Someone, somewhere, in the 19th Century Ivory Tower that is the publishing industry has realized that allowing bookstores to strip unsold mass-market paperbacks and “return” them (i.e. tear the cover off for credit from the publisher and giving the naked book to cousin Billy.) is not a viable business model. Read more…
Over at Juno Books they have some sales figures for October, and the news is somewhat depressing: Publishers’ net book sales fell 20.1% to $644.5 million in October, as reported by 80 publishers to the Association of American Publishers. Sales for the year through October were down 3.4% to $8.362 Read more…
This post shows up in my RSS feed, which takes me over here, where one of the first links leads me over to this thread of awesomness. Here’s the concept: Take random Wikipedia article, feed the subject into the LIFE photo archive and pick a picture, the article is your Read more…
On Dear Author we hear of a woman who’s held a funeral for her failed writing career. When I read the post my thoughts went something like this: Sixteen rejections is a low threshold for career failure. Can you base a career on the viability of a single novel (probably Read more…
As I pointed out a while ago, taking draconian stands against child porn is not what one would call a politically courageous stance. In fact, if you accuse someone of possessing child porn, you’ve pretty much destroyed that person. It is such an explosive charge that one would hope that Read more…
I’ve been doing this writing thing professionally for about fifteen years or so at this point, written 20 novels so far and a handful of short stories. I am, however, constantly reminded that there are always things I’m still learning. A recent post by Steve Buchheit (here and here) reminded Read more…
Following up on the sense of wonder post, as well as picking up some threads from my earlier post on Mundane SF, and the latest Scalzi article for AMC, I’ve had a lot of different thoughts percolating about a particular question: “Why write SF in the first place?” Of course Read more…
She made me do this. But here you go anyway. Of course you also want to see the high quality version.