by John Scalzi


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by Stacy Whitman
Editorial Director, Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books


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by Jennifer Pelland


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by Caren Gussoff


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by Monica Valentinelli

This month, I wanted to take a break from discussing topics in online marketing to chat with you about what it means to write non-fiction for the web versus writing for a print publication like a magazine. The first thing to keep in mind is that writing for an online medium is night-and-day different from writing for print. ( Read more... )

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One of the things that bothers me sometimes when looking at world-building is the way people don’t think about where objects come from. What is the industry that fuels the region? Where does all that paper come from in Battlestar Galactica?

So this essay on the origins of a pencil tickles me no end, and not just because it’s written in first ( Read more... )

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A question for y'all:

Ms. Mintz wrote: "SFWA's policy on copyrights is that the creator should control their creation. Short. Simple. Non-intrusive."

I take The creator should control their creation as the fundamental principle there, and its application to copyright merely that, an application. And even if that's not what Ms. Mintz meant in ( Read more... )