Quick Updates for 2009-12-09
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Angel McCoy, Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, James Patrick Kelly, Aliette de Bodard, Kami Garcia, and Margaret Stohl
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Hugo Awards Administrator discusses amended rules
Vincent Docherty, WSFS Division Head for the 2010 Worldcon, Aussiecon 4, and Administrator for the Hugo Awards discusses the amended Hugo rules. Specifically, he answers the question “Will blogs and websites be eligible in the Best Fanzine and Best Semiprozine categories if they meet the general criteria of either category?”
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-08
@rosefox @nnedi The short name is a handy thing. in reply to rosefox # RT @victoriastrauss: The Atlantic will sell
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-08
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Paolo Bacigalupi, Alex Bledsoe, Aliette de Bodard, and Cindy Pon
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-07
Resources, Industry News, and news on members Dave Creek, Stacia Kane, and Terry Bisson
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Author Solutions CEO Responds to Harlequin/Nelson Flap
Kevin Weiss, President and CEO of Author Solutions Inc., has issued a video statement addressing the responses by RWA, SFWA, MWA, and NINC to ASI’s recent partnerships with commercial publishers in launching pay-to-publish divisions.
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-04
Resources, Member News, and Industry News for 2009-12-04
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MWA delists Harlequin and all its imprints
The Board of Mystery Writers of America voted unanimously on Wednesday to remove Harlequin and all of its imprints from their list of Approved Publishers, effective immediately. Harlequin remains in violation of their rules regarding the relationship between a traditional publisher and its various for-pay services.
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Google Settlement, Supplemental Notice
The Google Books Settlement has released a Supplemental Notice that has a summary of the changes between the original version and the 2.0. It is only six pages long and worth looking over, though it is not comprehensive.