Gaylactic Spectrum Award Winners Announced
The 2007 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, honoring sf/f/h that deals positively with gay characters, were finally announced for Short Fiction and Other Work...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Robert J. Sawyer renews an option and sells Lithuanian rights
Robert J. Sawyer reports an extension of the option on The Terminal Experiment and the sale of Lithuanian rights to Calculating God...
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Nalo Hopkinson starting eponymous imprint at Red Deer Press
As a companion to Robert J. Sawyer Books, Red Deer Press has hired Nalo Hopkinson to create her own eponymous imprint...
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Wastelands Not a Wasted Evening
The monthly reading at New York's South Street Seaport featured contributors from the new anthology Wastelands, edited by John Joseph Adams...
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Clockwork Phoenix coming together; some stories accepted
Editor Mike Allen has chosen half the content of the forthcoming anthology. Contributos include John Grant, Tanith Lee...
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Fund raiser in support of Robbie Greenberger announced
Updating a previous article: Kate Greenberger has announced a fund-raiser contest in support of her brother Robbie's battle with acute myelogenous leukemia...
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Mayhar and Lansdale to be honored at Nebula Awards
Ardath Mayhar has been named the Author Emeritus and Joe R. Lansdale will serve as Toastmaster at SFWA's annual award fest...
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Greg van Eekhout sells first novel to Bantam Dell
Greg van Eekhout sold his first novel, NorseCODE, to Juliet Ulman at Bantam Dell. Agent Caitlin Blasdell of Liza Dawson Associates handled the sale.
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City of Saints and Madmen going back to press
The Spectra trade paperback edition of Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen is going back to press...
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Yasmine Galenorn sells three more Otherwolds to Berkley
Yasmine Galenorn sold three more books in her Otherworld Series to Kate Seaver at Berkley, via agent Meredith Bernstein. The stories are about "three half-human half-Fae sisters out to save two worlds, one monster at a time."
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Actor Barry Morse Dies
Actor Barry Morse (1918-2008) will be best known for his role as the detective in The Fugitive, but he was also a regular on Space: 1999, and appeared in...
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Agent Lucienne Diver now an author; sells Vamped
Lucienne Diver the agent is now the author of Vamped, a young adult novel that's a cross between Clueless and Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
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Agent/editor Kate Jones dies
Agent and editor Kate Jones (1961-2008) operated at the highest levels of British publishing, and managed the James Bond estate...
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Jennifer Pelland’s Unwelcome Bodies coming from Apex
Jennifer Pelland's first short story collection, Unwelcome Bodies, will be published at the end of the month. Pre-orders for trade paperbacks and signed hardcovers...
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Robert Redick’s Red Wolf Conspiracy brings high six figures in US auction
US rights to Robert V.S. Redick's debut fantasy trilogy—which begins with The Red Wolf Conspiracy (published this month in the UK)—sold to Del Rey for "a substantial six-figure sum..."
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