{"id":123,"date":"2014-11-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/11\/05\/i-am-now-an-associate-member-of-sfwa\/"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:00","slug":"i-am-now-an-associate-member-of-sfwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/11\/05\/i-am-now-an-associate-member-of-sfwa\/","title":{"rendered":"I am now an Associate Member of SFWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the <b>Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America<\/b> to you:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-HyTrsUDd5_Y\/VFnJ23cM39I\/AAAAAAABwaI\/WIeKuzoKqqs\/s1600\/IMG_2096.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-HyTrsUDd5_Y\/VFnJ23cM39I\/AAAAAAABwaI\/WIeKuzoKqqs\/s400\/IMG_2096.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(For the record, I&#8217;m glad Jim Kelly told me this summer to wait, and I&#8217;m glad Mary Robinette Kowal told me last week to go for it.)<\/p>\n<p>But speaking of waiting, I&#8217;m also waiting until next week to celebrate properly. Why <i>next<\/i> week? Well, I&#8217;m glad you asked!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/other-resources\/for-readers\/reading-series\/sfwa-northwest-reading-series\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0wgg9fnr2zg\/VFnMICeoOtI\/AAAAAAABwaU\/CK-LABY53x8\/s400\/sfwa-readings-2014-11.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/other-resources\/for-readers\/reading-series\/sfwa-northwest-reading-series\/\">sfwa.org\/other-resources\/for-readers\/reading-series\/sfwa-northwest-reading-series\/<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>I will be one of the featured authors at this quarter&#8217;s installment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/other-resources\/for-readers\/reading-series\/sfwa-northwest-reading-series\/\">SFWA Pacific Northwest Reading Series<\/a>, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielhwilson.com\/\">Daniel H. Wilson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/djangowexler.com\/\">Django Wexler<\/a>. (I am still a bit mystified at my invitation to this event, but I don&#8217;t feel so bad now that I&#8217;m at least a SFWA member of some kind.)<\/p>\n<p>Please join us at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfwa-news.com\/event-1758355\">Wilde Rover Irish Pub and Restaurant in Kirkland, WA on Tuesday, November 11th<\/a>; or at <a href=\"http:\/\/sfwa-news.com\/event-1758348\">McMenamins Kennedy School in Portland, OR on Wednesday, November 12th<\/a>! It&#8217;ll be great. You&#8217;ll love it. Have a drink.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to you: (For the record, I&#8217;m glad Jim Kelly told me this summer to wait, and I&#8217;m glad Mary Robinette Kowal told me last week to go for it.) But speaking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[15,77,16,61,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievementunlocked","category-breakthrough","category-theiinmeat","category-waitforit","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}