Quick Updates for 2009-12-24
Member news from Caren Gussoff and Victoria Strauss!
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Ursula K. Le Guin resigns from Authors Guild
On December 18th, Ursula K. Le Guin posted an open letter on her website, resigning from the Authors Guild in protest about its role in the Google Book Settlement. She has been a member since 1972.
Speculative Literature Foundation Announces 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant Winner
The Speculative Literature Foundation announced today that its 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant has been awarded to SFWA member Caren Gussoff. The $800 grant will be used to help Gussoff to travel to western Washington State in order to research the setting of her near-future novel The King of Seattle.
Quick Updates for 2009-12-23
RT @cindypon: over $30k raised fundraising by Pat Rothfuss 4 heifer intl. http://bit.ly/7o1nNA 1st signed edition @neilhimself stardust #
McIntyre Quartet Debuts at BookViewCafe.com
The STARFARERS quartet debuted at Book View Cafe on 20 December 2009. The four novels — Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus — will be serialized one chapter per week, and the ebook versions will be available for $4.99 each. The episodes will be launched on Sundays at http://www.bookviewcafe.com/ and available daily at McIntyre’s novel bookshelf: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/ […]
Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons
In the wake of her MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES, author and publisher Vera Nazarian will write NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS, another hilarious Jane Austen parody in which romantic heroine Catherine Morland must not only decrypt the mystery of the Udolpho Code but win her true love Henry Tilney, while beset by all the […]
How to Blow Up a Planet!
Jeanne Cavelos appears in a show currently airing on the Science Channel. SCI-FI SCIENCE: PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE is a six-episode TV miniseries airing in December and January. Physicist Michio Kaku hosts. Jeanne is in the episode titled “How to Blow Up a Planet.” The episode airs on 12/22 at 10:30 PM and at other […]
Drewlie and Julia: Or, The Case of the Alias’d Literary Agent
A cautionary tale of why it is important to research an agent before submitting.
Quick Updates for 2009-12-19
Resources and Member News forLou Berger, Allen Lewis, Joseph Adegboyega-Edun!
Quick Updates for 2009-12-18
Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Lou Berger! # RT @victoriastrauss: Thoughtful article from author Jason Pinter on social networking & the authorial mystique http://tinyurl.com/y8u3kkw # RT @victoriastrauss: American Library Assn urges Justice Dept. 2 "actively supervise" Google Book Settlement http://tinyurl.com/y8swyzq # RT @victoriastrauss: French court finds Google guilty of copyright violation, orders it to […]
