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How Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors and Publishers Can Take Advantage of Price...
by Morgan Hubbard If you’re an author or publisher, price promotions are a powerful way to reach new readers and sell books. How powerful? In 2015, price promotions on BookBub alone drove sales of over...
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4 Pitfalls To Avoid When Crafting Trans Characters (SF&F Edition!)
By Ashley Lauren Rogers There are numerous examples of classic science fiction and fantasy stories that deal with gender and what happens when we deviate from expectations of that gender. Include...
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Using Comic Scripts to Outline Your Fiction
by J.D. Harlock Sometimes, outlining is a never-ending struggle. Too much? Too little? You can never really tell until you finally start writing that first draft. That may seem like a stretch, but keep...
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SFWA to Host Silent Auction
SFWA is launching an online auction to support its expanding membership base of over 2,000 members, advocacy efforts for all writers, and initiatives to better serve marginalized communities within the...
View ArticleSFWA Market Report For May
Welcome to the May edition of the SFWA Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any market in the report below does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. New Markets Friends Journal: Quaker...
View ArticleIn Memoriam – Jan Stirling
Jan Stirling (b.1950) died on May 8. Stirling published her first story, “Were-Wench” in 1995 in the anthology Chicks in Chainmail and went on to publish stories in three additional volumes of the...
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Neurodiversity and the Business of Writing, Part 1: #OwnVoices and...
by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt If you are a writer and an avid Twitter user, you may be familiar with the term #OwnVoices and pitch events such as #PitMad and #DVPit. There is some measure of controversy...
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Final Hours of SFWA Silent Auction
May 17, 2021 — Monday, May 17, at Noon PST, will bring a close to The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., (SFWA) 2021 Silent Auction. Final bids may be placed at...
View ArticleIn Memoriam – Marvin Kaye
Anthologist Marvin Kaye (b.1938) died on May 13. After working as a journalist, Kaye became a senior editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich before going freelance in 1970. His anthologies included the...
View ArticleIn Memoriam – Don Sakers
Don Sakers (b.1958) died from a heart attack on May 17. Sakers began publishing short fiction in 1983 and published two novels in the PsiScouts series with Phil Meade as well as the stand alone novel...
View ArticleCall for Submissions—”Magic and Mayhem” SFWA StoryBundle
The SFWA Self-Publishing Committee is happy to announce that we are open for submissions for the next SFWA Fantasy StoryBundle. This is a great chance for our independent and small press authors to...
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Author Advances: An Update for Your Expectations
by Alice Speilburg Nearly every summer, I bring on an intern for the agency, and each week we cover a different publishing topic, focusing on traditional publishing paths in the US. When we get to...
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What Technology Can’t SF Writers Live Without?
by Julie Nováková SF authors are accustomed to creating intelligent spaceships, spinning space stations, flying cars or super-advanced robots, but what real-world technology can’t they live without...
View ArticleSFWA Market Report For June
Welcome to the May edition of the SFWA Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any market in the report below does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. New Markets Muddy Paw Press Contest...
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SFWA Announces 56th Annual Nebula Award Winners
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 56th Annual Nebula Awards®. These awards are given to the writers of the best speculative...
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Nonviolence and the Hero’s Duel
by Gabriel Ertsgaard From Hector and Achilles to Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, the heroic duel is a fiction staple. However, my special interest (and the topic of my unfinished book) is how to tell...
View ArticleSFWA Market Report For July
Welcome to the July edition of the SFWA Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any market in the report below does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. New Markets Life Beyond Us: An...
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Neurodiversity and the Business of Writing, Part 2: ND Difficulties in...
by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt Part 1 of this series focused on the importance of #OwnVoices stories and the representation of neurodiversity and the neurodiverse (ND) in modern media. Part 2 covers the...
View ArticleIn Memoriam – William F. Nolan
William F. Nolan (b.1928) died on July 15 from complications due to an infection. He was 93. Nolan was best known for his work on Logan’s Run in 1967, co-authored with George Clayton Johnson. The work...
View ArticleMichi Trota Resigns as SFWA Editor-in-Chief
As many of SFWA’s publications are available to the speculative fiction community at large and the general public, we want to share that our editor-in-chief, Michi Trota, has stepped down from her...
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