Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America

This is what one writer of SFWA has to say about Self-Publishing and where it's going. Interesting insight. Even mentions Createspace by name, for that matter. Here's some neat essays on the use of language too: How Pragmatics can help you How Morphology can help you How Articulatory Phonetics can help you How Linguistics can help you Forgive me if I've posted these before, but I'...

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Eyes on the Horizons III: Standards? Or Double Standards?

...suffer from the bans by the Romance Writers of America, the Mystery Writers of America and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. One was also upset over SFWA's comment that "Harlequin ... rules. What about the Mystery Writers of America? Well, MWA says that those on their ... purposes: * Payment for all works of fiction (other than reprints or serializations), either in...

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MWA Weighs In On Harlequin Horizons

... America (a sponsor of Writer Beware, along with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) issued this announcement to...all of its imprints. Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is deeply concerned about the troubling...that by paying for those services, the writer is more likely to sell his manuscript.... On November 9, Mystery Writers of America sent a letter to Harlequin about the...

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Well, That Was Quick

...! After the Romance Writers of America (RWA) applied an almost instantaneous smackdown yesterday, the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) came down hard and fast ... Edgar Awards. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America also released a...development of their careers. When a writer pays a company to publish his...a leading publisher of women's fiction in a rapidly changing environment, ...

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Producers Guild To Honor Joss Whedon

The Producers Guild of America (PGA), a national non-profit trade group committed to protecting the... in film, television and new media, announced today that award-winning science-fiction and fantasy storyteller Joss Whedon will be honored with the 2010 Vanguard Award at the ... 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium. Whedon is a producer, writer, director, and creator for such hit television programs as ...

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K. Tempest Bradford, Octavia Butler, Guillermo Rosales, Chol Hwan Kang, Ying Chang Compestine

... is a ceremony and a wish-fulfillment fantasy and a serious argument about grief and...and dense piece of world-building that uses the conventional shorthand of science fiction to shattering political effect. It reminds me a little of the good...studying critical history. She is a bleak writer but she never gives into despair, ...forget the public option, go single-payer, America!) but I am for, you know, ...

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Steampunk and Hollywood (Part One)

... the Beatles were fans of SF & fantasy. For example, the cover of Ringo’...Hollywood while HG Wells was the writer whose works were sought for prestigious...date of Columbus’s landing in America. The movie had the Eloi and...” or “ Elephant Walk ” to be science-fiction. After that, steampunk mostly stayed...the glasses of Nostalgia and without Science or Technology to remind them ...

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James Cameron on Avatar and the Quest for Perfect CGI Boobs (no, seriously)

..., which was designed to create fantasy CG characters and was not .... PLAYBOY: We seem to need fantasy icons like Lara Croft and ... would much rather deal with fantasy women than real women. Let’s... was a general resentment against America. We lived in a border ...to reconcile those two directions except science fiction. Two of my closest ... question to rest.” As co-writer and director of two Terminator ...

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W Is for Waukegan

.... Specifically, the Ray Bradbury sights, since the famed science fiction author was born and bred there. If you think you've never read any ... somehow doubt—you're probably wrong. Not just a scifi writer, Bradbury crossed over into fantasy, horror, mystery, and more and has turned up in TV ... I won't say he's my absolute favorite writer, I like him greatly, and he's been a ...

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Links about world building and writing

... A lengthy article on world building by fantasy writer Patricia C. Wrede http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/ (SFWA is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) You may find the...www.sfwa.org/category/craft-of-writing/ Writer Beware (about fraudulent schemes aimed at ...) http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/ And the Blog for Writer ...

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