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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 [...]

Five Ways SF/F Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money and Promote Publicity III

This is the third part of my four part series entitled “Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity”. For those interested in viewing Part I (Click Here) and Part II (Click Here).

Offer More Contest / Giveaways!

It’s true, people like free stuff, especially books, and readers tend to take note of a [...]

New Years Resolutions #25 Complete: Create a Portfolio of all Stories Written from 2005-2008

One of my New Years Resolutions was to take all of my short stories written over the past five years and edit and format them once and for all. This was not for the sake of my New Years Resolutions mind you, this actually came about when I realized that some of these stories I’d [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

New Years Resolution #94 Completed: Receive 5 Rejection Letters from Literary Agents

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While most people tend to cast away their failures in a meager effort to get rid of them, I welcome rejection. So much so that many of my New Years resolutions are solely based on failing. For the past five months I’ve been shopping [...]

The Five Biggest Myths of First-Time Authors

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Myth: First-Time Authors Make a lot of Money

In actuality the average sum for a first-time novelist is around $5000. Now keep in mind this is just for the advance from the publisher and doesn’t take into account future sales. And this $5000 isn’t given in one lump sum either, it’s actually cut into [...]