An important legal ruling was handed down yesterday by Judge Denny Chin in the five-year-old Authors Guild v. Google class action lawsuit over Google’s scanning of millions of in-copyright books.
A good roundtable discussion on writing about race in Science Fiction and Fantasy. http://t.co/ajLKhCOS #
We are pleased to announce that SFWA will again have a presence at the Baltimore Book Festival.
Ken Burns, one of the world’s most recognized filmmakers, shares his personal connection, his “waking of the dead,” as he discusses the craft of storytelling in this short documentary.
A couple of years ago, I blogged about the launch of PW Select, an online supplement to the regular PW magazine. PW Select, which is published quarterly, allows self-published writers to buy brief listings (author, title, subtitle, price, pagination and format, ISBN, a brief description, and ordering information) for $149.
SFWA is looking to convene a Norton jury for the 2013 award.
Two fascinating surveys appeared this week. They look at opposite ends of the writing business, but dovetail in interesting ways.
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Once again, the Writer Beware blog has been chosen as one of Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers . . .
Results from the SFWA election have been announced.
If you love SF and want to persuade school administrators that teaching science fiction is important, then: The Teaching With Science Fiction Workshop is just what you’re looking for!
Alex Delmore wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke, her brother is an idiot, and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there’s a genie in town—and he’s hiring at the Wellspring Mall.
Katherine Quevedo hails from Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her Pushcart and Rhysling nominated fiction and poetry appear in Nightmare Magazine, Asimov’s, Fireside Magazine, and elsewhere.
