I’ve just about decided on this one: Let me know what you think. Although my agent liked the initial manuscript, she felt it was a bit to non-PC (she never quite said it that way, but there were more than a few comments along the lines of, “Well, we need to change this, because it [...]
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Money Talks While Dead Tree Dies
Another Nail in the Coffin | madgeniusclub But the Amazon story first. On the 16th of this month, the New York Times published an article about Amazon bypassing publishers and signing authors to contracts to publish through Amazon. For some months now, Amazon has been introducing “imprints”. Several well-known authors signed exclusive publishing contracts with [...]
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Witchfinder — Free novel — One | According To Hoyt *As I said, I’m going to start posting a novel here, a chapter a week. This is being posted as I write it, so it’s in pre-earc (for those from Baen) or in close-to (but not quite) -first draft state. Once it’s finished it will [...]
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Unringing The Bell | madgeniusclub At cons, I still run into authors who look down on self-published authors. I still run into authors who parrot the line about how much the publisher is investing in them: when it is patently obvious they’re lost in mid-list hell; I still run into authors who say “if you [...]
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…about me continuing to put up my old Analog short fiction? Frankly, it’s a pain in the ass. Either I pay somebody a lot of money per page (by my standards) to scan and copyedit the stories, or I dictate them via Dragon Naturally Speaking and then copyedit the transcriptions myself. Still, I’d sorta like [...]
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This drew a great deal of discussion over at Daily Pundit, but I thought it would work well here, too. Daily Pundit » Just As The Map Is Not the Territory, The Book Is Not the Story Boston Review — Richard Nash and Matt Runkle: Revaluing the Book Why do we think that a person [...]
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Amazon.com: Fantasy & Science Fiction, Free Exclusive Digest: Kindle Store: Spilogale Inc. Fantasy & Science Fiction, Free Exclusive Digest [Kindle Edition] by Spilogale Inc. I’m not entirely clear on what the caveat “Digest” actually entails, but I’m going to sign up for this deal anyway. F&SF published the first story of mine to see print [...]
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The new store is here. As I just mentioned, I do get a better cut on sales from this store, (which also includes versions readable on your Kindle) than I do at Amazon. Enjoy!
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Let me know which one you like better.
Read the rest of this entry »Update on The Fall of the American Republic: Death and Destruction
This book, volume one of the trilogy, is now in the neighborhood of 400 manuscript pages, and is nearing completion. It is an ensemble tale, with several different plot lines, each dealing with a separate group of people in various parts of the country. I expect to have the first draft completed within two weeks. [...]
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