![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesIn the unlikely event that anyone who would care about this doesn't already know about it -- SFWA has amended its membership requirements to allow small press and self-published science fiction & fantasy to be considered. That doesn't mean it's open season, as there is still the requirement to make a commercial sale, i.e. make a minimum amount of money in a reasonable time period from the fiction in question. The *same* amount of money as was required under the old rules. Qualifying markets are still qualifying markets. If your publisher isn't a qualifying market, you have to provide the evidence yourself.
As far as novels are concerned, it's $3000 net advance/royalties in a one year period after 1 Jan 2013. I'm still not entirely sure what the qualifying period on short fiction is, but would assume it's the same. Some more detailed information at the VP's blog:
http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2015/03/05/answering-more-questions-about-the-sfwa-qualifying-process/
http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2015/03/02/how-to-apply-for-sfwa-membership-with-small-press-or-self-published-credentials/
This does only consider income received after 1 Jan 13. But of interest to me is that had this rule been put in place back when RWA did the same thing around eight years ago, I would have qualified for SFWA membership with Dolphin Dreams, as indeed I did with RWA membership. At which point I'm sure that various people would have insisted that no, I didn't, because my stuff isn't Real Science Fiction and Fantasy (TM). And I would have enjoyed watching them flail every bit as much as I did on the romance side.
It's an incentive to get that space opera back out on the submissions rounds, and finish the urban fantasy. :-)
As far as novels are concerned, it's $3000 net advance/royalties in a one year period after 1 Jan 2013. I'm still not entirely sure what the qualifying period on short fiction is, but would assume it's the same. Some more detailed information at the VP's blog:
http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2015/03/05/answering-more-questions-about-the-sfwa-qualifying-process/
http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2015/03/02/how-to-apply-for-sfwa-membership-with-small-press-or-self-published-credentials/
This does only consider income received after 1 Jan 13. But of interest to me is that had this rule been put in place back when RWA did the same thing around eight years ago, I would have qualified for SFWA membership with Dolphin Dreams, as indeed I did with RWA membership. At which point I'm sure that various people would have insisted that no, I didn't, because my stuff isn't Real Science Fiction and Fantasy (TM). And I would have enjoyed watching them flail every bit as much as I did on the romance side.
It's an incentive to get that space opera back out on the submissions rounds, and finish the urban fantasy. :-)