Home > Blogs > SFWA Blog

SFWA Blog

Quick Updates for 2010-11-25

@Leannarenee So glad you could come! # @Jess_Wade Likewise, delighted to see you. # @lindsayribar I felt your pain this morning. # @papertyger My apologies. # SFWA member @ferretthimself has a new story "As Below, So Above," is up at http://bit.ly/cxGoc3. # Happy release day to WILD CARDS I with new stories from SFWA members […]

Quick Updates for 2010-11-24

@DelReySpectra Oh no! We tried to get invites out to all the publishers. # @rosefox @CherylMorgan It's always been open door. Also invitations were supposed to have gone out. Will check on what happened. # Guest Post–Just Breathe: Rejuvenating Your Imagination http://3.ly/st97 # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Eilis O'Neal (@EilisONeal), author of The […]

Quick Updates for 2010-11-22

Merry Blacksmith Press opens SFWA member Lou Antonelli's collection "Texas & Other Planets" for orders Monday, Nov. 22.http://is.gd/hw6d5 # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Anna Elliott (@anna_elliott) author of DARK MOON OF AVALON (S&S, 2010) http://is.gd/hw6xD # @craignewmark Not at this time, although you can subscribe to just the QuickUpdates RSS feed which often […]

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.