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15 Ways Science Fiction Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity

In these troubled times publishers can use every advantage to make them one step ahead of their competition. However, with a stressful ever-increasing workload sometimes it’s easy to become jaded into what your readers think about your imprint when you work from the inside of the publishing industry. Fortunately, I’m in the unique position of [...]

1000 Twitter Followers and Growing

Just wanted to do a quick post to announce that last weekend my account on twitter surpassed 1000 Followers making it one of the fastest growing sci-fi websites on the internet. For those unfamiliar with the service, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows for short messages no larger than 140 characters to be sent [...]

Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity II

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Here is part two of my four part series entitled “Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity”. For those that haven’t read part one (Click Here) otherwise check out the list below.

1) Highlight Editors Blogs

If there’s something I love more than reading the blogs of my favorite science fiction [...]

New Year’s Resolution #12 Completed: Get 10 Articles Published

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Sure I’d love to have more article published for various consumer or trade magazines across Canada and the U.S. On top of blogging, novel writing, and entering contests in my spare time, there’s only so much one person can do. I still get published each month [...]

Why I Make Less than $30,000 and Still Blog

If someone were to objectively take a look at my blog homepage they might assume that the ultimate purpose of “Scifi Watch” was to make money as a result of the heavy-laden reviews of television shows and DVDs. Now I’m not going to lie and say that one of the purposes of this blog is [...]

Reader Response: How to Get a Literary Agent

A few weeks ago I received a question from a lovely woman in Kentucky who was searching for a literary agent for her novel. Here are the contents of that letter:

Thank you so much for this article. I am going to follow the advice and will cross my fingers! Much appreciated.
One question. I started blogging [...]

Alphainventions Guaranteed to Increase Blog Traffic!

Just wanted to give a shout out to Alpha Inventions for single handedly increasing my traffic ten fold as well as the number of subscribers on my site.  The story goes something like this. I transferred everything from my previous blog (which garnered 3,000 unique visitors a month). However, when I switched my blog from [...]

The reality of publishing today!

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So here’s the reality of publishing today. In the wake of the economic talespin that occurred in October/November 2008 top executives, well-known editors for the big publishing houses are being fired, less books are going to be produced overall in order to cut costs, [...]

The Cell Phone Novel and Twitter: To publish or not to publish?

The Mobile Phone Novel

Something interesting caught my eye while surfing the net. Apparently cell phones are used so prominently in Japan (and other Asian countries like South Korea and China) that people read entire novels on their cell phones. The serialized portions are released periodically over a period of time and since only [...]