All Entries Tagged With: "publisher"

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 [...]

Apex Magazine Suspends Publication

According to SF Scope, publisher Jason Sizemore has announced that effective immediately Apex Magazine is going on hiatus.

“We’ve reached a point where myself and the other people involved with Apex Publications felt it best that we put our focus and energies into the side of the business that makes the money: the books,” stated Sizemore.

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Anticipation Progress Report 4 Released

This week the latest progress report for Anticipation (the 67th Worldcon Science Fiction Convention) was released. This makes it the final report of the convention up until the first week of August, so if you’re planning to attend the event it would be a good idea to view its contents at www.anticipationsf.ca or downloading it [...]

Rant: “If All the SF Magazines are Closing, How Am I Going to Get Published?”

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Now this statement may be a bit of an exaggeration, but think about all of the changes that are happening in the world of publishing today; less books are being produced by publishing houses (and being purchased by customers), top level editors and agents are being firing in the midst of corporate restructuring, [...]

2009 Locus Awards Announced

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For me Locus is the premiere trade magazine for the science fiction and fantasy publishing industry. So when they post their annual nominees for their Locus Award I tend to take notice and pay attention for what’s hot and any approaching trends. Here is the short list from all categories. Enjoy!

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New Years Resolution #42 Completed: Attend a Science Fiction Convention

Even though it’s been a few weeks since attending the Ad Astra convention I feel that a post is in order since it was indeed number #42 on my list of 100 New Years resolutions to complete for this years. Now I’ve never been to a science fiction convention in years, much less one as [...]

‘Realms of Fantasy’ Revived

Not too long ago I released a post saying that the popular long-standing fantasy magazine ‘Realms of Fantasy’ will be closing down for good, however, the magazine was recently purchased by Tir Na Nog Press from Sovereign Media several days ago. Publisher Warren Lapine says it’s important to get things moving quickly rather than spending [...]

10 Random Things About My Writing Life

There’s a popular meme circulating the internet titled “25 Random Things About Me”. And since I haven’t written a lot in my blog about myself I thought this would be a fun opportunity for my readers to get to know a little more about me. I’ve amended the title slightly to read “11 Random Things [...]

How to get a novel published

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I know I’ve been a little lax with my post entries lately but I’ve been pretty busy with school finishing up and am still scrambling to find an internship for the last leg of my program in book and magazine publishing. Nonetheless, I [...]