Quick Updates for 2011-02-20
The deadline for claiming the Google Books Settlement cash payment has been extended to 1 year after/if the settlement is approved. # There is a SFWA Regional Meeting at #Radcon at 10 am today in Sage. #
The deadline for claiming the Google Books Settlement cash payment has been extended to 1 year after/if the settlement is approved. # There is a SFWA Regional Meeting at #Radcon at 10 am today in Sage. #
SFWA member @blakecharlton's novelette "Endosymbiont" is on Escape Pod. http://bit.ly/hVpjaI # SFWA member @alcole123 asks HOW MANY AGENTS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW A WRITER? New Hollywood MisAdventure: http://is.gd/YgVRhD # SFWA member @catvalente announces her candidacy for Eastern Regional Director of SFWA. # @cathshaffer You are in the South/Central region. Lee Martindale is the S/C […]
SFWA member @tobiasbuckell was on the front cover of the Bluffton News last week: http://bit.ly/dLohiq # SFWA member @keffy's story "The Ghost of a Girl Who Never Lived" tied for third in the InterGalactic Awards: http://6.ly/fbb # PHANTAS, a speculative poetry collection by SFWA member Jeffry Dwight is available now from Curiosities. #
Interview with SFWA member @ferretthimself on the hour-long Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing podcast: http://bit.ly/fMqo2V # Have you nominated for the Nebulas yet? If not, hop to it. Nominations close tomorrow at midnight PST. http://is.gd/gJ60hy #
Congratulations to SFWA member @nalohopkinson who will be an Prof. specializing in SF & fantasy at the UC Riverside. http://3.ly/cTYw #
@lightspeedmag Technically, you only become eligible in June. It still requires a board vote. #
SFWA member @arcaedia has been promoted to VP at Donald Maass Literary Agency, where she will continue to represent talented writers. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Eugene Myers (@ecmyers) author of Fair Coin (PYR). # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate Member @BritMandelo. Look for her qualifying story "Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun" […]
SFWA member @KateMilford is pleased that her novel THE BONESHAKER made Locus's 2010 recommended YA reading list. # SFWA member @leancoakley's YA short story "Mouse" will be published in an upcoming, as yet untitled, McGraw-Hill Ryerson anthology. # @britmandelo You actually just need proof of the sale to join, if it is to a qualifying […]
Help a SFWA author research: @johncleaver needs some fake swear words for his new series: http://is.gd/PIGUi4 # Hey, SFWA members. It's Monday and I'm wondering what news you have that you'd like us to announce for you. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member, Amy Treadwell. Read one of her qualifying stories online. http://is.gd/KWNg6F # […]
British author Brian Jacques (b.June 15, 1939) died on February 5, 2011 following emergency surgery for an aortic aneurysm. Jacques published his juvenile novel Redwall, about a collection of anthropomorphic mice, badgers, voles, and other creatures, in 1986.