SFWA, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American, announced the winners of the this year’s Nebula Awards at their annual Nebula Awards Weekend held in Washington, DC. You can read the full list of nominees and winners on the SFWA website. Best Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra) Best Novella: “The Lady Who Plucked Red […]
This weekend I’ll be at the Nebula Awards Weekend. I’m doing a workshop with Paul Haggerty on Improving Your Website. I’ll also be volunteering here and there during the convention — starting with bag stuffing on Thursday. I’m starting to get anxious about the workshop. We’ve been working on putting the material together for weeks. […]
The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (published in 2009) “each thing i show you is a piece of my death” by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, published in Clockwork Phoenix 2, edited by Mike Allen, Norilana Books (July 2009). […]
We drove up from Maryland to Burlington, MA yesterday. We got a late start and didn’t arrive until 10:30 p.m., so we missed the Thursday night programming. On Thursday’s Readercon has an evening program schedule that is open to the public. It’s a way for people to see what a convention is like in order […]
Today was sort of a loss on getting the home/house/shopping stuff done because I had a Capclave Committee Meeting scheduled this afternoon. Nearly the entire committee was in attendance and those who couldn’t make it sent their reports. It looks like we’re on track for memberships compared to previous years at this time. This year […]
At first we didn’t think we’d make it to this year’s World Fantasy Convention. Hyperion and I are near championship procrastinators, but we manage to buy memberships from two people who couldn’t make it at the last minute. Then plane reservations and a hotel room– we managed to get all our ducks in a row […]
Well we got a bit of a late start this morning having gotten in so late last night and then doing some of the things to the website, printing material and other odd jobs that needed to be done. So, up and at the world this morning. We packed for the hotel. Finished loading the […]
I spent a good chunk of my time today working with a WordPress Plugin to try to get a map of all the restaurants in the vicinity of the Capclave convention hotel. After hours of work, Hyperion and I managed to get the maps to show. The problem is that it was one map per […]