Publisher’s Desk: Display or Misplay?
If a display site is free, you lose nothing by signing up (as long as you’re careful about any contacts you receive). But if you have to pay a fee, you might want to think twice before pulling out your wallet.
If a display site is free, you lose nothing by signing up (as long as you’re careful about any contacts you receive). But if you have to pay a fee, you might want to think twice before pulling out your wallet.
You don’t have to be a fanatic to use Twitter; it doesn’t have to take over your life. Just get an account, use your real name, start following some people, and post some things. You don’t have to do it all at once, but you should do it. If you follow a publisher, a lot of times the publisher will follow you back.
Tuesday Funk, Chicago’s eclectic monthly reading series where good writing and good beer mix, is looking for five writers to fill out a special program of speculative fiction readings on the evening of Tuesday, September 4th, 2012.
The Futuristic, Fantasy & Paranormal chapter of Romance Writers of America is having it’s first conference March 2-4, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. The keynote speaker is Maggie Shayne.
Member news for Matthew Johnson, Eugie Foster, Laura Anne Gilman, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, and Delia Sherman.
In THE LATE AMERICAN NOVEL: WRITERS ON THE FUTURE OF BOOKS, editors Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee have collected a number of new writers* talking about the future of books, and although the word has been interpreted quite differently by the different writers, there’s some insightful pieces included in the mix.
On Tuesday, the Authors Guild posted the following article on its blog. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the ways in which the book business is changing, and how we reached the point where a single retailer has the power to dictate terms to publishers, and thus, indirectly, to authors and readers.
Resources and Member News for Stephanie Draven, Elizabeth Bear, Tony Pi, Eugie Foster, D. Walters Grintalis, and J. F. Lewis.
I’m going to touch on something that I’ve discussed briefly before but which I think is worth reheating into its own post. Here are the best selling books in the US from 1912, which is (for those of you for whom math is not a strong suit) 100 years ago.
Dear SFWA members: As many of you are aware, on December 10, 2010, the board of SFWA voted unanimously to place Dorchester Publishing Co, inc, on probation following an inquiry after we became aware of several instances in which Dorchester acted against the contractual and legal interest of authors, specifically by not paying royalties when […]