Beating Today’s “S” Curve (or Why an Editor is Every Writer’s Best Friend)
The publishing industry is currently experiencing its own version of the “S” curve and the “boom and bust” curve
The publishing industry is currently experiencing its own version of the “S” curve and the “boom and bust” curve
Para los peruanos, Abraham Valdelomar es una gran promesa literaria truncada. Nacido en 1888, se convirtió en uno de los más importantes cuentistas del país, innovando el género de tal manera que muchos de sus cuentos se han convertido en clásicos indiscutibles de la literatura peruana, como pueden serlo El caballero Carmelo, El hipocampo de oro y otros. Falleció en 1919.
The problem with the internet is that anyone can write something down, publish it, and present it as fact when it’s not. I have ten titles on Amazon, and another one coming out later this week. Every single one, the default is no DRM, although there is a check-box I can click if I decided I wanted it on my work. Which I don’t. Unlike Big Music and Big Publishing, I don’t think all people are thieves. I also know better than to think that DRM is anything but a challenge to hacker twits who break stuff just for jollies.
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”
Avance del nuevo título de “Espiral Ciencia-Ficción” “Espiral CF” anuncia que ya tiene el próximo libro en la imprenta. Estará compuesto por las novelas “Zaibatsu” de Diana P. Morales y “La edad del vuelo” de Alberto Moreno […]
Me gustaba mucho la serie de TV llamada “Héroes.” Cuentan que su fracaso se debió a que, como los televidentes se enamoraron tanto de los carismáticos personajes, a partir de la segunda temporada, para hacerlos […]
Last week I did a post entitled: Dear Publishers, listen to authors and put reader’s first where I held traditional publisher’s feet to the fire for things they were doing wrong and I thought they should address. […]
I was getting all excited last night over the idea of making my next purse. I can work with leather, and I don’t want something that looks like what everyone else has, so… But as […]
Cedar Sanderson interviews Archer Garrett, author of The Border Marches
a favorite website that combines love of all things geeky with affinity for the U.K.
Why did Popular Science shut down reader comments? Reader interaction through comments is vital to the longevity of internet blogging. Yet, there is a growing concern over the impact these comments might have on the legitimacy of the articles being posted.
Seanan McGuire, sometimes known as Mira Grant, is one of this generation’s most prolific writers.
Two different authors of military SF, each offering unique expressions of the form.
A bi-lingual interview experiment with Alan Grant, comics author
Reading is a kinetic exercise, not just sitting in a chair scanning words. Writing is the way we turn the potential energy of ideas into that kinetic energy for the reader.
a discussion on another publishing option for your backlist of short fiction
Ten works from ancient history that every science fiction reader should be familiar with.
This is a valid desire. It is, after all, why most of us write—to share our stories and messages with as many people as possible.
As far as main characters go, Zinzi’s got a lot of problems before the book even starts.
Fantasy cartography is like playing SimCity; first you create and then you take an almost gleeful joy in the destruction before rebuilding from the ashes.
I was deep into Gundam Wing starting in middle school, and it was the catalyst for me to start taking drawing and writing very seriously.
independently publishing your stories yourself
When you write, capturing the urgency of the moment, your own voice and style, happens in the first contact of pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and with each re-working of the text,
En todo caso más vale tarde que nunca, aquí algunos de los más interesantes artículos que fueron populares en las últimas semanas.
I finish off the discussion I began in part 29 on some of the paths a writer might choose to take for their short fiction career, this week focusing on publishing a collection of your short fiction.
La web “Ficción Científica” cumple un año y , para celebrarlo, ha editado un ebook gratuito, titulado “Ellos son el futuro”
SF theatre can draw upon the symbolic imagery that Theatre can house – a relatively small transformative space where a spear can become the symbol of an army, a chair that becomes someone’s lover or family member
I would be lying outright if I said that I didn’t have a lot of respect for the profound effect of Western comics and their history on society
I believe people of all types should be able to join in geek events and have fun whether they’re sufficiently geek credentialed or not, but I wondered how one might one go about quantitatively evaluating “geekiness”
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