Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee of Science Fiction Awards Watch are looking for new owners to take over running the site. Science Fiction Awards Watch was founded in 2007 and reports on genre-related awards news, including nominations, finalists, and winners. Prospective owners should expect a fair amount of work, and the site does not currently [...]

Amazon.com has announced that George R.R. Martin has sold over a million Kindle e-books.  Martin said, “Groucho Marx one said, ‘I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member,’ but even Groucho might have made an exception for the Kindle Million Club. It’s a real thrill to be inducted into this [...]

Dragon*Con founder Edward Kramer was arrested on September 13, 2011 after being discovered alone with a 14-year-old boy in a motel room in Connecticut. Milford Police have charged Kramer with misdemeanor reckless endangerment of a child, according to defense attorney Edwin Marger. Kramer has claimed to be too ill to stand trial for multiple previous [...]

Writer Ed Bryant was checked into a Colorado hospital on August 27, 2011 (his 66th birthday) with gastroparesis, a complication of diabetes that affects the throat, the stomach, and the digestive process. He was transferred out of intensive care on September 4, and according to Melanie Tem, “his heart and kidneys appear to be OK.” [...]

Horror writer Stephen King will launch a “deliberately skewed, left-leaning morning show” on two Bangor, Maine radio stations owned by King and his wife, WZON 103.1 FM and 620 AM. Regular hosts will be former gubernatorial candidate and journalist Pat LaMarche and Don Cookson, a former reporter and communications director for Maine’s Secretary of State. [...]

William H. Patterson, Jr. was hospitalized after returning home from Renovation with an attack of Diabetic Ketoacidosis. He underwent a transmetatarsal foot amputation. Patterson is the author of the Locus Award winning and Hugo nominated Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve.  For more information, see Patterson’s blog.

Author Rob Thurman was in a car accident last week, and is now hospitalized in critical condition, with her injuries complicated by double pneumonia. For more information, see her blog. Her agent Lucienne Diver writes, “People can leave notes or well wishes on her blog, or can send cards to me, and I’ll see that [...]

George R.R. Martin has reported that two autographed scripts from the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series, were apparently stolen from the US mail. The scripts were intended to be auctioned for charity. The final shooting scripts for “Baelor” and “Fire and Blood”, episodes [...]

The US Postal Service has announced the 2012 release of a forever stamp in honor of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the early-twentieth-century author best known for his Tarzan of the Apes series and John Carter of Mars books. The stamp, which shows an image of Tarzan clinging to a tree combined with a profile of Burroughs [...]

The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society has purchased a new building to store its library and hold meetings and activities, at 6012 Tyrone, Van Nuys, CA 91401. The new building replaces a building half the size, acquired in 1977, which in turn had replaced a meeting place bought in 1973; previously it met in public [...]