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View ArticleDealing with criticism…
Mark over at Nature Light Photo recently wrote about getting some unexpected criticism and how it affected him (see part 1 and part 2). I like how he reacted to it and turned a potentially negative bit...
View ArticleThe Future of Digital Publishing | Stormwolf.com
The Future of Digital Publishing | Stormwolf.com: I got a call from a writer friend last evening. We spoke about digital books and I answered some questions about why I had chosen which formats to sell...
View ArticleThe perils of pricing
Authorial Stickiness and Self Publishing | The Passive Voice: I’ve been buying and reading a number of self published books of late, primarily because of the price point of $.99. I find that the...
View ArticleDoes my favorite author now have to spend a couple hours a day on Facebook?
January 24, 2012 | Trent Nelson | Photojournalist: Tech people keep saying that artists can make it without the distribution systems, and they all trot out Jonathan Coulton as the example of someone...
View ArticleJohn Scalzi — Read Whatever
Reader Request Week 2012 #1: Snark and Insult – Whatever: It’s rather less legitimate to label Mr. Cameron a “pestilent toad,” because, well. He seems pretty clean. But more to the point, calling him a...
View ArticleRay Bradbury, R.I.P.
Ray Bradbury, R.I.P.: When I was about fifteen, a group of my friends and I went up to Ray Bradbury’s office to interview him for a fanzine. This was the office in a big building at the corner of...
View ArticleSFWA Response to Hydra Letter
SFWA Response to Hydra Letter: Thank you for your letter regarding Random House and Hydra, and your interest in speaking with us. Unfortunately, there is very little to discuss. SFWA has determined to...
View ArticleAbout (not) talking tech
The Angry Drunk: My stance on this hasn’t changed. As far as I’m concerned, the tech blogosphere has collapsed into a largely worthless echo-chamber filled with idiotic babble about Apple’s share price...
View ArticleThe Nebula Awards…
Frank Catalano went to the Nebula Awards in Seattle, and talks about some of the things that happened. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about decisions past, present and future recently. A couple of...
View ArticleFree Fiction: ‘Til Death Do Us Part
I’ve uploaded another of my stories from back when I was writing fiction. This is my first sale and first published piece, Death Do Us Part from Alternate Kennedys, Tor, July 1992. Mike Resnick was the...
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Thoughts on “The Write Agenda” and “Writer Beware”
I got an unexpected and unsolicited tweet from the folks at The Write Agenda tonight: I wrote back pointing out that they are spouting absolute bullshit, but the more I thought about it, the more I...
View ArticleTea Time
Tea Time: Over the past five years, every writer I know has been told by their agent to ‘monetise the activity around their writing’. Give talks. Go to conventions. Judge prizes. Write reviews. Write...
View ArticleNo, Actually, Let’s Keep the Fan Categories at the Hugos | Whatever
(if you aren’t interested in science fiction fandom, or worse, science fiction fandom politics and SMOFFing and all of that crap, avert your eyes and go read something else. you’ll thank me…) No,...
View ArticleA small christmas gift for you: Downtime
Back when I was writing fiction, I started writing a series of stories about an IT consultant, the typical middle-aged middle-class guy who’s always trying to stay one step ahead of the bills, who...
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