Agent Colleen Lindsay updates her query guidelines
She is no longer accepting queries by paper mail: it's all electronic or nothing...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
WorldCon Photos
If you missed it and want to see what you missed, or if you were there and want to relive it, here are links to many of the photos of Denvention 3...
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Sigma’s efforts now in a glossy document, presented at WorldCon
Sigma, the think tank of writers who advise the government on formerly unthinkable possibilities, was surprised with a public presentation on their efforts at WorldCon...
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Part of Asimov’s September issue available for free
Two of the novelettes and all of the columns of the September issue of Asimov's Science Fiction are available on the magazine's web site...
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Dorling Kindersley plans two big comic retrospectives
Dorling Kindersley will be releasing coffee table books covering DC's Vertigo line and the entire Marvel Universe...
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Bertelsmann completes sale of book clubs to Najafi
Private equity firm Najafi Companies has completed its purchase of the Bertelsmann Direct Group, including the book clubs...
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Playwright/actor George Furth dies
Playwright/character actor George Furth (1932-2008) had plays produced on Broadway, and appeared in dozens of films...
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Jim Baen’s Universe August 2008 Issue
The August issue of Jim Baen's Universe has fiction by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Todd McCaffrey, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Bud Sparhawk, Bud Webster, Stanley G. Weinbaum...
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Golden Duck Award Winners
The Golden Duck Award winners for excellence in children's science fiction literature were recently announced...
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Other Awards Announced at WorldCon
In addition to the previously announced awards, WorldCon saw the presentation of the First Fandom, Big Heart, and Special Committee Awards...
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WorldCon 2010
WorldCon 2010 will be Aussiecon 4, the fourth World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Australia, and the 18th to be held outside the United States...
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CBLDF reschedules cancelled Doctorow-headlined fundraiser
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has rescheduled the fundraiser headlined by Cory Doctorow and DJ Spooky, for 21 August in New York City...
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David Dvorkin sells new and reprint novels to Norilana
David Dvorkin sold rights to five reprint novels and two more new novels in his "The Prisoner of the Blood" series to Norilana...
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“Return to Luna” writing contest winners
The winners of the "Return to Luna" writing contest, co-sponsored by Hadley Rille Books and the National Space Society, are...
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Leigh Grossman and Rowena Sandoval wed
Author/publisher/professor Leigh Grossman married web designer Rowena Sandoval in a ceremony that mixed cultures and times...
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