What the book absolutely is not, she insists, is science fiction… Science fiction takes place “somewhere in space, far, far away in a distant galaxy” – Margaret Atwood, in The Globe and Mail I’m probably going to regret disagreeing with … Continue reading
There’s a really interesting discussion (via BookNinja) going on over at John Green’s blog about advances vs. bigger royalties, and why the latter might be better as a whole for both authors and publishers. He also has a follow-on based … Continue reading
Caught this on SFScope and thought it might be of interest to horror writers (of which I am not really one). ChiZine, Leisure Books and Rue Morgue are putting on a contest for horror novels. It’s nice to see a … Continue reading
I recently submitted short stories to Fantasy Magazine and Clarkesworld Magazine. I have to say, their submission system is impressive (it looks like they both use the same technology). I wish more agents used this kind of thing for partials, … Continue reading
Continued from Part I. On Amazon: I’ll be the first to admit that writing a large-scale software system like the one they have is hard. But it seemed vulnerable to “gaming”, and to what Amazon admittedly calls “voting attacks”. Part … Continue reading
I promised a post-mortem of the ABNA; here it is, somewhat delayed. First, a huge THANK YOU! to everyone who downloaded my excerpt and tried to leave a review (whether you succeeded or not – it wasn’t easy for some). … Continue reading
Amazon have decided to censor titles with the remotest whiff of GLBT content by removing their Amazon Rank, which has the follow-on effect of removing them from search results as well. Thereby directly messing with the livelihoods of many romance … Continue reading
Tired of bad news about the publishing industry? Any area that’s posting 7% gains these days is doing phenomenally well. Go Canada!
I’m IN! Doing the snoopy dance! Now I know how those Idol contestants feel when they make Hollywood week.
Nathan Bransford had a post today on dealing with rejection. And, with impeccable timing, I received a rejection today. So here’s how I deal with it: I allow myself to grieve. For between 1 hour and 1 day. But it’s … Continue reading