Quick Updates for 2011-05-19
Ready for the Nebula Awards this weekend? Scheduling and signing list are posted here: http://bit.ly/mQ7w63 #
SFWA Blog
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.
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.
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.
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: THE NEXT TO THE LAST MISADVENTURE http://tinyurl.com/5wqzfmg #
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).
Quick Updates for 2011-05-12
@LAGilman The rules for posthumous wins would come into play. #
Quick Updates for 2011-05-11
@katrinaarcher They are doing a voter packet this year. # Charles Waverly and the Deadly African Safari by SFWA member Anna D. Allen is now available http://is.gd/YAxmaY #
I Broke a News Story, and All I Got Was This Freaking T-Shirt
As readers of this blog know, I’m fascinated by the oddities that pop up at the fringes of the writing and publishing worlds. This qualifies as one of the odder things I’ve come across lately: T-Post.
Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: Nnedi Okorafor
My characters always come first. You can’t have a plot if you don’t know who is going to move through it. Onyesonwu came to me way before her story did. The first scene I wrote was the first scene of the novel. No outline, no nothing. Just Onyesonwu at her father’s burial and some madness happens.
