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November 19, 2015

Thursday News: The book market, 2015 book news, stalking, and authors dressed as their favorite heroines

JanetPublishing NewsBig Five publishers / book news / digital books / print books / Self-publishing / stalking / yearly round up posts1 Comments

Self-Publishing & Big Five Dominate Book Market, According to Nielsen – There are a number of interesting observations that Joe Wikert makes in this article (consumers tend to want digital and print books, not one or other other; price correlates with interest in digital books over print), but the claim in ... more >

April 14, 2015

Tuesday News: The SFF and Speech Edition

JanetPublishing News"hard" SF / Free Speech / gender / harassment / hate speech / Hugos / online speech / SFF / stalking / writing10 Comments

To the Hard Members of the Truthy SF Club – I readily admit that I am an outsider to the SFF community, although I have read within the genre since graduate school. I have read many discussions of the difference between so-called “hard” and “soft” SF, but I especially enjoyed ... more >

January 13, 2015

On Why Authors Have More Power than Readers

JanetLetters of Opinionauthors / commercial speech / community / harassment / power / readers / risk / stalking125 Comments

I had originally intended to write a follow-up post to last week’s piece on feminism and the Romance genre, but the enormous Kickstarter debate kicked me back to a post on authors and power I had intended to write some months back after the Kathleen Hale incident. During that debate, ... more >

October 21, 2014

Poisoning the Well

JanetLetters of OpinionARCs / authors-behaving-badly / blogging / genre critique / harassment / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / Reader Reviews / stalking181 Comments

For better or worse, I have always been a fighter. For the people and principles I care about most, I will go to the mat, and the more unfair a situation becomes, the more energized to set things right I seem to become. I’m one of those cynical idealists who ... more >

October 20, 2014

Monday News: National Book Award Finalists, Jim Hines on Kathleen Hale, Margo Howard v. Vine, and Laurie Penny on the “ramification of misogyny”

JanetPublishing Newsgender / harassment / literary award / Misogyny / negative reviews / Reviewing / stalking33 Comments

Get To Know The Finalists For The 2014 National Book Award – From Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See (another WWII-set novel) to Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven to Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, NPR features all of the 2014 National Book Award finalists. There are some ... more >

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