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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 [...]

2009 Campbell Award Finalists Announced

I’m going to be completely honest with you here. I like writing awards posts. They’re easy, short, and you can’t be sued since much of the information is already public knowledge anyway. But one of the things I do like (what many don’t know in fact) is unlike the Hugos, Nebulas, and basically every other [...]

2009 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

Now a lot of people are probably going to give me a hard time with this post considering it has nothing to do with science fiction and more to do with fantasy than anything else. Nevertheless, since there are many commonalities between the two genres and both are inclusive to all readers I thought people [...]

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 [...]

5 Ways SF/F Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity I

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 [...]

Tiptree Award Winners Announced

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I was a huge fan of James Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice B. Sheldon). It’s probably a sexist thing to say now but you’d never think while reading one of her stories that they were written by a woman, and indeed most of the general public didn’t know at least until the mid-eighties. Her [...]

Quill & Quire Editor Dies at 40

It is with great sadness that I have to report that the editor of the Quill & Quire, Derek Weiler, passed away over the weekend at the young age of 40. For those who don’t know the Quill & Quire it is a monthly Canadian trade publication for ourbook industry, essentially the Canadian equivalent to [...]

‘The Last Colony’ Review

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I’ve just finished reading ‘The Last Colony‘ by John Scalzi and although it’s very early in the year I can honestly say this is going to be one of the best reads of 2009. John Perry, the hero of John Scalzi’s Hugo-nominated debut novel, Old [...]

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 [...]