Just to keep this on the radar — Amazon’s shenanigans continue. At the end of February, they locked out over 500 small presses from the Kindle store. You all should be keeping up to speed on what’s happening and, thankfully, IPG’s on the ball. Here’s a collection of all the articles to date regarding the Kindle [...]
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Rose Solari’s “A Secret Woman”
April 2, 2012 – 8:31 am
Two years ago,I signed on as a consultant for Alan Squire Publishing, out of Bethesda, MD. They had two titles — Bermuda Shorts and That Paris Year — already published, and we brought them into the SFWP family and gave them worldwide distribution. In what felt like (as far as publishing is concerned) the blink [...]
Supporting the Indies — Fatal Light
March 9, 2012 – 11:34 am
In light of the recent adventure with Amazon, I’ve decided to fill up some Friday blog space with a shout out to the indie bookstores. Our titles are still on Amazon for a nice discount, of course, but I’m feeling like it’s time we rally around the indies and see if we can make a [...]
Death by Kindle
March 5, 2012 – 10:10 am
By now, if you’re following the industry in any way, you’ve heard that Amazon pulled the plug on over 5000 Kindle ebooks distributed by IPG (who handles all of SFWP’s titles). You can read about it here, and here, and here, and probably a hundred other places. This came about because Amazon wanted a larger [...]
The 2011 Literary Awards Program Winners
February 20, 2012 – 4:18 pm
The winners for the 2011 Literary Awards Program are in! The grand prize goes to: Lance Larsen for Seventeen Ways to Float. In second place is: Angie Chuang for The Four Words for Home In third place we have: Emily Stone for In Search of Chocola: Love, Chocolate, and Language in Guatemala
2011 Literary Awards Program Finalists — Short List
February 2, 2012 – 11:18 am
I’ve just received the short list of finalists. You can find the long list right here. Again, in no particular order…
2011 Literary Awards Program Finalists — the Long List
January 26, 2012 – 11:14 am
Okay! Here’s the long list of finalists… We hope to have the short list sometime next week, and then we should be about on target for announcing the winners. In no particular order…
2011 Awards Program Finalists Coming Soon
January 25, 2012 – 9:48 am
We have the long list of 2011 Literary Awards Program finalists nearly ready! Look for it sometime tomorrow here on the blog.
SFWP: 2012
December 19, 2011 – 8:03 am
I’m getting ready to head out for the holidays and enter the land of Too Much Eggnog. With the 2011 Literary Awards Program concluded, and many irons in the SFWP fire, I thought I might throw out a quick blog post on our “roadmap” for 2012.