Sunday, March 31, 2013

E-books and the abuse of return policies

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Happy Easter. Now, back to business. Apparently, authors are reporting a serious increase in e-book returns on Amazon, and also that re...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

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The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts occurred last week in Orlando. Neil Gaiman was the guest of honor, Kij Johnson (au...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Theme-Plot Integration - Part 7 - The Fallacy of Trust

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First of all, Happy Passover, Easter, whatever!  It's SPRING!!!  This is the time all young men turn their fancy to love, right?  So let...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Greetings from Florida

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This week I'm at the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando. What a delightful change from home, where ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Putting Violence In Its Place

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What is Violence? Really, just exactly what is violence?  Not what does the word mean, but what is the phenomenon of Violence? Most fict...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Search engines dedicated to copyright infringement

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Copyright infringement is hugely profitable for everyone except the authors of the content which is being infringed and monetized. For more...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Celebrating E-Books

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Last week was Read an E-Book Week. This week is the annual EPICon, put on the Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition. (I couldn’t make it...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Business Model of Writers In a changing World Part 2: Google+

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This post is about the career (not at all atypical) of a powerful Science Fiction/Fantasy writer as it relates to the Business Cycle (one of...
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

Writing Schedules

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At the 2012 Darkover con, I took part in a panel on “how to make yourself write.” In that session I publicly announced my intention to commi...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Happily Ever After Life Patterns Part 2: The Cheating Woman

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Part One with this title was posted in 2007, http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2007/02/happily-ever-after.html We've examined th...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Bird Intelligence

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Last week’s episode of the PBS series NATURE featured crows. The program revealed the high intelligence of these birds, possibly comparable ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Audiobook, e-book and other formats

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Here's a little success story for the business model and story-structure crafting posts I've been showing you and the source materi...