TL;DR: oh, just go read Cecilia Tan’s blog post instead. This summer, my friend Katrina Archer self-published her YA fantasy novel Untalented (previously a 2009 ABNA quarterfinalist): This week, she discovered that the eBook version had been pirated: If I…
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I Will Miss Being Here
It’s the middle of Week Six now, the final week of Clarion West 2014, and I’ve turned in my final story for critique tomorrow morning. It’s all downhill from here: just seven more stories to read and give feedback on,…
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SnoutCast #164: Rhymes with “Hoary”
This podcast is like a storybook story, and it’s as real as the feelings you feel. [ Download mp3 – 37 MB ] 00:58 – “bookish”03:12 – you, too, can send us an e-mail04:54 – comparing XCOM strategies05:50 – look,…
FREE eBook of My First Fiction Sale
Now through the end of Saturday (January 5, 2013), you can download a FREE Kindle edition of the first short story I ever sold! It’s titled “At Long Last, Love,” and it’s part of the anthology From the Porch Swing…
eBook Report: Wildside
Rescued from the backlist: Steven Gould’s 1996 novel Wildside, now available in eBook format with spiffy new cover, shown above. (Disclosure: I got the manuscript for free, as part of his crowdsource proofreading project; and I probably took longer to…
Write-a-Thon Wrap-Up
The Clarion UCSD Write-a-Thon 2010 ended a few weeks ago, but I neglected to tally up my donation numbers until now. Drumroll, please: Total amount donated: $419Total number of donors: 6Mean average donation: $69.83Largest single donation: $256Total words written: 44,135Putative…
I Continue to be a Professional Writer
Received in the mail today: my contributor’s copy, payment, and publishing contract for “At Long Last, Love,” a short story in the anthology From the Porch Swing: memories of our grandparents. (If you look closely, you can see that I…
Book Report: FREE
Anyone who spends any amount of time on the Internet already knows about many of the topics Wired editor Chris Anderson discusses in this book, and probably knows more about some of them. At less than 300 pages (including a…
Scalzi on Self-Publishing!
Jasper here, with more on self-publishing, this time from New York Times bestselling author and multiple Hugo Award winner John Scalzi! From his “Quick Note on Self-Publishing”: [I]f you are going to self-publish, for the love of all that is…
Cory Doctorow on Self-Publishing!
Jasper here, with some commentary from Hugo-nominated science fiction author Cory Doctorow! Cory’s latest Guardian column is about “Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers,” but he also addresses the question of self-publishing: [W]hy do we…