PUBLISHING NEWS
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Publishing news for speculative fiction writers
NISFA
- is the New Irish Science Fiction Association. It is a fan based group meeting
once a month with a guest speaker. More details about NISFA can be found on their
web site.
SUNBURST AWARD
- 2007 winner announced. "Fabrizio's Return" by Mark Frutkin. The Sunburst
Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a prized and juried award presented
annually. It is based on excellence of writing and awarded to a Canadian writer
who has published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection any time
during the previous calendar year.
THE FIX
- will be relaunching soon as an online venue, headed up by new managing editor
Eugie Foster, formerly of Tangent Online. The Fix website will contain everything
that the print magazine contained, only a lot more of it and a lot more often: in-depth
reviews of short form speculative fiction from the full spectrum of magazines, webzines,
anthologies, and single-author collections in the industry, plus interviews, a range
of features and columns, and insightful articles and observations.
BAEN BOOKS
- announces a deal to release electronic versions of select Subterranean Press titles.
The titles will be available both individually and as part of a separate Subterranean
Press program available at Baen's e-publishing site,
www.webscriptions.com.
WRITERS OF THE FUTURE ANTHOLOGY Voulme
#23 - tops Amazon.com's Bestseller list in first week. The anthology contains the
winners of the Writers of the Future Contest.
The contest is held four times a year for up-and-coming science fiction and fantasy
short story writers and illustraters.
BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS
- 2007 winners announced. The presentations were made at Fantasycon 2007. Best Novel:
"Dusk"
by Tim Lebbon. Best Novella: "Kid" by Paul Finch. Best Short Fiction: "Whisper
Lane" by Mark Chadbourne. Best Collection: "Fragile Things" by Neil Gaiman. Read the
BFS Fantasycon Blog for the rest of the winners.
ROBERT JORDAN - author of the bestselling Wheel of Time series, died Sunday (September
16, 2007) of a rare blood disease. He was 58.
WORLD FANTASY AWARDS
- 2007 nominees announced. Novel Category: "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King; "The
Privilege of the Sword" by Ellen Kushner; "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch;
"The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden" by Catherynne M. Valente; "Soldier of
Sidon" by Gene Wolfe. To read the rest of the nominees go to WFC site.
INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD AWARDS
- 2006 nominees announced. Best Novel: "The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue. "The
Pilo Family Circus" by Will Elliott. "The Open Curtain" by Brian Evenson. "Lisey’s
Story" by Stephen King. "The Unblemished" by Conrad Williams. Check out the IHG
site for other nominess.
DITMAR AWARDS
- 2006 winners announced. Best Novel: "The Pilo Family Circus" by Will Elliot. Novella/novelette: "The Devil in Mr Pussy" by Paul Haines.
Short story: "The Fear of White" by Rjurik Davidson. Collected Work: "The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol.2" edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt. Check out the Convergence 2 site for other winners.
NEBULA AWARDS
- 2006 winners announced. Best novel: "Seeker" by Jack McDevitt. Novella: "Burn"
by James Patrick Kelly. Novelette: "Two Heart" by Peter S. Beagle. Short Story:
"Echo" by Elizabeth Hand. Check out the SFWA site for other winners.
BRAM STOKER AWARDS
- 2006 winners announced. Best novel: "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King. First novel:
"Ghost Road Blues" by Jonathan Maberry. Short Fiction: "Tested" by Lisa Morton.
Poetry Collection: "Shades Fantastic" by Bruce Boston. Check out the HWA site for
other winners.
RHYSLING AWARDS
- this year's nominees announced for best sf/f/h poetry. Include poems by Bruce
Boston, Joe Haldeman, Ann Schwader, Marge Simon, James S. Dorr, Lida Broadhurst,
Mike Allen, Deborah P. Kolodji, Lawrence Schimel, Marsheila Rockwell, and many others.
KURT VONNEGUT
- author of "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and many other cult classics dies
at age 84.
BFSA
(British Science Fiction Association) - announced 2006 Award winners. The award
for Best Novel went to Jon Courtenay Grimwood, for "End of the World Blues." The
award for Best Short Fiction went to Ian McDonald for "The Djinn's Wife." Check
out the BFSA site for other winners.
PHILIP K. DICK AWARD
- announced 2006 Award winner. The winner for the distinguished original science
fiction paperback published for the first time during 2006 is Chris Moriarity's
"Spin Control."
DITMAR AWARDS
- 2007 nominees announced. Best novel category: "Carnies" by Martin Livings. "Prismatic"
by Edwina Grey. "The Mother" by Brett McBean. "The Pilo Family Circus" by Will Elliot.
More nominees can be found on the Australian National Science Fiction Convention
site.
JAMES TIPTREE AWARD
- 2006 winners announced. Half Life by Shelley Jackson and The Orphan's Tales: In
the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente won this year's award. The Award is presented
annually to a work or works that explore and expand gender roles in science fiction
and fantasy.