Quick Updates for 2012-08-31
SFWA members! Are you at Dragon*Con? Come by the SFWA table by the Comics Alley with your promotional stuff if you want it on the table! #
SFWA members! Are you at Dragon*Con? Come by the SFWA table by the Comics Alley with your promotional stuff if you want it on the table! #
A brand new “author’s cut” Kindle edition of the 1999 Locus Award winning novel.
A prominent literary agent recently told me that unless an author receives a hefty advance of $100,000 or more most publishers will do virtually no promotion, leaving it to authors to create and exploit their own platforms via social media and networking connections, workshops and webcasts.
SFWA member Wendy S. Delmater announces an editorial opening. http://t.co/Bc9oNt4c #
Author Josepha Sherman (b.1946) died on August 23 following a year of deteriorating health. Sherman began publishing in 1986 with a “Find Your Fate” adventure book and the novel Golden Girl and the Crystal of Doom.
SFWA member Samantha Henderson's "Maybe the Stars" is live at Drabblecast, part of Lovecraft Tribute Month: http://t.co/yypDll6u #
Member News for Vonda N. McIntyre, Fran Wilde, Joe Haldeman, Beth Cato, and Samantha Henderson.
SFWA member Beth Cato's poem "The Unicorn" is in the latest issue of The Pedestal Magazine. http://t.co/wTgIE89H… #
So what might be the value of podcasting for new and established speculative fiction writers? Is it about exposure? Self-publishing? Monetizing the work? Creativity for its own sake?
The emergence of the iPod has revolutionized the way our culture consumes media; music, videos, apps, and even literature, specifically in the form of audio fiction. Both long and short form audio fiction have thousands of avid listeners who take advantage of commutes, gym sessions, walks, etc., to catch up on their ‘reading.’