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Quick Updates for 2011-05-04

Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @DianeWhiteside, author of The Shadow Guard (Kensington, 2011) http://www.dianewhiteside.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, @NataniaBarron, with a sale to Bull Spec. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Thomas Mays, with a sale to Jim Baen's Universe # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Dave Gross, author […]

Quick Updates for 2011-05-03

SFWA member @eugiefoster sold a short story, "Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo," to Daily Science Fiction. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member James Treadwell, author of Advent (Hodder & Stoughton (UK), 2012) http://www.jamestreadwell.com/ # SFWA member Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry)'s short "The Thick Night" is now up at Strange Horizons: http://qr.net/bptl # SF […]

Quick Updates for 2011-04-30

@Shirin_Dubbin @jayewells If you look at sub-genres, no category dominates the Nebula awards. UF is part of Fantasy. # @JeannieHolmes @StaciaKane @jayewells Clearly we are using dif. defs of urban fantasy. "American Gods" is UF but not paranormal romance. # @jayewells @JeannieHolmes @StaciaKane Which is what? # @jayewells I didn't see what your big question […]

In Memoriam: Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ (b.1937) died on April 29, 2011, two days after entering hospice.  Russ was admitted to hospice following a series of strokes. Russ received a BA from Cornell in 1957 where she studied under Vladimir Nabokov.  She began publishing science fiction in 1959 with the short story “Nor Custom Stale.”  In 1960, she earned […]

Quick Updates for 2011-04-26

Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @marygthompson, author of Wuftoom (Clarion Books, 2012) http://www.marygthompson.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Barb Hendee, author of Of Truth and Beasts (9th in a series) http://www.barbhendee.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Paul Celmer, with a sale to Bull Spec # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active […]