Quick Updates for 2011-02-21
@johnjosephadams On Tuesday. There is a preview of the list of nominees in the SFWA forums. #
SFWA Blog
The Borders Bankruptcy
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
The publishing news of the week–maybe of the year–is the collapse of Borders, the USA’s second largest bookstore chain.
Quick Updates for 2011-02-20
The deadline for claiming the Google Books Settlement cash payment has been extended to 1 year after/if the settlement is approved. # There is a SFWA Regional Meeting at #Radcon at 10 am today in Sage. #
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 10 – Clarity, the first principle of plot
Character and problem by themselves don’t go anywhere. You still have to build reader tension to a sharp point. So how do you do that?
Quick Updates for 2011-02-19
SFWA member @blakecharlton's novelette "Endosymbiont" is on Escape Pod. http://bit.ly/hVpjaI # SFWA member @alcole123 asks HOW MANY AGENTS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW A WRITER? New Hollywood MisAdventure: http://is.gd/YgVRhD # SFWA member @catvalente announces her candidacy for Eastern Regional Director of SFWA. # @cathshaffer You are in the South/Central region. Lee Martindale is the S/C […]
Quick Updates for 2011-02-18
SFWA member @tobiasbuckell was on the front cover of the Bluffton News last week: http://bit.ly/dLohiq # SFWA member @keffy's story "The Ghost of a Girl Who Never Lived" tied for third in the InterGalactic Awards: http://6.ly/fbb # PHANTAS, a speculative poetry collection by SFWA member Jeffry Dwight is available now from Curiosities. #
Guest Post: Writing and Mortality
Writing is a risky career choice and one that doesn’t always yield a lot of concrete reward or social approval. But if one pretends it’s not a choice, then one doesn’t have to worry about those things, or at least not in the same way.
Quick Updates for 2011-02-17
Industry News and Member News for Gregory Norman Bossert.
Quick Updates for 2011-02-16
Member News for Nalo Hopkinson, Ferrett Steinmetz, Jennifer Brozek, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Ellen Kushner, and Karen Sandler.
Quick Updates for 2011-02-15
Interview with SFWA member @ferretthimself on the hour-long Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing podcast: http://bit.ly/fMqo2V # Have you nominated for the Nebulas yet? If not, hop to it. Nominations close tomorrow at midnight PST. http://is.gd/gJ60hy #
