How threatened do publishers feel by agencies’ aggressive moves into publishing? Well, according to a report today in The Bookseller, Random House UK has done an end run around prestigious literary agency Sheil Land, directly approaching author Tom Sharpe to secure digital rights to his backlist.
SFWA Member Karen Azinger is thrilled to announce that The Steel Queen, the first book of The Silk & Steel Saga is now published on Amazon. #
Ready for the Nebula Awards this weekend? Scheduling and signing list are posted here: http://bit.ly/mQ7w63 #
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.
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.
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.
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 #
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).
@LAGilman The rules for posthumous wins would come into play. #
@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 #
This sweeping urban fantasy explores what it means to be human in a world where humanity itself may be optional, where ancient gods run pawn shops, and where the difference between monster and hero often depends on which side of the story you’re telling.
Douglas Phillips is the author of the Quantum Series, science fiction thrillers set in the fascinating world of particle physics where bizarre is an everyday thing.
Come celebrate our diamond year with us! Register now for SFWA's 60th Annual Nebula Conference, hosted at Kansas City, MO, and also online, from June 5-8.
