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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: Effective graphics for promotion keep changing…so what’s working right now? Excerpts? Review Quotes? What kind of backgrounds, what kind of fonts, what colors are currently effective?

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: What did and didn’t work for you in Third Quarter 2025? Sales, other industry stuff–what’s changing?

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: YouTube. How can indie authors make it work–and what are the best practices for doing it? Gaining visibility, reading snippets, talking about your work…bring your strategies!

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: Book covers. They can make you tear your hair out. Let’s talk book covers with Rachel Rosen.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: What’s changed in the indie author business during second quarter 2025? What’s working and what isn’t?

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Join special guest, writer Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), while he discusses his experience adapting his New York Times best-selling Lost Fleet series into comics and how that process differed from writing short stories and novels. For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: the mysteries of a successful book launch–how far out should you promote, what on earth can you do to get reader attention! Bring your favorite strategies.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: things change quickly in the indie author world–what really worked for you during the first quarter of 2025? What suddenly stopped working? What’s kinda meh? Let’s share the details!

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The SFWA Poetry Committee presents its Quarterly Poetry Open-Mic. Come and read your poetry to your fellow SFWA poets. This is an interactive online event hosted by Poetry Committee co-chair Wendy Van Camp. Our featured poet for January is Sultana Raza. Her work has appeared in “Abyss & Apex”, “Star*line”, and “Silver Blade”, with a story forthcoming in Flame Tree Publishing’s “Achilles Anthology”. An independent scholar and accomplished poet, Sultana has presented on Keats and Tolkien at international conferences and read her work across Europe and the U.S. Her writing blends vivid imagination with deep literary insight.

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Please join the SFWA Comics Committee with expert Gamal Hennessy, Esq. for a special presentation on comics contracts. Gamal is an experienced commercial contracts attorney with expertise in publishing and IP licensing. He’s represented major corporate clients including Mad Cave Studios, Amazon, Marvel, and GlobalComix, as well as independent creative professionals and start-up companies. For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.

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