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Quick Updates for 2010-11-19

RT @Catrambo: Flash fiction competition 2010: Forgotten futures – deadline tomorrow! – New Scientist http://bit.ly/bdx3bH # Chat with SFWA member @nkjemisin plus a giveaway at 9 p.m. on the @KnightAgency blog! http://bit.ly/cmLIKq # SFWA member @daviddlevine has put his story "Teaching the Pig to Sing" online for free: http://bit.ly/9II9NB #

Quick Updates for 2010-11-18

Industry News, Resources, and Member News for Glenn Lewis Gillette, Pamela Taylor, Sarah Frost, Kyle Aisteach, Ada Milenkovic Brown, Matthew Bennardo, Sunny Moraine, Jamie Todd Rubin, Tobias Buckell, Andrew Mayer, Lena Coakley, Gayle Ann Williams, Jim C. Hines, Alethea Kontis, Marjorie Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, Jay Lake, Ken Scholes, Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Chris McKitterick, Seanan McGuire, Matthew Kressel, Stephanie Draven, and Jim Freund.

Guest Post–Work Like Hell: Lessons from the Pulp Jungle

Gruber was living on dreams and precious else during those lean, dangerous years. He played hide and seek with his landlord until he could scrounge his rent, reduced his food budget by eating “automat” soup (a meal made of the free ketchup and crackers available at the automat, stirred in a bowl, with the hot water for tea to taste), and dropping off manuscripts on foot to avoid any postal costs.

Quick Updates for 2010-11-17

Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Gayle Ann Williams (@GayleWriter) author of TSUNAMI BLUE. http://www.gayleannwilliams.com/ # Happy release day for SONGS OF LOVE & DEATH: Gardner Dozois antho w/SFWA members @majorieliu, @YasmineGalenorn + others. # Happy release day to METAtropolis: Cascadia. Stories by SFWA members @jay_lake @kenscholes @tobiasbuckell @matociquala & @MaryRobinette # Welcome to SFWA's […]

Quick Updates for 2010-11-16

Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry) with a sale to @strangehorizons. http://sunnymoraine.com/ # SFWA's 2010 Nebula Award nomination period is open. It runs from 11/15 – 2/15/2011. http://is.gd/hawS9 # SFWA members who wish to submit their work for consideration may do so in the Discussion Forums. http://www.sfwa.org/member-fiction #

SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Award Nomination period is open

SFWA’s 2010 Nebula Award® nomination period is open from November 15, 2010 to February 15, 2011 23:59 PST. Active and Associate SFWA members are eligible to submit nominating ballots. http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-nomination Nebula Facts Active and Associate members may nominate up to 5 works in each category of the Nebulas, the Bradbury and the Andre Norton Award. Members may […]

Quick Updates for 2010-11-15

Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @AndrewMayer, author of The Falling Machine (PYR, 2011) http://www.andrewpmayer.com/ # FYI. We just signed @AndrewMayer up for membership in the bar at #orycon Yes… BarCon is where business happens. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Ada Milenkovic Brown with a sale to IMGS. http://countesslovlace.livejournal.com # Welcome to SFWA's […]

Guest Post–A Writer’s Guide to Social Media

People once learned from one another what was worth knowing and doing, and the best of these memes worked their way through the population like a unending game of telephone. It was only with the advent of mass communication technology like printing, radio, and TV that a select few became able to easily influence great numbers of people. But with social media those select few are now finding themselves increasingly drowned out.