Video of the NYC Google Book Settlement Workshop
The New York Chapter of the Internet Society is recorded video of the NYC Google Book Settlement Workshop. You may watch the two hour and fifteen minute workshop there or here.
Archive for January, 2010
Congratulations to Crawford Award Winner Jedediah Berry
SF Awards Watch reports that SFWA member Jedediah Berry has won the William L. Crawford Award. Congratulations!
Author Solutions CEO Wants to Talk to Writers’ “Guilds”
In a video posted to YouTube on Friday, and in an accompanying press release, the CEO of Author Solutions, Kevin Weiss, invited the Romance Writers of America, the Mystery Writers of America, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to sit down with him and other AS representatives to discuss the recent debate over AS’s “partnerships” with Harlequin and Thomas Nelson.
Quick Updates for 2010-01-26
RT @MaryRobinette: I’m running for Vice President of SFWA. Read my platform, here: http://bit.ly/4EIpSb # RT @scalzi: Hey, kids! Look who's running for President of SFWA! http://bit.ly/8VW53v # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member, Gail Dayton author of "New Blood" from Tor. http://www.gaildayton.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member, Dan Wells (@johncleaver), author of […]
Quick Updates for 2010-01-25
Industry News!
Congratulations to the Aurealis Awards winners
The winners of the 2009 Aurealis Awards, honoring works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians, have been announced. Congratulations in particular, to SFWA members Ian McHugh, Jonathan Strahan, and Cat Sparks.
Now on Kindle! – Mansfield Park and Mummies
Norilana Books is proud to present a Kindle Edition of: Mansfield Park and Mummies: Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarianhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00359FEUYA hilarious “comedy of monsters and manners!”This stylish and clever parody of the Austen classic Manfield Park, comes complete with “scholarly” Footnotes that harangue the […]
Book View Café partners with Smashwords
(National)-Book View Café, a digital publishing cooperative for professional authors, today announced it has partnered with Smashwords to distribute Book View’s growing ebook catalog, including titles by from such well known authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Sarah Smith, Seanan McGuire and Laura Anne Gilman. “Smashwords is taking a truly dynamic approach to […]
Quick Updates for 2010-01-24
RT @theskypirate: SFWA GRAND MASTER ROBERT SILVERBERG TALKS PULPS – http://francesca.net/silverberg.html # SFWA member @jchutchins is speaking and signing at Miami indie store Books & Books tonight. http://bit.ly/748k0I # SFWA member @naominovik is offering a Tuckerization for the Help Haiti Heal webcast auction happening today. http://bit.ly/7irMPB #
Authors Guild offers phone seminars on Google Book Settlement
The Authors Guild is offering telephone seminars next week to help authors and agents who have questions about the Google Book Settlement. Remember the deadline to make a decision is January 28th.
