Nebula Award Winners
And the Nebula goes to…
May 2011
Information Center, The SFWA BlogKey Conditions for Suspense:
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 23 – Patterns for the Struggle : Element 2
Taking the readers to the point where it seems their worst fears will be realized and then turning it around only makes the victory sweeter. Giving the reader great hope, just before everything falls apart, makes the loss feel so much more terrible.
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Watch the Nebula Awards Ceremony live!
Tune in Saturday evening, May 21, 2010 at 8:15 P.M. EDT for the Nebula award ceremony. For the second year
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Golden Duck Awards 2010
This year’s Golden Duck Awards have been announced. Designed to encourage science fiction literature for children, The Golden Duck Awards are presented every year at Worldcon.
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Tidbits
How threatened do publishers feel by agencies’ aggressive moves into publishing? Well, according to a report today in The Bookseller, Random House UK has done an end run around prestigious literary agency Sheil Land, directly approaching author Tom Sharpe to secure digital rights to his backlist.
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Quick Updates for 2011-05-20
SFWA Member Karen Azinger is thrilled to announce that The Steel Queen, the first book of The Silk & Steel
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Quick Updates for 2011-05-19
Ready for the Nebula Awards this weekend? Scheduling and signing list are posted here: http://bit.ly/mQ7w63 #
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Literary Agencies as Publishers: An Accelerating Trend
Last week, prestigious UK agency Ed Victor Ltd. announced that it was going into publishing, with an ebook/print-on-demand division called Bedford Square Books.
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Hunting Down the Value of Social Media
Are Facebook, Twitter and IM having any effect on the quality or volume of my work? These questions, coupled with a very long list of goals I wanted to accomplish, plagued me like a broken plot.
Information Center, The SFWA BlogKey Conditions for Suspense:
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 22 – Patterns for the Struggle: Element 1
What you need to do is keep throwing troubles, conflicts, surprises, and obstacles at the reader. You also need to let the hero have some successes. This allows the reader to have cause to fear AND hope, and to not know for sure how it’s all going to turn out.
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Quick Updates for 2011-05-14
You can read excerpts from Locus's interview with SFWA member @daviddlevine at http://tinyurl.com/45y737b # SFWA member @alcole123 STEN IN HOLLYWOOD:
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Nebula Awards Weekend: Mass Book Signing
Forty authors will sign their books at the Nebula Awards Weekend, Friday, May 20, 2011 from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Washington Hilton at 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.–located four blocks from the Dupont Circle Metro Station (use the Q Street exit).