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Hugo Award
August 24, 2015

Monday News: The Hugos, weekly SFF serials, the wisdom of groups, and women’s book clubs

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / dating / female sexuality / Hugo Awards / literary awards / politics / research / Serials / SFF14 Comments

Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters – The Hugos are over and the Puppies did not take one award. This article from Wired does a great job of explaining the backstory of the Sad and Rabid Puppies campaign (I absolutely believe they are functionally one campaign, ... more >

December 19, 2014

Friday News: Pricing, licensing, cross-genre writing, and national propagandizing

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / censorship / creative commons / films / Flickr / Free Speech / Macmillan / Serials / Sony / Yahoo1 Comments

A Message From John Sargent – I do so look forward to John Sargent”s public missives. It’s good to know all the entities we should blame – except Macmillan, of course, which is full of integrity and the best interests of “authors, illustrators, and agents” (but not readers, apparently), for ... more >

April 22, 2014

Length and form in genre storytelling

SunitaLetters of Opinionnovellas / Serials / short stories61 Comments

Note: An earlier version of this post ran at Sunita’s personal blog, Vacuous Minx. We thought DA’s readership might be interested in reading and commenting on it here.   The first installment in Meljean Brook’s new serialized novel, The Kraken King, was released last week. Brie has an excellent review of it ... more >

Cat Duck
April 25, 2013

Thursday News: The tax man cometh; Avon Romance restarts a community writer’s forum; Color eInk reader introduced in Russia

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Serials / writing9 Comments

This is just for fun and because Jayne sent it to me. Internet sales tax: who’s for it, who’s against & what comes next – An Internet sales tax is about to pass the Senate and may do so as early as the end of this week. It may surprise ... more >

Prison Cat
January 7, 2013

Monday News: Prison Break Cat-style; Bluetooth Stickers; Publishing trends for 2013

JaneUncategorizedcopyright / Serials / subscriptions10 Comments

Seven publishing trends that will define 2013 – While this article addresses primarily publishing for newspapers and magazines, there are things to be extrapolated into long form fiction. Hamish McKenzie suggests that in 2013, we will see more of everything. This is a safe set of predictions but digging deeper ... more >

Kindle Fire
September 10, 2012

Monday News: Nook Tablet rumors; Kindle Serials; 50 Shades irony; Kindle Fires are with ads

JanePublishing NewsKindle / Multifunction-Device / Nook Tablet / Serials13 Comments

New Rumors Suggest New Nook Tablet Coming This Month – Nate pulls together a number of rumors regarding the upcoming Nook tablet. Purportedly it will run Windows 8 instead of a forked Android system which would make sense given the Microsoft partnership. The screen resolution is to be sharper and ... more >

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