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4 Other Ways to Get a Literary Agent

In today’s publishing industry the traditional methods of getting a literary agent is as follow: (1) aspiring writer submits manuscript to literary agent (2) agent either accepts manuscript or rejects it. It’s no real secret, that’s how it usually goes, and the publishing industry today is cutthroat for new authors. This is added to the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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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Five Misconceptions About Literary Agents

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While I haven’t been published or found full-time representation for my novel Second Death (click here) I know enough about the publishing world and of manuscript submissions to know that there are a lot of preconceived notions and misconceptions when it comes [...]

Audrey Niffenegger Auctions Second Book for $5 Million

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Here’s a piece of news I picked up from the New York Times. It turns out Audrey Niffenegger, author of her debut novel ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife‘ has sold the manuscript to her second novel for a reported $5 million at [...]

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 [...]

2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlist Revealed

I personally love the Arthur C. Clarke Award both as a science fiction reader and as a Canadian. Indeed the first award given more than twenty years ago was to Maragret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale‘, and since then there has been no shortage of Canadian authors making the list over the years. The Arthur C. [...]

Harper Undergoes Restructuring; Gallagher and Womack Gone

I just got this off the wire at Locus Magazine. As you may or may not know, publishing like any other industry has been hit hard by the recent economic turmoil in the U.S. Not only are less people buying books (not because they don’t like reading but because people are being especially frugal with [...]