Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Copyright Grab by the French

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Since works by American authors who write science fiction and fantasy are alleged to have been mistakenly categorized as orphan works, and p...

Targeting a Readership Part 7: Guest Post by Valerie Valdes

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Last week we explored genre and archetypes with respect to Science Fiction Romance targeting a specific type of reader. http://aliendjinnrom...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Revisiting Our Youth

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Annette Funicello’s death reminded me of her Beach Party movie series with Frankie Avalon in the 1960s. (There was a reunion film, BACK TO ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Targeting A Readership Part 6

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Previous Parts in this series: Targeting Readership Part 1 is: http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2009/09/targeting-readership-part-o...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

A Digital Archive of One's Own

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The January 2013 issue of PMLA (the journal of the Modern Language Association) includes several articles about new reading technologies, m...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Settings Part 3 - Dreamspy in E-book

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Last week we discussed a bit more about Settings, and I mentioned how closely connected Setting and Genre are, as topics.  http://aliendji...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Hannibal Lecter on TV

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Did anyone else watch the premiere of the TV series HANNIBAL? As a devoted fan of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (both the book and the movie), I was ...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Settings Part 2

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Last week we had a Guest Post by J. H. Bogran who introduced the topic of Settings. http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2013/04/guest-p...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Guide to Writing a Series

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One of my favorite writing manuals of all time is Karen S. Wiesner’s FIRST DRAFT IN 30 DAYS. Since I’m a dedicated outliner, this outline-fo...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Guest Post by J. H. Bogran - Settings Part 1

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Here below you'll find a Guest Post by J. H. Bogran.  I ran into J. H. Bogran on #scifichat and without having read any novels under t...
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...