SFWA I love my email buddies. We talk about some interesting stuffs even though you folks do not get to hear about it so much. Anyway, this morning it was about RWA versus SFWA. My thing is this. I know that SF has a bad issue with accepting romance and being a boys club. Despite [...]

Mrs Giggles: Harlequin Horizons’s unintentional comedy “Commedia dell’arte was concerned mostly with disgraceful love intrigues, clever tricks to get money or outwit some simpleton.” My own search found this… A rigid convention of the commedia dell’arte is the periodic intrusion of Harlequin, who interrupts the play with low buffoonery. I have to agree with SFWA… [...]

From Writer Beware Blogs! SFWA on Harlequin Horizons Until such time as Harlequin changes course, and returns to a model of legitimately working with authors instead of charging authors for publishing services, SFWA has no choice but to be absolutely clear that NO titles from ANY Harlequin imprint will be counted as qualifying for membership [...]

From Writer Beware Blogs! In a move that shows yet again that SFWA is always looking out for it’s members and RWA is… somewhere planning their next convention or something. They have issued a statement on key points of the Google Book Settlement. The proposed Google Book Settlement potentially creates a monopoly by granting Google [...]