Unquestionably, the big publishing news of the week was the US Department of Justice’s lawsuit filing against Apple and five major book publishers–Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon and Schuster–for alleged ebook price fixing.
Once upon a time, there was an infamous vanity anthology company called the International Library of Poetry, also known by the name of its website, Poetry.com.
SFWA Pacific Northwest Reading Series in Portland 4/16/12, Seattle 4/17/12 http://t.co/NiEO0qTo #
BooklifeNow.com, a website that serves as support for and a supplement to Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer by author Jeff VanderMeer, is proud to announce a new website rebranding and content management team that aims to keep current with changing trends in the writer’s market, as well as increase reader engagement and grow the reader base.
SFWA member @ClanKorval is pleased to announce the sale of 2 sequels to her 2010 Maine fantasy, Carousel Tides, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen. # SFWA member @paolobacigalupi's THE DROWNED CITIES previews the 1st 11 chapters on Kindle http://t.co/SYbizO7q & Nook. http://t.co/Nc4GSVqO #
The Libertarian Futurist Society has issued a press release announcing the finalists for this year’s Prometheus Awards, which will be presented during the 70th World Science Fiction Convention over Labor Day weekend in Chicago.
The nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards have been announced.
SFWA member @eugiefoster sold short story "Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me" to anthology WHEN THE VILLAIN COMES HOME. #
Smaller Than an Atom & Larger Than a Universe: Frontiers of Space Time and Thought. By SFWA member Edward M. Lerner. http://t.co/k0lPVlFQ #
I’ve used up a lot of column space on this blog warning about the risks of submitting to small presses, especially brand new small presses. In my opinion, this is currently the most dangerous area for writers–not so much because there are a lot of scams (though there are quite a few) but because so many small presses are undercapitalized, run by inexperienced people, have deluded goals and aspirations, or all three.
An ancient Roman temple terraforming Mars. An android longing for his human wife. Will their epic clash bring Earth to its knees? Publishers Weekly calls it “a must-read for sci-fi fans.”
A veteran award-winning author of 20 thrilling young adult and middle grade metaphysical adventures–including The Translucent Boy series–Tom Hoffman received a B.S. in psychology from Georgetown University and has lived in Alaska since 1972.
