The Google settlement has been one of the big topics for authors and publishers these days. ARS Technica reports on the position that Oxford Univeristy Press is taking.

by Carol Ottolenghi This article first appeared in Speculations. Copyright © 1997 by Carol Ottolenghi. All rights reserved. Most of us, unless we’re independently wealthy, wring our writing time from those moments between job, family, and basic living obligations. So, if it’s fiction you yearn to produce, why waste any of that precious time writing […]

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Article by Elizabeth Moon on advice for novice writers. Novice writers have to take some responsibility for their own careers. The good information is NOT that hard to find. The novices who don’t find it–and don’t find it repeatedly–are resisting the truth.

James Van Pelt writes on perseverance as a writer.

Author John E. Stith describes the process by which an author might acquire an agent.

Eleanor Wood’s 1998 State of Publishing speech given at the Nebula Awards weekend

Eleanor Wood’s speech on the State of Publishing given at the 1997 Nebula Awards weekend