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!
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.
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, […]
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
Top Post de Octubre en Amazing Stories
Libros Hubo muchas reseñas de libros el mes pasado. Gary Dalkin reseña la colección de 10 historias Feast and Famine: Book Review – Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Steve Fahnestalk nos recomienda el libro […]
What You Pay For
Sometimes I see a review on Amazon that makes me do the puppy thing – you know, cock my head and make that little “baroo?” noise. A friend shared a link to a book with […]
Halloween in Japan
In Japan, Halloween is pumpkins and ghosts, just as Christmas is Santas and reindeer.
The Artful Collector: Art Hierarchies #2: “Fine Art” is Better than “Illustrative Art”
Please don’t shoot the messenger. I’m not responsible for the “high” and “low” art divide—into which categories we’ve shoved “art we collectively treasure” vs “art we collectively enjoy,” respectively. I’m just here to generalize, and to […]
The Power of Free
Face it, no-one needs to buy a fiction book. It’s not like underwear, or food, or a roof over their heads. It’s entertainment.
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