50th Anniversary Blog Tour

Right about now, many of you are wishing that you never had to deal with about half of SFWA ever […]

  I first heard about SFWA in my senior year of college, through the Columbia University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS).

In April 1995, I was a barely wet-behind-the-ears writer of science fiction. My first story was scheduled to appear in

Perhaps because of my Midwestern upbringing, perhaps because of circumstances of education, one of my core values has always been

There was a time—less than a year ago, in fact—when I dreamed of joining the SFWA. Among writers of speculative

When I was a very young teen writer, I read articles on the SFWA website as a reward for meeting

A few years ago I attended Viable Paradise, which is a one-week writer’s workshop taught by some of the most

I don’t remember exactly how long ago I joined SFWA. I do know that it was shortly after my stories were

I’m  a proud member of Science Fiction Writers of America.  It costs me in the neighborhood of  $100 a year

When I was a teenager back in the 1990s, I regularly prowled through my mall B. Dalton. Back then, monthly