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Pretty weak IMO that SFWA is like “Hey committee chairs come to the Nebulas (In Chicago).”
No discount code or anything. Donate your time and energy and pay full freight..
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LOL. The Nebula voting packet is 95% PDFs.
Fuck that noise. I’m not struggling through reading a PDF on a device that I normally read on (it would have to be my iPad).
Nor am I inclined to try some janky conversion to EPUB.
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The New Nebula Award Finalists
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association has released its list of finalists for the new Nebula Awards. These are some of the best stories, movies, games and more from 2025, and a great way to boost your to be read list. If you’re an SFWA member you have until April 15th to vote on your favorites.
The list is available in lots of places but I’ll link to Andrew Liptak’s site because he has already done the work of finding links for the stories that are available online. Thanks, Andrew!
I’ll copy the short stories here, but click through to Andrew’s site for links to the novelettes and more. And do I love that many of the top short story markets are open access? I do!
Here are the finalists for the 2026 Nebula Awards
Best Short Story
- “Through the Machine” by P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed Magazine, 5/25)
- “Six People to Revise You” by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny Magazine, 1-2/25)
- “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Magazine 4/25)
- “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” by E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
- “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
- “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)
I’ve only read a couple of these stories so this promises to be a treat. Happy reading everyone!
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Photo by Enis Can Ceyhan on Unsplash #365Ways #365Ways2026 #freeFiction #inspiration #NebulaAwards #reading #SFWA #toBeRead #Writers #writing -
A few of my writing devices for an upcoming post on Writer Decks for SFWA's Planetside Magazine
#SFWA #writerdeck #thinkpad #byok #alphasmart #pomera #amwriting
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A few of my writing devices for an upcoming post on Writer Decks for SFWA's Planetside Magazine
#SFWA #writerdeck #thinkpad #byok #alphasmart #pomera #amwriting
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A few of my writing devices for an upcoming post on Writer Decks for SFWA's Planetside Magazine
#SFWA #writerdeck #thinkpad #byok #alphasmart #pomera #amwriting
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A few of my writing devices for an upcoming post on Writer Decks for SFWA's Planetside Magazine
#SFWA #writerdeck #thinkpad #byok #alphasmart #pomera #amwriting
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A few of my writing devices for an upcoming post on Writer Decks for SFWA's Planetside Magazine
#SFWA #writerdeck #thinkpad #byok #alphasmart #pomera #amwriting
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#SFWA have an interesting interview with a cover designer.
https://www.sfwa.org/2026/02/03/crafting-a-cover-an-interview-with-sff-illustrator-and-designer-jeff-brown/ -
Super excited as I recently became a full member of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer's Association (#SFWA)! Looking forward to continuing my journey of sci-fi storytelling. 😎🚀🛸
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I have to admit, I was pretty skeptical that MRM would ever budge on this. Good on SFWA for continuing to press the issue. Proof will be in the pudding, but this feels like a helpful, if belated, first step.
https://locusmag.com/2026/01/must-read-changes-contract-language/
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Answering the SFWA’s Survey on LLM Use in Industry: While I'm not an SFWA member or even an author (beyond this little blog), as a lifelong reader of SF, I figured it was worth a few minutes to add my response to their current Survey on LLM Use in Industry. For the sake of posterity, here are my responses. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/12/30/answering-the-sfwas-survey-on-llm-use-in-industry
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CW: SFWA LLM update for Nebula awards (positive?)
After backlash on social media, SFWA has edited its post and clarified that works that are made with generated material will not be eligible for the Nebula award.
Image source: https://bsky.app/profile/djangowexler.bsky.social/post/3maenxzic4k2n
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Good old SFWA. Make a decision without talking to membership at all in any way.
It's a bad mealy-mouthed announcement.
Community enraged.
Walk back terrible call, but now rightfully look bad.
All avoidable. It really makes me wonder if SFWA has any relevance any more. I want them to. I want them to be the leader in SFF advocacy that should be, but this dumb dumb stuff keeps happening.
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Shame on SFWA. Allowing "AI" work in the Nebulas so long as they're not "wholly written using generative large language model (LLM) tools" is a betrayal of every writer whose work has been stolen to train LLM tools.
You want to have a conversation about PWA, Grammarly, and other tools that use "A.I." to help in grammar editing, we can have that conversation. This is not that or you wouldn't need to be so cagey about it.
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@npt_writes I'm going to ask #SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association) about this and I hope #wga (Writer's Guild of America) members will do the same. We at very least should get money for these rights. These things are sellable and attack publishers income, not to mention that of writers caught in the middle. There's big guns in this war of words. Expect class action suits.
If you have membership in writers organizations, especially ones I didn't mention, why haven't you contacted them already!?
#ai #genAI #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #writer #author #bookstodon #books
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Watching the SFWA business meeting, while writing, at a loud ass bar.
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N.K. Jemisin honorée par la Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association !
L'autrice de la trilogie des Livres de la terre fracturée va devenir Grand Master ! Une chouette nouvelle...
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N. K. Jemisin named 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.
Congratulations to N. K. Jemisin.
#sf #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #sfwa
http://incompletefutures.com/2025/11/17/n-k-jemisin-named-sfwa-grand-master/
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And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month?
#AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #WritersCommunity #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #ReadEveryDay #read #Reading #AlwaysReading #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #BookLover #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmWritingSciFi #Bookstodon #Environment #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DR2lH3J6PEvO3I09sEqBM18kIAsO6ZM/view
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And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month?
#AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #WritersCommunity #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #ReadEveryDay #read #Reading #AlwaysReading #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #BookLover #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmWritingSciFi #Bookstodon #Environment #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DR2lH3J6PEvO3I09sEqBM18kIAsO6ZM/view
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And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month?
#AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #WritersCommunity #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #ReadEveryDay #read #Reading #AlwaysReading #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #BookLover #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmWritingSciFi #Bookstodon #Environment #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DR2lH3J6PEvO3I09sEqBM18kIAsO6ZM/view
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And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month?
#AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #WritersCommunity #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #ReadEveryDay #read #Reading #AlwaysReading #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #BookLover #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmWritingSciFi #Bookstodon #Environment #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DR2lH3J6PEvO3I09sEqBM18kIAsO6ZM/view
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And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month?
#AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #WritersCommunity #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #ReadEveryDay #read #Reading #AlwaysReading #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #BookLover #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmWritingSciFi #Bookstodon #Environment #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DR2lH3J6PEvO3I09sEqBM18kIAsO6ZM/view
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If you're attending the SFWA Nebula Conference in Kansas City this week/weekend, come on by the Live Action Slush event on Saturday from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Yours truly will be among the former or current slush readers sharing our totally subjective opinions on what does or doesn't hook us when we're first-reading fiction submissions!
Also I'm one of the authors in a networking reception from 8 PM - 11 PM on Friday. This one's open to the public, so swing by if you're in KC and want a signed book or a high five!
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If you're attending the SFWA Nebula Conference in Kansas City this week/weekend, come on by the Live Action Slush event on Saturday from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Yours truly will be among the former or current slush readers sharing our totally subjective opinions on what does or doesn't hook us when we're first-reading fiction submissions!
Also I'm one of the authors in a networking reception from 8 PM - 11 PM on Friday. This one's open to the public, so swing by if you're in KC and want a signed book or a high five!
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If you're attending the SFWA Nebula Conference in Kansas City this week/weekend, come on by the Live Action Slush event on Saturday from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Yours truly will be among the former or current slush readers sharing our totally subjective opinions on what does or doesn't hook us when we're first-reading fiction submissions!
Also I'm one of the authors in a networking reception from 8 PM - 11 PM on Friday. This one's open to the public, so swing by if you're in KC and want a signed book or a high five!
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If you're attending the SFWA Nebula Conference in Kansas City this week/weekend, come on by the Live Action Slush event on Saturday from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Yours truly will be among the former or current slush readers sharing our totally subjective opinions on what does or doesn't hook us when we're first-reading fiction submissions!
Also I'm one of the authors in a networking reception from 8 PM - 11 PM on Friday. This one's open to the public, so swing by if you're in KC and want a signed book or a high five!
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If you're attending the SFWA Nebula Conference in Kansas City this week/weekend, come on by the Live Action Slush event on Saturday from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Yours truly will be among the former or current slush readers sharing our totally subjective opinions on what does or doesn't hook us when we're first-reading fiction submissions!
Also I'm one of the authors in a networking reception from 8 PM - 11 PM on Friday. This one's open to the public, so swing by if you're in KC and want a signed book or a high five!
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@Priyajsridhar
How would I form a union for my creative industry of choice if one doesn't exist already?We've spent years building up the various writing guilds here in the U.S.: SFWA, HWA, RWA, etc. They set minimum professional rates and you can buy into group health insurance. I guess I'd use that model . . .
I also belong to a similar group for editors.
Before I was a writer/editor, I was an engineer and belonged to IEEE.
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@Priyajsridhar
How would I form a union for my creative industry of choice if one doesn't exist already?We've spent years building up the various writing guilds here in the U.S.: SFWA, HWA, RWA, etc. They set minimum professional rates and you can buy into group health insurance. I guess I'd use that model . . .
I also belong to a similar group for editors.
Before I was a writer/editor, I was an engineer and belonged to IEEE.
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@Priyajsridhar
How would I form a union for my creative industry of choice if one doesn't exist already?We've spent years building up the various writing guilds here in the U.S.: SFWA, HWA, RWA, etc. They set minimum professional rates and you can buy into group health insurance. I guess I'd use that model . . .
I also belong to a similar group for editors.
Before I was a writer/editor, I was an engineer and belonged to IEEE.
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Shock. Joy. And O. MY. GOD.
Well. Here’s some news. I don’t know what to say. It’s…ungraspable.
SFWA Names Nicola Griffith as the 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master
Can you believe it’s been 50 years since our first Grand Master was announced?
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is proud to celebrate the longevity of this distinguished title with Nicola Griffith, our 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.
The SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recognizes “lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.” It is named after author Damon Knight, SFWA’s founder and the organization’s 13th Grand Master. Initially, the Grand Master wasn’t given out every year, but from 1975 to 2025 much has changed in our field, including the consistency with which we award this prestigious post.
This year, our Grand Master enters a role previously held by Peter S. Beagle, Connie Willis, Nalo Hopkinson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey, Robin McKinley, Joe Haldeman, and other legends of genre fiction who have been granted this title.
Nicola Griffith, PhD, is a dual UK/US citizen and the author of nine novels, including Hild, Spear, and Ammonite. In addition to her fiction and nonfiction (New York Times, Guardian, Nature) she is known for her data-driven 2015 work on bias in the literary ecosystem; as founder and co-host, with Alice Wong, of #CripLit; and for her work on queering the Early Medieval. Awards include The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Society of Authors ADCI Literary Prize, two Washington State Book Awards, the Premio Italia, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree (Otherwise) awards, the Outstanding Mid-Career Authors Prize, and six Lambda Literary Awards. In 2024 she was inducted into the Museum of Popular Culture’s Science Fiction + Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Griffith lives with her wife, writer Kelley Eskridge, in Seattle, where she takes enormous delight in everything. This latest title, SFWA’s 41st Grand Master, is no exception:
“I am thunderstruck,” said Griffith, after receiving the news. “Amazed and moved and brimming with joy. I might never stop smiling.”
Widely acclaimed and bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler has known for years how much of a gift Griffith is to the literary community: “Ever since I first read Ammonite–back in 1993 when the world was young–I’ve made it my business to follow Griffith wherever she goes. And I have loved every place she’s taken me. She’s a writer who stuns. Incisive yet lyrical, pragmatic yet sexy, generous yet scary, always brilliant and, best of all, never ever boring. Every book she writes is one more bit of luck for us readers.”
SFWA President Kate Ristau resoundingly agrees:
“It is SFWA’s honor to recognize and celebrate her past achievements, while looking forward to her future triumphs. Her work continues to inspire and challenge me, and when asked to pick a Grand Master to lead us into our Diamond Year, I looked to Nicola for her stunning fiction, as well as her leadership and advocacy. She challenges us to reconsider the past and imagine a better, more inclusive future. She is the perfect Grand Master for our present moment, demonstrating through her life and work how to find one’s self, one’s purpose, and one’s community in complicated times, and to embrace those things joyfully and fully. 50 years after SFWA named its first Grand Master, we are thrilled to shine the spotlight on Nicola Griffith as our 41st.”
The title of 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master will be formally presented to Griffith during our 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference, held June 5–8, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. Registration for the conference is now open here, and details on her panels and appearances will be available shortly at events.sfwa.org. We hope you’ll join us this year in celebrating Griffith’s achievements, and help us to usher in the next chapter of SFWA’s story together.
Yes, I’ve had a few days to sit with this. No, I still can’t wrap my head around it. I will, I just haven’t yet.
!!!!!!! WOW !!!!!!!
#Criplit #awards #books #DamonKnightMemorialGrandMaster #fiction #GrandMaster #honours #literature #nebulaAwards #nebulaConference #SFWA #writing
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Some awards nominations are about to close, and some are still open. Nebula Award nominations close on the 28th. I'm longlisted for four BSFA awards for short stories on this list. I appreciate the consideration. Thank you for your votes and nominations!
#Nebula #BSFA #SFWA #scifi #shortficiton #fantasy #magicalrealism #nominations #sciencefiction #SFF #shortstories -
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Here is my updated #Solarpunk / #Permaculture / #Resiliency / #Hackerspace / #Makerspace / #RightToRepair / #LibraryOfThings list. I've included descriptions along with the account names. So many good accounts, I decided to alphasort for this round. Suggestions welcome!
@AgroecologyMap
Agroecology Map is an Open Platform that aims to assist in the mapping and exchange of experiences with the aim of bringing people together to strengthen and create new collaborative networks that enhance the sharing of real (and imaginary) experiences in #Agroecology (#Agroforestry Systems, Permaculture, #FoodSovereignty and Others)@alxd
Programmer, hacker, #solarpunk, educator, activist and a wannabe writer fascinated by how technology is portrayed in culture - and how that affects human lives. Co-author of @SolarpunkPrompts #podcast , exploring realistic stories of our #CimateFuture with all their traumas and hopes.@BrightFlame
Writes, teaches & makes magic for a just, regenerating world. Reclaiming Trad priestex. My debut speculative novel, THE WORKING, launched summer 2024! Sustainability Ed at Columbia U. #solarpunk #CliFi in various outlets. #Witch #SFWA #ClimateFictionWritersLeague #BSFW@LabB
We're #BTV's membership-based community #HackerSpace located at 12-22 North Street. Open for public hours every Thursday from 7-9pm, and we put on the Old North End Repair Cafe on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 11-3pm. (In #BurlingtonVermont)@lex
educator. activist. #solarpunk . father. #startrek lover. not necessarily in that order.@makerspace
At #MakerSpace, we are all about technology you can use to build your own stuff. Our goal is to help you turn your ideas into reality with hands-on projects for makers.
#HackYourWorld@onecommunity
Our mission at One Community is to help people create a better world by demonstrating a more #sustainable and enriching way of living and #OpenSource everything required for replication.@OWGF
Celebrating the potential for a #WonderfulGreenFuture in a #PostFossilFuels world.@PINA_na
Bringing Permaculture to the forefront in North America@ProdigalFrog
A frog who wants the objective truth about anything and everything.
Admin of #SLRPNK.net@pws
Former #bicycle mechanic, retired tech worker, repairer of things. Tell me about your bike and I'll try to help you fix it.@RepairCafe_Barry
A #RepairCafe! Reducing Waste. Sharing Skills. Bringing People Together. Held 1st Saturday of the month, 10am til 1pm, in Barry Library - everyone welcome. (Barry #Wales)@rhyseverquill
Journalist, writer, and community organiser. Co-founder of @thegazettecoop. " #ADHD, #Bisexuality, #Polyamory, #CommunityOrganising, #Cooperatives, #Journalism, #Writing, #Witchcraft, #Druidry, #Gardening, #Cooking, #Cartography, #Art, #Thrifting, #Hiking, #Foxes, #NaturePhotography, #VideoGames, #OpenSource #Solarpunk, #anarchism@solarpunkpresents
Solarpunk Presents is a podcast that explores the people and projects working on bringing us a better world today. Solarpunk is more than just an idea, more than just an aesthetic. Those inspire us, but where do we go from there? Hosts Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha are producing podcast episodes featuring interviews with people working to make the world a better place right now. Join us to explore #solarpunk in the present.@SolarpunkPrompts
What is Solarpunk? Why does it matter? In this series we discuss Solarpunk as a movement within art, literature, and activism. We explore its themes and talk about what separates it from its genre peers. Each episode explores a writing prompt set in a Solarpunk aesthetic with examples and inspirations from our world today. -
Hey! The Nebula Awards conference (June 6-9) registration is open and there’s an early bird discount through March 14, so be sure to sign up! The conference takes place in person in Pasadena, CA as well as online. I plan to be part of programming. More: https://events.sfwa.org #SFWA Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association #nebulaconference #NebulaAwards #sciencefiction #fantasy #writing #writingcommunity
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Hey! The Nebula Awards conference (June 6-9) registration is open and there’s an early bird discount through March 14, so be sure to sign up! The conference takes place in person in Pasadena, CA as well as online. I plan to be part of programming. More: https://events.sfwa.org #SFWA Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association #nebulaconference #NebulaAwards #sciencefiction #fantasy #writing #writingcommunity
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#SFWA "Take No Prisoners" #StoryBundle
https://storybundle.com/sfwaToday’s #featured #book 13 of 13! :ablobcatrave:
Taryn loses everything when an assassin invades her London pub & destroys her simple life.
Dragged to a new world, she must rely on the native intent on protecting her, only to discover her life is a lie.
Taryn must save this strange new land. Rhoane is meant to train her.
#BookToot #PortalFantasy #FatedMates #NonProfit #Charity @bookstodon @fantasy @bookstadon @romancelandia
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#SFWA "Take No Prisoners" #StoryBundle 🏴☠️
https://storybundle.com/sfwaToday’s #featured #book
SHERWOOD SMITH'SSASHARIA EN GARDE
A fugitive mother-daughter team vs a wicked king.
A witty #pirate with an unfortunate taste for neon colors + inept resistance fighters.
A prince galloping earnestly hither and yon, & a kick-butt princess in waiting!
#Swashbuckler L.A. Style!
#BookToot #Fantasy #PortalFantasy #LosAngeles #Rebellion #NonProfit #Charity @bookstadon @bookstodon @fantasy @sffbookclub
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#SFWA "Take No Prisoners" #StoryBundle 🏴☠️
https://storybundle.com/sfwaToday’s #featured #book
SHERWOOD SMITH'SSASHARIA EN GARDE
A fugitive mother-daughter team vs a wicked king.
A witty #pirate with an unfortunate taste for neon colors + inept resistance fighters.
A prince galloping earnestly hither and yon, & a kick-butt princess in waiting!
#Swashbuckler L.A. Style!
#BookToot #Fantasy #PortalFantasy #LosAngeles #Rebellion #NonProfit #Charity @bookstadon @bookstodon @fantasy @sffbookclub
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You know, encountering this review and then learning that R.F. Kuang won the Nebula award for "Babel" from last year just makes my day. Fantastic news.
https://file770.com/sfwa-announces-the-58th-nebula-awards-winners/
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At the #SFWA #NebulaConference. Beginning to see people and be social. Doing my best anyway!
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At the #SFWA #NebulaConference. Beginning to see people and be social. Doing my best anyway!
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At the #SFWA #NebulaConference. Beginning to see people and be social. Doing my best anyway!
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At the #SFWA #NebulaConference. Beginning to see people and be social. Doing my best anyway!
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At the #SFWA #NebulaConference. Beginning to see people and be social. Doing my best anyway!
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It keeps falling right at finals week for me, or I'd volunteer again this year!
But everyone should attend, virtually at least, because this event is awesome!
#Writing #Writers #California #SFBA #WritingCommunity #Editor #Editors #Publishing #ScifFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #GenreFiction #Nebula #Nebulas #NebulaAwards #NebulaConference #SFWA #ScienceFictionAndFantasyWritersOfAmerica
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It keeps falling right at finals week for me, or I'd volunteer again this year!
But everyone should attend, virtually at least, because this event is awesome!
#Writing #Writers #California #SFBA #WritingCommunity #Editor #Editors #Publishing #ScifFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #GenreFiction #Nebula #Nebulas #NebulaAwards #NebulaConference #SFWA #ScienceFictionAndFantasyWritersOfAmerica