Guest Post: Who Controls Your Amazon E-book Price?
While there are certainly advantages to Amazon’s program, anyone who thinks Amazon is in this to help authors is a fool. Amazon, like pretty much any other business, is in this to make money.
Archive for 2012
Quick Updates for 2012-02-25
http://t.co/7rCyCfky has pulled thousands of e-books in a pricing dispute with IPG. http://t.co/grVbWQa8 #
Why Poets Should Not Seek Literary Agents
Writer Beware hears from a fair number poets. Much of the time, they’re contacting us to ask about self-publishing, or to check the reputation of a journal or a contest. Sometimes, unfortunately, they’ve gotten mixed up with one of the vanity anthology companies, such as Eber and Wein.
Script Frenzy hits this April
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the month of April.
2012 Skylark Award
Science fiction and fantasy authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are pleased to share the news that they are recipients of the 2012 Skylark Award.
Quick Updates for 2012-02-22
A lovely view of what it is like to get The Call about one's 1st Nebula nomination from nominee @ferretthimself http://t.co/s7JbdLLi #
Nebula Awards Interview: Aliette de Bodard
Basically, genre is a very useful guideline for grouping together novels that share certain characteristics, but I think it can also be a trap–what Ursula Le Guin and many others referred to as the ghetto. It tends to create books that are in dialogue with nothing else but genre: and, again, dialogue is a good thing, and a terrific way to create new literature; but it’s not the only one.
Quick Updates for 2012-02-21
Member @jenniferbrozek received a Publisher's Weekly review for THE LADY OF SEEKING IN THE CITY OF WAITING. http://t.co/kDIkTg38 #
2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is proud to announce the nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards (presented 2012), the nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. Novel Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) Embassytown, China […]
Guest Post: What’s Wrong with the Cheesecake? — A Brief Introduction to Antagonists
…I’m not going to discuss the importance of goals today. Instead, I’m going to discuss how worthless they are.
