytelling in Speculative Fiction Reveals a Buried History
February 16 Using Unreliable Narration to Create Voice
February 9 Bisexual+ Characters Do Not Equal Threesomes
February 3 SFWA Market Report For January/February
February 2 On Grants
January 26 “Cities That Think Like Planets”: On Writing Sustainable Cities in Science Fiction
January 19 Publishing Has A New York Problem
January 12 Reasons to Publicize Your Award-Eligible Works
January 7 Writing Through the Terrible Twos
January 5 Diversity Plus: Diverse Story Forms and Themes, Not Just Diverse Faces

December 29 Navigating the Parallel but Uneven Ecosystems of Traditional Publishing and Self-Publishing
December 18 Supernatural or Super Unnatural – An Examination of Postcolonial Horror
December 15 Explicit Sex Scenes and the Work of Stories
December 8 Fine Weather, Isn’t It?
December 3 SFWA Market Report For December
November 24 Marginalized people living varied and fulfilled lives in genre fiction is historically accurate
November 18 #DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
November 11 Shooting at a Rolling Hoop: Predicting the Near Future
November 4 SFWA Market Report For November
October 30 36 Member Titles Listed in TIME Magazine’s “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time”
October 29 The Bulletin #215 Issue Cover and Table of Contents
October 14 SFWA Market Report For October
October 2 Announcing the Narrative Worlds Webinar Series!
September 28 SFWA Announces New Blog Editor
September 10 SFWA Market Report For September
August 31 Butchness and Liminal Mortality in SF
August 28 An Open Letter to Convention Chairs and the Greater SF/F Community
August 24 Here are Eight Places That Accept Nonfiction Essays on SF/F Topics
August 21 Our Timely Obsession with Animal Crossing
August 18 SFWA Announces New Communications Manager
August 5 SFWA Market Report For August
July 31 Don’t Forget the H
July 28 Submission Tetris: An Analytic Approach
July 24 A Guide for Authors on Recommending Books
July 21 Radical Fiction or “Are We There Yet?”
July 20 SFWA Market Report for July
July 7 Copyright Registration Rule Change Allows Flat Fee Registration of Short Textual Works Published Online
July 3 SF/F Magazines Wait Out The Great Pause—Part 2: Short- and Long-Term Prospects & the Post-COVID Landscape
June 30 SF/F Magazines Wait Out The Great Pause—Part 1: Submissions & Supplies
June 25 Writing ‘POC’ is Not Enough
June 23 Theatrical Shortcuts for Dynamic Fiction
June 4 A Statement from SFWA on Black Lives Matter and Protests
June 3 SFWA Market Report For June
May 27 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 2020 Nebula Award Finalists
May 19 How to Ask for Things
May 8 Not-so-still Life: Writing from an Inanimate Object’s Point of View
May 5 SFWA Market Report For May
April 30 Being A Mentor
April 27 2020 Officer Election Results
April 22 Effective Goal Setting for Writers
April 17 When Words Melt Away
April 14 SFWA Market Report For April
April 9 Donate to Help Members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Affected by Covid-19
April 7 Aydrea Walden Named SFWA Nebula Awards Toastmaster
April 2 The Reality of Writing in Uncertain Times
March 31 SFWA Unveils an Innovative “Virtual” Nebula Conference
March 27 SFWA Names New Managing Editor, Art Director, and Volunteer Coordinator
March 22 Announcing the Transformation of the 2020 Nebula Conference and Covid19-Relief
March 10 Book Releases on a Budget
March 5 SFWA Market Report for March
February 25 Making It Different – Pushing Genre Boundaries in Fantasy
February 11 Epistolary Tales: The Narration of Documentation
February 7 Negotiation Tips for Writers
February 4 SFWA Market Report For February
January 31 A Worldbuilding Guide to Crafting Diverse Cultures
January 28 Writing Down Fear
January 24 Producing an Audiobook with Audible’s ACX
January 21 Grant Applications 101: Finding, Troubleshooting, and Completing the Quest for Funding
January 15 Things to Ask Your Agent
January 9 In Memoriam: Mike Resnick
January 9 Vernor Vinge Wins 2020 Robert A. Heinlein Award
January 7 SFWA Market Report For January
January 2 2020 Nebula Conference Panels, a Sneak Peek!

December 17 Filtering Feedback: Strategies for Overcoming the Revision Doldrums
December 12 Seven Ways to Grow Your Resilience as a Writer
December 10 Lois McMaster Bujold Named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master
December 5 SFWA Market Report For December
December 2 Writing The Other Rechristens Financial Aid Program to Vonda N. McIntyre Sentient Squid Scholarship
November 28 Old Women in SF—the List
November 26 Defining Roles: Agents & Editors
November 21 New Life and Old Deadlines
November 14 SFWA Statement from the President on Chizine
November 7 Age Is Just a Number
November 5 SFWA Market Report For November
October 29 Watch Something Different Tonight!
October 25 SFWA Contracts Committee Advisory on No-advance Contracts
October 25 Odyssey Writing Workshops Online Courses
October 21 The Other Final Frontier: Writing Ocean Settings
October 17 A Change in the Director-at-Large at SFWA
October 16 The Art of Story as Worldbuilding
October 11 What Makes You Think Your Idea’s Even Worth Stealing?
October 7 Star Trek Will Save the World!
October 3 SFWA Market Report For October
September 30 Writing to the Shadows
September 23 Collaboration
September 17 Count Your Successes
September 13 Sketching a Story
September 9 Transportation
September 6 SFWA Market Report For September
September 3 SFWA Minimum Pro Rate Now in Effect
August 27 The Jargon and Slang of the Fantastic
August 22 Last Hours! A Matter of Time Bundle – Curated by SFWA
August 20 A Tiny Bit of Mathemagic
August 16 Promoting with Podcasts
August 13 Stories that Teach: Adventures on the Crossroads of Fiction and Non-fiction
August 9 Military Logistics for Fantasy Writers
August 6 SFWA Market Report For August
August 1 Broadcast Premiere of “Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin”
July 30 Translating the Hero’s Journey Into a Linear Plan
July 24 Writing While Parenting
July 22 On Keeping a List of All the Books I’ve Ever Read
July 15 Waking up to Productivity: Testing Robin Sharma’s The 5AM Club.
July 9 SFWA Market Report For July
July 6 “Start a New Series” with a Humble Book Bundle!
July 1 Waking up to Productivity: Robin Sharma’s “The 5 AM Club”
June 26 Grice’s Maxims and How You Can Use Them in Your Fiction
June 18 Five Paths to Break Into TV/Film as a Novelist
June 14 Lovable Predictability: The Pleasures and Challenges of Writing a Children’s Fiction Series
June 7 Good for Your Career? Evaluating Events for Writers
June 4 SFWA Market Report For June
May 31 Crowdpublishing
May 28 Words Out of Time: Building a Better World Through Etymology
May 21 An Appreciation of Eleanor Wood
May 17 Rebound Novels
May 14 Camp Writerhaven Announced
May 9 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Announces 2019 Book Shortlist
May 9 SFWA Market Report For May
May 3 From the Inside Out: Worldbuilding Through Extrapolation
April 29 Why I Review, or Rather: What Is Reviewing?
April 22 The Art of the Playlist
April 15 How to Avoid Writing That’s as Clear as a Mountain Stream
April 10 2019 Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award Announced
April 8 The Dream Foundry
April 5 SFWA Market Report For April
March 29 How to Win a Short Fiction Contest*
March 26 Two Simple Rules of Editing
March 21 The Productivity Monkey
March 15 Open for Submissions: “A Matter of Time Science Fiction Bundle”
March 8 More Writerly Than Thou
March 6 SFWA Market Report For March
March 1 Applications Open for Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers
March 1 SFWA Board Statement Regarding the 2018 Nebula Ballot
February 27 Fantasy Worlds of George Pal Film Preservation
February 25 The Ultra-Novelist
February 20 Nebula Award Finalists Announced
February 16 Candidates for the SFWA Board of Directors
February 14 The X Factor
February 7 SFWA Market Report For February
February 1 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards To Be Presented to Nisi Shawl and Neil Clarke
January 24 Advice for the Invariable Moment when You Decide to Quit
January 16 SFWA Raising Pro Rate for Short Fiction to Eight Cents per Word
January 14 Gregory Benford Wins the 2019 Robert A. Heinlein Award
January 10 SFWA Market Report For January

December 31 Analog Writing in the Digital World
December 21 Technology and Worldbuilding, Part Two
December 17 Plotting Asleep
December 12 The Space Law of Sabotage on the ISS
December 7 Odyssey Writing Workshop 2019 Announced
December 5 SFWA Market Report For December
November 26 Automation and Worldbuilding, Part One
November 20 Writing Amputees
November 13 SFWA Market Report For November
November 12 A Publisher Might Approach YOU: Four Stupid Mistakes to Avoid
November 9 Nebula Awards Rules Changes: Associate Members Granted Voting Privileges, Game Writing Award Added
November 8 You’re Invited to the NYC Premiere of “Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin”
November 5 SFWA now accepting Givers Fund Grant Requests
November 2 How to Grapple With Discouragement in a Writing Career
October 29 Suspension of Disbelief
October 23 Lunar Regolith Made on Earth/State of the Art: Science and Technology
October 11 Worldbuilding with the Medieval Industrial Revolution, Part Three
October 9 Telling Stories to Fix a Problem Telling Stories
October 3 SFWA Market Report For October
September 11 Maximizing Your Back List with a special nod to Author Estates
September 7 Opposition to Trademark for “Quantum Series”
September 6 SFWA Market Report For September
August 29 The Invention Process: Ten Strategies for Producing Writing
August 21 What Makes the Monstrous
August 9 SFWA Market Report For August
July 26 Worldbuilding with the Medieval Industrial Revolution, Part Two
July 24 Developing Humanity’s Competitive Advantage for the Future Workplace: Empathy Through Fiction
July 16 Worldbuilding with the Medieval Industrial Revolution
July 11 Market Report For July
July 6 Teaching Stuff: Increasing the Inclusion
June 21 Novelist as Poet or Philosopher
June 14 Life Plus 70
June 6 SFWA Market Report For June
May 22 Neukom Institute Announces Winners of Speculative Fiction Awards
May 14 SFWA Market Report For May
May 11 Massive Sci-Fi SFWA Space Bundle Launches
May 8 The ArmadilloCon Writing Workshop to Offer a Limited Number of Sponsored Seats for Writers of Color
April 30 Contracts Committee Alert – “All Derivative Rights” Clauses
April 25 Humble Bundle: Classic Sci Fi & Fantasy & Audiobooks
April 17 Supporting Disability Amongst Writers
April 13 SFWA Market Report for April
April 9 Finding Your Tribe
April 6 Atomic Resonance at the SFWA Nebula Conference
April 2 Workshop Scholarship Opportunity for SFWA Members
March 26 The Egregious Practice of Charging Reading Fees
March 21 What I’ve Learned about Convention Accessibility
March 16 Neal Stephenson to Receive the Robert A. Heinlein Award
March 6 SFWA Market Report for March
March 1 Building Worlds
February 23 Forming Practice from Passion
February 18 Bragging Rights: A Comprehensive Look at SFWA Services
February 12 SFWA Market Report For February
February 10 New Monthly SFWA Auction
February 6 Building the Disabled World
February 1 The Post Novel Blues
January 29 10 Reasons to Romanticize the Donkey
January 20 Statement from the SFWA Membership Credentials Committee
January 16 SFWA eBay Auction Closing Soon
January 12 SFWA Market Report for January
January 2 5 Rules for Keeping Fantasy Fiction Realistic

December 22 Fighting and Gender
December 14 Odyssey Writing Workshop Opens for Applications
December 11 Surviving Times of Stagnation
December 5 SFWA Market Report For December
December 1 SFWA Charity Auctions on Ebay
November 28 A Small List of Large Characters: Fat Representation in SFF
November 24 The Impact Different Font Styles And Sizes Have On Readers’ Experience
November 13 Odyssey Online Writing Classes Announced
November 7 SFWA Market Report for November
October 31 Building Worlds with SFWA
October 27 The Voodoo of Research
October 23 On Writing of a Different Culture
October 20 In Memoriam: Julian May
October 16 SFWA and Independent Writers, Part One: History of the Organization
October 13 Great Fantasy Comes in Bundles
October 9 SFWA Market Report for October
October 4 Don’t miss out! Adventures Await.
September 27 Dear Editor
September 19 Difference of Mind
September 13 Agreement Reached with Galaktika on Past Infringements
September 8 SFWA Market Report for September
September 1 Call For Grants 2024
August 31 So You’re Thinking about a Low-Residency MFA
August 10 SFWA Market Report For August
August 4 Vote for the Second Annual Dragon Awards
July 24 Tools for Online Collaboration
July 18 10 Things I Learned While I Was A Director-At-Large for SFWA
July 13 How to Write with a Co-author
July 11 SFWA Market Report For July
June 27 Teaching Stuff: It’s About the Mystery …
June 23 Finding That Elusive Writing Time
June 20 Ten Tips For First-Time Travelers to Helsinki
June 16 Creating a Reading Series For Your Town
June 13 The Art of Story Mechanics
June 8 SFWA Market Report for June
June 5 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists Announced
May 30 Sunburst Award Longlist Announced
May 23 The Humble Book Bundle: Super Nebula Author Showcase
May 23 Finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Announced
May 20 Nebula Award Recipients Announced
May 12 SFWA Market Report for May
May 8 Paying Your Bills with Copywriting
May 7 2017 Compton Crook Award Announced
May 1 Recommended Reads: Fantasy Romance
April 25 SFWA Vice President M.C.A. Hogarth Stepping Down
April 25 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Announced
April 17 New Statuette for the World Fantasy Award
April 15 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced
April 11 Vegan Road Warrior
April 6 A Tool for Exploring Hidden Dimensions
April 4 SFWA Market Report for April
March 30 Museum of SF to Host Teacher Development Workshop
March 27 Finalists for 2017 Compton Crook Award Announced
March 23 Interview with Lucien Soulban, Ubisoft Montreal
March 18 Writer’s Guide to Twine
March 14 Teaching Stuff: Going Forth
March 13 Working Comic Conventions
March 8 SFWA Market Report For March
March 6 Odyssey Workshop Open for Applications
March 4 2016 Andre Norton Award Jury Recommended Reading List
March 2 Four Strategies to Gain Early Reviews for New Releases
February 27 Overview of Game Production and the Role of Writers
February 22 How to Land Pitch Meetings in Hollywood
February 14 Robert J. Sawyer Wins 2017 Robert A. Heinlein Award
February 8 SFWA Statements on Register of Copyright and Copyright Reform
February 7 SFWA Market Report for February
February 2 What REALLY Sold in 2016?
January 27 Minimal Finnish
January 25 SFWA Statement on Magazines and the Monetization of Writers
January 23 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced
January 18 Fond Memories of “Mr. Sci-Fi”
January 16 2017 Prometheus Hall of Fame Finalists
January 13 Advice On Landing a Genre TV Lit Agent
January 11 Librarian of Congress Seeks Input on Register of Copyrights
January 10 2017 World Fantasy Awards Call for Submissions
January 5 How to Know When You Are Done Revising
January 3 SFWA Market Report for January

December 29 All Time Favorite
December 22 Mike Mearls of Dungeons & Dragons: Documenting Imaginary Worlds
December 12 Optimizing Income for Independent SF & F Authors
December 9 SFWA Market Report for December
December 7 SFWA Apology to Tristina Wright
December 5 Writing for Intellectual Properties
November 29 SFWA Announces Newest Damon Knight Grand Master – Jane Yolen
November 28 Writing for Games: Introduction and a Few Misconceptions
November 23 Why Five?
November 21 The Perils of the Flood
November 18 Odyssey Online Classes Announced
November 17 Sunburst Awards Seeks Eligible Short Story Submissions
November 15 Cemetery Dance Delisted
November 11 Brood For Thought: On The Enduring Appeal Of The Moody Male Lead
November 7 SFWA Market Report for November
November 4 2016 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced
October 31 Clarion Fundraising Anthology: The Yellow Volume
October 24 ASU Releases Free Climate Change Anthology
October 18 Horses Are Not Machines: On Writing the Steeds of Fantasy Fiction
October 13 SFWA Market Report for October
October 11 Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers
October 5 Copper Cylinder Awards Announced
September 30 Teaching Stuff: Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
September 26 The Galaktika Situation
September 25 Humble Bundle Deal Ends Soon: Don’t Miss Out
September 19 Great Deal: Science Fiction By Scientists
September 16 Sunburst Award Winners Announced
September 14 The Future Began on a Tuesday
September 9 4 Pitfalls To Avoid When Crafting Trans Characters (SF&F Edition!)
September 7 How Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors and Publishers Can Take Advantage of Price Promotions
September 5 SFWA Statement Regarding the Fireside Fiction Company Special Report
September 1 SFWA Market Report for September
August 30 SFWA “Star Project” Awarded to 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide
August 29 In Memoriam: Gene Wilder
August 29 Try Writing Comics
August 26 Special Prometheus Award Announced
August 22 Teaching Stuff: At Play With the Universe
August 15 Kickstarter Visits the SFWA Suite!
August 10 Diverse Works Sought by Andre Norton Jury
August 2 Steam Press Flash Fiction Competition Announced
July 28 SFWA Welcomes Diabolical Plots
July 25 Ten Thoughts About the Business Side of Writing
July 21 SFWA Admits Game Writers, All Heck Breaks Loose, Film at 11
July 18 Prometheus Awards Announced
July 15 2016 World Fantasy Finalists Announced
July 14 Guest Post: Amazon Bites Author
July 11 Project Scarlet Eagle
July 6 Endeavour Award Finalists Announced
July 5 July Market Report
June 30 A Tool for Teachers – Diigo Link Outliner
June 28 Escape Velocity Approaching
June 24 Dispelling the Myth of Strong Female Characters
June 20 The Frankenstein Bicentennial Dare
June 15 June Market Report
June 13 SFWA Chat Hour Episode 2
June 10 Mixing It Up: A New Kind of SFF Award
June 6 Text Expansion Tools
May 31 SFWA Chat Hour
May 30 Andre Norton Award Jury Announced
May 27 Zen in the Art of Short Fiction Titling
May 20 Nebula Conference 2016, Chicago
May 19 Meet Your New Guardian of the Galaxy: SFWA Director of Operations – Kate Baker
May 14 Nebula Award Winners Announced
May 12 New Storybundle Collection!
May 11 Libertarian Futurist Society Special Award Announced
May 9 How Not to Read Like a Beta Reader
May 3 May Market Report
April 29 Nebula Awards Autographing Event
April 28 Guest Post: Set Powerful Deadlines
April 25 Dragon Con Announces Creation of the Dragon Awards
April 21 Contracts Committee Alert: Non-compete and Option Clauses
April 19 Special Synopsis Sauce
April 14 Latest SFWA Star Project Announced: By the Silver Wind
April 12 Guest Post: The Work of Writing
April 8 Get Some Humble Bundle Goodness!
April 8 April Market Report
April 6 How Kindle Scout Works
April 4 Prometheus Award Finalists Announced
March 30 2016 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced
March 29 Romance Tropes for SFF Writers
March 26 Invitation!
March 21 Ask the Tax Czarina: Hobby or Business?
March 16 Story Cake
March 11 Ask the Tax Czarina: 1099-MISC
March 8 We Are All Allies
March 7 March Market Report
March 3 Last Chance to Help Fund “Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin”
March 2 Ask the Tax Czarina: Bartering
March 1 Schrödinger Sessions Application Period Open
February 26 Star Project 3
February 25 10 Ways SFWA Can Help Promote Your New Book
February 22 Ask the Tax Czarina
February 20 2015 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
February 18 New Humble Bundle Supports SFWA
February 16 Help a Young Writer
February 15 Judges for the 2016 World Fantasy Awards Announced
February 10 2016 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Announced
February 9 Writing and Music Composition
February 4 February Market Report
February 1 You can help fund a documentary about Ursula K. Le Guin
January 29 Finalists for the 2016 LFS Hall of Fame Award
January 29 L. Neil Smith, Lifetime Achievement Award
January 28 Radio Imagination: A Celebration of Octavia Butler
January 26 SFWA Membership for Game Writers
January 25 Alpha Workshop Application Period Opens
January 22 Market Report
January 18 SFWA “Star Projects” on Kickstarter – a new initiative for 2016
January 15 Blurring the Boundaries
January 13 2016 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced
January 11 Fundraising for Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop
January 8 Tackling the Dreaded Bio
January 6 Kim Stanley Robinson Wins 2016 Robert A. Heinlein Award
January 5 Guest Post: Guilt and Shame for Writers

December 31 Guest Post: Inspiration + Aspiration
December 24 What I’m Hoping For SFWA in 2016
December 17 Odyssey Writers Workshop Application Period Opens
December 15 Non-English Markets Near and Far
December 7 New Humble Bundle Supports SFWA
December 4 When to Trunk a Story or Novel?
December 2 Position Available: SFWA Bulletin Editor
December 1 Call for Submissions: The 2016 Sunburst Award
November 25 Endeavour Award Announced
November 20 A Strange Relationship
November 17 SFWA Releases Nebula Suggested Reading List
November 15 Nebula Nominations Open
November 13 Back Story: The Accessibility Guidelines Checklist
November 10 Panlexicon vs. Visual Thesaurus – Who Will Win?
November 5 Taking the Long View
November 3 The Value of SFWA: An Infographic
October 31 Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing
October 28 Fundraiser for Clarion Writers Workshop
October 27 Odyssey Online Writing Classes and Webinar
October 26 SFWA Investment Program
October 22 What to Expect When You Start an Internet Kerfluffle
October 20 CubeSat Competition for High School Students
October 9 Guest Post–Things I learned: On Artistry and Art Life
October 5 Sunburst Award Winners Announced
October 2 Support SFWA & Play Some Great Games
September 30 Grievance Committee Alert: Contract Safeguards Under Siege
September 28 Copper Cylinder Award Winners Announced
September 25 Humor as a Plot Adhesive
September 24 Canopus Award Finalists Announced
September 17 How Do You Ask for a Blurb?
September 15 Call for Submissions to the Journal of Science Fiction
September 8 Seven Days on Skokholm: Part Five
September 4 Seven Days on Skokholm: Part Four
September 1 SFWA Releases a New Model Magazine Contract
August 31 2015 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship Open to Applicants
August 28 Seven Days on Skokholm: Part Three
August 26 Seven Days on Skokholm: Part Two
August 24 Seven Days on Skokholm
August 22 How Do You Say “SFWA”?
August 17 Out-of-this-World Auction At Worldcon
August 10 Canopus Award Judges Announced
August 7 Joining the Club
August 3 UFO Anthology Now a SFWA Qualifying Market
July 28 Canopus Award Established
July 27 That Paper Dragon
July 24 The Organizational Beast
July 21 Marketing Books as an Indie Author
July 15 The Importance of Archiving
July 13 2015 Prometheus Award Winner Announced
July 13 2015 World Fantasy Award Nominees
July 10 Endeavour Award Finalists Announced
July 9 Joining SFWA – A Discussion
July 7 In Praise of Rejectomancy
June 29 Locus Award Winners
June 25 Shuffling Stories, Arranging Anthologies
June 23 Sunburst Awards Shortlist Announced
June 17 2015 Nebula Award Winners
June 17 Interfictions Online
June 11 SFWA Introduces New Book Medal Designs
June 9 Sunburst Award: Long List Announced
June 6 Nebula Award Winners Announced
June 6 Steven Gould: A “Professional” Writers Organization
June 5 Robert Greenberger: Final Thoughts
June 4 Barbara Krasnoff: SFWA: A close (if contentious) community
June 2 M.C.A. Hogarth: Honey Badgers & SFWA
May 31 Blair MacGregor: Decisions Made
May 29 The Ups and Downs of an Expatriate SFWA Member
May 29 Josh Vogt: Beware…but Be Bold
May 28 Erin M. Hartshorn: A Big Tent Philosophy
May 26 Matthew Johnson: They Also Serve
May 24 Kyle Aisteach: SFWA and Me
May 22 Gail Z. Martin: Why I Joined SFWA
May 20 2015 SFWA Election Results
May 20 Jody Lynn Nye: One Big Dysfunctional Family
May 18 E.C. Myers: The Once and Future SFWA
May 16 Michael A. Burstein: My First Nebula Awards Banquet
May 15 The Pomodoro Technique
May 14 Cat Rambo: Volunteering with SFWA: Why?
May 13 Norton Jury Convenes
May 12 SFWA Cookbook Available
May 12 Tony Peak: Joining the SFWA
May 10 M.K. Hutchins: My Journey into SFWA
May 8 E.D. Walker: Why SFWA?
May 6 The Nebula Awards Mass Autographing
May 6 Terry O’Brien: What I Appreciate About SFWA
May 5 From the Fringes to the Classroom
May 4 Mary Rosenblum: It’s All About Community
May 2 Beth Cato: Why I Joined SFWA
April 30 SFWA.org: One of the Best
April 30 R.C. Smith: The Gifts of Fantasy and Science Fiction
April 28 Stephen Baxter: My Favorite Robert Silverberg Novel
April 27 Prometheus Awards: Best Novel Finalists
April 26 Lela E. Buis: SFWA vs. the Demons
April 24 Elaine Isaak: Tribal Rites: Why I Joined SFWA
April 23 Nebula Toastmaster Named
April 22 Douglas Smith: SFWA Griefcom to the Rescue
April 21 Prometheus Hall of Fame: Harlan Ellison
April 20 Bud Sparhawk: The Never-Ending Nebula Weekend
April 18 RJ Blain: Why I joined SFWA – A Self-Published Author’s Perspective
April 16 Robert Silverberg: The Right Choice?
April 14 USC Engineering School Seeks “The Next MacGyver”
April 6 2015 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced
April 6 James Tiptree Jr. Award Winners Announced
April 2 Joanna Russ and Stanley Schmidt: Recipients of the 2015 SFWA Solstice Awards
March 31 Libertarian Futurist Society to Honor F. Paul Wilson
March 30 World Fantasy Awards Judges Seek Art Submissions
March 30 Nebula Awards Deadline to Vote: Today!
March 26 Catastrophe and Transformation
March 23 Get Some Humble Bundle Goodness!
March 16 A Chance to Help Young Writers
March 13 2016 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Announced
March 12 In Memoriam: Sir Terry Pratchett
March 11 Launch Pad Workshop: A Testimonial
March 10 Seeking Applicants for the Norton Jury
March 6 The Schrödinger Sessions: A Launchpad Type Workshop for Quantum Physics
March 5 Guest Post: Should you be a full-time writer?
March 2 SFWA Names Recipients of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award and the Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Awards
February 20 2014 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
February 12 Call for Papers devoted to Names in SF, Fantasy, and Horror
February 9 Ten Reasons to Write Short Stories Even Though the Pay is Peanuts
February 6 The State of Short Fiction Roundtable Comes to Baltimore
February 4 Contracts Committee Report
February 3 SFWA Welcomes Self-Published and Small Press Authors!
January 31 Winners in the 17th Annual Preditors & Editors / Critters Readers’ Poll
January 28 Jack McDevitt Wins 2015 Robert A. Heinlein Award
January 17 Empathy, Neurochemistry, and the Dramatic Arc
January 14 Odyssey Writing Workshop Announces Its 20th Summer Session
January 12 Guest Post: Five Things You Should Know About Award Nominations
January 5 2015 World Fantasy Awards Judges Announced
January 3 Guest Post: Setting Your Goals for the New Year and Beyond

December 15 Painting Characters into Corners
December 11 Guest Post: I’ve made every mistake an author can make in their writing career
December 8 Creating Aliens
December 3 How I Remain Productive While Traveling
December 2 In Memoriam: Rocky Wood
December 1 Museum of Science Fiction Announces International Concept Art Competition
November 25 Guest Post: Hope as Fuel
November 21 Ursula K. Le Guin’s Acceptance Speech
November 21 Sunburst Awards Accepting E-book Files
November 18 Speaking With Authority About Things That (Probably) Do Not Exist
November 13 Building Strength out of Weakness
November 11 2014 Online Odyssey Writing Workshops Announced
November 10 Veteran’s Day 2014 Charity Challenge
November 8 Guest Post: On Writing: Can You Do It Wrong?
November 3 Guest Post: Pushing Past the Terrifying Dip in Motivation
October 29 Guest Post: Talent is Worthless if You Lack Motivation
October 20 Getting Out of the Pubslush Slush Pile
October 16 2014 Sunburst Award Winners
October 14 Call for Presenters: Literary Estates, Digital Rights
October 10 SFWA’s Estate Project and Diabolical Plots
October 5 Libertarian Futurist Society to Honor Vernor Vinge
September 29 Grievance Committee Update
September 25 Guest Post: Does Book Touring Still Matter?
September 23 Copper Cylinder Award Winners
September 22 Variations of Villainy
September 21 New Market: Ares Magazine
September 13 National Book Foundation to Give Lifetime Achievement Award to Ursula K. Le Guin
September 9 Science Fiction Stories Night
September 3 To Vlog or Not To Vlog
August 27 SFWA at Dragon Con
August 21 Endeavour Awards Finalists
August 19 The Scientist Next Door: Or How to Approach Experts with Research Questions
August 14 Central Oregon Writers’ Guild’s 7th Annual Writing Contest
August 12 Clarion 2012 Releases Fundraiser Antho
August 8 SFWA Spotlight on Pro Markets: Interfictions
August 4 Backstory Secrets
July 31 Museum of Science Fiction and DC Public Library Partner to Host Film Festival and Use Science Fiction to Raise Child Literacy
July 30 Guest Post: Where’s the Diversity, Hollywood?
July 28 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop: A Reflection
July 23 2014 World Fantasy Award Nominees and Life Achievement Award Winners
July 16 Caren Gussoff and the Birthday Problem
July 14 Prometheus Award Winners Announced
July 10 Support the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund with a Great Deal on Awesome SF!
July 10 Overcoming Self-Doubt as a Writer
July 7 Guest Post: Yog’s Law and Self-Publishing
July 1 New Board Members at SFWA
June 26 SFWA Policy on Self-Publishing: Comments Welcome.
June 23 Philip K. Dick in Orange County
June 20 Sunburst Award Society Announces The 2014 Shortlists
June 16 Guest Post: Cooking the Books with Ann Leckie
June 10 You Talkin’ ‘Bout Me?: Finding Replacements for Google Alerts
June 6 Six ways to win the Andre Norton Award
June 4 Prometheus Award Finalists Announced
June 3 Interstitial Arts Foundation Announces Indiegogo Campaign
May 27 SFWA Signing Schedule at BookExpo America
May 18 2013 Nebula Awards Winners Announced
May 15 Guest Post: Using foreign language in your story – the balancing act!
May 14 Guest Post: Thoughts On Writing (This) Graphic Novel(s)
May 10 Video Profile of SFWA Grand Master Samuel R. Delany
May 7 Vernor Vinge to receive a Special Prometheus Award
May 5 SFWA at BookExpo America
May 1 2014 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Announced
April 28 Andre Norton Award Jury Announced
April 25 SFWA Website: 101 Best
April 24 2014 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced
April 20 2014 Hugo Award Nominees
April 16 Guest Post: Using Foreign Language in Your Story –
The Balancing Act!
April 14 Guest Post: Tax Time Thoughts
April 11 Webcast: Copyright in the Digital Age: Creators in a landscape of Google Books and orphan works
April 10 Balticon 48
April 7 International Sir Terry Pratchett Day
April 2 Cascade Writers Workshop
March 27 Guest Post: Five Ways to Increase Your Blog Readership
March 18 New SFWA Qualifying Markets
March 17 SFWA and SFF Net Sever Ties
March 14 Guest Post: Finding A Place to Write
March 9 SFWA to Attend U.S. Copyright Office
Roundtables on Orphan Works
March 6 Ellen Klages: Toastmaster for Nebula Awards
March 4 Museum of Science Fiction Indiegogo Campaign
March 3 2014 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Announced
February 28 The Norton Award: A Call for Jurists
February 27 SFWA Bulletin Returns
February 24 Eileen Gunn on SF, SFWA, and Community
February 21 SFWA Joins the IAF
February 13 Tools for Writers: Namechk
February 10 Guest Post: Craft and Art
February 7 Guest Post: Why You Don’t Want to Apply to Clarion West/Clarion UCSD.
February 3 Guest Post: Alpha Workshop: Anthologies and Opportunities
January 30 Tools for Writers: Stellarium
January 27 Tools for Writers: Shelfari
January 23 Story Surgeon: An App For Copyright Infringement
January 21 Opening a Vein: Agent Artery
January 16 In Memoriam: Neal Barrett, Jr.
January 14 Geoffrey A. Landis to Receive 2014 Robert A. Heinlein Award
January 10 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced
January 9 Scribd’s New Ebook Subscription Service: Partnering with Publishers, Profiting from Piracy
January 8 Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers accepting applications
January 7 Year in Review: Writer Beware’s Top Blog Posts of 2013
January 6 2014 Prometheus Hall Of Fame Award Finalists
January 2 Who Reads Science Fiction?

December 30 Tools for Authors: Goodreads
December 23 Happy Holidays!
December 20 Guest Post: What Heroes Eat: Cooking the Books with Saladin Ahmed
December 18 News of the Weird: Quill Shift Literary Agency
December 17 SFWA at Midwinter ALA
December 16 Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers 103: Five Markets to Consider (and Two Databases to Bookmark)
December 13 Crowdfunded Anthologies: Concerns For Writers
December 11 Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers 102: Is it Literary?
December 9 SFWA Announces Special Bulletin Issue
December 6 Introduction: New Writer Beware Committee Member Michael Capobianco
December 4 2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: Samuel R. Delany
December 3 2013 Endeavor Award Winner
December 2 All Classic Books: The Scam Continues
November 26 SFWA Raises Qualification Standard Payment Rates for Short Fiction
November 26 Don’t Fall For Vanity Radio
November 26 Lit Fic Mags for Spec Fic Writers 101:
Five Things You have To Know
November 23 Horror Writers Association Adds Its Support to Writer Beware
November 20 Baltimore Science Fiction Society Presents: Dangerous Voices Variety Hour
November 19 Masterpiece: A Reality Show For Authors (Plus a Short, Sad, History of Similar Shows That Failed)
November 15 Awards Profiteering: The Book Festival Empire of JM Northern Media
November 15 Nebula Nominations Open
November 14 Reposting a Classic: Turkey City Lexicon – A Primer for SF Workshops
November 11 Solicitation Alert: Bloggingbooks
November 8 2 Moon Press–Update
November 6 Tools for Writers: Rafflecopter
November 5 Going Out of Business, Nigerian Spam-Scam Style
November 4 Odyssey Writing Workshops Online Courses Announced
October 31 Changes to Nebula Award Rules
October 29 Reader Communities: LibraryThing
October 24 Guest Post: Having a Purpose
October 22 Canadian Prix Aurora Award Winners Announced
October 17 Thoughts on the Great Erotica Panic of 2013
October 15 Early Termination Fees in Publishing Contracts: A Cautionary Tale
October 14 Tools for Writers: Wikis
October 13 Writers’ & Artists New Self-Publishing Comparison Service Leaves Much to be Desired
October 9 In Memoriam: Tom Clancy
October 7 Event: Michael A. Burstein Imagines Technical Communication in 2073
October 6 Strange Horizons 2013 fund drive–last call!
October 4 New Publisher House and the State of Independence 2014 Report: Grain of Salt Required
October 1 Swoon Reads: New “Crowdsourced” Teen Romance Imprint
September 30 Tools for Writers: Reddit
September 27 SFWA Blog Commenting Policy
September 24 The Barefoot Writer’s Club
September 23 2013 Rhysling Award Winners
September 19 Sunburst Awards Announced
September 18 Author Solutions Class Action Lawsuit: Update
September 17 Ann C. Crispin (1950-2013) In Memoriam
September 16 The Sunburst Award Society Announces Copper Cylinder Awards
September 12 An Interview with Django Wexler
September 10 New Publisher: Resurrection House
September 6 In Memoriam: A. C. Crispin
September 6 Ann C. Crispin
September 5 A Message From Writer Beware Co-Founder and Chair, Ann Crispin
September 3 In Memoriam: Frederik Pohl
August 31 A Second Bite at the Apple: Termination Rights for Writers Introduction
August 27 SFWA at Dragon*Con
August 26 More Publisher Storm Warnings
August 21 Publisher Alert: Iconic Publishing / Jonquil Press / Red Lizard Press
August 20 Brutarian Magazine Update
August 19 FOGcon Rolls Into the Bay Area
August 16 LFS Announces 2013 Prometheus Award Winners
August 15 Writing With Stolen Time
August 14 Board Communication on Member Expulsion
August 9 Expanded Alert at Writer Beware: American Book Publishing / Alexis Press / All Classic Books / Atlantic National Books
August 7 How to Be a Happy Writer
August 5 An Interview with Julia Sidorova, Author of Age of Ice
July 29 The Joy Of Failure: Improv And Writing
July 26 An Interview with Don Sakers
July 25 Jealousing Is the New Writing Exercise
July 22 Anti-Harassment Resources For SFWA Writers
July 19 Commemorative Stamps Petition
July 16 An Exit Interview with John Scalzi
July 9 On Confidentiality and Board Deliberations
July 9 Guest Post: Elusive Genius
July 5 Change of Eastern Regional Director of SFWA
July 4 Bulletin Task Force Takes Next Steps
July 3 Writer Beware Blog on (Brief) Temporary Hiatus
July 1 Bulletin Task Force–Survey Forthcoming
June 28 Guest Post: There is no That
June 27 Penguin and Author Solutions File for Dismissal of Class Action Lawsuit
June 26 Andre Norton Award Committee Announced
June 25 In Memoriam: Richard Matheson
June 24 SFWA Twitter Feed Policy Updated
June 20 In Memoriam: Parke Godwin
June 20 Author Concerns and Complaints at Crimson Romance
June 18 Letter to Members on Board Activity
June 14 Police Investigate Pay-to-Play Publisher 2 Moon Press
June 13 Plan for Moving Ahead with the Bulletin
June 10 In Memoriam: Iain M. Banks
June 5 Editor of SFWA Bulletin Resigns
June 5 Guest Post: Working with the Obstacles in Your Path
June 3 SFWA at Book Expo America
June 2 Presidential Statement on the SFWA Bulletin
June 1 SFWA Bulletin Task Force Announced
May 29 In Memoriam: Jack Vance
May 28 Fifty Writing Quotes
May 27 Book Expo America: SFWA Schedule
May 24 Guest Post: We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative
May 22 Choose Your Own Nebula Speech Adventure
May 19 2012 Nebula Award Winners Announced
May 17 Outrageous French Copyright Grab: ReLIRE Goes Live
May 15 Writers’ Gala at Balticon
May 13 Writing and Gaming: An Interview with James Sutter
May 9 Ergonomics 101: for Writers
May 3 SFWA Election Results
May 3 In Memoriam: andrew j. offutt
May 2 Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Author Solutions Inc.
May 1 2013 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award Announced
April 30 New Website Design
April 30 SF in SF – Science Fiction, San Francisco – A Perfect Fit
April 29 Apple iBookstore to feature Nebula Winners
April 24 Clarion West Receives $10,000 NEA Art Works Grant
April 23 Tidbits
April 22 Rejection and Reinvention
April 18 Finalists for Lifeboat to the Stars Announced
April 17 Tools For Writers: Using Dragon Dictate
April 12 She’s Geeky
April 10 Northwest Writers Honor Octavia Butler
April 9 Nebula Awards Toastmaster Announced
April 8 Skyhorse/Start Adjusts Terms
April 4 Guest Post: The Killer* in the Kitchen: Cooking the Books with Steven Brust
April 2 Marketing, Sales, and Publicity. Part Two: Topics in Publicity
April 1 Norton Jury Deadline: April 3rd
March 30 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshops: Now Accepting Applications
March 28 Marketing, Sales, and Publicity–Part One: The Basics
March 26 Kickstarter: Is it right for you?
March 21 Author-Unfriendly Terms at Autharium
March 20 Top Authors Contribute to Shared Worlds
March 18 Great and Not-So-Great Astronomical Moments in Film
March 15 For Those of You Who Are Wondering Why Someone Might Want to Launch a Class Action Lawsuit Against PublishAmerica
March 14 Baltimore Science Fiction Society Opens Amateur Writing Contest
March 12 Solstice Awards
March 12 Random House Announces New Terms at Digital Imprints Hydra, Alibi, Loveswept, and Flirt
March 11 Another Class Action Suit Launched Against PublishAmerica
March 8 SFWA Response to Hydra Letter
March 7 SFWA De-Lists Hydra; Random House Responds
March 7 Random House Imprint Hydra Not A Qualifying Market
March 6 The DMCA Takedown Notice Demystified
March 4 Law Firm Investigates Author Solutions Inc.
March 1 Call for Norton Jury Volunteers
February 28 Second-Class Contracts? Deal Terms at Random House’s Hydra Imprint
February 26 Why Not to Register Copyright for Unpublished Work
February 25 Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture: Cory Doctorow
February 21 Solicitation Alert: Close-up TV News / Close-up Talk Radio
February 20 2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
February 18 Solicitation Alert: Blessed Hope Publishing
February 15 Guest Post: The Importance of Pie: Cooking the Books with James D. Macdonald
February 14 A Partridge in a Penguin Tree
February 13 Five Tips to Improve Your Amazon Author Central Page
February 11 The Benefits of Copyright Registration
February 7 Orphan Works: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Weighs In
February 5 An Introduction to Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction,
Part 2: Content
February 4 Christian Writers Guild Publishing: Pay to Play from Jerry B. Jenkins
February 1 An Introduction to Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, Part 1: Definitions
January 29 Guest Post: Scientific Accuracy in Literature:
The WAS Seal of Approval doesn’t get Mine
January 28 Lifeboat To The Stars Award
January 25 Legal Tidbits
January 22 MFA Programs and You
January 18 An Interview with Jennifer Brozek
January 17 Baltimore Science Fiction Society Writing Workshop
January 16 Venerable Vanity Publisher Vantage Press Closes Its Doors
January 11 Alert: UK Speaker Scam Targets Writers (and Others)
January 9 Guest Post: The difference between audience and market
January 7 Global Talk Radio: How to Waste Money and Fail to Influence People
January 3 Guest Post: Invisible Ink
January 2 2012: Year in Review

December 26 Baltimore Science Fiction Society Invites You to A Party!
December 24 Guest Post: Don’t Watch Your Work
December 20 Foxhole Pizza and Interstellar Quail: Cooking the Books with Joe and Gay Haldeman
December 19 Happy Holidays!
December 13 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master
Awarded to Gene Wolfe
December 12 Guest Blog Post: International Writing Scams and How to Protect Yourself
December 11 Video Pick: The Overview Effect
December 10 Book Promotion Giveaways: What Works?
December 7 The Albee Agency: Book Publicity Faked
December 6 SFWA Pacific Northwest Reading Series for 2013
December 5 Guest Post: Monster In the Laundry Basket —
Part III: What is Literary Success?
December 3 The Norton Jury on the Norton Award: Why It’s Important for All SFWA Members
December 1 Norton Award Blog Tour
November 30 Guest Post: The Monster in the Laundry Basket: Part Two
November 28 Archway Publishing: Simon & Schuster Adds a Self-Publishing Division
November 27 Guest Post: The Monster in the Laundry Basket: Professional Jealousy in the Open–Part One
November 21 Guest Post: The Chimerical Kitchen: Cooking the Books with Elizabeth Bear
November 19 Guest Post: The #1 Rule of Everything
November 17 Publishers Hate Authors? Really?
November 14 In Memoriam: Kevin O’Donnell, Jr.
November 13 Guest Blog Post: Mustering the Courage to Turn Down a Publishing Contract
November 12 Ten Classic Hard Science Fiction Novels featuring Physics and Astronomy
November 7 Authors Guild Statement on Penguin-Random House Merger
November 6 Guest Post: Common Myths about Science
November 4 2012 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced
November 2 Alert: Screenplay Replay Contest
October 31 SFWA Spotlight on Pro Markets: Strange Horizons
October 29 Raising the Curtain
October 27 Alert: America’s Next Author Contest
October 25 Character Building Counts and Wise Bear Digital: Two More High-Entry Fee Book Awards
October 24 Odyssey Writing Workshops Announces Winter 2013 Online Classes
October 22 Video Pick of the Week: Death by Black Hole
October 19 Guest Post: Dealing with the Dreaded Tax Audit
October 18 Guest Post: Dear Agent — Write the Letter That Sells Your Book
October 16 “Fantastic Heroines of Sci-Fi and Fantasy”
October 15 Judge Rules Against Authors Guild in HathiTrust Lawsuit
October 12 Guest Post: Your Secret Story
October 9 Writers Slam Secrecy of Book Publishers’ Deal with Google
October 8 Define Me: The Role of Changelings in Folklore
October 5 Publishers Settle With Google–But What About Authors?
October 4 Guest Post: Enter the Dragon*Con
October 3 Guest Post: A Comet is Coming!
October 1 Class Action Lawsuit Against PublishAmerica Dismissed
September 28 One About One: Part 2
September 27 One About One
September 25 Quick Updates for 2012-09-25
September 24 Guest Post: The Habit of Starting
September 20 Cat Rambo: Near and Far
September 19 Guest Post: Does Online Writers Workshopping Slow a Writer’s Growth?
September 16 SFWA Website Repaired
September 15 Guest Post: Procrastination
September 12 Odyssey Writing Workshop Rocks WorldCon 2012
with the Tom Bombadil Rap
September 12 Quick Updates for 2012-09-12
September 10 WSFA Announces Finalists for the 2012 Small Press Awards
September 10 Writer Beware is on Vacation
September 7 Guest Blog Post Writers Be-Wary: Electronic Distribution and Control of Creative Material
September 5 Guest Post: Advice on Writing Mentors
September 5 Quick Updates for 2012-09-05
September 4 Guest Blog Post: 7 Freelance Writing Scams and How to Fight Them
September 2 2012 Hugo Award Winners Announced
August 31 Fake Jared And His Friends: Author Solutions’ Misleading PR Strategies
August 29 Vanity, Vanity: Turning The Label Around
August 27 In Memoriam: Josepha Sherman
August 25 Quick Updates for 2012-08-25
August 23 Spec-Fic and Podcasting: Earbuds vs. Books, Part 2
August 22 Spec-Fic and Podcasting: Earbuds vs. Books, Part 1
August 20 Guest Post: How to Write a Sentence
August 17 LendInk, Author Activism, and the Need for Critical Thinking
August 17 Quick Updates for 2012-08-17
August 15 In Memoriam: Harry Harrison
August 14 Guest Post: Dreaming Well: Does the Future of Publishing Need More Imagination?
August 13 Guest Blog Post: The Red Flags of Writing Contests
August 9 Guest Post: Learning to Say ‘No’
August 8 World Fantasy Awards Nominations
August 8 Ebooks Outsell Print! Putting Headlines in Context
August 3 Literary Agent Scams: Still Around, But On the Wane
August 2 Guest Post: Writers and Families
August 1 Confession of a Museum Bunny
July 27 Guest Blog Post: In Praise of Ripening
July 26 Guest Post: Panel Deportment and Demeanor
July 24 Guest Post: Writing And Courage
July 23 Baltimore Science Fiction Society Hosts Writing Workshops
July 21 Quick Updates for 2012-07-21
July 20
July 20 Quick Updates for 2012-07-20
July 19 Pearson Buys Author Solutions
July 18 It Came From Riverside!
July 17 Quick Updates for 2012-07-17
July 16 Call for Guest Bloggers
July 13 Lazy Time Travel: Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out
July 11 Guest Post: When Did “Science Fiction” and “Apocalypse” Become Interchangeable?
July 10 Guest Post: Chasing the First Sale–Becoming a Student of the Job
July 5 Guest Post: Really, Your Outline Does Not Have to Be Perfect
July 3 Rights vs. Copyright
July 2 Andre Norton Award Jury Announced
July 2 Guest Post: Presenting the Cultural Imperialism Bingo Card
June 26 Finalists for the Sunburst Award Announced
June 25 More Money-Wasting "Opportunities" For Writers
June 20 Guest Review: Prometheus–The Horror!
June 20 Quick Updates for 2012-06-20
June 19 Author Solutions Introduces BookStub
June 18 Guest Post: Chasing the First Sale: What a Pro Story Is
June 15 SFWA at BEA: A Recap
June 13 Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against PublishAmerica
June 13 In Memoriam: Jim Young
June 11 Guest Post: Writers and Their Literary Estates: Story Reprints
June 8 BEA Report
June 6 RIP Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
June 4 SFWA Schedule for Book Expo America
June 1 Judge Grants Class Status to Authors in Authors Guild v. Google Lawsuit
May 31 Baltimore Book Festival 2012
May 30 Ken Burns: On Story
May 29 Publishers Weekly Moves Into Self-Publishing
May 25 SFWA Seeks Volunteers for the Norton Award Jury
May 25 Two Surveys
May 24 Another Honor for Writer Beware
May 21 SFWA 2012 Election Results
May 21 Teaching *With* Science Fiction: Balticon 46
May 19 2011 Nebula Awards Announced
May 18 Victoria Strauss Wins for Writer Beware in First Annual Independent Book Blogger Award
May 17 Guest Post: Obsession
May 16 Editing Clauses in Publishing Contracts: How to Protect Yourself
May 14 Nebula Novels at The Millions
May 11 Clarion West Write-a-thon Needs You
May 10 e-Publishing Revo: It’s a New Electronic Self-Publishing Service, But There’s a Catch
May 8 Tools of the Trade: Stellarium
May 7 Join SFWA at BookExpo America
May 4 Guest Post: Race in YA Lit: Wake Up
& Smell the Coffee-Colored Skin, White Authors!
May 3 Vetting an Independent Editor
May 2 Guest Post: How Writers Can Use Pinterest
April 30 Guest Post: We Limit Ourselves and Need to Stop
April 27 The Importance of Reversion Clauses in Book Contracts
April 26 Nebula Awards Weekend: Tragedy is Easy!
April 25 Nebula Awards Weekend: How to Write About Infectious Diseases
April 23 In Memoriam: K. D. Wentworth
April 23 Nebula Awards Weekend: Join us for the E-book Decision!
April 23 New/Updated Alerts at Writer Beware: Literary Agent Uwe Luserke, SBPRA
April 20 Link Roundup
April 18 Guest Post: Would You Rather Be Wrong or Right?
April 17 An Interview with Stina Leicht
April 14 2012 Prix Aurora Award Nominations Announced
April 13 The DOJ’s Ebook Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Apple and the "Agency Five": An Overview
April 11 Poetry.com Returns
April 10 BooklifeNow.com Announces a Rebranding
April 9 Finalists for the Prometheus Awards Announced
April 7 2012 Hugo Award Nominations
April 4 Guest Blog Post: Why Small Publishers Fail
April 3 I’ll Know I’ve Made it as a Writer When . . .
April 2 Guest Post: Submit, Quit, or Self-Publish It?
April 1 Writer Beware’s Swag Shop for Discerning Scammers
March 30 Nebula Voting Closes TODAY
March 30 PublishAmerica, Literary Agent: An Inside Look
March 29 To Our Readers: Thank You
March 28 Alert: Raider Publishing International / Purehaven Press
March 27 2012 Service to SFWA Award goes to
Clarence Howard ‘Bud’ Webster
March 26 Shortlist for the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award Announced
March 23 The Con Man Who Tried To Buy Writer Beware’s Silence
March 21 Guest Post: Finding Inspiration
March 20 Publishing Industry Terms and Contracts: Some Resources, and Some Advice
March 16 When is a Dodgy Publisher Like a Stopped Clock?
March 15 An Interview with Jason Heller
March 13 SFWA Announces Honorees of the 2012 Solstice Awards
March 12 Nebula Awards Interview: Connie Willis
March 11 Last Day to Nominate for the Hugo Awards
March 9 When a Writing Contest Has a Hidden Agenda
March 7 An Interview with Myke Cole
March 6 Why You Can’t Always Trust the Source
March 5 Guest Post: The Joy of Discovery
March 3 New French Law Seizes Digital Rights
March 2 Voting for the 2011 Nebula, Bradbury and Norton Awards Now Open
March 1 2012 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop
February 29 Nebula Awards Interview: Christopher Barzak
February 27 In Memoriam: Mark Bourne
February 25 Guest Post: Who Controls Your Amazon E-book Price?
February 24 Why Poets Should Not Seek Literary Agents
February 22 Script Frenzy hits this April
February 21 Nebula Awards Interview: Aliette de Bodard
February 20 2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
February 18 Guest Post: What’s Wrong with the Cheesecake? — A Brief Introduction to Antagonists
February 17 Tidbits
February 16 BookTango: Author Solutions Rolls Out Ebook Distribution Services
February 15 Nebula Award Nominations Close Today, Feb. 15th
February 14 Nebula Awards Interview: Vylar Kaftan
February 13 Guest Post: Clarion West Writers Worshop
February 13 In Memoriam: Ardath Mayhar
February 13 Quick Updates for 2012-02-13
February 9 Publisher’s Desk: Display or Misplay?
February 8 Guest Post: Five Simple Tricks
February 7 Worldcon Participants, Tuesday Funk Wants You!
February 6 Fantasy on the Bayou Conference
February 4 Quick Updates for 2012-02-04
February 3 Review: The Late American Novel
February 2 The Author’s Guild on Amazon: Publishing’s Ecosystem on the Brink
February 1 Quick Updates for 2012-02-01
January 31 A Small Meditation on Art, Commerce and Impermanence
January 31 Report to SFWA members regarding Dorchester Publishing
January 30 Guest Post: So You Have a Writer Friend…Don’t Panic
January 27 Guest Post: One Author’s First Month in KDP Select
January 25 Delmont-Ross Writing Contest: The Saga of a Fake Literary Competition
January 23 Guest Post: Things I Know?
January 20 The Fine Print of iBooks Author
January 19 Guest Post: Long Sentences
January 17 Digital Rights Showdown: HarperCollins v. Open Road
January 16 SFWA Names Connie Willis Recipient of the 2011 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
January 13 Guest Post: Trailers and Tribulations
January 12 Guest Post: 25 Reasons Readers Will
Keep Reading Your Story
January 12 Quick Updates for 2012-01-12
January 11 BookStoreMarketing.net: Beware Spam PR Services
January 7 Guest Post: Book Publicity: Working with Bookstores
January 4 Guest Post: Debut Author Lessons–How to deal with self-promotion and award season
January 3 2011: A Writer Beware Retrospective

December 24 Happy Holidays From Writer Beware
December 21 Nebula Awards Interview: Jack McDevitt
December 19 Guest Post: RamboCon – Proposed Sessions for an Imaginary Spec-Fic Convention
December 19 Publisher Alert: Arvo Basim Yayin of Turkey
December 16 D Publishing: Dymocks’ New Self-Pub Service
December 16 Quick Updates for 2011-12-16
December 14 Guest Post: How I Went From Writing
2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
December 13 Pearson Education Extends Scope of Permissions Licenses
December 12 Nebula Awards Interview: Pearl North
December 9 Subject: Hello from your Publicist
December 8 The Fine Print of Amazon’s New KDP Select Program
December 7 NIU Libraries acquires papers of Fred Saberhagen
December 6 Guest Blog Post: A Blast From the Past–Thieving "Literary Agent" Uwe Luserke Re-Surfaces
December 4 Nebula Awards Interview: James Patrick Kelly
December 2 Guest Post: Novels – the expression of the human condition
November 29 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: How Relying on Numbers Can Get You Into Trouble
November 28 Nebula Awards Interview: Barry Deutsch
November 26 MLM for Writers: The Best Authors Lounge
November 22 In Memoriam: Anne McCaffrey
November 21 Nebula Awards Interview: Paolo Bacigalupi
November 19 Guest Post: Little e, Big B:
Books and EBooks and Love and War
November 18 Alert: Light Sword Publishing, a.k.a. LSP Digital, Returns
November 16 Guest Post: Having a Saleable Novel
Doesn’t Make You a Sell-out
November 15 The Authors Guild on Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library
November 12 Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust
Announces Winter 2012 Online Classes
November 11 Introducing Writer Beware’s Small Presses Page
November 9 The Brit Writers Awards: Questions and Threats
November 7 Guest Post: Novelists, Inc., Conference Report
November 5 Policy and Procedure on Harassment in SFWA Venues
November 3 Quick Updates for 2011-11-03
November 2 Beware Zombies: Franklin-Madison Literary Agency
November 2 Guest Post: Should Writers Blog, and Why?
October 30 2011 World Fantasy Awards Announced
October 29 Guest Post: Science Fiction and
the Scientifically Inclined Hero
October 28 Guest Blog Post: Copyright Is People
October 26 A Small Press Implodes: The Inside Story of Aspen Mountain Press
October 24 Guest Post: A Writer’s Crash Guide to
Recent Social Media Changes–Google+
October 22 Guest Post: A Writer’s Crash Guide to
Recent Social Media Changes—Facebook
October 18 Guest Blog Post: Fitzhenry and Whiteside–Writer Beware
October 17 Guest Post: Beyond the First Two Pages
October 15 Guest Post: Submission Statistics and Revision Habits
October 14 Alerts: Lobster Press and Dailey Swan Publishing
October 12 Writers Against Plagiarism: A Call to Action
October 11 Nebula Awards Interview: Amal El-Mohtar
October 10 Guest Post: Submission Statistics — An Inside Look
October 6 Guest Post: In Praise of the Thesaurus
October 5 Nebula Awards Interview: Eric James Stone
October 4 The Agenda of "The Write Agenda"
October 4 Quick Updates for 2011-10-04
October 3 Guest Post: Writing SF for Young Readers
September 30 Video Pick of the Week: Steal Like an Artist
September 29 Bad Publishing Contract Clauses, Part 1
September 26 Trouble at Aspen Mountain Press
September 24 Guest Post: The Habitable Zone
September 23 PUBSLUSH Press: Update
September 23 Guest Post: Playing with Structure
September 22 PublishAmerica and CBA: Rowling Redux
September 20 PUBSLUSH Press
September 17 Top Ten Japan All Time Best SF Novels
September 15 The Google Books Lawsuit Will Go To Court
September 14 Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Paul Park
September 13 Authors Guild And Others Sue Universities for Copyright Infringement
September 12 Baltimore Book Festival
September 10 Guest Post: Ladies, Don’t Let Anyone Tell You You’re Not Awesome
September 9 Video Pick of the Week: The Jiggly Things
September 8 Guest Post: Just One Sentence at a Time:
Brandvold, Monahan, & Piccirilli on Writing Full-time
September 5 An Interview with Norman Spinrad, Anarchist
September 4 Guest Post: When You Have a Chance to Meet an Editor, Say Hello!
September 2 Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Jennifer Pelland
September 1 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium, Sept. 3 – Oct. 2, Orlando
August 31 Giraffes, Refrigerators, and Worldbuilding
August 29 Guest Post: Writers and Pellets
August 26 Video Pick of the Week: Ira Glass on Storytelling
August 25 Andre Norton Project
August 25 How to Satisfy Your Reader without Being Predictable
August 24 Tiptree Motherboard honored by the Science Fiction Research Association
August 23 LoneStarCon 3 wins 2013 Worldcon bid for San Antonio
August 23 Quick Updates for 2011-08-23
August 21 And the Hugo goes to…
August 19 PublishAmerica and J.K. Rowling: Retractomancy
August 18 Taking Famous Names in Vain
August 17 The Weird World of the VanderMeers, Part III
August 16 The Weird World of the VanderMeers: Part II
August 15 The Weird World of the VanderMeers, Part I
August 12 SFWA Regional Meeting At Dragon*Con
August 12 SFWA Announces New PR Liaison
August 12 Award Alert: The IndieReader Discovery Awards
August 10 SFWA to Attend Baltimore Book Festival
August 10 SFWA website outage
August 10 Indian Writers Beware:
Literary Agent Scams in India a Growing Problem
August 9 Guest Post: Exsanguinate! Exsanguinate!
August 8 Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: M.K. Hobson
August 5 Contest Alert: WriteOnCon
August 5 Quick Updates for 2011-08-05
August 4 Save the World with Science Fiction
August 3 Renovation: Book Drive
August 2 Solicitation Alerts:
JustFiction! Edition and DIP Publishing House
July 30 Guest Post: Finding Your Voice
July 28 Gulliver Travel Grant
July 26 The Cruelest Hoax
July 26 Video Pick of the Week: End of an Era
July 24 Guest Post: The Death of Fiction as Mind Movie
July 22 How to Have a Writers’ Hangout in Google+
July 21 Judge Chin Wants Action on Failed Google Book Settlement
July 19 Farrah Gray Publishing
July 19 The Results of My 100 Day Social Media Blackout
July 17 Guest Post: How to Roast a Novel
July 16 Lightspeed Magazine is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
July 14 Report to members regarding Night Shade Books Probationary period
July 12 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop
July 10 Video Pick of the Week: Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
July 9 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Announced
July 8 Finalists for the 10th Annual Sunburst Award Announced
July 8 Publishing Beyond the Grave
July 7 Quick Updates for 2011-07-07
July 5 Guest Post: 60 Rules for Short SF (and Fantasy)
July 5 Quick Updates for 2011-07-05
July 4 Happy 4th of July
July 2 Video Pick of the Week: VLT and the Milky Way
July 1 Why You Want to Hire a Competent PR Service
July 1 A note to SFWA members: Request for information for Night Shade Book’s probation review
June 30 Quick Updates for 2011-06-30
June 29 Redstone SF is SFWA’s newest qualifying short fiction market
June 28 Agencies Becoming Publishers–a Trend and a Problem
June 28 Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: N.K. Jemisin
June 26 RIP: Martin H. Greenberg 1941-2011
June 23 Getting Out of Your Book Contract (Maybe)
June 23 Video Pick of the Week:
Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography – Language
June 21 Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Christopher Kastensmidt
June 20 Guest Post: Kindle Starter Kit: A Mini-Handbook on Independent Publication
June 19 Quick Updates for 2011-06-19
June 18 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 27 – Patterns for Resolution
Element 4-6 & The Series Wrap Up
June 17 The Internet and Procrastination
June 16 Message to New Writers: It’s Okay to Focus on Your Craft
June 16 Quick Updates for 2011-06-16
June 14 Book Marketing Methods That Don’t Work
June 13 Guest Post: Checking the Gender Balance
June 11 Key Conditions for Suspense Part 26:
Patterns for Resolution Elements 1-3
June 10 Quick Updates for 2011-06-10
June 6 Guest Post: The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People
June 5 Clark, Mendelson, and Scott:
New Name for a Fee-Charging Agency
June 4 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 25 – Patterns for Struggle Elements 5 & 6
June 4 In Memoriam: Joel Rosenberg
May 31 Contract Red Flag: Net Profit Royalty Clauses
May 31 Guest Post: Proprioception
May 29 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 24 – Patterns for Struggle Elements 3 – 5
May 27 PublishAmerica Will Be Your Literary Agent…For $199
May 26 John E. Johnston, III, Awarded SFWA Service Award
May 25 Guest Post: The Watcher and the Weird
May 25 Quick Updates for 2011-05-25
May 24 Quick Updates for 2011-05-24
May 21 Nebula Award Winners
May 21 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 23 – Patterns for the Struggle : Element 2
May 21 Watch the Nebula Awards Ceremony live!
May 20 Golden Duck Awards 2010
May 20 Tidbits
May 17 Literary Agencies as Publishers: An Accelerating Trend
May 16 Hunting Down the Value of Social Media
May 14 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 22 – Patterns for the Struggle: Element 1
May 12 Nebula Awards Weekend: Mass Book Signing
May 10 I Broke a News Story, and All I Got Was This Freaking T-Shirt
May 10 Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Nnedi Okorafor
May 8 Guest Post: Writing Advice
May 7 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 21 – Patterns for Presenting the Problem: Elements 4-5
May 5 Pay to Play Anthologies
May 3 Write on the River 2011
May 3 Duncan Jones, Director of Source Code – a Video Interview
May 2 Milford SF Writer’s Conference Opens for Registation
April 30 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 20 – Patterns for Presenting the Problem 1-3
April 30 Clarion West to Honor
Paul Park, Connie Willis, and Gardner Dozois
April 29 In Memoriam: Joanna Russ
April 27 The Interminable Agency Clause
April 26 Self-Publishing: An Interview with Scott Nicholson
April 24 Hugo & Campbell Best New Writer Nominations Announced
April 23 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 19 – Use Patterns & Options, Not Formulas
April 22 Tidbits
April 21 Guest Post: Klingons Invade WorldCon
April 21 Quick Updates for 2011-04-21
April 19 Renovation: Teaching SF Workshop
April 18 Guest Post: The Google Books Settlement–It’s Not Too Late to Fix It
April 17 Nebula Awards 2009 Interview: Jeff VanderMeer
April 16 Key Conditions for Suspense: Part 18 –
The 3 Phases of Problem Solving for Suspense
April 16 Bull Spec is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
April 14 Book Fair Bewares
April 13 Nebula Awards 2009 Interview: N.K. Jemisin
April 12 Guest Post: Labadie Mansion, A Visitation
April 10 What SFWA Authors Need to Know about
Archiving Their Literary Papers1
April 9 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 17 – Structure is Problem Solving, Not Voodoo
April 8 Atlanta Nights, the Movie: From Hoax to Film
April 7 Quick Updates for 2011-04-07
April 6 An Interview with Kay Kenyon
April 6 Quick Updates for 2011-04-06
April 4 Lies (Dishonest) Fee-Charging Publishers Tell
April 3 Guest Post: A Viable and Just Business Model
For the Ebook Age
April 2 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 16 – The Story Cycle’s Dynamo (and a little Hitchcock)
March 31 Karma’s a Bitch: Robin Price, David William Caswell
March 30 Top-Earning Authors of 2010
March 30 Quick Updates for 2011-03-30
March 29 Nebula Voting ends March 30th
March 29 Why Your Self-Publishing Service Probably Didn’t Cheat You
March 28 Guest Post: Shorts vs. Novels—A View from the Trenches
March 26 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 15 – Story Cycle Action & Trouble
March 26 Quick Updates for 2011-03-26
March 25 Guest Post: Writing on the High Seas
March 25 Submission Guidelines to Beware of: Midwest Literary Magazine
March 23 How Not to Market Your Book
March 22 Judge Rejects Google Book Settlement
March 22 Hugo & Campbell deadline: March 26
March 22 Quick Updates for 2011-03-22
March 21 Guest Post: Networking with Purpose and Sincerity
March 19 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 14 – Put Your Plot Together with the Story Cycle
March 18 Quick Updates for 2011-03-18
March 16 Guest Post: An Infinite Supply of Writing Prompts
March 15 Tidbits
March 12 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 13 – Make the problem hard to solve
with growing troubles & surprise
March 10 Guest Post: Does it Matter?
March 9 Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Internet Book Promotion
March 8 SFWA announces the Pacific Northwest Reading Series
March 7 Guest Post: Building Secondary Worlds
March 5 Contest Alert: TheNextBigAuthor.com
March 5 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 12 – Make the problem hard to solve with conflict
March 3 Quick Updates for 2011-03-03
March 2 Guest Post: Why Writers Suck at Marketing
February 28 Guest Post: 5 Things To Do In Your First 3 Paragraphs
February 28 What’s an Idea Worth?
February 26 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 11 – Make the problem hard to solve with disadvantages
February 25 Deadline for Claiming Cash Payment Under Google Book Settlement Has Been Extended
February 22 Guest Blog Post: Beware of Pay-To-Play TV Talk Shows
February 22 SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees
February 22 Quick Updates for 2011-02-22
February 20 The Borders Bankruptcy
February 19 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 10 – Clarity, the first principle of plot
February 17 Guest Post: Writing and Mortality
February 17 Quick Updates for 2011-02-17
February 16 Quick Updates for 2011-02-16
February 14 Nebula Nominations close tomorrow, February 15.
February 14 A Valentine’s Day Guest Post: Tentacle Sex
February 14 Deadline for Claiming Cash Payment Under Google Book Search Settlement May Be Extended
February 13 Quick Updates for 2011-02-13
February 12 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 9 – character draws 9-10
February 11 Guest Blog Post: Book Review — "The Street-Smart Writer"
February 10 Ten Terrific Resources for
Writing Space-Based Hard Science Fiction
February 9 WSFA Award Announced
February 9 Quick Updates for 2011-02-09
February 8 Book Giveaway–The Arm of the Stone
February 8 In Memoriam: Brian Jacques
February 7 Guest Post: Freeing the Statue from the Stone
February 5 Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 8 – character draws 5-8
February 4 BBC Announces International Playwriting Competition
February 4 Only 11 days left to nominate for the Nebula Awards
February 4 Renovation Reminder: Rate Change Approaching
February 3 Alert for Poets: Oprah Wants You (But You May Not Want Oprah)
February 3 Quick Updates for 2011-02-03
February 2 Guest Post: Fantasy Writer’s Use of History
February 2 Quick Updates for 2011-02-02
February 1 Update on Strategic Book Publishing / Writers Literary Agency / Robert Fletcher
January 31 Call for candidates for SFWA board of directors
January 29 Conditions for Suspense: Part 7 – Character draws 1-4
January 29 Quick Updates for 2011-01-29
January 25 Tidbits
January 25 Guest Post: The Greatest Challenge Agents Will Face
January 24 Renovation Deadline
January 22 Conditions for Suspense:
Part 6–Character deservingness
January 22 Quick Updates for 2011-01-22
January 21 Five for Friday
January 21 Best Solution Author Agency (or, Beware of Agent Solicitations)
January 20 Guest Post: What is Typography?
January 19 The Banff Centre: Call for Applications
January 17 Contest Alert: First One Publishing’s Writing Contest
January 17 Guest Post: Your Business Model Is Not Your Neighbor’s
January 15 Key Conditions for Reader Suspense:
Part 5 – Character troubles
January 14 How to be a Writer and Have a Life: or, Livin’ the Dream
January 14 Quick Updates for 2011-01-14
January 12 Nebula Awards Interview: Eugie Foster by Charles Tan
January 11 The Mail I Get
January 10 Angry Robot is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
January 9 Nebula Awards Interview: Christopher Barzak by Charles Tan
January 9 Quick Updates for 2011-01-09
January 8 Key Conditions for Reader Suspense:
Part 4 – Uncertainty
January 7 The Importance of Context (Part 1)
January 7 Guest Post: Advice for Teen Writers
January 6 Quick Updates for 2011-01-06
January 5 Tanglewood Press is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
January 4 Audio interview of Ursula K. Le Guin
January 4 Quick Updates for 2011-01-04
January 3 Guest Post: 10 Books for Writers Focusing on Craft
January 1 Key Conditions for Reader Suspense:
Part 3 – It’s gotta be difficult
January 1 Hugo Award Nomination Period is Open

December 30 Guest Post: Blowing Up Planets
December 30 Quick Updates for 2010-12-30
December 29 Nebula Awards Guest Post: Sex, Skin and Secret Messages
December 27 Guest Post: Experiments with E-books
December 25 Key Conditions for Reader Suspense:
Part 2 – The Three Problem Types
December 23 Holiday Hiatus
December 23 Guest Post: Steampunk/Alt History Week
Living in Color
December 23 Quick Updates for 2010-12-23
December 21 Some Tips on Evaluating Literary Contests
December 20 Nebula Awards Interview: Catherynne M. Valente
December 18 Key Conditions for Reader Suspense:
Part 1 – It’s All About the Reader
December 18 Quick Updates for 2010-12-18
December 17 Guest Post: Why Go to the Museum?
December 16 Tidbits
December 15 Quick Updates for 2010-12-15
December 14 Guest Post: Write What You Know… or Don’t Know…
Or Want to Know… Know What I Mean?
December 13 Note to members regarding Dorchester Publishing Co.
December 13 One Way Not to Get Published
December 13 Quick Updates for 2010-12-13
December 12 Guest Post: Fairy Tales Reimagined
December 12 Nebula Awards Interview: Rachel Swirsky by Larry Nolen
December 11 Quick Updates for 2010-12-11
December 10 Odyssey Writing Workshop Announces
Its 16th Summer Session
December 10 The 2011 Indie Publishing Contest
December 9 Amazon.com now offering BookScan to Authors
December 9 Guest Post–Information Wants to Be Free
December 7 Guest Post–An Interstitial Moment: Metaphor
December 7 Quick Updates for 2010-12-07
December 5 Interview–Minister Faust:
Writing is not a performance art
December 5 Quick Updates for 2010-12-05
December 4 Quick Updates for 2010-12-04
December 3 Quick Updates for 2010-12-03
December 2 Guest Post–The Freelancer’s Survival Guide:
When to Give Up Your Day Job
December 2 How Not to Launch a Career in Publishing
December 1 SFWA Announces New Ombudsman
December 1 Quick Updates for 2010-12-01
November 30 Consumer Watchdog Conference with Michael Capobianco
November 30 Top Ten Gifts for Fantasy or Science Fiction Writers
November 30 Quick Updates for 2010-11-30
November 29 Fake Writing Jobs: RealWritingJobs.com
November 28 Quick Updates for 2010-11-28
November 26 Guest Post–Privacy, freedom, and making a living as a writer
November 22 Nebula Awards Interview: Cherie Priest by Marshall Payne
November 22 Guest Post–Just Breathe: Rejuvenating Your Imagination
November 20 Quick Updates for 2010-11-20
November 18 Quick Updates for 2010-11-18
November 18 Guest Post–Work Like Hell: Lessons from the Pulp Jungle
November 15 SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Award Nomination period is open
November 14 Guest Post–A Writer’s Guide to Social Media
November 11 Sunburst Awards Seek Videos
November 9 SFWA Mourns Longtime Member,
Volunteer Glenn Lewis Gillette
November 9 Swinging the Other Way: Vanity Publisher Goes Non-Vanity
November 9 Open Competition: Design the 2011 Hugo Award Base
November 7 Odyssey Writing Workshop: Online Classes Announced
November 7 Getting Published is Not a Crap Shoot
November 5 Quick Updates for 2010-11-05
November 3 The Peter Lampack Agency Loses Suit Against Former Client
November 2 A Dispatch from the Norton Jury
November 1 The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund eReader Drawing
November 1 Quick Updates for 2010-11-01
October 27 Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware
October 27 Quick Updates for 2010-10-27
October 26 Why Join SFWA?
October 25 Star Trek cited by Texas Supreme Court
October 25 Quick Updates for 2010-10-25
October 23 Quick Updates for 2010-10-23
October 22 An update from World Fantasy Convention about programming schedules
October 21 Update on “Iron” David Boyer
October 21 Quick Updates for 2010-10-21
October 20 Cold Iron: David Boyer, Plagiarist
October 17 Quick Updates for 2010-10-17
October 16 SFWA annual business meeting
October 16 Would That It Were is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
October 16 Quick Updates for 2010-10-16
October 15 Quick Updates for 2010-10-15
October 14 Quick Updates for 2010-10-14
October 13 Quick Updates for 2010-10-13
October 12 Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner announce Betrayer of Worlds
October 12 Quick Updates for 2010-10-12
October 11 Alert: Website with Copyrighted works (in Spanish)
October 11 Wholesale vs. Agency: Sales Models in Conflict
October 9 Quick Updates for 2010-10-09
October 8 Commerce Department Seeks Comment on Protecting Copyrighted Works on the Internet
October 7 Quick Updates for 2010-10-07
October 5 Barnes & Noble Launches PubIt! Self-Publishing Service
October 5 Quick Updates for 2010-10-05
October 4 Guest Blog Post: How Deliberate Practice Can Make You an Excellent Writer
October 3 Quick Updates for 2010-10-03
September 30 Quick Updates for 2010-09-30
September 28 Unhappy Client Suing B.K. Nelson Inc. Literary Agency
September 28 Invitation: 2010 New York Reception
September 28 Guest post–Of Alternate Nineteenth Centuries: The Enduring Appeal of Steampunk
September 28 Quick Updates for 2010-09-28
September 25 Quick Updates for 2010-09-25
September 23 Quick Updates for 2010-09-23
September 22 Nebula Norton jury seeks candidates for the 2010 Award
September 20 Writer and Parent? Tips for Finding Your New Balance
September 16 Quick Updates for 2010-09-16
September 13 In Memoriam: Edwin Charles (E. C.) Tubb
September 13 Renovation invites the world of science fiction to meet in Reno
September 9 Quick Updates for 2010-09-09
September 7 Interview with SFWA member Brenda Cooper
September 5 The Pirate Code of Children’s Literature
September 3 Red Rose Publishing: Alert
September 3 Quick Updates for 2010-09-03
September 2 5 Resources for Managing Disasters
September 2 Quick Updates for 2010-09-02
September 1 Guest post–Leave the Vomit In or, Learning to Trust Your Voice
August 31 Guest post–Escape, Resonance, and Recovery: Traversing the Values of Fantasy
August 29 Interview with SFWA member L. Timmel Duchamp
August 25 5 Resources on Grammar
August 24 Quick Updates for 2010-08-24
August 19 The Writing Parent
August 19 Quick Updates for 2010-08-19
August 18 5 Resources for Tracking Your To-do Lists
August 17 Guest post–Science Fiction and the Post-Cold War
August 14 Quick Updates for 2010-08-14
August 13 Bowker Manuscript Submissions
August 13 Guest post–Revitalizing Creativity in Your Private Booklife
August 12 Quick Updates for 2010-08-12
August 11 5 Resources to Assist Your Research (Pants Not Required)
August 8 Quick Updates for 2010-08-08
August 6 Guest post–The Pillars of Your Public Booklife: What Do You Find Most Important?
August 5 Quick Updates for 2010-08-05
August 4 5 Resources on Tracking Submissions
August 1 Renovation Increases Attending Membership Rates
August 1 Quick Updates for 2010-08-01
July 29 Quick Updates for 2010-07-29
July 28 5 Resources on the Public Domain
July 27 Sample DMCA generator for authors
July 27 Guest post–Revolution #9: Thoughts on Electronic Publishing Vs. “Traditional” Print Publishing
July 26 Sample DMCA notice for reading-kicks-ass.net
July 25 Speculative Literature Foundation Gulliver Travel Research Grant opens to proposals
July 25 Quick Updates for 2010-07-25
July 21 Members invited to regional meeting at NASFiC
July 19 RIP Frank K. Kelly (1914-2010)
July 17 Quick Updates for 2010-07-20
July 14 Quick Updates for 2010-07-14
July 13 RIP James P. Hogan (1940 – 2010)
July 13 Quick Updates for 2010-07-13
July 9 A Note to SFWA Members Regarding Night Shade Books
July 8 Quick Updates for 2010-07-08
July 5 Quick Updates for 2010-07-05
July 3 Quick Updates for 2010-07-03
July 2 SFWA Email Service Changing
July 1 A moment of appreciation for Paul Melko
July 1 A Moment of Appreciation for Russell and Michael
July 1 The Case Against Reading Fees
June 30 Quick Updates for 2010-06-30
June 29 Sunburst Award short-list announced
June 29 RIP F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre 1948-2010
June 25 Quick Updates for 2010-06-25
June 22 Are Agents Underpaid?
June 19 Quick Updates for 2010-06-19
June 15 Quick Updates for 2010-06-15
June 13 Quick Updates for 2010-06-13
June 9 Quick Updates for 2010-06-09
June 7 Social Media and Your (Lack of) Privacy
June 6 RIP: Jerry Emerson Loomis 1933-2010
June 6 Quick Updates for 2010-06-06
June 5 Prime Books is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
June 5 Author Solutions Inc. Expands (Again)
June 3 Quick Updates for 2010-06-03
June 1 Hay House Establishes Publishing Service Division
June 1 Quick Updates for 2010-06-01
May 31 RIP: Jeanne Robinson 1948 – 2010
May 28 Quick Updates for 2010-05-28
May 26 FAQ: How do I add my information to Twitter?
May 25 Quick Updates for 2010-05-25
May 24 RIP George Ewing 1945-2010
May 23 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
May 23 Quick Updates for 2010-05-23
May 19 Photos and video of the 2010 Nebula Award Weekend
May 19 Quick Updates for 2010-05-19
May 18 Former SFWA president Norman Spinrad will undergo stomach cancer surgery on Thursday
May 18 SFWA 2010 Election results
May 16 Quick Updates for 2010-05-16
May 15 SFWA announces 2009 Nebula Awards winners
May 14 Status Report – Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis
May 13 Quick Updates for 2010-05-13
May 12 SFWA’s Nebula Award Ceremony will be streamed live
May 12 Tour of the International Space Station
May 11 Quick Updates for 2010-05-11
May 10 Fundraiser for Nashville flood relief includes editorial review by SFWA president
May 10 NYC simulcast of the Nebula Ceremony is now $25
May 8 Quick Updates for 2010-05-08
May 7 Why Writer Beware Doesn’t Provide Publisher Recommendations (Plus Some Advice)
May 7 Guest Blog Post: Self-Promotion–Starting Too Soon?
May 4 Hugo and Campbell voter packet available for download
May 4 Quick Updates for 2010-05-04
May 2 Quick Updates for 2010-05-02
April 29 A Future for Worldcon?
April 29 Quick Updates for 2010-04-29
April 27 Quick Updates for 2010-04-27
April 24 Quick Updates for 2010-04-24
April 23 Guest Blog Post: How Libraries Choose Books to Purchase
April 22 Quick Updates for 2010-04-22
April 21 SFWA offers Nebula Awards simulcast
April 20 Quick Updates for 2010-04-20
April 17 Quick Updates for 2010-04-17
April 16 PublishAmerica Strikes Again
April 15 An Overview of Writing for Print vs. the Web
April 14 Questionable Ethics?
April 13 How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Tools for the Toolbox: Going Viral
April 13 Quick Updates for 2010-04-13
April 12 Reminder: SFWA election ballots due by April 23
April 12 Hardball, Amazon Style
April 10 Quick Updates for 2010-04-10
April 9 SFWA announces 2010 Solstice Award honorees
April 9 Nurmal Resources PUBLISH ME! Contest
April 8 Quick Updates for 2010-04-08
April 7 Authorial Control
April 6 Guest Blog Post: Grants for Writers–As Diverse As You Are
April 6 Quick Updates for 2010-04-06
April 4 Quick Updates for 2010-04-04
April 1 Quick Updates for 2010-04-01
April 1 SFWA restores previous website
March 30 Neal Barrett, Jr., named 2010 SFWA Author Emeritus
March 30 Quick Updates for 2010-03-30
March 29 Nebula Voting Closes TOMORROW
March 27 Quick Updates for 2010-03-27
March 26 First Novel Sales: The Data
March 25 Nebula Reminder — 5 days left to vote
March 25 Quick Updates for 2010-03-25
March 21 Interview: John Scalzi on the Nebula Awards
March 19 Writer Beware: Tidbits
March 19 Quick Updates for 2010-03-19
March 16 Can you define African Science Fiction?
March 16 Writer Beware is on Facebook
March 16 Guest Blog Post: Content Mills–Just A Stepping Stone in Your Career
March 15 How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: How To Talk Doctor! Lesson 1
March 13 Quick Updates for 2010-03-13
March 12 Guest Blog Post: Content Mills–Why Aspiring Writers Should Avoid Them
March 11 Keith Stokes, Vonda N. McIntyre honored with Service to SFWA Award
March 11 Quick Updates for 2010-03-11
March 10 Where Is International SF?
March 9 Hugo nomination deadline is March 13
March 9 Quick Updates for 2010-03-09
March 7 Quick Updates for 2010-03-07
March 5 Guest Blog Post: The Scam of Private Label Rights Articles
March 5 Quick Updates for 2010-03-05
March 4 SFWA elections: Ask the candidates questions
March 3 Authors! 8 Tips For Your Website’s Usability and Design
March 3 Supreme Court Reinstates Major Freelancer Copyright Settlement
March 3 Quick Updates for 2010-03-03
March 2 How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Superballs, Pockets, and Fun With Awesome Molecules
March 1 Lambda Literary Launches New Online Home for LGBTQ Book Lovers
March 1 Nebula Final Ballot open for voting
March 1 Quick Updates for 2010-03-01
February 28 Reading Aloud: Cross-gender Voices
February 24 Quick Updates for 2010-02-24
February 23 Another Vanity Award: The 2010 Creative Spirit Awards
February 23 How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Joss Whedon, I’m calling you out.
February 22 2009 Nebula Finalist fiction for SFWA members
February 22 Beware of Fake Awards
February 22 Quick Updates for 2010-02-22
February 19 2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot
February 19 Quick Updates for 2010-02-19
February 17 Inspired Living Publishing: Another Vanity Anthology Scheme
February 17 Quick Updates for 2010-02-17
February 15 How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: When Your Audience Might Know More Than You Do
February 15 Quick Updates for 2010-02-15
February 14 Happy… what day is it?
February 14 Quick Updates for 2010-02-14
February 12 MyFreeRead.com: Not Quite What It Appears
February 12 Quick Updates for 2010-02-12
February 11 Last call for SFWA election candidates
February 10 Remember Associate members can now nominate for the Nebulas
February 10 Quick Updates for 2010-02-10
February 9 DOJ Weighs in on Amended Google Book Settlement
February 9 Quick Updates for 2010-02-09
February 8 How To Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Flatlines
February 7 RIP: SFWA Author Emeritus 1999 William Tenn
February 6 Quick Updates for 2010-02-06
February 5 Amazon is restoring Macmillan “Buy Now” buttons
February 5 Nebula Reminder — 10 days left to nominate
February 5 Are You a Published Author? Now You Can Tell the World!
February 5 Dept. of Justice weighs in on Amended Settlement
February 4 Hachette Book Group moves to Agency model
February 4 New comments from Macmilan CEO
February 4 The Importance of Style Sheets
February 4 Quick Updates for 2010-02-04
February 3 SFWA removes Amazon.com links from website
February 1 Dispatches from the Ebook Wars: Macmillan vs. Amazon
February 1 Quick Updates for 2010-02-01
January 31 Amazon’s response to Macmillan
January 31 RIP: Kage Baker 1952-2010
January 31 Announcement about SFWA vice president
January 31 Why My Books Are No Longer Available on Amazon.com
January 31 Quick Updates for 2010-01-31
January 30 Cris Robins and The Robins Agency: She’s Ba-aaack!
January 30 Amazon stops carrying Macmillan titles
January 29 Quick Updates for 2010-01-29
January 28 The 28th was the last day to opt out of the Google Book Settlement
January 28 Announcing SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Awards® Weekend, May 13-16
January 27 Quick Updates for 2010-01-27
January 26 Video of the NYC Google Book Settlement Workshop
January 26 Congratulations to Crawford Award Winner Jedediah Berry
January 26 Author Solutions CEO Wants to Talk to Writers’ “Guilds”
January 25 Quick Updates for 2010-01-25
January 24 Congratulations to the Aurealis Awards winners
January 24 Now on Kindle! – Mansfield Park and Mummies
January 23 Authors Guild offers phone seminars on Google Book Settlement
January 22 Another Google Book Search Settlement Deadline
January 22 Webcast: Google Book Settlement Workshop – 1/20/2010
January 22 Quick Updates for 2010-01-22
January 21 Transcript available for online Google Book Settlement panel
January 20 Quick Updates for 2010-01-20
January 19 The Networks Around us
January 19 Open Letter from a Writer to New Publishers
January 18 SFWA Hosting Online Panel Discussion on Google Book Settlement
January 18 Congratulations to the Carl Brandon Society winners
January 18 Quick Updates for 2010-01-18
January 16 Quick Updates for 2010-01-16
January 15 Registration deadline for Hugo nominations on January 31
January 15 The Law Finally Catches Up With Faux Literary Agent/Film Producer Robin Price
January 14 Quick Updates for 2010-01-14
January 13 From the Authors Guild: Simplified Method for Claiming Works for Google Book Search Settlement
January 12 Google Book Settlement Workshop in NYC on Jan. 20th
January 12 Quick Updates for 2010-01-12
January 11 Apparently I’m a Boring Wrinkled Self-Published Lesbian
January 10 Exploring Mars
January 9 Quick Updates for 2010-01-09
January 7 SFWA, NWU, and ASJA on Google Books Settlement
January 6 Simplified Procedure for Google Book Settlement
January 5 Quick Updates for 2010-01-05
January 4 Guest Blog Post: Distributor vs. Wholesaler–Getting Your Book on the Shelf
January 4 The Moss-Troll Problem
January 3 Quick Updates for 2010-01-03
January 2 Beneath Ceaseless Skies is SFWA’s newest qualifying short fiction market

December 31 Internet Review of Science Fiction closes doors
December 31 Nalo Hopkinson offers mentorships in 2010
December 31 Quick Updates for 2009-12-31
December 29 Quick Updates for 2009-12-29
December 26 Quick Updates for 2009-12-26
December 25 The Little Christmas Tree: A Cautionary Tale
December 24 Quick Updates for 2009-12-24
December 23 Ursula K. Le Guin resigns from Authors Guild
December 23 Speculative Literature Foundation Announces 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant Winner
December 21 Drewlie and Julia: Or, The Case of the Alias’d Literary Agent
December 19 Quick Updates for 2009-12-19
December 17 Quick Updates for 2009-12-17
December 17 Link: Why Are Europeans White?
December 17 The UK’s Society of Authors Issues Guidance on Ebooks
December 16 Conventions and writing, or Schmoozing 101
December 15 Quick Updates for 2009-12-15
December 15 Hunting for the Home of the First Fandom
December 15 Joe Haldeman named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master
December 15 Authors Guild Statement on Random House’s Rights Grab
December 15 One Week, Two Big Pieces of Ebook News
December 14 Quick Updates for 2009-12-14
December 14 Hunting for a Literary Agent
December 12 Quick Updates for 2009-12-12
December 11 Quick Updates for 2009-12-11
December 11 Hudson Audio Publishing
December 11 How I Fell in Love with Paranormal Romance
December 10 Nielsen folds Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews
December 10 New SFWA bylaws draft posted for review by members
December 10 You Can Take It With You
December 9 Eleventh Annual Endeavour Award
December 9 Quick Updates for 2009-12-09
December 9 How sociolinguistics can help you!
December 9 Hugo Awards Administrator discusses amended rules
December 8 Quick Updates for 2009-12-08
December 8 Research Tool: A brief intro to furniture history
December 7 Quick Updates for 2009-12-07
December 7 Author Solutions CEO Responds to Harlequin/Nelson Flap
December 6 Quick Updates for 2009-12-06
December 4 RIP: Don Congdon 1918-2009
December 4 Quick Updates for 2009-12-04
December 4 MWA delists Harlequin and all its imprints
December 4 Transracial Writing for the Sincere
December 2 Google Settlement, Supplemental Notice
December 2 Blurred Distinctions: Vanity Publishing vs. Self-Publishing
December 2 How pragmatics can help you!
December 1 Useful link: Ergociser — stretches for writers
November 29 RIP: Robert Holdstock (1948-2009)
November 25 Member news: Jay Lake safely out of surgery
November 24 New Name for Harlequin Horizons: DellArte Press
November 24 Nebula Awards: “International SF” and Problems of Identity
November 24 And Speaking of Vanity Publishing…
November 23 From Novelists Inc. Issues Position Statement on Vanity Publishing
November 21 Quick Updates for 2009-11-21
November 20 How semantics can help you! Part 3
November 20 Quick Updates for 2009-11-20
November 20 Judge grants preliminary approval to Google Book Settlement
November 19 SFWA Statement on Harlequin’s vanity press imprint
November 19 MWA Weighs In On Harlequin Horizons
November 19 Harlequin Horizons: Another Major Publisher Adds A Self-Publishing Division
November 17 Paul Di Filippo and Sheila Finch Join Campbell Award Jury
November 17 Agent Inbox
November 16 Quick Updates for 2009-11-16
November 16 Revised Google Book Search Settlement Filed
November 15 Nebula Nomination Period has opened
November 15 Wanna Be a Virtual Author’s Assistant?…Maybe Not
November 14 Podcast: Google Book Settlement at WFC
November 14 NASA finds water on the moon
November 14 How semantics can help you! Part 2
November 11 Blog Post/Article Roundup
November 9 PSA: Possible H1N1 at World Fantasy
November 9 New Nebula Awards Commissioner
November 9 Do You Know How to Sell Your Sword?
November 8 RIP: Karl Kroeber 1926-2009
November 8 Rights and Copyright
November 5 Audio Interview with David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
October 31 WINNERS OF THE SPANISH IV XATAFI-CYBERDARK AWARD
October 24 Recommended Link: When is a Cartoon Not a Cartoon?
October 21 Author Mills and a Request for Contact
October 21 Happy Birthday Ursula K. Le Guin
October 20 Research Tool: Archive of WWI pictures
October 20 Invitation: SFWA’s Annual New York Reception
October 20 Reminder: SFWA business meeting at WFC
October 15 Why Referral Fees Present Ethical Problems
October 13 Thomas Nelson Adds Self-Publishing Imprint
October 12 A Question You Don’t Want Your Publisher to Ask
October 6 Thoughts on Self-Promotion
October 4 Quick Updates for 2009-10-04
October 3 How semantics can help you! Part 1
October 2 Quick Updates for 2009-10-02
October 1 Quick Updates for 2009-10-01
October 1 Victoria Strauss — The Perils of Searching For Publishers on the Internet
October 1 Leslie What nominated for Oregon Book Award
October 1 Editors, check your slushpiles. There’s a plagiarist afoot.
September 30 Quick Updates for September
September 28 RIP: Mary Hunter Schaub, 1943-2009
September 28 Victoria Strauss — Google Book Search Settlement Fairness Hearing Adjourned
September 27 SUNBURST AWARD ANNOUNCES 2009 WINNERS
September 26 Thinking About Your Writer’s Platform? Consider Your Online Reputation First.
September 25 RIP: Barbara Bova
September 24 SFWA increases support for AboutSF
September 24 Haldeman and Varley Win 2009 Robert A. Heinlein Awards
September 21 Research Tool: The TED Conference
September 14 Victoria Strauss — VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller
September 10 Victoria Strauss — Writers’ Myth: “You Have To Know Someone”
September 10 How syntax can help you!
September 10 Interview: Ysabeau S. Wilce
September 4 Victoria Strauss — Google Book Search Settlement: Opting Out
September 4 Victoria Strauss — Google Book Search Settlement Deadline Looming
September 2 SFWA joins Open Book Alliance
September 1 How morphology can help you!
August 29 Interview: Jeffrey Ford
August 25 Victoria Strauss — Postage Promotion
August 25 2009 Octavia E. Butler Scholar – Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
August 24 Quick Updates for 2009-08-24
August 24 The Pros and Cons of Having Your Own Website
August 22 How articulatory phonetics can help you!
August 22 How linguistics can help you!
August 21 Quick Updates for 2009-08-21
August 21 Victoria Strauss — Publishers’ Kill Fees, and Why They’re Bad For Everyone
August 20 Quick Updates for 2009-08-20
August 20 WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2009 Award
August 20 SF meets real life: US Government issues patents on human genes
August 19 Volunteer: Call members to update info
August 19 Resource: The Convention Finder
August 19 Interview with Charles Coleman Finlay
August 19 Site Errors and Slowdown
August 18 RIP: Gene Van Troyer 1950-2009
August 17 Interview: Johanna Sinisalo
August 17 Victoria Strauss — Bad Impressions for Good Impressions Audio Books
August 16 Reading Aloud
August 15 Philip Pullman speaks against UK’s vetting laws
August 14 Resource: Historical Food Timeline
August 13 National Writers Union Opposes Google Settlement
August 12 Is Africa Ready for Science Fiction?
August 12 Writer Beware wins big as frivolous lawsuit rejected by court
August 12 SFWA statement on proposed Google book settlement
August 12 Mystery Writers of America will co-sponsor SFWA’s Writer Beware
August 10 Hugo Winners Announced
August 8 Interview: Mary E. Pearson
August 4 Andre Norton Award jury seeking candidate submissions
August 4 World Fantasy Nominee list
August 4 2009 SFWA business meeting scheduled for World Fantasy Convention
August 4 Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions
August 4 Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions: Social Organization
August 3 Victoria Strauss — Niche Age Media: Laray Carr Returns
August 2 Welcome to the new SFWA website
August 2 Update: Website changeover
August 1 Website transfer update
July 31 Announcement: Moving the new site to sfwa.org on Saturday
July 31 Exclusives and Literary Agents
July 29 Interview: Gwyneth Jones
July 29 Reminder: Volunteers needed for SFWA at Worldcon
July 27 Tor.com is SFWA’s newest qualifying short fiction market
July 23 USA TODAY to include Amazon Kindle on best-seller list
July 23 Interview: James Alan Gardner
July 23 Get Personal with your Marketing Efforts
July 20 Article Recommendation: The Genre Artist
July 17 Research Tool: Google News Timeline
July 17 Article Recommendation: Bits of Destruction
July 16 Interview: Mike Allen
July 15 Networking 201: How to “work a room”
July 13 RIP: Charles Brown, (1937-2009)
July 11 How to Network at a Convention
July 9 Nebula Awards: Richard Bowes 2009 Interview
July 8 Amazon Kindle Contract Review and Annotation (2009)
July 8 Writer’s Workshop at Anticipation 2009, Worldcon
July 7 Apex Magazine newest SFWA qualifying market!
July 7 2009 ENDEAVOUR AWARD FINALISTS
July 7 Writing and Selling Confessions
July 6 Volunteer at Worldcon for the dealer’s room, autographs, or the SFWA suite
July 3 World creation and the source of objects
July 3 DOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book Search
July 3 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photos
July 2 Cory Doctorow on writing for YA
July 1 Fantastic Voyages at the Nebula Awards site
June 30 Another view of the Google Book Settlement
June 29 2009 winners Campbell and Sturgeon awards
June 21 Flash Forward
June 20 Kindle limits the number of downloads?
June 16 2009 Stoker Awards
June 16 Welcome to the Accidental Beta-test!
June 8 Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner: Juggler of Worlds
April 28 Introducing the SFWA Blog

January 4 Science in Science Fiction: Making it Work

January 4 Does “SFWA Member” help sell your story? Top SF editors comment