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On Books Being “Special”

Hachette. Amazon. One need say nothing more to gain the attention of writer’s everywhere. Sullivan’s take on author manipulation.

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Publishers don’t create books…authors do.

No matter what happens between Amazon and Hachette, literature will still exist.

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Balance and the Hachette Amazon Dispute

Amazing Stories’ resident expert on publishing indie, traditional and seemingly every other outlet, weighs in on the Amazon-Hachette dispute.

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Author’s Earnings: Part 3 Mid-list Print Sales

Michael dives even deeper down the rabbit hole of author’s earnings.

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Author’s Earnings: Part 2

Part 2 of Michael’s examination of earnings in the field of authorship.

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Michael J. Sullivan
Michael J. Sullivan

Michael J. Sullivan is a speculative fiction writer who has written twenty-five novels and released nine. Eight of his fantasy books (The Riyria Revelations, and The Riyria Chronicles), were published by Hachette Book Group’s Orbit imprint. Hollow World, a science-fiction thriller was released by Tachyon Publications. The first four books of his new series, The First Empire, has sold to Random House’s Del Rey imprint, and the first book is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2016. He can be found on twitter, through his blog www.riyria.com, and on his facebook page and his publisher’s page for the series.

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