FOR WRITERS: Share Your FB Page
Here’s one easy way to build your audience
On Cover Mentions
Cover mentions. Every author loves them, but do they actually help sell magazines?
Dark Worlds Magazine
An early experiment in on-demand magazine publishing.
Military SF or The Books With the BFG’s
We’re about as far away from Agent J’s Noisy Cricket as you can get….
The Changing Horizon: A Brief Summary of Chinese SF in Year 2015
An excellent summary of Science Fiction in China, 2015
Getting the Artwork You Want for Your Book Cover
“It’s exactly what I asked for, but it’s not what I want!” Conveying artistic desires is not an easy task for anyone concerned!
VCON, HOWDERSHELT REVIEW AND MORE ON SELF-PUBLISHING!
This week, Steve hypes his local convention and talks to best-selling ebook writer Ed Howdershelt, plus there’s advice on writing and selling ebooks!
What Is the Solution to Author Solutions?
Self-publishing or publishing scam?
Literary Critics Do Judge a Book By Its Cover
Maybe it should be the goal of mainstream literary editors to find at least one genre novel a week that deserves a lengthy review
Revisiting the Short Story and Heinlein’s Five Rules of Writing
There are at least seven excellent reasons to write short stories
The Ecology of Print Books: Niche Partitioning by Young Readers
Applying ecological principals to book publishing
We All Start From the Same Place
MIchael explains how marketing your book is like a Presidential hopeful going to the down dump to drum up support.
Plug into the Times
Technology breeds independence.
Arisia: Con Report Lite
What went right and what went wrong during Arisia weekend.
The Artful Collector: Your Guide to ArtSpeak – Part 2
Translating art babble, one word at a time.
The Artful Collector: Your Guide to ArtSpeak – Part I
The language of art collecting can be strange, wonderful and at times totally mystifying to outsiders. It’s a vocabulary rife with very specific descriptors (“etching, serigraph, remarque”) as well as a baffling assortment of slang, jargon and doubletalk. As peculiar to the ears as the language of techies or circus carnies, it also can be […]
AMAZING THINGS You Should Know: Christine Rose Signs with Rabid Fan Boy
Christine Rose signs with Rabid Fan Boy
The Artful Collector: On Collecting Illustration Art that Isn’t . . .Yet
The artful collector talks about illustrations, and the blurred line between private and commercial art.
Self-publishing Competitions: Leave Your Elves At Home
The enormous media interest in self-publishing has been fired by the breakthrough success of Wool by Hugh Howey, so SF is leading the way in this field. It’s strange therefore to hear the Guardian’s flamboyant Books section editor Claire Armistead warning that “It’s all too easy to dismiss the self-publishing sector as a wilderness of elves, sex and high-school romcoms”.
¿Hacer una revista física o digital?
A discourse on publishing a science fiction magazine in Spanish – which may just be a bit harder than doing one in English.
Self-publishing Odyssey: Part 3 The Dirty Business Of Promotion
A look at self-publishing promotional strategies.
The Artful Collector: Art and Collectibles as “Investments”?
Is there anything to the idea that one can truly INVEST in collectibles – like comic books and illustration art – the way one invests in treasury bonds, equities and real estate?
The Artful Collector: A Savvy Collector Comes up with Art Hierarchy #10!
Jane Frank had one last thing to add to her Art Hierarchies: Familiarity.
Interview with Amanda S. Green
An interview with the author of The Road To Digital Publication and the Nocturnal Lives series.
Generating Marketing Buzz
Our proven expert, Michael J. Sullivan, lays out a marketing plan designed to generate buzz (and sales) for books.
Marketing 101: Making Exceptional Covers
Michael J. Sullivan has been delivering some of the best advice and insight into self-publishing offered on the web, and he’s not stopping yet. Today – how to get yourself an awesome cover!
The Artful Collector: Art Hierarchies #7: Art That Is Created by Hand Is Better Than Art That Is Not
Jane Frank, the Artful Collector, discusses actual and perceived value of handmade art.
The Wolverine has come to your TV and your phone
We seem to keep getting lucky here in the UK. We got to see Thor 2 ahead of the US, and now we’ve gotten The Wolverine on DVD and Blu-Ray first, too.
Crear una revista de ciencia ficción – ¿Por dónde comenzar?
A different approach to publishing projects