I don’t have a writers’ group, in the traditional sense. Â But I do have a writers’ support group, also known as The War Room. Â And recently we were discussing the different ways we’re getting work to readers – traditional publishing, small press, Kickstarter, and direct-to-reader – and the difficulty of getting word out, even when […]
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There are years – okay, every year – I disagree with award nominations and winners (more often than I agree, but I know my taste is off-kilter). But dear fucking gods, there are ways to express your opinions in a mature and rational fashion. And then there’s this. First of all, it’s petty. Second of
As a rule, I don’t fangirl. Â I was trained to be a professional, starting at age 19, and it stuck. Â I admire and respect the people I work with, but even the most amazing talents don’t reduce me to gibbering incoherence. Except once. I’d just read a book, a lovely, marvelous book, and then turned
What situation, you ask?  This one. This Saturday I saw the New York Times article Barnes and Noble/Simon & Schuster Dispute Said to Hurt Sales. Later in the day, a high-up Simon & Schuster executive also linked to that post from his Facebook account, saying that yes, this is what’s going on. Another article about it
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Another in my on-going occasional series of guest posts from Writers I’m Reading… I have been a Lynn Flewelling fangirl ever since my editing days, when I gave her agent hell for sending Lynn’s first book to other editors, and not me. (she apologized), and I’ve been waiting for CASKET OF SOULS for what
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Remember a while back I showed you this cover? And told you about my story – “Don’t Toot Your Horn?” Unlike the sax, the trombone blasts its way onto the scene, sliding like a triumphant runner into third base, giving the rest of the band a neener-neener as it brushes itself off and accepts the
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Another in my on-going occasional series of guest posts from Writers I’m Reading. In this case, it’s Myke Cole, whose first novel, SHADOW OPS #1: CONTROL POINT, hit the shelves recently. I’m an old hand at military SF (that was how I got into SF in the first place) and the military has its roots
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Part of an ongoing, non-scheduled series, wherein I grab writers I’m reading, and ask them to talk about something related to that book, that they haven’t had a chance to talk about before, or at enough length. 0O0 I read Juliet McKenna’s first book, The Thief’s Gamble, back when it came out, and thought “ooh,
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I’m going to try something new in 2012: once a month, more or less, I’m going to try and grab writers I’m reading, and ask them to talk about something related to that book, that they haven’t had a chance to talk about before, or at enough length. I discovered Martha Wells via her book
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