A little while back, I stumbled on a news story about Mitchell Gross, a Georgia man who was recently indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly luring a woman into investing millions of dollars in a phony company.
@CecilyWhite @SaraMegibow We host the SFWA Nebula Awards weekend, which is a small professional conference. #
Buying into a personal mythology of hierarchical status can harm your career. It’s one thing to expect respect for your work and experience. It’s quite another to expect demonstrations of your status or to make pronouncements like “I will not attend any conventions at which I am not a guest of honor.”
SFWA member @eugiefoster's short story "Biba Jibun" was published by Pseudopod. http://t.co/LWmr6wrI #
Yesterday, with great fanfare, Apple rolled out two new applications: iBooks 2, with new features aimed at students; and iBooks Author, which allows individuals to create iPad-optimized ebooks.
We do need, not more, but a deeper relationship with what we have. Not knowledge, or not just knowledge, but understanding. That’s what writers give us.
SFWA member Tony Pi's "Remains of the Witch" is the cover story for IGMS #26 #
One of the effects of the phenomenal growth of ebooks over the past few years has been to bring new value to the backlist–both for publishers who hold the contracts for backlist books, and authors who want the freedom to exploit a new range of rights.
SFWA member Jennifer Brozek is an auctioned critiquer for Worldbuilders charity drive. Blog: bit.ly/AA7Xyi Auction: bit.ly/zZHZS6 # SFWA member @stephaniedraven announces the release of her latest Greek myth-inspired PNR, The Fever & The Fury: http://t.co/Nnn4vchw # Goodreads and Tor are giving away five copies of SFWA member @matociquala's forthcoming novel RANGE OF GHOSTS: http://t.co/Rldz5Q1O #
Spanning five millennia and vast reaches of space, Resurrection transports readers on an astonishing quest that will forever alter the fate of two extraordinary worlds.
Set in NYC and a fictional feudal planet, this novel tempts the feral temperament of Internet connoisseurs with a lubricious story that puts the R back into romance. Alas, an AI’s effort to participate here flashes like a horror show throughout.
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.
