Jeff Carlson sells second sequel to Plague Year in US and Germany
Jeff Carlson has now committed trilogy, selling the third of his "Nanotech Trilogy," Mind Plague to Ace in the US and Piper Verlag in Germany...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Lee and Miller sell new Liaden novel to Baen, and more
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller sold an untitled sequel to their Liaden Universe novel Scout's Progress to Baen Books, and also sold electronic rights to...
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SFWA’s Contracts Committee comments on Amazon’s Kindle contract
SFWA's Contracts Committee looked into the boilerplate contract Amazon recently posted for authors wishing to make their books available through the booksellers Kindle system. Their annotation raises many questions and concerns...
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Boom! Studios hires Wendy Wallace as General Manager
Boom! Studios hired Wendy Wallace, formerly of NBC/Universal, as their General Manager. Wallace has previously worked on Eureka, Monk, and the Battlestar Galactica miniseries...
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Market Maven #1 e-mails; many bounce
Cynthia Ward has e-mailed the first issue of The Market Maven, but received many bounce notices. If you're a subscriber...
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The Sheriff of Yrnameer is Michael Rubens’s debut humorous novel
Michael Rubens sold his first novel, The Sheriff of Yrnameer to Marty Asher at Vintage Books via agent John Silbersack of the Trident Media Group. The book is "a humorous novel in which an ordinary guy becomes the unlikely hero of the only known planet in the universe without corporate sponsorship."
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Ace to republish entire Liaden Universe in paperback
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller report that Ace Books "will be reissuing the entire Liaden Universe series in mass market paperback, starting in December 2008." The planned schedule is...
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Sales of Del Rey books by Gunn, Keyes, Novik, and Turtledove
Bookspan bought book club rights to works by David Gunn, Greg Keyes, and Naomi Novik, while Easton Press took Gunn and Harry Turtledove...
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Rick Wilber’s memoir/biography of his father
Author Rick Wilber has written a memoir of his father, Del Wilber, who was a major league baseball catcher, coach, and scout...
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Dan Simmons’s Hyperion may finally become a motion picture
Warner Bros. has a producer and an adaptor lined up to turn Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos into a feature film, combining the first two...
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Buy Burstein’s Book, Be Tuckerized
Michael A. Burstein's forthcoming I Remember the Future is available for pre-order, and two people who place their orders by 15 June will appear in the book...
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Upcoming Destinies Programming
Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will celebrate Superman's birth, and then its own...
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Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in SF/F Writing
Stephen Leech of the University of South Florida won this year's Dell Magazines Award for his short story "Blank, White and Blue"...
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Byzarium’s April 2008 issue now available
The April issue of the webzine "dedicated to fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fiction" has the first half of the winners of their Bad-Fic Contest...
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Upcoming from Elder Signs: horror and cyberpunk
Elder Signs Press has announced a new novel by John Shirely, two other horror novels, and the third edition of The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia...
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