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A question for everyone else using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing system for ebooks ( Read more... )

I only write one or two checks a month for the publishing company, so I don’t have to order new checks very often. So naturally, when I get to the “time to re-order” reminder atop one of the packs of checks, I ignore it ( Read more... )

Posting this link mostly as a reminder for myself, but it may be of interest to anyone else in publishing/writing: Most American adults read a print book in the past year, even as e-reading continues to grow.

Now I'm just confused ( Read more... )

From airships lost between universes, to golems winning the fight against racism, Lou Antonelli explains the many ways the world might have been in his newest collection, The Clock Struck None. Dip into this collection of previously published tales, where you’ll experience:
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When talking about writing, Tom Purdom likes to quote Frederik Pohl’s prescription for a good science fiction story: “interesting people doing interesting things in an interesting future.” Yet Michael Swanwick says that Purdom “adds a fourth quality, that the author should have an interesting point of view,” and by that accounting, “Tom’s work ( Read more... )

Running Gray Rabbit Publications/Fantastic Books, I've been talking about the future of the book as somewhat akin to the circus flashlights I remember from when I was a kid: a physical memento the audience can take away after a performance. Of course, for that to be the case, there has to be an enthralling performance. And when that take-away ( Read more... )

This article points out just a few of the many reasons I’m uncomfortable with the Amazon ebook behemoth ( Read more... )

I was going through the books received for review at SFScope today. There were nine books in the pile (a very slow fortnight, it’s been), and as I regularly do, I listed them on the Books Received page on the site. And as usual, I read through and posted the press releases that accompanied the books, to tell readers about them ( Read more... )