{"id":2024,"date":"2015-03-18T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lentari.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2015-03-18T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:20:57","slug":"sfwa-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"SFWA Member!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-2026 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lentari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/sfwa_logo-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"sfwa_logo\" width=\"310\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/sfwa_logo-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/sfwa_logo-150x88.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/sfwa_logo-1024x598.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/sfwa_logo.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe I get to announce this, but guess what?\u00a0 I&#8217;m now an active member of SFWA!\u00a0\u00a0 What&#8217;s that?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know what SFWA is?\u00a0 It&#8217;s the Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Writer&#8217;s of America!\u00a0 It used to be only traditional authors could join as the association&#8217;s strict prereqs for acceptance had to be a publishing contract worth a certain amount of money.<\/p>\n<p>With so many indie authors releasing books the association modified its acceptance guidelines to include self-pubbed authors.\u00a0 We just have to show them that our income is at least at the same minimum requirements for a traditional author.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was able to do it!\u00a0 Woohoo!\u00a0 I get to participate in their forums, vote on Nebula nominated works, and so on.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a legal team in your corner in case you ever need to consult a lawyer.\u00a0 You&#8217;re amongst peers, so if you ever have a question, or want to run an idea by someone, that&#8217;s the place to do it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite an honor, let me tell you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I get to announce this, but guess what?\u00a0 I&#8217;m now an active member of SFWA!\u00a0\u00a0 What&#8217;s that?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know what SFWA is?\u00a0 It&#8217;s the Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Writer&#8217;s of America!\u00a0 It used to be only traditional authors could join as the association&#8217;s strict prereqs for acceptance had to be a publishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,170,70,74],"tags":[34,69,185,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}