Member News

• SFWA Mourns Longtime Member, Volunteer Glenn Lewis Gillette here.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Pamela Taylor. Read her qualifying story in Apex Magazine.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Sarah Frost with a sale to Analog.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Kyle Aisteach with a sale to COSMOS.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Ada Milenkovic Brown with a sale to Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Matthew Bennardo with a sale to Asimov’s.
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Associate member Sunny Moraine with a sale to Strange Horizons.
• Congratulations to SFWA member Jamie Todd Rubin who upgraded from Associate to Active with a sale to Analog.
• Welcome back to SFWA Active member Tobias Buckell, author of Halo: The Cole Protocol and Crystal Rain. “Rejoining SFWA.”
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Andrew Mayer, author of The Falling Machine (PYR, 2011).
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Lena Coakley, author of THE WITCHLANDERS (S&S, 2011).
• Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Gayle Ann Williams, author of TSUNAMI BLUE.
• Congratulations to SFWA member Jim C. Hines who signed a 2-book deal with DAW.
• Congratulations to SFWA member Alethea Kontis who sold her debut novel SUNDAY to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• Happy release day for SONGS OF LOVE & DEATH: a Gardner Dozois anthology with SFWA members Marjorie Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, and others.
• Happy release day to METAtropolis: Cascadia. Stories by SFWA members Jay Lake, Ken Scholes, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, and Mary Robinette Kowal.
• SFWA member Chris McKitterick had a blast at launch of his debut novel TRANSCENDENCE.
• Congratulation to SFWA member Seanan McGuire, whose novel FEED is one of PW’s Best Books of 2010!
• SFWA member Matthew Kressel reports that the KGB Raffle was a success. Thanks for your generous support!

Industry News

• SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Award nomination period is open. It runs from 11/15 – 2/15/2011. Information here.
• SFWA members who wish to submit their work for consideration may do so in the Discussion Forums here.
• The Cleopatra Literary Contest seeks to foster aspiring young women writers. Sponsored by SFWA member Stephanie Draven, the contest is aimed at female writers between 13 and 22 years old.
• SFWA Member Jim Freund‘s sf/f radio show, Hour of the Wolf, gets new day and time. More information here.

Resources

• SFWA member Jim C. Hines has put together a resource on reporting sexual harassment in SF/F to publishers. Information here.