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    SFWA Bulletin [v6 #3, #30, July 1970] ed. George Zebrowski (16pp, 5½″ x 8½″) []
    Given as v7 #5, Issue 29 on the cover.
    Details supplied by Bud Webster.
    • 1 · Election Results · Anne McCaffrey · ar; “Gordon R. Dickson Returned to office. Tom Purdom New Vice President, Quinn Yarbro New Secretary.”
    • 2 · From the Secretary-Treasurer · Anne McCaffrey · cl; “Without giving way to a typically McCaffrey-type scene, I can’t step down from my official/officious position as Secretary/Treasurer without thanking SFWAns in general for putting up with my various errors, flaws, delayed replies and mix-ups. (Ha! you didn’t know I goofed, did you?)”.
    • 3 · The 1969, West-Coast Nebula Awards Banquet, Revisited · Roger Lovin · ar; “1969 will go down in SFWA history as the Year the West Coast stuck it in New York’s Ear…It may also make history on the gab-n’-gobble circuit as the year the rubber chicken was finally laid to rest. Did we eat!”
    • 5 · The Future of SFWA Public Relations · James Gunn · ar; “One way public relations operates is to take advantage of natural public relations opportunities: 1) conventions; 2) awards; 3) publications; 4) visits; 5) articles; 6) courses; 7) films; 8) speakers; and 0) whatever else the fertile minds in this field can think of.”
    • 8 · Title List and Ms. Return Survey Results · John Jakes · ar; “Major publishers of hard and soft cover science fiction were surveyed to obtain a statement of policy on these two questions. 1. Are you willing to carry a list of the author’s previously published titles, including titles not published by you, provided the author furnishes the copy? 2. Is a book manuscript regularly returned to the author after publication? Or is it returned only if the author requests it?” Avon, Bantam, Belmont, and Walker & Co. didn’t reply.
    • 10 · Part Time Jobs for Science Fiction Writers · Tom Purdom · ar; “…I have also encountered a certain amount of prejudice against science fiction writers. Many employers still associate science fiction with bug eyed monsters…” Well, that hasn’t changed much in 45 years.
    • 13 · Nebula Recommendations · [uncredited] · ms; six of the eight novel nominees were Ace titles.
    • 14 · New Members · [uncredited] · ms; included Jerry Bixby, Sam Lundwall and Bill Rotsler.
    • 15 · People and Places · [uncredited] · cl; features a lengthy note from George Scithers about duplicating manuscripts for multiple submissions suggesting that members “…inquire at your local Eastman Kodak Verifax Dealer. Mine sold me a used Bantam copier for $25; it’s worked perfectly ever since.”
    • 16 · Market Report · [uncredited] · cl; includes an announcement that Dell Books “…has cut back its SF program to near nothing and Gail Morrison will not read new mss. for the present.” I wonder how long that lasted? Also, Chum Silverberg announced that New Dimensions 2 “…is not open yet, and the editor is not reading mss. at the moment.”

    SFWA Bulletin [v10 #4, No. 54, July 1975] ed. Stephen Goldin (Science Fiction Writers Association, 22pp, octavo s/s, cover: photo of RAH’s Grand Master Nebula by Jay Kay Klein) []
    Given as The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America on the cover.
    Details supplied by Bud Webster.
    • · [illustrations] · William Rotsler · il
    • · [illustrations] · Jack Gaughan · il
    • · [illustrations] · Donald Simpson · il
    • · [illustrations] · Barry Schneider · il
    • ifc. · Now Hear This! · [uncredited] · cl; includes a note from Harlan Ellison concerning the reversion of rights from If via the publisher.
    • 1 · Colophon and credits · [uncredited] · ms
    • 2 · Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms; photos of Damon Knight, Robert Heinlein, Ursula le Guin, Terry Carr(?) and a dais shot of Ellison speaking with three others seated around him.
    • 3 · Notes from a Phantom Koala · Stephen Goldin · ed; “One of the main reasons for all these changes was the fact that you have had a change in editors. George Zebrowski, Pam Sargent and Jack Dann labored for about five years to put out the Bulletin. During their tenure there were many complaints about the way things were run - but then, there always are.”
    • 4 · Nebula Awards Banquet 1975 · Jay Kay Klein · ar; of the editors’ panel he says, “Jim Baen began with a series of admonitions: wait at least six weeks before querying; don’t use yellowing manuscript paper - it makes the story look as though it’s been going the rounds; if you use an odd word or construction, underline the item with a series of dots and mark ’stet’ in the margin.” “The final item on the program was something new - the presentation of the Grand Master Award…which proved to be similar to the regular Nebula, but larger, and with an added base containing a large moon, a small Earth, and a rocket ship.” “To no one’s surprise, Bob Heinlein was the first Grand Master Award winner.…Heinlein spoke briefly and with considerable emotion…saying it was different from the Hugo - This is from my colleagues.”
    • 8 · West Coast Banquet · Vonda N. McIntyre · ar
    • 9 · Deadlines · [uncredited] · ms; “Due to a personality quirk on the part of the new Bulletin editor, an attempt will be made to publish the Bulletin on a regular basis. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause our readers.”
    • 10 · In the Beginning · Damon Knight · ar; a short history of SFWA on the event of its tenth anniversary, by the man who founded it.
    • 12 · From the Presidents · Robert Silverberg, James E. Gunn, Poul Anderson & Jerry Pournelle · ar; comments on their presidential tenures. Of his term in office, Silverberg says, “I was tyrannical, dictatorial and peremptory. I had little patience with such bureaucratic procedures as had evolved in the eoSFWAn period - there weren’t many then, but I couldn’t bear to deal with them - and I generally reached decisions alone and executed them alone, which method did succeed in getting things done swiftly, though it sometimes bugged my unconsulted vice-president, Jim Blish.…I was no model of democratic procedure, but I did accomplish the two things I set out to do as president. One was to bring the organization to financial balance.…The other aim was to settle, if at all possible, all grievances against publishers then outstanding.”
    • 16 · From the Grievance Committee · Jerry Pournelle · cl
    • 18 · Missing Persons · [uncredited] · ms; a report on a letter from Vertex: “Unfortunately lots of authors - and maybe even a SFWA member or two! - occasionally lapse and send out a manuscript which fails to list either their names or address or both, or fails to enclose the SASE”.
    • 19 · Market Report · [uncredited] · cl; including Sam Lundwall’s call for “…good, fast-moving SF, hard SF preferred although I am including an occasional fantasy as well - I am rather fond of satiric SF myself, but above all it should be nice old wave SF without being Space Opera.” also, announcements of the new Oz prozine edited and published by Paul Collins, Void, and Peter Weston’s Andromeda.
    • 21 · Full-page ad for Harper & Row · [uncredited] · ms

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