Sarah Prineas September 10th 2007

Promo yes or no?

I’d like to examine this truism of publishing. It goes like this.
Publishers buy books and then don’t do enough to promote them. So each author must pick up the slack and promote his or her own books so the book doesn’t fail and ruin the author’s writing career.
You see authors throwing a lot of […]

Jackie Kessler September 7th 2007

You Shelved It…Where?

Pop quiz, hotshot. (Nah, there are no buses or bombs involved.)
You’ve heard terrific things about this one urban fantasy novel that came out a few months ago. It supposedly has everything you like — supernatural creatures, tension, an engrossing plot, humor, action, characters you can root for (or against). So you go to your local […]

Tate Hallaway September 5th 2007

To Theme or Not To Theme

Never “write to market” I tell my students.  Go with the ideas that excite you, I say, and don’t worry about that cowboy elf anthology you saw mentioned in Gila Queen that offers to pay twenty cents a word.  Come on, you know what happens.  More often than not you end up writing some drivel […]

Diana Pharaoh Francis September 3rd 2007

Maunderings on expertise and writing

I watch these movies about people who are so completely involved in their work that they are these marvelous experts. They know everything anybody ever did in their field, they have read or discussed all the current theories and technologies, they are completely informed, up-to-date, and totally in love with what they do.
I’m supposed […]

Tobias Buckell September 2nd 2007

A video interview with S.C. Butler

Somewhere just outside Pittsburgh at the SF convention Confluence, I sat down with S.C. Butler and talked to him about his career, his books, and more. The sound may be a bit low and need turned up.

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