Quick Updates for 2011-10-29
In answer to @mkhobson's question. World Fantasy requires our meetings to be outside of programming hours. #SFWA #
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Guest Blog Post: Copyright Is People
Recently, a consortium of university libraries called HathiTrust decided to make more than one hundred digitized books available as e-books to the universities’ communities because the books were “orphans,” works for whom the rightsholders could not be located after a diligent search.
Quick Updates for 2011-10-28
@KenanBrack Excellent goals. #
Quick Updates for 2011-10-27
@Polenth email nac@sfwa.org #
A Small Press Implodes: The Inside Story of Aspen Mountain Press
Small press publishing is inherently risky–for publishers as well as for authors–and while the situation at AMP is uglier than many, it’s also far from unusual.
Guest Post: A Writer’s Crash Guide to
Recent Social Media Changes–Google+
A couple of days ago I covered Facebook’s new direction, including both the potential large upside for writers and the accompanying privacy concerns. But what about Google+?
Guest Post: A Writer’s Crash Guide to
Recent Social Media Changes—Facebook
Honestly, it is difficult (although not impossible) to avoid strategies that don’t incorporate Facebook in some way, either through a personal account or through Facebook Pages, at least not for writers who have at least one novel published. Once you have fans, Facebook becomes logical since it has the largest user base, therefore making it much more convenient as a way for people to find you.
Quick Updates for 2011-10-20
SFWA member @alcole123 has 50% OFF http://t.co/twYZKyhb On Audiobooks http://t.co/WpejXjzH Sten, The Timura Trilogy, The Far Kingdoms Series # Congratulations to SFWA member @faerye who sold her 2nd novelette "Long Night on Redrock" to Asimov's. Teaser here: http://t.co/ybkgmWI6 #
Guest Blog Post: Fitzhenry and Whiteside–Writer Beware
Today’s guest post by multi-published author Doranna Durgin is about a publisher behaving badly.
More than that, however, it highlights something that every writer signing a publishing contract needs to be aware of: the importance of reversion clauses…
Quick Updates for 2011-10-18
@Louise_Cusack @misterkristoff We haven't started sending them yet, but yes. Secret decoder rings are coming. # @misterkristoff @Lissa_Price Not soon! Not soon. Creating new member packets is more complicated than it looks. # @Lissa_Price @misterkristoff Oh, you don't get those until you've been a member for at least 25 years. #
