Part Two of the Art of Covers
This is part two of Eric Gustafson’s guest post for me on covers. It’s a huge topic, and even if you aren’t responsible for your own covers, you should understand how a bad cover can […]
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The Artful Collector: The Major Awards for Artists and ART: The Chesley
Browsing through my photo file yielded one of me taken at the 16th annual Chesley Awards, 2001, accepting an award for one of the winners. Which did not include me 🙂 (although I have been […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 28)
Cool Stuff That Might Happen (or Not): Awards, Best of Anthologies, Movies Welcome back! This week I’ll be looking at some of the cool things that just might happen to you after you’ve published a […]
The Art of Designing Covers
Today I am pleased to present a guest post by Eric Gustafson, an innovative artist and book cover designer. I am still learning so much about cover design, and as Eric has been one of […]
Le paysage éditorial de la science fiction et de la fantasy française : 2éme partie : Les Small press
Le paysage éditorial de la science fiction et de la fantasy française : 2éme partie : Les Small press Les small press, dont certaines ont réussi grâce aux technologies d’impression à la demande ont réussi […]
Marketing 101: Authors and Reading Communities
I’m a member of two really large and really great reading communities: Goodreads /r/Fantasy on reddit Recently in /r/Fantasy there was a post about self-promotion. And I was pleased to see that I was called […]
Planet Blüd
Just a few housekeeping items before I get into the subject of this month’s post. I am happy to announce that my latest vampire novel came out last week and is available on Amazon.com (U.S., […]
A Fan’s History – Fanzines
Fanzines: What the heck is a ‘zine, anyhow? Well, ‘zine (usually abbreviated without the apostrophe) is short for fanzine, which should be self-explanatory. Unless I’m very much mistaken, SF fans were the first ones to […]
Noticias literatura y avance de cine 31-7
Se anuncia “Terra Nova 2” Tras el éxito de “Terra Nova”, se anuncia que el 21 de noviembre se publicará antología “Terra Nova 2”. En esta ocasión será en el sello Fantascy perteneciente al grupo […]
RICARDO ACEVEDO ESPLUGAS -MINATURA- POR M.C.CARPER
Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas – Editor de miNatura M. C. Carper para Amazing Stories Magazine: Hola ¿Quién eres? Preséntate con tus palabras, por favor. Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas : Soy Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas, cubano y escritor, director […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 27)
Bonjour / Hola / Ciao: Selling foreign language rights (conclusion) In parts 25 and 26, I began another mini-series on your options for re-selling your stories after they’ve been published for the first time. If […]
Revistas de ciencia ficción: la semilla
Actualización/update 7/26/13 – 21:47 A veces uno está tan seguro de las cosas, que da por hecho que las escribió, pero no siempre sucede. Es así como se me pasó mencionar la esencial participación de […]
Marketing 101: Walk Before You Run
I think one of the biggest mistakes that authors make with regards to marketing is spending huge amounts of time that will produce very few results. This is usually a byproduct of being excited that […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 26)
Bonjour / Hola / Ciao: Selling foreign language rights Last week, I began another mini-series, this one on your options for re-selling your stories after they’ve been published for the first time. If you haven’t […]
Photographs, Fantasy, Cover Design and Neil Gaiman
Let’s take a break from looking at artwork. Let’s look at some photos instead. Most people like looking at photographs. Usually these are family photographs, sometimes in an album, sometimes projected on a screen with […]
Le paysage éditorial de la science fiction et de la fantasy en France – 1ére partie – Les grands éditeurs indépendants spécialisés.
Le paysage éditorial de ce que nous appelons en France, les littératures de l’imaginaire est particulièrement riche. Nous commencerons cette série de trois articles qui vont y être consacré par les grands éditeurs indépendants. Ces […]
Santiago Oviedo – Editor de NM
Santiago Enrique Oviedo – Editor de NM – Publicación argentina de Ciencia Ficción M. C. Carper para Amazing Stories Magazine: Hola. ¿Quién eres? Preséntate con tus palabras, por favor. Santiago Oviedo: Hola. Soy Santiago Oviedo. […]
Marketing 101: Book giveaways
I’m often asked what is the “biggest bang for your buck” from a marketing perspective, and the answer is hands down: Book Giveaways. But here’s the thing. They have to be done the “right way.” […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 25)
A Writer’s Magic Bakery: Selling your stories again (and again, and again…) Welcome back to my series on marketing and selling short fiction. Last week, I wrapped up a mini-series on everything that happens after […]
Slammin’ Pulp Hero Stories
There’s a new book out I’d like to recommend to anyone who’s a fan of pulp fiction– or anyone who just appreciates good writing. My friend Fred Blosser, known in some parts as an authority […]
Those Early Readers
In Those Early Drafts, I looked at the sometimes complex task of getting a messy first draft edited and refined into a legible manuscript. I briefly touched on the importance of reader input in the […]
Read the Contract
The time has come, my friends, to talk of cabbages, and sealing-wax, of walruses and kings… and of contracts, those sheets of paper that hold so much power in them. Whether you have submitted to […]
Pulling Back the Publishing Veil: Sales for Various Print Options
One of the things that you give up with traditional publishing is decisions on things such as price, cover design, and formats that the book will be produced in. I’m starting to see more and […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 24)
Let the Band Ring Out and the Banners Fly: To promote or not to promote Welcome back to my series on marketing and selling short fiction. I’ve written these posts in a very specific sequence, […]
What Traditional Publishing Can Learn From Self-publishing
One of the first things you learn as a traditionally published author is that you have very little control over a great many things about your books. Cover design, format (hard cover, trade paperback, or […]
Sequential Wednesdays #14 – Image’s Brave New World
Con season is seriously rolling up, so be prepared to see some very hastily, exuberant and rather long-winded reports of the goings on and going downs at San Diego Comic-Con in the next couple of […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 23)
They Said WHAT?!?: Dealing with reviews Welcome back to my series on marketing and selling short fiction. I’ve written these posts in a very specific sequence, with each entry building on previous ones. You can […]
A Publisher’s Perspective on Profits: ebooks vs print
In early June 2013, Harper Collins held an investor’s day where it presented financial data through the company’s third quarter. The CEO, Brian Murray presented more than 100 slides but the most interesting one was the […]
Sequential Wednesdays #13 – On Reminiscing & Predicting
Hey folks, I’m back after a self-imposed 6 week (or so) hiatus from writing posts for ASM. I went off to work on an art installation, so now that’s done I can get back to […]
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