More Money-Wasting "Opportunities" For Writers
Following on my last post about how authors can waste money on promotional strategies, here are some more cash-sucking “opportunities.”
Archive for the ‘SFWA Blog’ Category
Guest Review: Prometheus–The Horror!
PROMETHEUS is the most frightening horror movie of the past 20 years. And the horror is that this is what American science will look like after a century of teaching Creationism in our schools.
Quick Updates for 2012-06-20
Resources and Member News for Jennifer Brozek, David Brin, Robert J. Sawyer, David D. Levine, Eugie Foster, Karen Azinger, and Adam Christopher.
Author Solutions Introduces BookStub
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Author Solutions has just introduced a new marketing service called BookStub, which it describes thusly:
Loyalty card-sized BookStubs display your cover on the front side and ordering instructions on t…
Guest Post: Chasing the First Sale: What a Pro Story Is
There are tons of great resources on writing fiction, and I won’t even attempt to get into all that information here. What I’m going to focus on are the macro, big-picture things I’ve learned through personal experience.
SFWA at BEA: A Recap
[SWFA’s presence at BEA] this year was an experiment, but a wildly successful one. We were able to inform, educate and engage people from all areas of the publishing world. Dozens of bloggers and librarians stopped by to talk to us and thank us for being there.
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against PublishAmerica
I can’t count the number of questions I’ve received over the years from unhappy PublishAmerica authors, wondering whether a class action lawsuit against PA has been/might be/ever will be filed.
In Memoriam: Jim Young (1951-2012)
Writer and fan, Jim Young, 61, died on June 12, a week after being admitted to a hospital for emergency surgery on a brain tumor.
Guest Post: Writers and Their Literary Estates: Story Reprints
Writers who do not take the time to create a will with provisions for the handling of their literary estate may help make their work more obscure than it should be, and deprive readers of great fiction for reasons unrelated to an anthologist’s or editor’s desire to include them.
BEA Report
As exciting as the digital transition is, I feel a bit sorry for authors of the future, whose books may never become physical objects–there really is nothing like holding your book in your hands for the first time.
