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October 3, 2013

The Author as Publisher (Dream? Or Nightmare?)

Another fascinating and informative post from Kristine Kathryn Rusch. This time about the use of contract addendums to grab the rights of authors. Are you ready to stand on your own and keep the publishers and agents out of the equation? Here’s a litmus test. Which of the following best describes you and your feelings… Continue reading

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October 2, 2013

What They Knew #7

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.” –Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading

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September 30, 2013

Storytelling and the Marketplace

I’ve been writing a long time. I can divide my writing into three phases: the phase when I was trying to tell a story, the phase when I was trying to write something suitable for an agent, and the (current) phase when I am again trying to tell a story. Writing for word count might… Continue reading

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September 28, 2013

The Author Who Lived Dangerously: A New Model for Publishing

This is a true story: So the author writes a 30,000-word story and finds himself in literary limbo. Even though he’s achieved some success with his previous books, magazines aren’t willing to publish a story this long. They only have so many pages, after all, and adding extra paper will be expensive to print and ship.… Continue reading

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September 27, 2013

Streaming Television and Digital Publishing

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, has an interesting perspective on television viewers and their desire to have control over what they watch. He starts with a historical analogy: “Two hundred years ago, a lot of fiction was written for magazines. It was a serialized format for novels. And then book manufacturing got cheap enough where you… Continue reading

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September 26, 2013

Rise of the Novella?

Some interesting speculation that digital publishing, with its lower overhead costs, will lead to the rise of the novella. And why not? Readers like reading them, authors like writing them, but most importantly: sometimes that’s how long a story should be. It’s the difference between Monty Python ending a scene abruptly vs. SNL stretching one out… Continue reading

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September 24, 2013

A Good Sign You’re a Candidate for Self-Publishing

…is when you submit your manuscript to agents and find yourself hoping they will reject it, because their acceptance will interfere with the plans you have for running your own shop. Continue reading

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September 23, 2013

Welcome, Beta Readers!

Thanks to everyone who has served as a beta reader, or to those of you who have signed up for more. As always, I hope the process will not be too painful. (Side note: at the first deposition I ever took, the first thing out of my mouth was a reassurance to the witness that… Continue reading

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