@diannefox @moirarogersbree SFWA has accepted electronic publication as qualifying for membership for years. # @moirarogersbree Can you point to what you are seeing in our guidelines that leads you to believe that epubs are ineligible? # @moirarogersbree Time/Warner, for example, puts out some books exclusively as epubs & we don't make a distinction. # @moirarogersbree […]
Joel Rosenberg (b.1954) died on the evening of June 2, a day after suffering a respiratory depression that caused a heart attack, anoxic brain damage and major organ failure. Rosenberg’s first published short story was “Like the Gentle Rains” in IASFM in 1982. A year later, he published The Sleeping Dragon, the first novel in his long-running […]
@DebNemeth @AuthorGuy SFWA has accepted epub and POD as qualifying material for years. # SFWA member Leah Cypess's second fantasy novel, NIGHTSPELL, releases today from HarperCollins. And it got a starred review from Kirkus! #
@ghostfinder It includes a sub to The Bulletin. # @ghostfinder I'm not sure. Drop a line to office@sfwa.org to check. #
Publishers that pay on net profit often pay higher royalty percentages than average, and if the percentage is large enough–50% or more–it may offset the deductions. But be sure you know exactly what those deductions are.
Being paralyzed led me to becoming a writer. While in that incapacitated state, I began spinning stories in order to go to the places I physically could not. It was no surprise that those stories were science fiction and fantasy, and that their main characters tended to be people with amazing abilities and “deformities.”
Just as I need to know my hero’s goal, motives, and plan, I also need to know the same things about my antagonist. In fact, in some stories the antagonist’s plans are what drive the story.
Literary agencies becoming publishers? Screw that trend. PublishAmerica, always a trail blazer, is swinging the other way.
John E. Johnston, III, was the recipient of this year’s SFWA Service Award, presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The SFWA Service Award is given at the discretion of the President and with Board approval to a member of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service to his or her fellow […]
Congratulations to SFWA member @RobertJSawyer whose novel WWW: WATCH won the Hal Clement Award for Best YA SF Novel. http://bit.ly/kkxK8i # SFWA member @alcole123 To commemorate Memorial Day: Wars Of The Shannons E-book for $1. http://is.gd/qKl1pO Coupon: TH82M. 'til June 1. # @aislinn_mac @USNessie Yes, that's how SFWA memberships work as well. #
The Drunken Dragon is a satire of epic fantasies told from the dragon Draco’s perspective. If Groucho Marx had done GOT from a dragon’s perspective, it might have turned out like this.
Pat Murphy is an acclaimed author of science fiction, fantasy, and science books for adults, teens, and children. She was the Activity Guru for the ed-tech startup Mystery Science and the Marketing Director for the Crucible, a school of fire arts.
