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The 2020 Hugo Award Winners have been Announced

by TVWriter™ Press Service

The Hugo Awards are the Golden Globes of science fiction, conferred this year on August 1, 2020 at the 78th World Science Fiction Convention in New Zealand. This year, thanks to our oh-so-close bud COVID-19, the convention was entirely virtual.

According to Tor.Com:

Nominations for the 2020 and 1945 Hugo Awards were submitted by the members of CoNZealand, the 78th Worldcon, and Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon. 1,584 people submitted 27,033 nominations for the 2020 Hugo Awards, and 120 people submitted 1,677 nominations for the 1945 Retrospective Hugo Awards. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #107 “We’ve Got to Talk”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

Latest on WGAW Connect

What has our Writers Guild done for us lately?

Glad you asked because the Guild has a wonderful answer in Writers Connect, a short newsletter members get every week. (See? Another good reason to bust your butt to qualify and join.)

WGAW Members Work to #RaiseThePercentage

How Black Lives Matter sparked a week of virtual coffees between staffed writers and the underrepresented. read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – August 3, 2020

Good morning! Welcome to another week of TV (and other) writing and production tips at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the  last 7 days.

They are, in order: read article

Today’s Most Important Bulletin for Those Watching Movies at Home

Admission: this TVWriter™ minion swears by YouTube’s Pantry Raid series. Here’s a big reason why you should too.

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