Publishing 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 >
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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 >
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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 >
Letters 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 >
Publishing 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 >