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Grandmaster Award
Sometimes it’s good to read your email as soon as it comes in! I just received this surprise announcement today. I didn’t know I was even halfway old enough to get any sort of “lifetime achievement”—I’m just getting up to speed. My sincere thanks to the nominating committee and to all the fans who have read my books over the years.
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The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (http://www.iamtw.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) co-founders Lee Goldberg & Max Allan Collins are pleased to announce the 2012 nominees for the Scribe Award, honoring excellence in media tie-in writing, and the naming of author Kevin J. Anderson as this year’s Grandmaster for his lifetime achievement in the field.

Anderson is the author of more than one hundred novels, adding up to over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. His work includes the STAR WARS “Jedi Academy” books, three internationally bestselling X-FILES hardcovers, the Superman novels THE LAST DAYS OF KRYPTON and ENEMIES & ALLIES, many novelizations (SKY CAPTAIN & THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, etc.) and, of course, the ten globally bestselling DUNE novels he has co-authored with Brian Herbert.

He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious honors, including the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and a New York Times Notable Book prize…and now he can add IAMTW Grandmaster to the list of his extraordinary achievements.

The awards will be given at a ceremony in July at this year’s Comic-Con convention in San Diego.

Anderson is the author of more than one hundred novels, adding up to over 20 million books in print in thirty languages.

Tie-writers and their work are often overlooked and under-appreciated by existing organizations like the
Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Romance Writers of America,
even though some of their most respected members work in the field.

Tie-ins represent a huge percentage of the books published each year, they are enormously successful
and are widely enjoyed by readers. And yet we have no organization that represents our unique business
and professional interests nor acknowledges excellence in our field.

Fanfiction does not qualify.

Ampoliros wrote:Wouldn't this be the same as winning "Justin Beiber Cover Album of the Year"?


And being proud of the accomplishment...

Omphalos wrote:Most K-Tell cover songs award.

gurensan wrote:LOL!

I first read, "Keith is a GRANDMOTHER!"

It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to be finished.

Your draft words or descriptions might be redundant. So what? They can
be fixed later. 

 You might make grammatical mistakes. So what? Promise
yourself you’ll fix them later—after you’ve got the story written.

... Surprisingly, when I went back to the initial pages, fully
intending to spend weeks on major editing and rewriting, I found that the
constant, intense practice had taught me to produce crisp, fast-paced
writing as compelling as if I’d spent hours agonizing over each page.

My wife and I once plotted and outlined an entire Star Wars “Junior Jedi
Knights” trilogy using crayons on the butcher-paper tablecloth in an Italian
restaurant. Before leaving, we tore off the wide chunk of the paper, folded
it, and took it with us as our “notes.”

Speaking finished prose out loud into a voice recorder may be difficult until
you get used to the idea. Some writers have tried and couldn’t quite get
the hang of it; several told me they felt self-conscious walking along and
talking to themselves—just pretend it’s a Bluetooth set or a cell phone.
Nobody else knows the difference.

Endless polishing and editing and revising and polishing again and then
rewriting and then editing does not make a story perfect—it just makes a
story endless.

Promise yourself you'll do it later.

D Pope wrote:Selected writing advice from a penis who walks like a man;

It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to be finished.

Your draft words or descriptions might be redundant. So what? They can
be fixed later. 

 You might make grammatical mistakes. So what? Promise
yourself you’ll fix them later—after you’ve got the story written.

... Surprisingly, when I went back to the initial pages, fully
intending to spend weeks on major editing and rewriting, I found that the
constant, intense practice had taught me to produce crisp, fast-paced
writing as compelling as if I’d spent hours agonizing over each page.

My wife and I once plotted and outlined an entire Star Wars “Junior Jedi
Knights” trilogy using crayons on the butcher-paper tablecloth in an Italian
restaurant. Before leaving, we tore off the wide chunk of the paper, folded
it, and took it with us as our “notes.”

Speaking finished prose out loud into a voice recorder may be difficult until
you get used to the idea. Some writers have tried and couldn’t quite get
the hang of it; several told me they felt self-conscious walking along and
talking to themselves—just pretend it’s a Bluetooth set or a cell phone.
Nobody else knows the difference.

Endless polishing and editing and revising and polishing again and then
rewriting and then editing does not make a story perfect—it just makes a
story endless.

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