{"id":21027,"date":"2017-12-18T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Now-that-Cosmic-Roots-and-Eldritch-Shores-and-Compelling-Science-Fiction-are-SFWA-qualifying-markets-I-believe-if"},"modified":"2017-12-18T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:43:23","slug":"now-that-cosmic-roots-and-eldritch-shores-and-compelling-science-fiction-are-sfwa-qualifying-markets-i-believe-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/12\/18\/now-that-cosmic-roots-and-eldritch-shores-and-compelling-science-fiction-are-sfwa-qualifying-markets-i-believe-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores and Compelling Science Fiction are SFWA-qualifying markets, I believe (if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>Now that <em>Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores<\/em> and <em>Compelling Science Fiction<\/em> are SFWA-qualifying markets, I believe (if I&#8217;ve interpreted the rules correctly) that I&#8217;m within one story sale of being eligible to be an Active Member, and have qualified to be an Associate Member. I&#8217;ve sold four stories to qualifying markets (two to Cosmic Roots, one to Compelling, and one to Daily Science Fiction), and the minimum for full membership is three sales, but I haven&#8217;t quite reached the 10,000-word total that&#8217;s also required; I&#8217;m at 8200. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not actually going to join, since most of the member benefits are more applicable to Americans, and it&#8217;s not worth $90 or $100 to me to get a vote in the Nebulas. But it&#8217;s a yardstick of professional progress. <\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Now that Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores and Compelling Science Fiction are SFWA-qualifying markets, I believe (if&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/12\/18\/now-that-cosmic-roots-and-eldritch-shores-and-compelling-science-fiction-are-sfwa-qualifying-markets-i-believe-if\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[153],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}