A couple of weeks ago, I reported that the parties involved in the Google Book Settlement had applied for an extension of the deadline for authors to file claims for cash payments for works scanned by Google without permission.
This guest post by author and essayist Kim Brittingham addresses an issue I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about lately: pay-to-play TV talk shows.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is proud to announce the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards. The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C.. Other awards to […]
Industry News and Member News for Tobias Buckell, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Jeffry Dwight, Blake Charlton, Allan Cole, and Catherynne Valente.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
The publishing news of the week–maybe of the year–is the collapse of Borders, the USA’s second largest bookstore chain.
Character and problem by themselves don’t go anywhere. You still have to build reader tension to a sharp point. So how do you do that?
Writing is a risky career choice and one that doesn’t always yield a lot of concrete reward or social approval. But if one pretends it’s not a choice, then one doesn’t have to worry about those things, or at least not in the same way.
Industry News and Member News for Gregory Norman Bossert.
Member News for Nalo Hopkinson, Ferrett Steinmetz, Jennifer Brozek, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Ellen Kushner, and Karen Sandler.
SFWA Active and Associate members, tomorrow, February 15, is the last day to nominate for the Nebula Awards. There are some of the 389 free pieces of eligible fiction available in the members’ only Discussion Forum for your consideration. Make sure you go to the Nebula nomination ballot today or tomorrow to nominate your five favorites […]
In the sequel to the critically acclaimed Hot Moon, set in an alternate 1983, Apollo astronaut Vivian Carter and her crew barely survive an armed attack from mysterious assailants at the lunar South Pole … and that’s just the beginning.
E.E. King is an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist.
She’s a member of WSFA and HWA,
HerNovel, Gods & Monsters is being serialized weekly on MetaStellar magazine https://www.metastellar.com/books/gods-and-monsters-by-e-
