%$#&!

February 28th 2005 at 10:39 pm

This month I’ve been ripping out dead stuff out of the 20,000 words I’d written on Ragamuffin so far, and been doing some serious plotting and outlining and some research to fill in where I wanted to go as I wrote it. As of now we’re finally done, and I have 9,621 words.
Yeesh.
Since starting the […]

I Am Not a Serial Killer

February 28th 2005 at 1:05 pm

Did anyone watch Law and Order on NBC last night (it’s one of the few channels besides PBS and the ‘God’ channel we get in the house. Emily and I wonder if it will become the ‘all Law and Order all the time’ channel)? The basic premise was that a frustrated wannabe author writes a […]

Moons Like Great White Whales

February 28th 2005 at 11:41 am

Charles Coleman Finlay has a story up at Strange Horizons called Moons Like Great Whales:

“You love the way we’re alone together, with whole worlds to ourselves. Whenever you start thinking about colonists following after us, changing the landscapes we’ve shared, you always get depressed.”

On Writing

February 28th 2005 at 9:57 am

Charles Stross talks about why he writes:

Most normal kids decide they want to be a football star or a ballerina at some time; a few of them are stubborn enough that they actually persist with the ball-kicking or dancing for years after their less fixated peers give up on it, and get good enough to […]

Blogging True

February 24th 2005 at 3:16 pm

One of the things I mentioned in my Authors Blog The Long Tail article is that blogging should be done well, a true attempt, not just because someone is trying to improve profile. Atrios has more tips…

2) What’s interesting? Your opinion on stuff by itself isn’t really interesting to anyone except your friends. If you’re […]

Newsletter

February 24th 2005 at 3:00 pm

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Splitting Mad

February 23rd 2005 at 3:03 pm

Rick Kleffel writes about the practice of splitting up books:

But we end up paying $50.00 for a single novel. That’s no bargain, it’s unnecessary, and it hurts sales in the short and the long run. The chain booksellers who demand these types of cuts — Borders and Barnes & Noble are likely the two major […]

More On Authors Blogging and Promotion

February 23rd 2005 at 11:03 am

Thanks all so far for you answers in the comments about how you find books, interesting stuff. M.J. Rosecontinues her posts about this subject with a side note about how author blogs are fast becoming a major pillar in the way readers find books…

This week in my ongoing conversation about how readers like me are […]

How Do You Find Books

February 22nd 2005 at 2:49 pm

M.J. Rose posts a reader’s comment noting how publishers aren’t reaching her:

Publishers rarely post what’s new or what’s coming on their websites. Why not? What else is a website for? If it’s there to show off to other publishers, then they’re missing the mark. I have to dig myself to find out what is upcoming […]

Developing Novels

February 21st 2005 at 11:59 am

Charles Stross writes about how he developed his fantasy series on his blog, and it’s very, very interesting:

I’ve just returned the page proofs of the paperback edition of ‘The Family Trade’, due out in May in the US, and my thoughts turn to the history of the book: why and how it got written, and […]