You and your work are important. Science fiction and fantasy literature permeates our culture. The mission of libraries, archives, and museums is to document our culture. We want to preserve the historical record of the SF/F field in all of its diversity for future researchers.
SFWA member @johncleaver is signing at Borderlands, in San Francisco at 3pm today. #
Our job as writers is to create a narrative that evokes this desired experience in the reader. Yes, we have to be passionate about our story. Yes, it’s an art and is complex and sometimes feels a bit mystical. But we can’t let that make us forget the fact that the ultimate purpose of the story is to guide the reader through an experience.
Once upon a time, a motley crew of knights, hobbits, and assorted elves–all members of the Fellowship of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America–set out to prank a certain publisher of ill repute.
@madcowtweets Do you mean how does one become an Active member, or what are the benefits? # @DavidRozansky @GLHancock That is not flatly not true in SFWA's case. POD is simply a technology and SFWA has no bar against it. # @DavidRozansky @GLHancock SFWA requires a circulation OR print run OR "the equivalent in other […]
Member News for Vera Nazarian and Lyn Nichols.
I’m always attracted to secret, arcane realms, which is one great subect of fantasy. I started in that direction with The Entire and the Rose, which I’ve (loosely) been calling a science fantasy for its quest theme and fantastical adventure.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
My fantasy novel The Arm of the Stone is this month’s free ebook from Phoenix Pick. For the entire month of April, you can download it free by clicking this link and entering Coupon Code 9992593.
In April…
Member News for Julie Jansen, Paul Daly, Monte Cook, Mark Niemann-Ross, Ernest Cline, Nisi Shawl, Eugie Foster, Paul S. Kemp, David Levine, Allan Cole and Holly Black.
@RodneyRamsey Well, to be fair, he only just applied. We would happily have accepted him earlier. # @JL_Anderson I'm glad to hear it! # SFWA member @eugiefoster's short story "Biba Jibun" was published in the April issue of Apex Magazine. # Interview with SFWA member @hollyblack at My Bookish Ways: http://bit.ly/i4gvFx # Welcome to SFWA's […]
In these provocative, mind-bending tales you’ll find alternative realities, surreal landscapes, haunted mansions, future battlefields, enraged poltergeists, mythological mischief-makers, and freedom fighters on a far planet.
Forthcoming work includes novella His Unburned Heart (about Mary Shelley and her husband’s heart) from Raw Dog Screaming Press (May, 2024) and novel Egyptian Motherlode (co-written with Jacob Weisman) from Fairwood Press (October, 2024).
