All of us have an automatic scale of justice inside of us. We can’t turn it off. Nor can we ignore it. It’s very simple. If someone’s bad outweighs their good, then we think they don’t deserve good things. Conversely, if someone’s good outweighs their bad, we think they should be happy.
Industry News and Member News for Sara Creasy, Dan Gollub, Karen Sandler, Jess Haines, Seanan McGuire, and Laura Anne Gilman.
Rob Horning in The New Inquiry says publishers will not only use data collected from eReaders to track your buying habits, they’ll use it to track your reading habits. Did you skip to the end of the book? They’ll know. Did you give up on page 28? They’ll know.
I don’t often write posts like this, because it’s really like shooting fish in a barrel. And there are so many red flags here that savvy writers may wonder why I bother. But there are a lot of new writers searching for agents, many of whom are probably new to Writer Beware, and may not yet be clear on what to watch out for.
SFWA member @seananmcguire's short story "Riddles," sold to HUMAN TALES, coming from Dark Quest Books. #
For the past year, I’ve been working with dancers from Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague on creating a tool that translates text into simple choreographies. A user types a word in a typesetting-like application that plays back this word as an uninterrupted dance sequence where dancer’s body temporarily makes positions recognizable as letters.
SFWA member Sara Creasy has been nominated for a Philip K Dick Award for her debut SF novel Song of Scarabaeus (Eos). # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Dan Gollub. Read his qualifying story at Nature http://is.gd/tuu0Pu # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Karen Sandler (@karensandlerYA), author of Night Whispers (Berkely Jove, 1999) […]
The Banff Centre, located in Banff National Park of Canada, has issued a press release that indicates they are accepting applications for upcoming courses.
@cindypon Sorry, yes. Paolo's email address. Login to your profile. Then use the online member directory. http://is.gd/oCrE3W #
SFWA members, don't forget to nominate for the Nebulas. Nominations close on February 15. http://is.gd/V1t3jC #
Meet Theo Hoover, disgruntled history repairman, who accidentally becomes Grand Oversee — humanity’s supreme leader — managing the terraforming of Sunnyside, mankind’s potential new home planet. At the worst possible time… the aliens are coming.
A veteran award-winning author of 20 thrilling young adult and middle grade metaphysical adventures–including The Translucent Boy series–Tom Hoffman received a B.S. in psychology from Georgetown University and has lived in Alaska since 1972.
