SFWA

Yup, I drank the Koolaid. To be fair, I drank it a long time ago. When I was a kid, my mother was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club. We had these built-in bookshelves in the spare room that were half full of science fiction hardcovers by many of the Golden Age and later SFF greats – Tolkien, McCaffrey, Clarke, Asimov, LeGuin and many more. One thing I learned early on – all these folks were members of a mysterious organization called SFWA (pronounced (Siffwah). I knew at the age of eleven, when I read the Lord of … Read more

Last week I was at a bit of a low ebb, bemoaning how difficult it was to market your work on social media and in the publishing world. This week, none of that has changed. Facebook still makes it hard to get your posts out there without tons of money, and Amazon… well, the Zon is still the Zon. And yet it was a good week. I sent in my final book of my second trilogy – “The Shoreless Sea,” to the publisher. And I’ve started my evil plan to storm the SFWA (Sci Fi Writer’s Association) – or “siffwah”, … Read more