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Since October 1995, my wife and I have been producing an occasional newsletter with news about me and my work. The newsletter is always a single sheet, printed on both sides, and currently is mailed to 700 or so bookstores, journalist, and people in the publishing industry. Christine Dao, former publicist at Tor Books, described it as "the perfect author's newsletter."

We don't mail copies out to individual readers, but, because of popular demand, we've decided to make electronic versions available for downloading in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Note: you must have the Adobe Acrobat reader in order view and print these files; if you don't have it, you can get it for free from www.adobe.com.

The newsletter was originally called Soulwave: The Official Robert J. Sawyer Newsletter, but we changed that to Sfwriter.com: News from the Robert J. Sawyer Web Site.

In 1998, Rob won the $500 Grand Prize in Paper Direct's "Show Us Your Stuff" contest for excellence in desktop publishing for this newsletter and related marketing materials. We used to print the newsletter on Domtar Expressions 24-pound "Sicily" paper, which has a lovely one-centimeter-wide red marble border all around the front side (that's why the margins seem a little wide on the first page of some of the older issues if you print these on blank paper).

The PDF file size in kilobytes is given for each issue.

Windows users: a left click on the links below will load the appropriate file into the Acrobat reader; a right click will let you save the file to disk.

These files are copyright © 1997-2007 by Robert J. Sawyer.

Issue 24: November 2007 (165K)

Contents:

• China's Top SF Award
• Honorary Doctorate
• Rave Reviews for Rollback
• Tenth Aurora Award Win
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 23: May 2007 (170K)

Contents:

• Rollback Rolls Out
• Major Library Award
• Mindscan Wins Campbell Memorial Award
• Tour Includes Library of Congress
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 22: May 2005 (216K)

Contents:

• Mindscan Now Out
• Waterloo Region Chooses Hominids
• Rob Nominated for Hugo
• RJS Books — Rob's Own Imprint
• Rave Reviews for Mindscan
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 21: September 2003 (215K)

Contents:

• Rob wins Hugo Award
• Hybrids Now Out in Hardcover
• Humans Now Out in Paperback
• Rob Join's SF Most Select Group of Writers
• Quintaglio Books Coming Back into Print
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 20: February 2003 (245K)

Contents:

• Humans Hardcover
• Hominids Paperback
• Upcoming Guest of Honorships
• Ryerson University honors Rob
• David Brin and Jack McDevitt praise Humans
• Publishers Weekly review of Humans
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 19: May 2002 (837K)

Contents:

• Hominids
• Short Story Collection Out in Canada
• Praise for Hominids
• Calculating God a Number-One Bestseller
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 18: July 2001 (409K)

Contents:

• End of an Era Coming Back into Print
• Calculating God Paperback Released
• Calculating God a Hugo Finalist
• Calculating God Named Year's Best
• Analog to serialize First Neanderthal Parallax novel
• New Robert J. Sawyer Online Discussion Group
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 17: September 2000 (356K)

Contents:

• Rob Sawyer Wins Two Aurora Awards
• Calculating God a Canadian Bestseller
• Rob on TV (including Rivera Live with Geraldo Rivera)
• Seven New Short Stories
• Rave Reviews for Calculating God
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 16: April 2000 (199K)

Contents:

• Flashforward Paperback
• Next: Calculating God
• Sawyer in Year's Best
• New Three-Book Deal!
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 15: November 1999 (756K)

Contents:

• Golden Fleece is Back!
• Rob's Novels Published Worldwide
• Recent Bestsellers Lists
• Maclean's Features Rob
• Library of Congress & National Library of Canada
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 14: May 1999 (121K)

Contents:

• Hugo Award Finalist
• Flashforward Hardcover Now Out
• Factoring Humanity Paperback Now Out
• Factoring Humanity on Year's Best List
• Rob on ChaptersGLOBE.com
• Bookstore ordering information for all in-print Sawyer titles

Issue 13: January 1999 (80K)

Contents:

• Illegal Alien Paperback in Stores
• Flashforward Wins Europe's Top Award
• Rob on Radio Across the United States
• Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award

Issue 12: October 1998 (80K)

Contents:

• Frameshift Paperback Now Out
• Crossing the Line
• Praise for the novel Factoring Humanity

Issue 11: June 1998 (77K)

Contents:

• Factoring Humanity
• Rob New President of SFWA
• Four Aurora Award Nominations
• Limited Editions
• Rob is July's "Author of the Month" on USA Today Online

Issue 10: April 1998 (92K)

Contents:

• Rob Nominated for Two Hugo Awards
• Illegal Alien Film Deal
• Factoring Humanity Summer Book Tour
• Mystery Awards
• Praise for Illegal Alien

Issue 9: January 1998 (105K)

• Factoring Humanity Wins World's Largest Cash Prize for SF Writing
• Illegal Alien Named "Best Canadian Mystery of 1997"
• Coles & Smithbooks Feature Illegal Alien
• Tesseracts 6
• New URL: www.sfwriter.com

Issue 8: December 1997 (156K)

• Rob Sawyer Sweeps the Aurora Awards
• Gala Launch Party for Illegal Alien
• Rob on TV
• Convention Guest of Honorships

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