More than two thousand years ago, the strategist Sun Tzu wrote that the warrior skilled in indirect warfare is as inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, as unending as rivers and streams, and passes away only to return like the four seasons.
Need a new system or simply need to get your submissions organized in the first place? Check out these 5 resources that can help you keep on submitting, sans stress.
Determining when work passes into the public domain is tricky. There are resources online that can help.
This sample DMCA form generates an email which authors may use as a model when sending a DMCA notice to a site infringing upon their copyrighted material.
by Cat Rambo 1. Any debate about the current struggle between electronic and traditional print publishing begins with this fact: no one thinks that online publishing will not eventually overtake the traditional, hold-in-your-hand, made-of-dead-trees model. While you may well continue to be able to slip something paperback-sized into your back pocket two decades down the […]
The website http://reading.kicks-ass.net/ contains a significant amount of material that is recognizably copyrighted by our members. Often sites which post material without permission are outside the United States and governed by different copyright rules. In this instance the hosting company’s policy explicitly prohibits distribution of copyrighted materials. Legally, DMCA notices must come from the […]
I never thought I’d be re-visiting the issue of literary agents charging reading fees. After all, the problems inherent in the charging of reading fees are recognized by all four literary agents’ profession…
Self-promotion: a subject much on many writers’ minds. All across the Internet, new authors are urged to be proactive in publicizing themselves and their books–to build a “brand.” But what to do? And how much?
A frequent question, especially among self- and small press-published authors, is how books get into libraries, and what authors can do to help. Today, guest blogger and public librarian Abigail Goben explains how libraries choose the books they purchase–and what authors should (and shouldn’t) do to play a part in that process.
Monica Valentinelli talks about what it means to write non-fiction for the web versus writing for a print publication like a magazine.
Practical guidance, frameworks, and tools for incorporating the principles of peacebuilding and nonviolence into compelling fiction. Many examples in this book are drawn from speculative fiction genres.
Amber Hansford is a fantasy author with a Too-Much Gene living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her debut novel, The Hand of Mashyana (Feb 2025), began her Persian-inspired Epic Fantasy series, The Emari Chronicles.
