Showing posts with label business of publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business of publishing. Show all posts
Thursday, March 02, 2023

The Fates of Magazines

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Arley Sorg's "By the Numbers" column in the March-April 2023 MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION is titled "The Lifes...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Corporate Bullies and Copyright

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Cory Doctorow's article for the November 2022 LOCUS discusses the ever-increasing reach of monopolies that prey on the work of writers a...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

2022 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

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This year's ICFA, our first live conference since 2019, had lower attendance than usual (down from the 500s to around 300), but the diff...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Advice on "Breaking In" to Publishing

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Cory Doctorow's newest LOCUS column discusses the beginning writer's obsessive quest for tips from pros on how to get started in pub...
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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Problems with Monopolies

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Cory Doctorow's LOCUS article for this month delves into a lot of background about markets and monopolies that's new to me: Free M...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Survival in the World of Publishing

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Kameron Hurley's new LOCUS essay reflects on her first ten years as a published author: How to Survive a Decade in Publishing Her fi...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Shadow of the Beast

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My first published novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST, a werewolf urban fantasy with romantic elements, is back in print after a few years of dorman...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Series Binge Reading

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The MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION carries a regular column called "Plumage from Pegasus," by Paul Di Filippo, satirizing...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

The "Catch" in Author's Monopoly

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Cory Doctorow's March LOCUS column asserts, "A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick": Lever Without a Fulcrum The ...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

Giving Self-Publishing a Bad Name

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If you live in or near Maryland, you'll have heard about the scandal and criminal charges surrounding Baltimore ex-mayor Catherine Pugh...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Digital Media Bait-and-Switch

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Cory Doctorow's latest column targets DRM but touches upon the abusive business practices of digital marketing in general: DRM Broke I...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

When Publishers Fold

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Recently, author Delilah Devlin hosted me on her blog, where I wrote about what to do with books and stories "orphaned" by the clo...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

YA Genre Fiction

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Michael Cart, author of YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: FROM ROMANCE TO REALISM, had an article on this past Sunday's editorial page of the Balt...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Surviving the Gold Rush as a Writer

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The latest issue of RWR (the members' magazine of Romance Writers of America) includes an article titled "The Key to a Lifelong Car...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

An Author's Obligation to Readers?

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With the TV series GAME OF THRONES having outrun the books on which it's based, there have been speculations that George R. R. Martin ma...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

A Writer's Mission?

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Kameron Hurley's latest LOCUS column begins with the declaration, "Most writers quit." Having grabbed our attention with that ...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

The Shifting Landscape of Publishing

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Here are links to two blog posts related to the challenges of flourishing as an author in today's publishing environment. Horror write...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Who You Know

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An essay by Kameron Hurley about why relationships matter in the publishing business: Hard Publishing Truths She describes how a multi-l...
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Thursday, June 02, 2016

E-Books and Libraries

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column: Peace in Our Time The "peace" in the title refers to the "e-book wars" that...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

The Death of the Midlist

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A blog by horror author Brian Keene offering the most thorough explanation I've seen lately about the root causes of the death of the mi...