Continuing my posting of my SFWA Bulletin articles as their exclusivity period expires, the piece on subsidiary rights is up today at Magical Words.  Stop on by!

For links to past articles, click here.

In honor of Presidents' Day (and the fact that I actually have it off), I'm posting one of my SFWA Bulletin articles, as I've promised to do once their exclusivity period is up.  Since it was done a year ago, it's a little dated.  (For instance, e-books now form more like 20% of total book sales.)  However, discussions of DRM and pricing are still ( Read more... )

I've been crazy busy for a while now, which is definitely better than the alternative!  Thus, I realized recently that I've been so occupied making deals that I haven't stopped to post them.  I'll be rectifying this on Publishers Marketplace et al as time allows.  I'll also get back to posting my Agent Anonymous articles, originally published in ( Read more... )

For the SFWA Bulletin:
Subrights

What is the Deal with E-Books?

Survivor...Publishing Style (October-November 2009 issue)

Demystifying the Mystical Art of Negotiation (April-May 2009 issue)

Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart Pt I (June-July 2009 issue)

Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart Pt. II (August-September 2009 issue)

Pseudonyms (Feb-March 2009 issue ( Read more... )

I’ve been staring at the screen trying to figure out how to start this article.  “Show me the money!”  Seems too clichéd, especially since we all know we won’t actually see the money for a couple of months after negotiation…one, at least, in which to get the contracts and haggle out any remaining points, send said contracts to the author for ( Read more... )

Continuing my posts of my previous Agent Anonymous articles from the SFWA Bulletin, I present to you:

“Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” (June-July 2009 issue)

For some reason while writing this the song “Good-Night, Sweatheart” by the Spaniels keeps running through my head.  And no, I didn’t know the name of the band off the top of my head; I had to ( Read more... )

What's in a name?  A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

Okay, but would James Bond really be the same if he went by Izod Lipshitz?  Or Harry Blech.  Or Zaphod Beeblebrox?  Would he still get the girls?  Well, perhaps.  But still, you get the point.

From fantasy to reality, it's long been accepted that names have power. 
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When Facely-the-Ferret wants my attention, he simply pounces on my feet and jumps back a few steps looking up at me expectantly.  Unless I'm in the middle of something, like writing an article for the Bulletin, this generally works.  Self-promotion, for authors, is a bit more complicated.  (Though Facely volunteers to come to your signings and ( Read more... )

Since it's been more than a year now since my first article for the SFWA Bulletin (SFWA stands for Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America), I'm now able to post it for all.  Back when I started doing the Agent Anonymous articles, I was, as the name implies, anonymous.  I wrote as Agent Sue Dee Nym, thinking that if I wanted to get all ( Read more... )

Today is the deadline to opt in or out of the Google Settlement.  The clearest write-up I've seen so far on this is on the SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) site, written by the amazing Victoria Strauss.  Click there here.