Blog Post/Article Roundup
Some blog posts and articles of interest from agents around the web.
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PSA: Possible H1N1 at World Fantasy
There is at least one confirmed case of H1N1 coming out of World Fantasy. Australian editor, Jonathan Strahan, reports on his blog that he became ill immediately after the World Fantasy Convention and it has been diagnosed as the flu H1N1.
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New Nebula Awards Commissioner
I’m very pleased to announce that SFWA has a new Nebula Awards Commissioner (NAC). Madeleine Robins has agreed to take on this role, and see us through the first year under the new rules.
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Do You Know How to Sell Your Sword?
As an author, it’s important for you to know how to sell and market your book. Because there is no shortage of books and articles on the subject, I’d like to tackle the subject of marketing your book from a more metaphorical approach. (If you’ve ever heard me speak, you should know I’m pretty big on metaphors to help you better understand topics in a different way.) In your case, I feel that it’s not only important to understand how to sell, but also understand a little bit more about a typical sales cycle.
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Rights and Copyright
Copyright, literally, is “the right to copy.” It guarantees the authors of creative works–including books, artworks, films, recordings, photographs–the exclusive right for a set period of time to allow other people to copy and distribute the work, by whatever means and in whatever media currently exist. It also prohibits copying and distributing without the author’s permission. You own copyright by law, automatically, as soon your work is fixed in tangible form–i.e., the minute you write down the words.
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Audio Interview with David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Nigel Beale interviews David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer about the differences between SF Editors and others.
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WINNERS OF THE SPANISH IV XATAFI-CYBERDARK AWARD
Our congratulations to the SFWA Members on this list!
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Recommended Link: When is a Cartoon Not a Cartoon?
In this article, Rob Tornoe reports that an artist has sold a silkscreen print of an uncredited cartoon for £150,000, apparently without the consent of the original cartoonist. This raises new concerns about the already disputed realm of copyright and intellectual property.
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Author Mills and a Request for Contact
Unlike commercial or trade publishers, whose business model is based on book volume (selling as many books as possible from a limited number of authors), author mills’ business model is based on author volume (selling a limited number of books from as many authors as possible). The most famous example of an author mill is PublishAmerica, but there are others, such as VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller, an academic author mill.
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Happy Birthday Ursula K. Le Guin
According to the biographical note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s website, she has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short
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Research Tool: Archive of WWI pictures
FirstWorldWar.com has a deep archive of WWI pictures, which are clearly labeled and sorted. Whether you are doing a historical fantasy, steampunk, or staging a war in your science-fictional world, this will prove fascinating reading.