Quick Updates for 2012-07-20
Resources and Member News for Edward M. Lerner.
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Pearson Buys Author Solutions
Last March, word went out that self-publishing giant Author Solutions Inc (owner of AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Xlibris, Trafford, WordClay, Palibrio, and several others, and contractor for the self-pub divisions of several major publishers) was looking for a buyer.
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It Came From Riverside!
The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy is the largest publicly-accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and utopian literature in the world. For an inside look, check out the YouTube video.
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Call for Guest Bloggers
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Would you like to be a guest blogger for Writer Beware?
To vary our subject matter and present differing points of view, we publish occasional guest blog posts on subjects relating to publishing, self-p…
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Lazy Time Travel: Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out
Graduation season has come and gone, but we’ve seen lots of great commencement speeches around, from Neil Gaiman’s to Aaron Sorkin’s. They made me mildly nostalgic.
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Guest Post: When Did “Science Fiction” and “Apocalypse” Become Interchangeable?
Our society and technology is hardly the epitome of endeavor; to believe we’re at our pinnacle is mild hubris at best. So why should our future be worse?
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Guest Post: Chasing the First Sale–Becoming a Student of the Job
Short stories are a proving ground. They let you get out there, try a bunch of things out, and make your mistakes small so you don’t have to make all of them big. When I hear an unpublished writer talking about the epic fantasy trilogy they’re going to write, my first thought is, “What a shame.”
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Guest Post: Really, Your Outline Does Not Have to Be Perfect
An outline is a roadmap. It helps you decide the overall shape of the novel. It does not lock you into that structure if you stumble upon something interesting.
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Rights vs. Copyright
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
You may have noticed that there were no posts last week. Apologies! I’ve got a humongous workload, and have had to cut myself off from the web almost entirely in order to deal with it.
I thought I…
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Andre Norton Award Jury Announced
The 2012 Andre Norton Award committee has been chosen, and will begin accepting books for consideration. Any young adult/middle grade prose or graphic novel first published in English in 2012 is eligible.
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Guest Post: Presenting the Cultural Imperialism Bingo Card
If you think colonialism is dead… think again. Globalisation has indeed made the world smaller–furthering the dominance of the West over the developing world, shrinking and devaluing local cultures, and uniformising everything to Western values and Western ways of life
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Finalists for the Sunburst Award Announced
The Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic are presented annually to Canadian writers with a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous year.