David Kopaska-Merkel, Lou Anders, Jack McDevitt and Joanne Merriam will be reading and participating in panel discussions at the brand new mini-con 2010: A Space Oddity in Tuscaloosa, AL. David and Joanne (and a third panelist TBD) will be doing a Q&A on submission etiquette, and there will be a panel on character and story development, […]
RT @victoriastrauss: Open Book Alliance: how Google Book Settlement gives Google monopoly in another area: search http://3.ly/BtE6 # @jasonsanford 🙂 in reply to jasonsanford # FYI: @Pyr_Books is now accepting unagented manuscripts in certain subgenres: http://bit.ly/ar7J8y # At some point in the past couple of days the new SFWA website passed a million page views. […]
Writer Beware breaks down an email solicitatioin from Aspire Magazine to the nitty gritty.
Member news for Joanne Merriam, Will McIntosh, Jennifer Brozek, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Alexey Pehov, David D. Levine, and David B. Coe!
@jchutchins Thank you for nominating. in reply to jchutchins # Congratulations to SFWA member @joannemerriam who sold a short story to Per Contra. # SFWA members, you have until 11:59pm tonight to turn in your Nebula ballots for the Nomination period. http://is.gd/8o7am # A reminder to people watching the running tally: The paper ballots have […]
Using real-world diseases in a work of fiction has a large number of potential pitfalls. Here are a few tips about how to make your pestilential plot point a little more plausible.
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Yasmine Galenorn and Marshall Payne!
Around the world people are celebrating February 14, 2010 as a special day. What, exactly, that special day is depends on who you are and what tradition you grew up in. It provides an excellent example of ways to use different calendars in world building.
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Julie Barrett, Daina Chaviano, Cory Doctorow, Allison Pang, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Cynthia Ward!
@julieb Oh, you qualify! Welcome to SFWA. in reply to JulieB # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member, Julie Barrett (@julieb) http://www.barrettmanor.com/ # @JulieB Very happy you joined and just in time to nominate for the Nebulas, too! Instructions will arrive soon. in reply to JulieB # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Daina Chaviano, […]
Alex Delmore wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke, her brother is an idiot, and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there’s a genie in town—and he’s hiring at the Wellspring Mall.
Auston Habershaw is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing about the could-be and never-was, and also teaches composition and literature at MCPHS University in Boston, MA.
Come celebrate our diamond year with us! Register now for SFWA's 60th Annual Nebula Conference, hosted at Kansas City, MO, and also online, from June 5-8.
